[OSGeo-Edu] [ica-opensource] Re: Meeting of ICA-OSGeo labs in Europe at FOSS4G-EU and Academic Track CfP

[Suchith Anand]

Stefan,

I think, it is growing strength of the community that we are having multiple events with focus on research (and we hope this keeps increasing).  My humble suggestion is that whoever planning to attend  to any of the events, use the opportunity to build up more research collaborations for the OSGeo Education efforts. If we can have a meeting at OGRS 2014, that will be excellent and anyone who wish to take lead for this, very welcome to contact the organisors of OGRS and arrange meeting for ICA-OSGeo labs.

Phillip- as you are attending OGRS 2014, can you take lead for this ? If so, that will be great.  Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith


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Subject: [ica-opensource] Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Meeting of ICA-OSGeo labs in Europe at FOSS4G-EU and Academic Track CfP

Hi all,

thanks for the announcement.

However, I am having a comment and/or a question: So we have now another Foss4g-EU conference with a focus on research - what I understand from the text below. OGRS (3rd conference on the topic) is doing the same, also this year. So, isn't that a bit counter productive to make 2 FOSGIS conferences in Europe with a science focus in the same year? I.e. it would be better join efforts.

my 2 cents (from South America, though)
stefan

Am 18.03.14 06:21, schrieb Suchith Anand:
> Dear All,
>
> This year we will have the first European Conference of FOSS4G. The 
> Conference will take place in Bremen, July 15 - 17, 2014 at the Jacobs 
> University. This year's conference is under the motto *"Independent 
> Innovation for INSPIRE and Big Data".* More details at 
> http://www.foss4g-e.org/
>
> We want to highlight you two topics that could be of interest:
>
> 1) The Academic Track (deadlines: for abstract submission: 15 April 
> 2014; for full paper submission: 22 April 2014) chaired by Prof. Maria 
> Brovelli and Prof.Peter Baumann. FOSS4G-Europe invites original 
> research contributions on all aspects of open-source geo software and 
> its application, and particularly encourage submissions focusing on 
> the special topics INSPIRE and Big Data. All types of papers are 
> welcome, such as on results achieved, case studies, work in progress, and demos.
> We discourage, however, mere presentations of technology or use cases 
> without properly justifying originality against the scientific state 
> of the art and particular outcomes of the work. All submissions will 
> be assessed by the Program Committee on their overall quality (such as 
> originality and clarity) and relevance.
>
> In collaboration with the following high-ranking journals, outstanding 
> contributions will be published in a special issue of high-impact 
> journals; we have made arrangement with the following journals:
>
> *             Applied Geomatics
>
> *             European Journal of Remote Sensing
>
> *             International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research
>
> Details at
> http://kahlua.eecs.jacobs-university.de/~foss4g-europe/?q=academic-tra
> ck
>
> 2) The general meeting of EU Labs of the *"Geo For All"* Network (for 
> discussing about EU Horizon 2020 projects, COST Actions and other 
> common initiatives ) chaired by Prof. Maria Brovelli and which will 
> take place during the conference. It is also an opportunity for new 
> labs to know more about the initiative and join.
>
> Though country wise USA has the largest number of ICA-OSGeo labs as of 
> now , region wise Europe is the biggest growth area for the ICA-OSGeo 
> labs (over 25 labs now established and in track for establishing 50 
> research labs in Europe by the end of this year) .
>
> We hope to see there many of you there for discussions and to better 
> coordinate our activities and developments at the European level.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
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