[Ica-osgeo-labs] OSGeo at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015

[Suchith Anand]

Colleagues,

For those of you planning to be at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, please make sure you attend OSGeo: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Geosciences session.

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/session/19197

The annual EGU General Assembly (GA) is the largest and most prominent European geosciences event. This years GA attracted over 12,000 scientists from all over the world, of which more than a quarter are students. The meeting’s sessions, typically over 500, cover a wide range of topics. General Assemblies have around 14,000 submissions (oral presentations and posters). Aside from disciplinary sessions, dealing with the topics covered by each scientific division, the meeting also features Union-wide sessions, including townhall meetings. In 2014 there were 13 such town hall meetings.

Townhall Meeting are official EGU meetings, open for all participants in the conference. During these meetings new initiatives or decisions are announced to a larger audience following an open discussion on the matter. Townhall Meetings last 60 minutes in the evening and take place in the conference centre’s lecture rooms, fit 50 to 350 people, and are announced in the Programme (Information & Schedule Book). As they are staged in the evening after the scientific sessions, Townhalls attract large crowds. Last year's OSGeo Townhall meeting was a great success and we had GeoforAll updates presented to the delegates. We look forward to building more ideas this year.

Location: Austria Vienna Center, Vienna
More info: http://egu2015.eu/

Best wishes,

Suchith 






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