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

[Chris Pettit]

Hi All

If there is a proposal which is targeting smart cities and you would like an Australian partner please let me know. 

Unfortunately I cannot make the meeting in Italy.

Regards

Chris

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> On 24 Oct 2014, at 10:32 am, "Stefan Keller" <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Suchith
> 
> Thanks for your initiative for a GeoForAll meeting at FOSS4G 2015 in
> Como, Italy.
> I'm planning to contribute to the conference and to attend it.
> Regarding your call for thoughts/ideas it's difficult at least for me
> to answer - except pointing to the news that the Swiss gov't just
> approved to fully participate at H2020 :-)
> My proposal is that each lab perhaps could post a research or
> imeplementation proposal sketch (either to H2020 or Open Source SW
> like QGIS/PostGIS) to a wiki page before the meeting.
> 
> Yours, Stefan
> www.hsr.ch/geometalab
> 
> 2014-10-22 11:53 GMT+02:00 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>:
>> 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
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>> 
>> 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
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>> 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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