From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Feb 1 13:23:17 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 22:23:17 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] =?utf-8?b?4oCcRmxvb2RoYWNr4oCdIGhlbHBzIG1pdGln?= =?utf-8?q?ating_Floods?= Message-ID: On 16/17 January, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) organized the first hackathon on a Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS). More than 60 participants from research organizations, universities and industries joined for improving accessibility and visualization of GloFAS data by creating new downstream applications. Anticipation and preparedness of large-scale flood events play a key role in mitigating their impacts and optimizing the strategic planning of water resources. Although a lot of countries have well-established systems for river monitoring and early flood warning, an increasing number of inhabitants is affected by floods every year. The Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) has been set up providing an overview on upcoming floodings in large world river basins. On 16/17 January ECMWF hosted a hackathon aimed at improving GloFAS by developing innovative ideas and approaches. More than 3.5 TB of data have been prepared, partly served in an OGC-compliant Web Coverage Service Standard (WCS) for easier data access and retrieval. In the EarthServer-2 project, this WCS service is currently set up at ECMWF and further institutions in Great Britain. Five teams submitted their work, most of them based on the Big Datacube server rasdaman running at ECMWF which offers 5-dimensional river discharge data, among others: - FloodIT: Providing more intuitive information based on GLOFAS which helps forecasting local floodings and pre-empting a catastrophe. - GloFAQ - Global Flood Awareness Queries: Innovative ways of providing end users with key information on potentially impacted infrastructures due to flooding. - Interception: A flood awareness education platform which helps informing people about alternative courses of action when a flood watch/warning alert is issued. - LIVE - Logistic and Infrastructure Visual Evaluation: Using GloFAS forecast information to create a 'time to respond' map. - The (flooded) Italian Job: An automatised modification of fixed GloFAS thresholds for warnings. The winning team, LIVE, used GloFAS information creating a "time to respond map" that helps prioritizing decision making before or during a flood event. The second prize went to FloodIT, the third winner was Interception. The GloFAS system is currently used by the International Red Cross in a pilot project in Daares-Salaam, Tanzania for finance forecasting which enables Red Cross to spot early on where flood disaster support is required. The FloodHack price money - in total 1.050 GBP - was donated to this project. Read more at http://floodhack.devpost.com/ From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Feb 1 23:29:44 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:29:44 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] New OSGeo President and Updated Board of Directors Message-ID: == New President == The OSGeo Board of Directors selected *Venkatesh Raghavan* as its new President. The previous president, Jeff McKenna, has stepped down, and the OSGeo community is extremely thankful for his years of service. Venkatesh Raghavan (Venka) is a celebrated representative of the OSGeo community who coined the FOSS4G acronym in 2004. He is also one of the founders of OSGeo, is active in OSGeo communities in Asia and with the currently incubating ZOO-Project. Venka is on Advisory Board Geoforall, the OSGeo educational outreach. In recognition of his deep passion and commitment to Open Source Geospatial, Venka has earned our highest honor, the Sol Katz award. The OSGeo Board of Directors recognizes that being President is a heavy responsibility, time and travel commitment. To promote closer and easier interaction with regional communities and share duties, the Board took the decision to appoint two Vice-Presidents. The first Vice-President, from North America, is *Helena Mitasova*. She was awarded the Sol Katz Award in 2010 for her long standing contribution to the OSGeo Foundation and pioneering role in the GRASS community. She is a champion of OSGeo's Geoforall education outreach. The second Vice-President, from Europe, is *Dirk Frigne*. Dirk is an entrepreneur serving OSGeo as Charter Member and member of geomajas PSC. He is involved in the INSPIRE Committee and received the Award for excellence in geo-information technologies. == Updated Board of Directors == Dirk Frigne received widespread support of Charter Members during the last elections. Dirk has accepted our invitation to the board to complete the remainder of Jeff McKenna's term. Your updated board consists of: - Massimiliano Cannata - Vasile Craciunescu - Dirk Frigne - Jody Garnett - Anita Graser - Helena Mitasova - Venkatesh Raghavan - Sanghee Shin - Michael Smith == About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation == The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It provides an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The Foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license. From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Feb 2 01:26:35 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:26:35 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Fwd: Our huge thanks to Jeff McKenna In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, Jeff McKenna has tendered his resignation