[OSGeo-Discuss] Accepted presentations - OSGIS 2009

[Suchith Anand]

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FIRST OPEN SOURCE GIS UK CONFERENCE 2009

22 June 2009, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham
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The excellent line up of accepted presentations for The First Open
Source GIS UK Conference is now published at
http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk 

The key aims of OSGIS 2009 are:

1. to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy
makers on open source geospatial technologies
2. to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future
collaborative work in open source GIS
3. to understand current developments in open source GIS


PLENARY SPEAKERS:

# Tyler Mitchell (Executive Director, Open Source Geospatial Foundation)

# Professor William Cartwright (President of the International
Cartographic Association) 
# Szabolcs Szekacs (European Commission, Informatics
Directorate-General, IDABC) 

OSGIS UK 2009 Workshops:

o Mapwindow - Dr Daniel Ames (Idaho State University,USA) 
o Introduction to gvSIG as desktop GIS/SDI client - Alvaro Anguix (IVER
Technologas de la Informacion, Spain) 
o Workshop on Perl, Python, Ruby- Professor Ari Jolma (Helsinki
University of Technology, Finland ) 
o Open source tools for support across the GI data lifecycle: from
creation to delivery - James Reid (EDINA) & Jo Cook (Oxford Archaeology)

Conference registration at
http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis/os_registration.html  

We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham for an interesting
conference and discussions in this exciting research theme. Please
contact me for any information required.

Best wishes,

Suchith Anand

Dr Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
Tel: (0)115 846 8408
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html 
http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ 
http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ 


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