<div dir="ltr"><i>Apologies for cross posting!</i><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_738250943603866744gmail-docs-internal-guid-0a5a1d10-be88-f4b8-47e8-1a4b2c4f4285"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Call for Presentations</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please forward!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000 developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet and share thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are welcome. The next edition will take place on 4 - 5 February 2017. For the third (!) time there will be a Geospatial devroom and will be happening on </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Sunday 5/2/2017</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work, but nowadays location and maps are becoming part of many projects/applications, which usually use only a small subset of the possibilities the data and software offer.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open, geo-related data and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing purposes. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We welcome submissions about: </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Web and desktop GIS applications;</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata and metadata;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) and dedicated databases;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Big geodata, scalable GIS applications;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers? Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please submit your proposal at:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">  </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://fosdem.org/submit" target="_blank">https://fosdem.org/submit</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Make sure to select the '</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Geospatial devroom</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">' as '</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Track</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">'. If you have an account from previous years, you should be using the same.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20 minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are indicative and will be assigned according to the timing of the session.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">DEADLINE</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> for submissions is Thursday **</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">1st December 2016</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">**.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2016 at the latest.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial at <a href="http://gisky.be" target="_blank">gisky.be</a>!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Want to know what FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and the presentations of our previous two editions: [1,2]</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The organizers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Johan Van de Wauw </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Margherita Di Leo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Anne Ghisla </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Martin Hammitzsch </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[1] </span><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://archive.fosdem.org/<wbr>2015/schedule/track/<wbr>geospatial/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[2] </span><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://archive.fosdem.org/<wbr>2016/schedule/track/<wbr>geospatial/</span></a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_738250943603866744gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666">Margherita Di Leo</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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