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

Tue Mar 18 07:53:43 PDT 2014

Dear Stefan
as far as I know, the FOSS4G Europe was announced in the last FOSS4G in Nottingham, therefore is not a novelty.
The idea was to widen to all EU countries the successfull conferences that took place in Bucharest and in Prague.

I agree that for next years we can better armonize all the initiatives.
In any case having so many exciting conferences means that the success ot free and open source software for geospatial is increasing and that's wonderful!!!!

Maria

Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Vice Rector for Como Campus - Politecnico di Milano

Public Participation GIS: a FOSS architecture enabling field-data collection
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Inviato: martedì 18 marzo 2014 16.25
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Oggetto: 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-track
>
> 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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