[OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and OSGeo

Fri May 25 00:39:26 PDT 2018

Dear all,
Im sure the opengeoscience committee of OSGeo will be glad to contribute,
and personally I will.

Thanks for the initiative.

Let me know the next steps required.

Best,
Maxi

Il ven 25 mag 2018, 09:34 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> ha
scritto:

> Thanks Maria, Helena for sharing this excellent opportunity. I have added
> myself as volunteer for this . I think this is a great opportunity for
> OSGeo-France and OSGeo-Europe to have strong presence and activities
> promoting OSGeo . There is huge interest in OSGeo and we need to make use
> of all opportunities. We will aim to have a strong education focus as well
> for this. I request colleagues in GeoForAll in Europe to plan ideas for
> this. This might be a great opportunity to plan to bring together all
> GeoForAll Europe colleagues. As it is in 2020, we got enough time to plan
> this. All ideas welcome.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
>
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> *From:* Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Helena
> Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>
> *Sent:* 25 May 2018 02:29
> *To:* discuss osgeo
> *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France
> (2020) and OSGeo
>
> As a follow up to Maria’s call, as you probably know, we have a MoU
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ISPRS
> with ISPRS and these kind of activities are good examples of opportunities
> that the MoU covers.
> I have set up a wiki page where you can sign up  if you are interested in
> helping out to organize an OSGeo Pavilion
> and a forum (or several fora) on all things Open-Geo at the ISPRS congress
> in Nice in 2020.
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGEO_at_ISPRS2020
>
> Please sign up on the wiki by June 1 (next Friday) so that we can see how
> much interest there is and we will prepare the answer to ISPRS congress
> organizers based on the interest from the community.
> Here is the congress website again: http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/
>
> Thank you all for supporting this excellent opportunity,
>
> Helena
>
>
> On May 24, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
> maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
>
> Dear All
> probably many of you know ISPRS (http://www.isprs.org/), which is the
> International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, a Society with
> a long history and which is our partner  for instance in the GeoForAll
> initiative and in the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018.
> ISPRS has (among the others) also a Technical Commission on Spatial
> Information Science, whose topics are very close to ours. And they are very
> open to collaboration with OSGeo.
> Last year Gerald Fenoy  co-organised  FOSS4G Europe in Paris with a good
> success.
>
> Every four years ISPRS organises a big congress attracting thousand of
> people ( researchers, companies, tecnicians of administrations, etc). In
> 2020 it will be in Nice (France).
>
> http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/
>
> I was contacted by Nicolas Paparotidis (the Director of the Congress) who
> proposed OSGeo to co-organise, in the frame of the Congress, these two
> initiatives:
>
> -  a forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and  Geo-Open-Data. The
> motivation of fora is  to encourage strong exchanges between academia,
> institutions, industry, and users on important structuring subjects. The
> program built for the fora must cover all aspects of the theme (integrating
> also policy issues) and not only scientific/tecnical aspects.
>
> - a pavilion,  where to group open-source companies to give them a
> stronger impact during the congress.
>
> The two initiatives are really challenging and therefore, for answering
> positively, we need to have a team of people who are interested in
> collaborating on that. Consider please that there is a great curiosity
> and interest with respect to open source and we have the occasion of
> showing the potential of our technologies in a new context. It is a
> challenge but, if well played, with many opportunities.
>
> Please circulate this news and answer to this call if you are interested.
> We will verify if there are the conditions (i.e. people/energy) for
> accepting this challenge and answer consequently to such an offer.
> Best regards!
> Maria
>
>
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