[Europe] INSPIRE Conference call for papers deadline today!

Sun Apr 15 21:41:47 PDT 2018

Nice work, Dirk!
Thanks for your energy and efforts.

/Greg

søn. 15. apr. 2018 kl. 20.49 skrev Dirk Frigne <dirk at osgeo.org>:

> Dear list,
>
> Today is the deadline for presentations for the INSPIRE conference. Next
> year I will use this list to ask for contributions a couple of weeks
> before the deadline, so we can coordinate hte OSGeo presentations which
> will be given at the conference. There was the opportunity to organise a
> whole session, but I was to late to take action (and apparently knowbody
> else did).
>
> I think it is important to present OSGeo during the conference so I will
> submit this evening 2 presentations:
> a regular presentation of 15 minutes where I will explain OSGeo and
> OSGeo Europe. (abstract 1)
>
> and a second speed presention (5 min) where I will talk about potential
> partnerships between Europoean programmes and OSGeo (abstract 2).
>
> For your information, these are the 2 abstracts:
>
> abstract 1:
> About OSGeo Europe and INSPIRE
> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
> organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open
> geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted
> to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development.
> Since the start in 2006, OSGeo started to grow into an organisation that
> has now more than 50 local chapters and more than thirty thousand unique
> mailing list subscribers.  The non for profit organisation is driven by
> volunteers. Where volunteers at the start of the organisation where
> mostly software developers, today more and more users join the community
> helping to spread the word of open source.
> Last year, The European chapter was founded with a specific focus to
> help open geospatial technology being adopted in Europe, and in several
> European programmes. Europe has specific needs in terms of adopting open
> source software.
>     • OSGeo Europe is a sparring partner and the representation (Single
> point of contact) for the European institutions in Brussels on behalve
> of OSGeo.org, the other committees, local chapters and projects. Giving
> the existing local chapters a voice in Brussels.
>     • Europe also has specific business ecosystems.
>         ◦ more than 99% of all the European businesses are small and
> medium enterprises (SME's)
>         ◦ software industry in Europe is as big as the software industry
> in the US, but the driving forces are more divided
>         ◦ Free (Libre) Open Source Software (FLOSS) can be used as an
> opportunity to create a strong industry leadership in Europe
>         ◦ OSGeo Europe can play a supporting role in this process
>   One of the first initiatives OSGeo Europe supported was the promotion
> of the OSGeo software, already used for several INSPIRE software needs
> towards the potential users, and promotion of the INSPIRE project
> towards the OSGeo community.
> During this presentation, the president of OSGeo Europe will explain the
> benefits of open software and point to the OSGeo Live project for
> INSPIRE, where more than 50 open source software solutions are available
> and being documented from an INSPIRE point of view.
> At the end of the presentation the audience should have clear insight
> information where OSGeo can help, and how the audience can help OSGeo to
> bring the INSPIRE directive into practice.
> Last but not least, you everybody receives a lot of valuable INSPIRE
> software solutions – for free!
>
> abstract 2:
> How can OSGeo Europe help the European programmes
>
> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
> organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open
> geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted
> to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development.
> Since the start in 2006, OSGeo started to grow into an organisation that
> has now more than 50 local chapters and more than thirty thousand unique
> mailing list subscribers.  The non for profit organisation is driven by
> volunteers. Where volunteers at the start of the organisation where
> mostly software developers, today more and more users join the community
> helping to spread the word of open source.
> Last year, The European chapter was founded with a specific focus to
> help open geospatial technology being adopted in Europe, and in several
> European programmes. Europe has specific needs in terms of adopting open
> source software.
> During his 5 minute presentation, the president of OSGeo Europe will
> present OSGeo Europe and explain how the European local chapter acts as
> a single point of contact for the European institutions in Brussels on
> behalve of OSGeo.org, the other committees, local chapters and projects.
> Several of the members are involved in programmes such as the Copernicus
> , GEO/GEOSS and Galileo/EGNOS. Many users of these programmes are using
> OSGeo software, often without knowing they do. During the discussion
> Dirk is willing to hear how OSGeo Europe can help from a community point
> of view and will listen which challenges Europe can focus on to make the
> difference on the world wide software scene. The idea is to work on a
> roadmap during the breakout to contribute back to OSGeo Europe for
> further discussion and action.
> Questions like how can the sustainability of the OSGeo projects be
> improved and how can we work on a European Ecosystem so that more people
> can help developing the software stacks. What should be the OSGeo
> projects for the next 5 years will be discussed. As software becomes
> more and more important, what is a good licensing strategy for the
> European eco-system? How can we improve the quality, distribution and
> production of these open source frameworks? How will/can European
> programmes become involved in the community, how can a partnership be
> instantiated?
> A lot of questions which need debate from a diverse audience to be able
> to continue this successful movement.
>
>
> --
> Dirk
> OSGeo Europe
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