[Spanish] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] First Latin American Conference of Free and Open Source GIS

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

Buenas,

Parece que en Ecuador se han animado a organizar un evento de SIG
Libre, creo que estaría bien que como Capítulo buscáramos puntos de
colaboración con el comité organizador para tratar de ganar actores en
Ecuador. Ignoro si los organizadores conocen de la existencia de este
grupo pero parece conveniente contactar con ellos.

¿Qué os parece?


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From: Maria Brovelli <brvmnt en gmail.com>
Date: 12 June 2012 21:14
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] First Latin American Conference of Free and
Open Source GIS
To: discuss en lists.osgeo.org
Cc: maria.brovelli en polimi.it, sflores en fiec.espol.edu.ec,
inolivos en fiec.espol.edu.ec


Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral - Guayaquil - Ecuador
with Politecnico di Milano and ISPRS WG IV/5 (Distributed and
Web-Based Geoinformation Services and Applications)

is organizing in Guayaquil  the


First Latin American Conference of Free and Open Source GIS - I
Congreso Latinoamericano de Aplicación de Sistemas de Información
Geográfica (SIG) de código libre y abierto.

Background of the event
The awareness about the necessity of integrating, if not basing, the
most of environmental and territorial analyses with geography and
mapping has been growing at every administrative and governmental
level. In the meanwhile the success of application, like for instance
Google Earth, demonstrates the dramatic curiosity and active interest
of people with respect to the space in which they live. Lowering
barriers to contributing, making easier the interaction and the
possibility of participation will result in more photos, maps and
other pieces of information uploaded and therefore plays an important
role in that success.
The availability of a richer information (from institutional and/or
crowd sourced data) can help decision-makers in their activity.
Free and Open Source Tools and Applications are rapidly increasing in
number and quality. Many and different actors are involved in such a
kind of process: large and small companies, professional
practitioners, public agencies, universities, research centers but
also simple map lovers.
The conference aims at foster interdisciplinary discussions in all
aspects of the geospatial and free and open source domains. The
conference will be organized in a way to promote networking between
the participants, to initiate and favour discussions regarding
cutting-edge technologies in the field, to exchange research ideas and
to promote national and international collaboration.

Themes of the Event
Presentations should cover aspects of the use or development of open source GIS.
Some topics of interest:

  Case Studies and Application of free and open source GIS
  State of Development of free and open source GIS
  Migration from proprietary to free and open source solutions:
problems, advantages, drawbacks


The proposed dates of the event are: 24-25 October 2012.

Other possible co-organizers of the event are the Ecuadorian Secretary
for Risk Management and ICA (requests sent, waiting for reply).

The Organizer Committee is asking for OSGeo support in whichever form
it is possible.


For more information please contact:

Indira Nolivos Alvarez
Departamento de Sistemas y Control
Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
inolivos en fiec.espol.edu.ec

Sergio Flores
Departamento de Sistemas y Control
Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
sflores en fiec.espol.edu.ec

Maria Antonia Brovelli
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Politecnico di Milano - Campus Como
maria.brovelli en polimi.it
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