[OSGeo-Discuss] Appraisal of OSGeo events/workshops in Japan/Vietnam/Thailand

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi All,

The FOSS4G events in Osaka and Tokyo were a great
success. The Stage Talk by Jeff,Claude and Chris
can be seen at

http://cliplife.jp/clip/?content_id=e4sr5ji4

The Promotion Video below was a big hit too.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHilajQkGM

Cheers

Venka


Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just to appraise about the upcoming OSGeo and FOSS4G
> related promotions in Japan/Vietnam/Thailand
> 
> 1) FOSS4G 2008 - Tokyo on 2 Nov 2008 (Sun)
>    Apart from various presentations from Japan,
>    OSGeo members Jeff McKenna, Claude Philipona and
>    Christopher Schmidt will be participating. Details
>    (in Japanese) available at
>    http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-tokyo/
> 
> 2) FOSS4G - Osaka on 7-8 Nov 2008 (Fri, Sat)
>    Apart from various presentations from Japan,
>    Jeff McKenna, Claude Philipona and Christopher Schmidt
>    will be participating. Details (in Japanese) available
>    at http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-osaka/
> 
> 3) Three day FOSS4G workshop will held in Institute of
>    Resources Geography, Vietnamese Academy of Science,
>    Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) from 26-28 Nov. 2008. The
>    workshop will focus on using Desktop tools like GRASS
>    and QGIS. Ho Dinh Duan and myself will be giving
>    lectures and hands-on.
> 
> 4) One hour FOSS4G workshop at the GIT4NDM International
>    Conference being held in Bangkok from 1-2 Dec 2008.
>    OSGeo members Mr. Sarawut Ninsawat (Osaka City Univ. Japan),
>    Gérald Fenoy (Geolabs, France) and Bernd Deckert (Geolabs,
>    France) will be showing Web Mapping demos and I will introduce
>    OSGeo to the participants. The conference
>    details are at http://e-geoinfo.net/NDM2008/conference.html
>    The FOSS4G workshop details will be posted on the
>    conference website soon.
> 
> 5) One hour FOSS4G workshop at the GIS-IDEAS 2008 International
>    Conference being held in Bangkok from 1-2 Dec 2008.
>    OSGeo members Ned Horning, Sarawut Ninsawat, Daisuke Yoshida
>    Gérald Fenoy and Bernd Deckert will be showing Web Mapping
>    demos and we will introduce OSGeo to the participants. The conference
>    details are at http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas08/
>    There are also several FOSS4G presentation scheduled at the
>    conference. See
>    http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas08/schedule.php.
> 
> Busy times ahead. Hope to see some of you at the above events.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Venka
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