From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Sep 21 06:42:56 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:42:56 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Student Awards for FOSS4G 2015, Seoul Message-ID: On behalf of "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org , we are pleased to announce the winners of the OSGeo Student Awards for FOSS4G 2015, Seoul 1) OSGeo Best Oral Presentation Student Award Title:Analysis of Spatial Density Utilizing the Big Data of Floating Population of Seoul City Authors: Hailin Kim (Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea) 2) OSGeo Best Poster Presentation Award Title: Mobile Application of Open Source Stack to Geo-based Data Visualization on E-Government Web Framework Authors: Kwangseob Kim (Hansung University), Hanseam Park, Kiwon Lee, Republic of Korea 3) FOSS4G Seoul Best Oral Presentation Student Award Title: Landmark Based Path Planning And Linear Path Generation For Mobile Map Applications Authors: Thejaka Mahaulpatha (Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology), Pasindu Chandrasekara,Dananjaya Thathsara, Irendra Koswatta, Nimalika Fernando, Sri Lanka 4) FOSS4G Seoul Best Poster Presentation Award Title: Development of Opensource-based Photogrammetric UAV System Using Smart Camera Authors: Jinwoo Park (Pukyong National University), Hohyun Jung, DongYoon Shin, Chuluong Cho,Republic of Korea It is worth noting that the winner of OSGeo Best Oral Presentation Student Award, Hailin Kim (Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea), is high school student! That is really excellent news and builds upon FOSS4G Europe's student competition win by students from a high school in Alaska for the Europa Challenge 2015 . Details at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/07/ica-osgeo-isprs-awards-for-nasa-europa-challenge-2015 This shows the new generation is much ahead in leading Open Principles in Education and we need to give them more support. We congratulate all of them for their excellent work and contributions to FOSS4G and Open Principles. These student awards have been possible thanks to the support of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, so we thank the OSGeo Board , community and the LOC for their strong support. Special thanks to Sanghee Shin, Venkatesh Raghavan, Maria Brovelli, Jeff McKenna and everyone in the G4A Team who made this possible. Sanghee Shin has kindly provided the url of some of the photos in Flikr https://www.flickr.com/photos/135608763 at N08/ (our thanks to the volunteer who took the photos) Based on feedbacks received from the community , we have decided that the Student Award initiative at FOSS4G conferences from now will be handled by the GeoforAll Team (by keeping in touch with LOC) . As this is new initiative, we are learning from experiences, feedbacks and will improve for the future events. We are also looking into ideas for making the student competition more wider ( to include students from various disciplines and different levels so students from high schools to university level can participate). The aim of the awards is to recognise the excellent contributions from students worldwide not only to FOSS4G but also acknowledge their contributions to open knowledge and being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all. Professor Venkatesh Raghavan also gave an excellent Plenary presentation on Geo4All. The slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2 We thank the whole Seoul Team for their hard work and efforts over many months for making a very successful FOSS4G global conference http://2015.foss4g.org in Asia. Now it is the turn of Bonn Team http://2016.foss4g.org to carry on the good work :) From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Sep 28 00:56:42 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:56:42 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] 4th Annual OSgeo.nl day: 25th November Message-ID: The Dutch local chapter "OSgeo.nl" is proud to announce the fourth consecutive annual OSgeo.nl day. The OSGeo.nl will take place on 25th November, at the "1931" congress hall in 's Hertogenbosch. Just like last year, this years OSGeo.nl day is organized as part of the general Dutch geospatial congress and exhibition "GeoBuzz". As part of a this event, we hope te attract a broader audience, including people who never "tasted" open source goespatail software & solutions before. This years program includes an QGis workshop, presentations on MongoDB, indoor Mapping, several solution to handle the key register on addresses and building ("BAG"), workshops on the use of Open Data with QGis followed by a discussion with the open data suppliers Please note: all workshops and presentation will be held in Dutch Admission is ? 95 (ex. VAT). This is a 50% reduction off the normal GeoBuzz admission. Your ticket gives access to the entire GeoBuzz event For students only ? 10 (ex. VAT) More info in our website http://osgeo.nl/events/4e-jaarlijkse-osgeo-nl-dag-op-de-geobuzz/ and on Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL/events/225281140/ Kind regards, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - OSGeo.nl From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Sep 29 07:21:42 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:21:42 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Thomas Bonfort Receives FOSS4G Developer Award Message-ID: Thomas Bonfort was honored with the inaugural FOSS4G Developer Award, sponsored by GeoCat (https://www.geocat.net/), during the FOSS4G 2015 conference in Seoul, South Korea. Attendees of the FOSS4G-Seoul event placed votes for the best developer, by filling out ballots at the GeoCat booth. Thomas has been a longtime member of the MapServer Project Steering Committee (PSC), and has been the driving force of many thorough changes, especially to both MapServer 6 and MapServer 7 releases. MapServer's high quality and fast rendering engines have all been upgraded thanks to Thomas. Thomas is also the maintainer of MapCache, MapServer's caching engine that is handled through an Apache module. Many will remember Thomas working so hard on past WMS Benchmarking exercises with other lead developers of GeoServer and Mapnik, improving not only MapServer but helping the other projects as well. GeoCat and the whole OSGeo community would like to thank Thomas Bonfort for his contributions to the community. Thanks Thomas! -- GeoCat & OSGeo