[Board] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call For Participation : First Open Source GIS UKConference - University of Nottingham (22 June 2009)

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Just for some background on this note, below, that might have  
surprised more than a few people.  University of Nottingham is  
working with the UK Local Chapter to make this event happen.  All  
OSGeo involvement has been through the local chapter or local  
members, with a few suggestions from me.  I've helped steer them to  
using the local chapter term more in their announcements so that they  
get all the credit locally in the future - e.g. Organised by OSGeo UK.

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> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call For Participation : First Open Source  
> GIS
> UKConference - University of Nottingham (22 June 2009)
>
> Dear All,
>
> The University of Nottingham and Open Source Geospatial Foundation are
> happy to announce the First Open Source GIS UK Conference on 22nd June
> (Monday), 2009 at the  University of Nottingham. Tyler Mitchell,
> Executive Director of Open Source Geospatial Foundation will  
> deliver the
> keynote presentation.
>
> The key aims of this conference are:
>
> (i) to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and  
> policy
> makers on open source geospatial technologies
> (ii) to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future
> collaborative work in open source GIS
> (iii) to understand current developments in open source GIS
>
> Contributions are invited in the following topic areas
>
> #  State of the Art developments in Open Source GIS
> #  Open Source GIS in Education
> #  Interoperability and standards - OGC, ISO/TC 211
> #  Open Source GIS application use cases : Government, Participatory
> GIS, Location based services, Health, Energy, Water, Climate change  
> etc
> #  Web processing services
> #  Open architectures, open data
> #  Case studies of open source implementations
> #  Open Source GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
> #  Using Open Source GIS with proprietary software
> #  Transition to Open Source GIS
> #  Open Source GIS business models
> #  Open Source GIS implementation and deployment case studies
> #  Sensor Web enablement
> #  Hands-on workshops on using and developing open source GIS tools
>
> More details of the conference including details of registration  
> will be
> informed soon. The conference website will be activated on January 15,
> 2009. Any one interested to be involved  in the conference please  
> email
> me.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> Dr Suchith Anand
> Centre for Geospatial Science
> Sir Clive Granger Building
> University of Nottingham
> Tel: (0)115 846 8408
> url: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/anand.shtml
>
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