From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Oct 3 00:36:25 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 09:36:25 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] SIGSPATIAL 2016 - Call for Participation Message-ID: Dear colleague, The early registration and hotel reservation cutoff dates for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 are fast approaching. The early registration deadline is September Oct 13, 2016, and the hotel reservation cutoff date is October 9, 2016. Register and reserve soon to enjoy the discounted registration and hotel rates before they go up: http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/registration-site/ http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/venue-and-accommodations/ ******************************************************* 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016) Oct 31-Nov 3, 2016 -- San Francisco, USA ******************************************************* Call for Participation http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/ *Early Registration by September 29, 2016 (midnight PT) The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2016 (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016) is the twenty-fourth event in a series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of geospatial data ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to data storage and query processing and indexing. The conference is the premier annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). List of accepted papers: http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/accepted-papers/ List of affiliated workshops: http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/workshops/ Registration: http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/registration-site/ Venue and Accommodations: http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/venue-and-accommodations/ Travel Grants for Graduate and Undergraduate Students: http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/travel-grants/ General Chairs Mohamed Ali, University of Washington, Tacoma, USA Shawn Newsam, University of California, Merced, USA Program Committee Chairs Siva Ravada, Oracle Corporation, USA Matthias Renz, George Mason University, USA Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow ACMGIS @ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4162155 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1450681355222657/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sigspatial_gis -- Ahmed M. Aly From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Oct 5 10:33:00 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 19:33:00 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Welcomes New Board and Charter Members Message-ID: Today the OSGeo family welcomes many new passionate leaders from around the world, having recently elected new charter and board members in the 2016 election. 33 charter members have been added to the OSGeo foundation, bringing the total number of OSGeo charter members to 312. The breakdown by region of charter members shows the great diversity of the OSGeo foundation: * Europe & Central Asia (165) * North America (75) * East Asia & Pacific (37) * Latin America & Caribbean (16) * South Asia (14) * Sub-Saharan Africa (4) The OSGeo foundation is extremely happy to welcome new members to the Board of Directors, Maria Antonia Brovelli and Angelos Tzotsos, as well as returning members Vasile Craciunescu and Michael Smith. Also thank you to the past board members Dirk Frigne and Massimiliano Cannata for their past contributions. The complete OSGeo Board of Directors for 2016/2017 is: * Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy) * Vasile Craciunescu (Romania) * Jody Garnett (Canada) * Anita Graser (Austria) * Helena Mitasova (United States) * Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan) * Sanghee Shin (South Korea) * Michael Smith (United States) * Angelos Tzotsos (Greece) The OSGeo family grows stronger today! -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Oct 11 12:57:49 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:57:49 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G-Europe 2017: save the date! Message-ID: Dear OSGeo community, we are glad to announce that the FOSS4G-Europe 2017 will be held in Marne-La-Val?e in France from July 19 to 21. The schedule is as follow: * July 18th: Workshops * July from 19th to 21th : Conference * July 22th: Code Sprint In case you are willing to help in the organization, please feel free to add your name on this page [1]. More informations to come soon, by now make sure to save the date! Best regards, The FOSS4G-Europe 2017 LOC [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-eu_2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Oct 14 01:09:13 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:09:13 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM 2017 on Sunday 5/2/2017 in Brussels Message-ID: FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000 developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet and share thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are welcome. The next edition will take place on 4 - 5 February 2017. For the third (!) time there will be a Geospatial devroom and will be happening on Sunday 5/2/2017! Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work, but nowadays location and maps are becoming part of many projects/applications, which usually use only a small subset of the possibilities the data and software offer. The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open, geo-related data and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing purposes. We welcome submissions about: * Web and desktop GIS applications; * Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata and metadata; * Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications; * Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites; * Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries; * Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) and dedicated databases; * Big geodata, scalable GIS applications; * Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata. HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers? Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit your proposal at: https://fosdem.org/submit Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. If you have an account from previous years, you should be using the same. Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20 minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are indicative and will be assigned according to the timing of the session. The DEADLINE for submissions is Thursday **1st December 2016**. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2016 at the latest. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial at gisky.be! Want to know what FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and the presentations of our previous two editions: [1,2] The organizers Johan Van de Wauw Margherita Di Leo Anne Ghisla Martin Hammitzsch [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ [2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Oct 17 13:42:39 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:42:39 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] The OSGeo India's 1st Asia event's Abstract submission dates are extended. Message-ID: Please visit http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2017/ and give it a wide publicity. Students can apply for registration waiver. Submit an Abstract by 25th October (full paper not required). There will be very informative workshop on hands on training which will be announced soon. Confirmed workshops so far: 1. 'Mobile-GIS an End to End solution' 2. 'The cream of Qgis, by an expert in the field' 3. 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