[FOSS4G2016] Invitation to contribute to the Scientific Committee and as reviewer (draft)

[Franz-Josef Behr]

Hi!

Please find below the draft of Pradeep and me "Invitation to contribute 
to the Scientific Committee and as reviewer".

Any comments until tomorrow (Monday) evening are welcome!

Viele Grüße / Best regards

Franz-Josef


The *Geospatial Open Source community* strives together with the*OSGeo 
Foundation* for excellence in all their endeavours to achieve the 
highest levels of learned interactions through its FOSS4G conferences. 
Each conference is a milestone as well as a stepping stone for the FOSS 
GIS community as well as for the whole world which, with each passing 
day, realizes that FOSS is the way forward in the post-Kyoto world of 
*sustainability*.

The annual *FOSS4G conference*, being held in *2016 in Bonn, Germany (24 
-- 26 Aug)*, is the largest global gathering focused on open source 
geospatial software. FOSS4G brings together developers, users, 
decision-makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and 
fields of operation. Through six days of workshops, presentations, 
discussions, and cooperation, FOSS4G participants create effective and 
relevant geospatial products, standards, and protocols.

To enable FOSS4G to achieve its aims and foster the spirit of openness 
in geospatial computing, this call is made for all who are interested in 
the FOSS4G philosophy to express interest in*becoming part of the 
Scientific Committee* (SC) of the upcoming FOSS4G conference. Potential 
topics are listed at the bottom of

The  SC will steer the course of the conference, and will decide on the 
tracks, the lead speakers, the sessions, the chairs, and of course the 
presentations that will be made. In addition recommendations for further 
publication of selected papers in TGIS, IJC, or OSGeo Journal can be given.

Additionally we welcome you and other scientists to express their 
interest for a key input that sustains the quality of presentations and 
publications in each FOSS4G, i.e., *reviewing the submissions*!

Please send expressions of interest to participate in the SC and/or 
reviewers panel to the chairs listed below.

Thank you for your support!

Yours truly,


Franz-Josef Behr  and  A.P. Pradeepkumar
________________________________________________________________________
FOSS4G 2016 Academic Track
http://2014.foss4g.org/ojs/index.php/foss4g2014

Questions & remarks to the Academic Track Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr - franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
Prof. Dr. A.P. Pradeepkumar - geo.pradeep at gmail.com



*Topics listed in the Call for Papers*

•    Architectures and frameworks for open source software and data
•    Business Models for Open Source / Open Data
•    Data Quality, Software Quality and Service Quality
•    Community Building
•    Doing more for less: Assessment of costs and benefits of open 
source applications and open source business models
•    Use of Open Data in public administration and services
•    FOSS and FOSS4G: Is spatial special?
•    Approaches to combine open and closed software
•    Teaching Geospatial Sciences with open source solutions
•    History of Geospatial Open Standards
•    Open Database Protection
•    Open Data Resources, Linked Open Data, Open Data Commons, Open Data 
Best Practices
•    Open Data Technologies and Interoperability
•    Cross-border approaches, Political Open Data Support, Licensing 
Policies
•    Open Source GIS application use cases, i.e.,  in local and regional 
administrations, landscape planning, participatory GIS, Location based 
services, health, energy supply, water, climate change, transportation, 
agriculture and forestry, disaster management, and retailing/marketing
•    Implementation and benefits of open standards, needs for further 
developments in standardization
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