from the position of President and Board of Directors on personal grounds. Jeff is a pillar of OSGeo, being a lively presence at Open Source Geospatial events since the early days of MapServer User Meetings. He was also a key person atFOSS GRASS User Conference where the idea of having a joint conference combining GRASS GIS, MapServer and other FOSS4G communities was mooted which fruited in the form FOSS4G-2006 held in Laussane. Jeff has been a constant companion and a source of inspiration during our decade long OSGeo journey. During his tenure on the OSGeo Board, Jeff has traversed across the globe spreading the message of OSGeo and sharing his passion for FOSS4G. He has gone to remote corners of our planet to get local chapters started and patiently interacted with diverse audience ranging from under-graduate students to top leaders from academia, industry and government. Jeff has put community before self and worked relentlessly to bring worldwide reach to our Foundation. Combined with his rare passion, Jeff possesses a unique knack of understanding and assimilating different cultures which has greatly helped in nurturing diversity in our communities. Apart form his groundbreaking work in representing OSGeo globally, he has also made time to produce excellent documentation and packaging for some of our leading software products. Jeff's dedication and passion will continue to motivate all members of our foundation. The board received Jeff's request on 12 December 2015 and asked him to reconsider his decision. At the 30 January, 2016 Face to Face meeting, after careful consideration of his reply, the OSGeo Board has motioned and unanimously accepted his resignation. The board also passed a motion to formally express our sincere gratitude for Jeff's immense contributions to the OSGeo Foundation in his capacity as President and Board Member. Jeff McKenna continues his engagements with the OSGeo Foundation as a Charter Member and as PSC members in several of the Foundation Projects. We look forward to seek his advice and active participation in our future endeavors. Thank you from all of us, Jeff and we look forward to your contributions to OSGeo in the years ahead. The Board of Directors OSGeo Foundation === About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation === The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It provides an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The Foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license. From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Feb 3 08:43:23 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 17:43:23 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Foundation turns 10! Message-ID: 4th of February is a great day for all of us as it was the day when our Foundation was founded. 2016 is more special as we have completed 10 Years. No matter what yardstick one uses, it would be hard to deny that we have made great progress and our achievements have been even exceeded our own expectations. Our projects have grown more stable and robust, our events have spread worldwide, our vibrant community continues to grow, our education outreach is blooming through the collective effervescence of the 'GeoForAll' initiative and we are in possession of many more pieces of the jigsaw to help accomplish our vision to "empower everyone with open source geospatial". We would not been able to get here without the tremendous support from our community and goodwill of our sponsors. Officers of our Foundation have also toiled hard to get us to this stage. By the time we are into FOSS4G-2018, we will be in our teens. So let is now enjoy our childhood and celebrate the wonders that we have achieved in being born, being able to walk on our own feet, and ready to take long strides into the future with a sure feeling that we can do even better in the years to come. Happy birthday to OSGeo Foundation and let the celebrations begin!! The Board of Directors OSGeo Foundation *About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation:* The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It provides an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The Foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license. From jsanz at osgeo.org Sun Feb 7 11:00:25 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 20:00:25 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] "Geo for All" Newsletter - Feb 2016 now published Message-ID: '''Geo for All''' is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's Educational outreach with our mission for making geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all. Our monthly newsletters are key to reach out our ideas with the wider community and build new collaborations.We request all OSGeo members to share any updates/developments as short reports for next issue of Geo4All newsletter. Also we want to hightlight OSGeo SMEs and service providers http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1 in our future editions of our newsletter. The aim is to get the wider community know about the excellent companies and startups that make the OSGeo ecosystem and encourage more collaborations and startups . So please email our chief editor [email- labrinos at eled.auth.gr ] a short article about your company and how OSGeo software has been empowering you and enabling your growth . We also welcome usecases and implementation examples of how OSGeo software and open principles in education are empowering universities, government organisations, NGOs etc. We will get your articles