[Conference-europe] announcement

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks Maria, I have submitted the news item.  Exciting! :)

-jeff



On 2014-09-28 8:38 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
> We are proud to announce the second Edition of the FOSS4G (Free and Open
> Source For Geospatial) Europe Conference.
>
>
> The Conference aims to bring together FOSS4G users and developers
> worldwide and foster closer interactions with and amongst European
> communities in order to share ideas for improving geodata, software and
> applications openess and availability.
>
>
> It will be held at Politecnico di Milano
> (http://www.polo-como.polimi.it/en/), Como (Italy),  from July 14
> through 17, 2015.
>
>
> A one day of workshops precedes the conference (13 July 2015) and the
> code sprint closes the event (18 July 2015).
>
>
> Besides the traditional Academic Track (one day track), three special
> Tracks on FOSS4G for water resources (one day track), OpenGeodata (half
> day track) and FOSS4G for Libraries (half day track) will be organized.
>
>
> A meeting of the Labs involved in the GeoForAll
> (http://www.geoforall.org/) <http://www.geoforall.org/>initiative will
> take place.
>
>
> A mapping party for celebrating the International Map Year (
>
> http://internationalmapyear.org/) will be organized together with ICA
> and other Associations.
>
>
> Last but not least, the winners of the NASA Worldwind Europe Challenge
> 2015 (
>
> http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/)
> <http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/>will present their innovative apps
> to the public.
>
>
> This is just the beginning. Stay tuned: website and more information
> available soon.
>
> Maria Brovelli & the Organizing Team