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

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Helena,

Nice France! One of the most livable cities on the planet and an opportunity to help the world be more free and open.

People have given their lives for that, and all you ask for is a bit of time.

Please count me in for whatever I can do to help!

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Helena Mitasova
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 6:30 PM
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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<mailto: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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Politecnico di Milano

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