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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

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