<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear friends and colleagues,</div><div>as you may already know, unfortunately FOSS4G Europe 2020, which was supposed to happen in Valmiera, Latvia in July 2020, will not take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference is postponed to 2021 at the same venue [1].<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, we decided to keep the call for the Academic Track open because we would still like to offer the chance to publish academic papers in a Special Issue of the Baltic Journal of Modern Computing [2]. The journal is indexed in WOS (Emerging Sources Citation Index) and has been accepted for inclusion in Scopus. All papers are published under a
CC-BY-SA license.</div><div><br>
</div><div> This is also a small token of appreciation to the authors who had already submitted an abstract to the Academic Track before the conference was postponed to 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>Thus, we invite you all to submit an abstract of between 500 and 1000 words within the new deadline of <b>May 15</b>. The full call for abstracts, including submission instructions, is still available at [3].</div><div><br></div><div>This invitation is open to everyone! Unfortunately, FOSS4G 2020 as well as other geospatial conferences have been also canceled so this is a great opportunity for everyone to still be able to publish their research.<br></div><div><br></div><div>NOTE: Although we are very positive about the Special Issue, please note that it will only take place if the number of abstracts received by May 15 will be high enough. Authors will be immediately informed whether the Special Issue will take place and invited to submit the full paper to the journal.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For any further request, please contact me or any of the other Co-Chairs of the Academic Track (all in cc).</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Marco<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://2020.europe.foss4g.org">https://2020.europe.foss4g.org</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://www.bjmc.lu.lv">https://www.bjmc.lu.lv</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/academic-track/">https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/academic-track/</a></div><div><br></div></div>