[Board] FOSS4G Argentina

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All


I was invited as key note speaker for Geo4All (and OSGeo) at the FOSS4G Argentina [1].


Malena, the chair of the Conference, wrote:
...
Geo4All: I said before that we have a lot of users. Most of them are government employees that have started to work with FOSS just because of money issues in their agencies or institutions. Argentina is not different from any other country, we have the same problems: all Universities only teach with proprietary software so every professional that cames out to the market only knows about some specific tools. Definitively we want, and we must, to change that. Our plan is to organize a specific activity related with Geo4All where we put together people from different Universities with people that already have good experience working and teaching with FOSS4G. We think this would be a "mind change" event, we need to evangelize people to make them know that FOSS is the way to go, not because of money, because of freedom. I, and some others here, can talk a lot about this but no one will pay as much attention as they will to someone like María. She's not only the Queen of FOSS4G, she is a great leader and an awesome speaker. We need her here to convince those all professors and decision takers from Universities to move into the FOSS4G world.

....

 Besides these specific activities,  I will have a keynote about OSGeo and our activity.


I'm able to organize my first semester teachings in such a way to have one free week  and therefore I'm able to go. Argentina is far, the travel will be tiring  but the Latino American people are wonderful and I will have great time there. And definitey we need to strenghten our presence there.


I want to ask the Board if I can be provided economic support because the LOC is not able to pay my travel and I have great difficulties in covering it.

In any case, many many thanks to Malena and the Argentinian friends for their sweet words and their kind offer.


Best regards,

Maria


[1] http://www.foss4g-ar.org/



Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:

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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)

Sol Katz Award 2015

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Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it> maria.brovelli at polimi.it





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