[Ica-osgeo-labs] GeoforAll meeting @ FOSS4G Europe 2015

[Suchith Anand]

Dear All,

We are planning Geo For All meeting at FOSS4G 2014 in Como, Italy. It will be great opportunity esp. for all our labs in Europe to meet and discuss ideas for joint collaborations esp. various H2020 calls etc. Also we need to make use of available opportunities like Google Summer of Code to build good projects and collaborations between our labs.

For example last year  Dr Luciene Delazari (Federal University of Parana, Brazil),  Piotr Pociask (GIS Support Sp, Warsaw) and Dr Mark Ware (University of South Wales) joined together for supervising the  Schematization Plugin for QGIS project that student Nishith Maheshwari (IIIT Hyderabad, India) carried out. Not only it will help produce a joint research paper but will now  enable more collaborative research ideas for the map generalization research community for extending this as an open schematization platform which other students in future can use to build upon. It is an excellent example of how we can build ideas for collaborative research for ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs for the future. This will also help us build ideas for next year’s GSoC by having members of ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs network collaborate on other interesting ideas.

http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Nishithm

We are also planning to arrange the inaugural ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Award for Open Geospatial Science will be for the best student winning team at the NASA World Wind Europa Challenge competition.

So please let me know your thoughts/ideas before 27th Oct  and we can include this.

Best wishes,

Suchith





From: conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Marco Minghini
Sent: 21 October 2014 17:05
To: foss4g-europe
Subject: [Conference-europe] FOSS4G Europe 2015 - call for abstracts

Dear all,
the FOSS4G Europe 2015 website is quite ready, and we need to have the call for abstracts/workshops published soon.
I please ask all the committees involved (1-workshops, 2-general track, 3-academic track, 4-water track, 5-open data track, 6-library track, 7-indoor/outdoor positioning and mapping) to start working, in order to:
1) set up the track committee (especially for those committees that are still composed of very few people) trying to make it as "European" as possiblle, i.e. with many countries represented;
2) prepare the text of the call: as general guidelines, this can be a 10-lines description plus (where relevant) a list of possible themes;
3) decide the form of contributions you are expecting. As we'll produce proceedings for the conference, we suggest all the committees to ask at least for an abstract; then, please decide whether you plan also to ask for a paper. This will be specified in the call;
4) (if you also plan to have papers) contact journal editors for publishing a special issue related to your topic.
Each committee will be then responsible for selecting the abstracts/papers and of course for managing its session. And the leader of each committee is responsible for the committee!
For your personal discussions, please remember to use the private mailing list enabling the filter on your topic. Instructions on how to do it were in Jorge's e-mail, but if you have doubts just ask me.
Let's fix as deadline for 1) and 2) (especially for writing the text of the call to be put on the website) Tuesday, October 28. This means you have one week!
Up to now, the committees (with their leaders in bold) are the following (if I forgot someone please tell me):



0) coordination: Maria Brovelli - Marco Minghini (Mingo)

1) website: Nicolas Bozon - Gerald Fenoy - Marco Negretti [web]

2) workshops: Siki Zoltan - Carlos Granell - Simone Corti - Stefano Piffer [ws]

3) General Track: Vasile Craciunescu - Giuseppe Conti - Stefano Campus - Jorge Sanz - Gerald Fenoy [gt]

4) Academic Track: Peter Baumann - Massimiliano Cannata - Sven Schade - Marco Brambilla - Marco Minghini - Paolo Zatelli - Marco Ciolli - Clara Tattoni - Dimitris Kotzinos [at]

5) Water Track: Dragan Savic - Maria Brovelli - Carolina Arias - Margherita di Leo - Peter Weels - Andreas Burzel - Helmut Kudrnovsky - Robert Szczepanek [wt]

6) Open Data Track: Codrina Ilia - Maurizio Napolitano (Napo) - Francesco Pirotti - Luca Delucchi [odt]

7) Library Track: Peter Loewe - Marcella Samakovlija [lt]

8) Live USB: Angelos Tzotsos - Luca Delucchi - Simone Corti [liv]

9) Social media/Press: Jachym Cepicky - Marco Minghini - Carolina Arias [sm]

10) NASA WW Challenge: Patrick Hogan - Gabor Remetey - Maria Brovelli - Rody Jolak - Giorgio Zamboni - Giuseppe Conti [ww]

11) Map Party: Maria Brovelli - George Gartner - Monia Molinari - Luca Delucchi - Marco Brambilla - Marco Minghini - Peter Mooney [map]

12) GeoForAll: Suchith Anand - Maria Brovelli - Marco Minghini [gfa]

13) Code Sprint: Luca Delucchi - Jachym Cepicky - Jeff McKenna - Marco Negretti - Simone Corti - Stefano Piffer [cs]
14) Indoor-Outdoor Positioning and Mapping: Ludovico Biagi - Giuseppe Conti [iot]

Have a nice work,
Marco (Mingo)

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