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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">FOSS4G is the international edition of the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(FOSS4G) of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The annual FOSS4G conference is the largest global gathering for geospatial software. FOSS4G [1] has been held all
 over the world and draws attendees from all over the world.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Me and colleagues at the University of Nottingham and OSGeo:UK Chapter had the opportunity to host FOSS4G in Nottingham in 2013 and expand ideas for GeoForAll</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 
</span><a href="http://2013.foss4g.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://2013.foss4g.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am very grateful to all volunteers who helped make this possible.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Academic Tracks of FOSS4G conferences has been key in helping us share and expand Open Geospatial Science ideas globally.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">FOSS4G Global conferences  [Starting from
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">available at </span><a href="https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Recordings from FOSS4G presentations are also made available thanks to  German National Library of Science and Technology at
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This year’s FOSS4G is fully online edition. The draft schedule for FOSS4G 2021 presentations is at
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