[OSGeo-Edu] Academic event?

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm interested in a academic workshop, which could be composed the way Tyler
> suggests. My main interest for the workshop is to plan and develop an OSGeo
> edu virtual machine / live system - i.e., not a single system but mainly
> develop the method, procedure and capabilities for making packages that are
> used to compose such systems.

This sounds great.

...
> European funding for this kind of thing is COST - the next collection date
> is 30 March - so if we have a meeting in Feb, we could also plan for a COST
> action. I think we could have a nice group for a COST action if we get
> Nottingham, Girona, Trento and possibly some others (what do you say?). I've
> not been in a COST before so I have only superficial knowledge of it.

Not sure if you meant us (FEM) with Trento... however, my colleagues are running
a COST action, so some knowledge is in-house.

Best regards,
Markus

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