published in our newsletter in forthcoming issues. Please make sure you send your artcles before 24th of every month to get it published in the next month's edition. We will also be highlighting one OSGeo software project /community every month [from the OSGeo live DVD] .We request the OSGeo community to please send any reports, articles on OSGeo activities happening (events, new software releases, summer schools, new courses, training events etc) to the newsletter editors. We are pleased share our newsletter at http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/ to the wider geo community. === Editorial - Feb 2016 === Dear members of the Network/ readers of the Newsletter, In this issue you can read two very interesting articles: one for the European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting and the second about the OpenCitySmart ? the Open City Platform. The first one has to do with the Global Flood Awarness System while the second for the improvement of the living standards of the people living, mainly, in the cities of poor countries. In fact, both articles show how volunteerism can help and upgrade the living standards of the people and how much the efforts or our Network can upgrade the quality of life. It is important to know that our ideas, however bizarre they may seem at first place, can become true when we share with others and work together. Along with the articles, you can find all the other topics like conferences, courses, free software, etc. Have a nice reading . Nikos Lambrinos Chief Editor Dept. of Primary Education Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki Greece From jsanz at osgeo.org Sun Feb 7 11:08:44 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 20:08:44 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Fwd: Invitation to NASA CitySmart Challenge - Solutions For Sustainable Cities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On behalf of "Geo for All", we would like to welcome strong global participation for the fourth edition of the NASA Europa challenge. The aim of this challenge is to inspire ideas for building great applications that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA?s open source virtual globe technology World Wind. This NASA challenge attracts the best minds to develop their ideas covering a broad range of domains from transportation to air quality to linked data. The previous competition winners work is available at http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2013 http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2014 http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015 We thank Professor Maria Brovelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Patrick Hogan (NASA) for their efforts for this initiative which adds great momentum to our efforts to promote openness in education and research worldwide. The Europa Challenge has always had Europe's INSPIRE Directive to guide project development. This year we continue to have INSPIRE guide us and more specifically, we are looking for solutions specific to urban management. The CitySmart Europa Challenge is challenging the world's *best and brightest* to deliver sustainable solutions serving city needs. Almost every city needs the same data management tools as every other city. How can we help cities work together to be more sustainable, more livable and more resilient? If cities were able to share their solutions with each other, this would multiply their investment by the number of cities participating. Each city could develop different functionalities and then 'share' these with each other, massively increasing our planet's collective productivity. Simply build a great application that serves some aspect of the OpenCitySmart [1] [2] [3] design and uses NASA's open source virtual globe technology, WebWorldWind. Whether you win or not, you will advance a platform that allows every city to win! This challenge is open to all on our home planet. See the 2015 Projects, 2014 Projects and 2013 Projects. China had top teams these past two years, India had an excellent team last year and Italy every year! A USA High School team from Alaska won First Place in 2015! So students and SMEs are welcome to join the competition this year. This year's Europa Challenge is an excellent opportunity for the global community to begin working in collaboration and prepare for the increasing climate change scenarios in cities context. Students are our future and looking at previous year's contributions from Global Earthquake forecasts systems ( developed by some high school students from Alaska who went on to win the first prize in 2015!)http://www.edlinesites.net/pages/America_Bridge_Project/Europa_Challenge to Urban Traffic Visual Analytics Simulator , it just shows the amazing contributions of these students and SMEs made for the global good and for the benefit of all. Details at http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ Those interested in being part of this global enterprise, please subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opencitysmart . Your participation is very welcome. We look forward to your strong participation for the NASA CitySmart Challenge 2016 and joining our mission to make geospatial education and opportunities available for all. Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWuMfMMPfPw [3] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2016-January/005027.html From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Feb 10 10:10:44 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:10:44 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Welcome to the University of Heidelberg to GeoForAll Message-ID: We are pleased to welcome the GIScience Research Group [1] at the University of Heidelberg to the GeoForAll initiative and network as an Open Source Geospatial Laboratory and Research Center. GIScience Heidelberg is supporting free and open GI software, open GI standards (OGC), open Geo-Data (e.g. OpenStreetMap and other VGI), open access publication and GIS education in many ways.This is demonstrated already in numerous examples, such as the development and provision of free GI services and open source tools as well as the usage, improvement and advocating of open spatial data in education and through development and research as well as through the organization of related workshops and events (e.g. OSM mappathons). Further detailed information about available services, tools, publications and open data related activities and teaching can be found on http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis/ Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications has now made it possible for a large number of private and government agencies and academics in both developed and developing countries to make use of geospatial software for applications in GIS, spatial database management, and remote sensing in many application domains. GIS without spatial data is not useful. Therefore we do advocate and support the availability of free and open Geographical Information from different sources, including Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) [2] such as OpenStreetMap (OSM) [3] in multiple ways through education and research, as well as the development of relevant tools and services. The Lab is very active in many fields, as you can see from their website http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis . Moreover they are going to add and improve further related info (e.g. https://github.com/GIScience and further open source developments such as XNavigator etc. ), therefore be tuned. The points of contact for the Lab are Prof. Alexander Zipf and Prof. Bernhard Hofle. We are warmly welcoming more universities to join us and expand research and teaching collaborations in Geospatial Science. Please contact our Regional chairs for more details http://www.geoforall.org/how_to_join/ Prof. Maria Brovelli and Dr. Peter Mooney GeoForAll Europe Chairs http://www.geoforall.org/ [1] http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis [2] http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/tag/vgi/ [3] http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/tag/osm/ From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Feb 10 10:28:07 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:28:07 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Welcome to the University of Trento to GeoForAll Message-ID: We are pleased to welcome University of Trento, in Italy to the GeoForAll initiative as an Open Source Geospatial Laboratory and Research Center. The UTn-FOSS Lab was born from the synergy of two existing labs at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento i.e Geodesy and Geomatics [1] and Ecology [2] which have been working togheter since 1993 on various FOSS4G research and education projects, especially with the GRASS GIS software. The point of contact for the lab is '''Clara Tattoni'''. Below the description of the main activities. === RESEARCH: === The Geodesy and Geomatics lab investigates innovative positioning and survey systems, such as GPS, laser scanning techniques and digital photogrammetry, which are nowadays pivotal for the description of the environment as well as for proactive mobility management. Geographic Information Systems represent a further researches topic, especially with reference to geometric and topologic, 2D and 3D, modelling and to the development, test and implementation of innovative techniques for data processing and analysis. The Ecology lab research areas are the ecology and planning of forests with special attention to the mountain areas and the issues arisen in the last decades due both to the abandonment of the traditional agricultural, woodland and shepherd activities and to the tourism development at high altitude sites. The group works on the development and validation of research methodologies for land analysis and on the identification of new strategies for the sustainable management of the mountain territory. === EDUCATION: === Beside their research topics, all carried out in FOSS4G environment the group devoted a lot of effort in education by developing and updating self training tutorials in the Italian and English languages. Details at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/documents.html for GRASS and QGIS and by training student and professional with specific courses. At the University of Trento the following courses are based on FOSS4G software: * Numerical carthography and GIS (III year under graduate) * Land survey (III year under graduate) * Applied Ecology, 6 European credits, 60 hours Master degree course * Doctoral course Environmental data management and analysis * Doctoral School in Environmental Engineering Plus the '''International Summer School on "Tropical Rainforest Biodiversity modelling and mapping"''' organised in cooperation with the Science Museum of Trento (Italy) and the Danish Natural History Museum and Tanzania National Park. Details at http://www.muse.it/it/la-ricerca/biodiversita-tropicale/proposte-formative/pagine/summer-school-2015.aspx === CONFERENCES AND