<div dir="ltr">Thanks Sergio, I do too. <div><br><div>@GeoForAll colleagues: I'm happy to help coordinate one or more panels of presentations on open source geospatial technology, open geo data, or open geospatial education or any other "open source" topic you might want to propose. Please contact me if you are interested. </div></div><div><br></div><div>While this will be a fairly small online conference (I'm guessing maybe 100 participants), it will have presenters and panels representing other areas of Knowledge Commons that may be of interest to many of you. You can read <a href="https://2021knowledge.iasc-commons.org/">the Aims and Scope here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Charlie Schweik</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:32 AM SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <<a href="mailto:sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy">sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Thank you Charlie for <span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">your offer</span>. Let's hope some lab joins this great initiative.<br>
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<b>Asunto:</b> [Geo4All] Upcoming Knowledge Commons online conference: A possible way to promote and expand open source geospatial software and education?</font>
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<div>I'm <a href="https://2021knowledge.iasc-commons.org/" target="_blank">co-organizing an upcoming online conference on "Knowledge Commons"</a> (June 7-9th, 2021) organized by the
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<div>One major component of the conference will be sets of coordinated pre-recorded presentations and then one or more live panel discussions with those presenters with a moderator. </div>
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<div><b>This could be a nice opportunity for various GeoForAll labs to discuss their efforts in/around open source software or open educational materials to support open geospatial, open data, spatial crowdsourcing, etc. In other words, this could be a kind
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<div>The conference is relatively cheap for non-IASC members ($50 USD). </div>
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<div>If anyone is interested in this idea and creating collective action between GeoForAll labs around this idea, email me, and I'll try and help coordinate. </div>
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<div>For more information visit: <a href="https://2021knowledge.iasc-commons.org/" target="_blank">https://2021knowledge.iasc-commons.org/</a></div>
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