<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear All,</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7105962958"><div><div class="yiv7105962958WordSection1"><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal">On behalf of the global ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geoforall.org/">http://www.geoforall.org</a> and MundoGeo, we are pleased to invite you to the ninth webinar of the <b>"Open Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series on 5th Sep,
2014</b>, The webinar will be open and free to all on first come register basis.</div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal">This webinar will be on QGIS Academy, which an effort to establish a national GIS education infrastructure focusing on Free & Open Source Software for GIS (FOSS4G). The Academy is a consortium of two year community colleges and four year universities committed to bringing GIS technical education to students and educators worldwide. QGIS Academy are one of the many projects under the OSGeo "Geo for All" initiative. The Academy is now offering a new Workforce Certificate in Geospatial Technology based upon a series of five online courses, all based on QGIS software. This presentation will focus on the content, delivery, costs and purpose of this new online course offering.</div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div
class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal">This event is suitable for secondary school educators and students, two and four year college educators and students, students in need of GIS skills, workers seeking to broaden technology skills and anyone desiring QGIS and open source knowledge and skills.</div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal">Speakers: Dr. Phillip Davis, project director, Del Mar College Corpus Christi Texas; Dr. Richard Smith, subject matter expert, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas; Kurt Menke, subject matter expert, owner Birds Eye View GIS, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Dr. John Van Hoesen, subject matter expert, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont.</div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal">Attendees will be able to interact with the speakers by sending their comments and questions through chat. To register visit <a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" href="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/128220946">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/128220946</a> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal">The recording will be made available also later for the benefit of the wider community at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mundogeo.com/webinar/opengeoscienceandapplications/">http://mundogeo.com/webinar/opengeoscienceandapplications/</a> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal">Best wishes,</div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal">Suchith</div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Dr Suchith Anand</span><i><span style=""></span></i></div><div
class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><span style="">Nottingham Geospatial Institute<br>Nottingham Geospatial Building </span></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><span style="">University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU<br>Tel: (0)115 82 32750</span></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/suchith.anand">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/suchith.anand</a></span></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Be part of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geoforall.org/">"Geo for All"</a> </span></b></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
</span></b></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications">Special Issue "Open Geospatial Science and Applications"</a></span></b></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Leading Open Geospatial Science through “Geo for All”</span></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="yiv7105962958MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;">Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide</span></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> <style><!--
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