MISCELLANEA:=== They organized the first Open Source Free Software GIS - GRASS users conference in September 2002, in Trento. Some of the people in this group are active within the OSGEO Education committee and they held workshops at various FOSS4G conferences Various scripts and gass modules http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/software.html '''Recent FOSS4G related projects include:''' PRIN "Interoperability and cooperative management of geographic, dynamic, multidimentional and distributed data with Free and Open Source GIS" European project Recharge GREEN http://www.recharge-green.eu/ We are warmly welcoming more universities to join us and expand research and teaching collaborations in Geospatial Science. Please contact our Regional chairs for more details http://www.geoforall.org/how_to_join/ Prof. Maria Brovelli and Dr. Peter Mooney GeoForAll Europe Chairs http://www.geoforall.org/ [1] http://web.unitn.it/en/dicam/7801/geodesy-and-geomatics [2] http://web.unitn.it/en/dicam/7795/forest-ecology-presentation From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Feb 15 02:00:09 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:00:09 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Joins Geospatial World Forum (GWF) as Supporting Organization Message-ID: In line with OSGeo's renewed vision to "Empower everyone with open source geospatial", we seek to promote our activity not only though the hosting of events such as the FOSS4G [2], but also proactively engage with the broader Geospatial Community in various forums. Our mission is foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development. Our partnership with GWF goes back to 2007 when OSGeo organized a well attended OSGeo session at Map World Forum (former avatar of GWF) in Hyderabad, India. OSGeo was an Institutional Partner at the first GWF held in Hyderabad, India in 2011 and also at GWF 2012 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It is a great pleasure to renew our partnership as Supporting Organization for GWF 2016 [3] and organize a special OSGeo Session at the event. The conference will take place in Rotterdam 23 - 26, May 2016. As OSGeo we will have the chance to present our multifaceted activities and initiatives we support. We are very exited to have this opportunity showcase OSGeo projects to the participants of GWF. As an inclusive software foundation, we attach great important to be present at tech events like GWF and enhance our global impact and reach. OSGeo will organise a full day event on May 24 and wishes to initiate a call for presenters promote our products and core values. Volunteers can contact Dirk Frigne, Vice-President, OSGeo Foundation [4] to help organise the session. OSGeo will also be have a booth at the exhibition special 1 day pass for access to the exhibition area and OSGeo Session will be 25Euros. More information to come on the wikipage [5] Look forward to meeting you all at GWF and wish the event a great success. Dirk Fringe VP, OSGeo Foundation [1] http://geospatialworldforum.org/ [2] http://www.foss4g.org/ [3] http://geospatialworldforum.org/ [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf [5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geospatial_World_Forum_2013 *About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation* The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It provides an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The Foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license. From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Feb 19 10:33:33 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 19:33:33 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoPython 2016 - the Python Conference for the Geo-Community Message-ID: Dear Geo&Python community I?m pleased to announce the upcoming GeoPython conference, which takes place in Basel, Switzerland June 22 to 24, 2016. The conference is about Geo&Python. The call for talks/workshops is open until March 10, 2016. The event is organised by the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and PyBasel - the local Python User Group. More info is available at http://www.geopython.net Conference topics are: - GIS / Mapping - Geography / Geophysics / Geodesy / Geomatics - Earth Sciences / Environmental Sciences - Geovisualization - Smart Cities - Spatial Data / Geodata - Geospatial Webservices - Big Data - Data Processing - (Spatial) Databases - Computer Vision - Remote Sensing - Image Processing - Machine Learning - Python in General Kind regards, Martin Christen From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Feb 22 13:42:38 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:42:38 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Swiss PGDay 2016 Message-ID: Dear OSGeo Community The Swiss PGDay 2016 is a conference on PostgreSQL and PostGIS. It takes place at the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (Switzerland) on Fri. June 24, 2016. The conference includes presentations on business and technical aspects of this emerging open source database system. The event offers something for everyone, from beginners to experts to decision-makers and is also a great opportunity for networking and socializing. We are also looking forward to interesting talk proposals, particularly in the field of PostGIS! The Call for Speakers (CfS) will ends at March 31, 2016! The main conference language is German but we explicitly welcome contributions in English. Stefan Keller Member of the organizing committee More info is available at www.pgday.ch