<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Thanks Suchith.<div><br></div><div>Well, this will be a first initiative of its kind here to help encourage people to understand and modify a tool, rather than be passive users of the toolset. We plan to open up the world of Open Source Coding in Geospatial tech and try to get users to be part of the application design/requirements definition process. Hoping that it will be a good experiment to connect theory, practice and utility. Will share the experiences later.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, happy to share that I received the Indian National Geospatial Award 2013 from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, early this month. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;">This award is towards recognition of contribution in the field of geo-spatial science, technology and applications for work done in India.</span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And well I consider this a recognition of all the contributions that by current and past members/students of the Lab, have done.</span><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>Rajan<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>-- <br>1. Please use VRGeo.in (http://vrgeo.in) - the Collaborative Mapping Platform for Researchers and All<br>----------------------------------------------------------<br>K S Rajan, Ph.D.<br><br>Head, Lab for Spatial Informatics,<br>Associate Professor,<br>International Institute of Information Technology<br>Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032, Andhra Pradesh, India<br>Tel: (+91-40)6653 1276<br>Fax: (+91-40)6653 1413<br>E-mail: rajan@iiit.ac.in<br><br>GeoLocation: 17.4454 N, 78.3503 E<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">This 3 week winter school on “Open Source Development of Geospatial Technology" is an excellent initiative. Well done to OSGeo India and Dr K.S Rajan and staff at IIIT-H who are organising this. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Best wishes,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Suchith</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ravi Kumar<br><b>Sent:</b> 14 December 2013 05:33<br><b>To:</b> osgeo-discuss<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">Dear all,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">Researchers / students may choose to attend a completely funded OSGeo India, FOSS GIS -3- week winter school at IIIT Hyderabad, India.</span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">We would like to request you to please send in Applications/Nominations (Indian Nationals) of potential participants who can benefit from attending this winter school using the online Registration form at <a href="http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/winterschool/registration.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:#196AD4">http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/winterschool/registration.php</span></a> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Participants will be selected by a Selection Committee. The last date for Applications are 29th Dec 2013(sunday)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">For more details, including course content, please see <a href="http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/winterschool/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#196AD4">http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/winterschool/</span></a></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Cheers</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Ravi Kumar</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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