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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Please find below summary of today's OSGeo:UK IRC Meeting. Please add/modify as needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Suchith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>OSGeo:UK meeting<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Date - 25 July 2011 (Monday)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Time - 13:00-14:00 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Casestudies update</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D'> - Antony Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>One more casestudy from Aberdeen university received. Anthony in contact with authors for putting it in OSGeo format. Once ready will be put in OSGeo:UK site and Anthony to send email in the list. Also Anthony's article to be published in GIS Professional is a good example of casestudies being promoted widely through industry publications. If we receive good case studies, we will encourage authors to submit for publications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Events update</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D'> - All<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Addy couldn’t join today's meeting but send info on events. Addy running a workshop at the Institute of Web managers on how to improve campus maps. He will be demoing several tools and making use of OpenLayers, QGIS and GDAL so giving a bit more exposure of open geo tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Saber ran a free workshop with parishes in Wiltshire using QGIS and Open Data (July 12th)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Anthony having some conversations with Ordnance Survey about an open source GIS event for Housing Associations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Abi attending Open Source, Geo & Health Workshop on 9 August, Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Planning informal meeting at AGI 2011 like last year <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Barry going to the R User conference in Warwick in a few weeks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Barry organising GISRUK 2012 in Lancaster. All to support Barry's effort for strong Open Source GI theme at GISRUK 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Research and academic activities update</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D'> - Suchith Anand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Suchith updated about the ELOGeo repository now activated at <a href="http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/">http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>key aim is to have as many high quality training materials for all to use. Welcome teaching materials contribution from all. Over time more universities will start teaching OS GIS and having the training materials is very important first step, as when high quality training materials are available, staff in many universities will be able to teach them<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>OSGIS 2011 update</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D'> - Suchith Anand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Video webcasts of OSGIS available at <a href="http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_call_info.html">http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_call_info.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Next meeting time:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>September 5th (Mon) 13:00 - 14:00 (due to bank holiday on last Monday in August)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> uk-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:uk-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Suchith Anand<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 July 2011 11:16<br><b>To:</b> uk@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK Meeting - 25 July 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Quick reminder of today’s OSGeo:UK IRC meeting (following the usual last Monday of the month schedule).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Date - 25 July 2011 (Monday)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Time - 13:00-14:00 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>IRC meeting:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1) Login at <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://webchat.freenode.net/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2) Join the #osgeo-uk channel <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Looking forward to see many of you there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Suchith<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dr Suchith Anand</span><i><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Centre for Geospatial Science<br>The Nottingham Geospatial Building <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU<br>Tel: (0)115 82 32750<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/</span></a><br><a href="http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Mission - 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