<div dir="ltr">Dear former GSoC students,<div><br></div><div>I have the pleasure to announce that the OSGeo Board approved the motion for a travel grant for a former GSoC student to present his/her work at FOSDEM Geospatial devroom 2018. Details below on how to submit your abstract and requesting the grant. The grant is 500USD for one student chosen by the conveners among those who request it.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Margherita Di Leo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diregola@gmail.com" target="_blank">diregola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Students,<div><br></div><div>as you might have seen in this mailing list, there might be the possibility for a GSoC student to access a travel grant to present his/her work at FOSDEM Geospatial devroom 2018. The proposal of grant is currently under discussion by the OSGeo Board of Directors, and I'll keep you posted about the final decision. Meanwhile, remember that the deadline to submit your abstract is 1 December. If you want to concur for the grant, you must specify it in your abstract.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Margherita Di Leo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diregola@gmail.com" target="_blank">diregola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please forward!</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 8000</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">software developers and communities a place to meet and share</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">welcome. The next edition will take place on 3 - 4 February 2018. For</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">the fourth time there will be a Geospatial devroom and will be</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">happening on Sunday *4/2/2018*!</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work, but</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">nowadays location and maps are becoming part of many</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">projects/applications, which usually use only a small subset of the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">possibilities the data and software offer.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open, geo-related</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">data and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">tools, e.g. for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">visualizing purposes.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We welcome submissions about:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Web and desktop GIS applications;</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata and metadata;</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications;</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites;</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries;</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">and dedicated databases;</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Big geodata, distributed and scalable GIS applications;</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">your proposal at:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="https://fosdem.org/submit" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://fosdem.org/submit</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. If you have</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">an account from previous years, you should be using the same.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">indicative and will be assigned according to the timing of the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">session.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The DEADLINE for submissions is Thursday **1st December 2017**.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2017</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">at the latest.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial at </span><a href="http://gisky.be/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">gisky.be</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">!</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Want to know what FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">the presentations of our previous editions.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The organizers</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Johan Van de Wauw</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Margherita Di Leo</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Anne Ghisla</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Martin Hammitzsch</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Marc Vloemans</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">[1] </span><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://archive.fosdem.org<wbr>/2015/schedule/track/geospatia<wbr>l/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">[2] </span><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://archive.fosdem.org<wbr>/2016/schedule/track/geospatia<wbr>l/</a><div style="font-size:12.8px">[2] <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/" target="_blank">https://archive.fosdem.org<wbr>/2017/schedule/track/geospatia<wbr>l/</a></div><span class="m_-2793008132687233581HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-2793008132687233581m_-1281732705915173250gmail_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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