[OSGeo-Discuss] OGRS2012 :: CALL FOR PAPERS - Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium

[Olivier ERTZ]

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OGRS2012 :: CALL FOR PAPERS
Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium

October 24 – 26, 2012 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Hosted by School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD)

Website: http://www.ogrs2012.org
Contact: cfp at ogrs2012.org

Notice, PDF version of this call is available here : 
http://cfp.ogrs2012.org.
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(our apologies for cross-postings)
Dear colleagues,

The Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium (OGRS) is a 
meeting dedicated to exchanging ideas on development and use of open 
source geospatial software in both research and education.

Motivated by the inaugural symposium in Nantes, France, OGRS2012 will be 
held from October 24 – 26, 2012 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. The 
symposium is hosted and organized by the School of Business and 
Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD), in partnership with EPFL Lausanne, 
University of Lausanne, University of Geneva, which are all academic 
institutions in Western Switzerland, and the Institute for Research on 
Urban Sciences and Techniques in France.

The main goals are:
- to build a panel of new scientific research and education practices 
using and contributing to open source initiatives in the geospatial fields;
- to discuss a framework and highlight a rationale about geospatial open 
source technology usage in research and education activities;
- to provide an innovation platform to network and develop ideas for 
future collaborative work between academia – from research to education 
– and other actors of the field (associations, foundations, local 
authorities, industry etc.).

For more details, visit the overview page on the website.

Keynote speakers :
- Luc Anselin, Director, Regents' Professor and Walter Isard Chair at 
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal 
Arts and Sciences and Director at GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis 
and Computation, Arizona State University;
- Gérard Hégron, Scientific Director in charge of sustainable city at 
IFSTTAR (French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, 
Planning and Networks);
- Helena Mitasova, Associate Professor at Department of Marine, Earth 
and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University;
- Robert Weibel, Professor of Geographical Information Science at 
Department of Geography, University of Zürich.

Submission :
The symposium will integrate several opportunities for presenting : oral 
presentations, workshops, posters and discussion groups. To participate 
in any of these opportunities, authors are invited to submit an extended 
abstract (1000 to 1500 words, references and keywords excluded) through 
the conference website. The official language is English.

The international scientific advisory board will review and select 
abstracts for inclusion in the symposium and publication in the 
symposium proceedings. A subset of contributions will be invited to 
submit full papers for possible publication in a special issue of the 
Journal of Spatial Information Sciences (JOSIS), pending a peer review 
of full papers.

For more details on how to submit a contribution, please visit the call 
for papers page on the website : http://cfp.ogrs2012.org.

Important dates :
- submission deadline for abstracts is May 28, 2012.
- authors will be notified by June 30, 2012 on program inclusion and 
selection for JOSIS submission
- deadline to submit full papers is September 30, 2012.

We would appreciate if you could kindly distribute this call to other 
interested parties of your acquaintance.

Best regards,
OGRS2012 program committee