[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research - OSGIS 2011

Tue Nov 30 15:48:15 EST 2010

Tyler, we have an osgeo-live-mini which fits on a 4G USB (this doesn't 
contain windows installers).

On 30/11/2010 9:50 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> I'm sure one of us will be able to speak to the live disk project while there.
> In the past Suchith has handed out USB flash drives (not sure if it was to
> everybody though).  Is there a version of the live project to fit on a 2 or 4GB
> drive?  That'd be sweet!
>
> Also, there is an opportunity for someone to use the live project as the basis
> of a workshop (or two) at the event, in particular if it shows off OGC level
> interoperability.  I won't be leading a workshop personally though.
>
> Tyler
>
> On November 29, 2010 12:08:00 pm Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Who is going to this conference who will be available to present the 25
>> minute OSGeo-Live lightening presentation?
>> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/09/osgeolive-40-lightening-overview
>> .html
>>
>> Source here:
>> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/en/presentations/OSGeoLive4_0Tast
>> er/
>>
>> Of note, I'm hopeful that Suchith will be handing the OSGeo-Live DVD out
>> to delegates as part of this conference.
>>
>> On 30/11/2010 4:59 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
>>> Call For Papers - THIRD OPEN SOURCE GIS UK CONFERENCE - OSGIS 2011
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> 21- 22 June 2011, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham
>>>
>>> Website: http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
>>> <http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Eosgis11/os_home.html>
>>>
>>>   The Centre for Geospatial Science , the UK Chapter of the Open Source
>>>
>>> Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo:UK) , The GNSS Research and Application
>>> Centre for Excellence (GRACE) and the ICA Working Group on Open Source
>>> Geospatial Technologies are organizing the Third Open Source GIS UK
>>> Conference on 21st&  22nd June, 2011 at CGS, University of Nottingham.
>>>
>>> The conference has an international focus and a holistic outlook,
>>> bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academic,
>>> industry, software developers, open source communities and geospatial
>>> researchers. High profile speakers from all over the world will be
>>> giving presentations and hands-on workshops. We are particularly
>>> pleased to announce that OSGIS 2011 Keynote address will be delivered
>>> by Professor Thierry Badard (Laval University, Canada). His details at
>>> http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca/en/index.php
>>>
>>> The key aims of OSGIS conference series are:
>>>
>>> 1. to provide a platform for presentations from government, academic,
>>> industry and policy makers on open source, open standards and open
>>> data geospatial technologies;
>>>
>>> 2. to provide a venue to network and develop ideas for future
>>> collaborative work in open source GIS;
>>>
>>> 3. to understand current developments in open source, open standards
>>> and open data;
>>>
>>> 4. to act as a focus for open source, open standards, open data GIS
>>> research.
>>>
>>> Contributions are invited in but are not limited to the following
>>> topic areas:
>>>
>>> o  State of the Art developments in Open Source GIS
>>>
>>> o  Open Source GIS in Education
>>>
>>> o  Interoperability and standards - OGC, ISO/TC 211
>>>
>>> o  Open Source GIS application use cases : Government, Participatory
>>>
>>> GIS, Location based services, Health, Energy, Water, Climate change, etc.
>>>
>>> o  Web processing services
>>>
>>> o  Open architectures, open content, open data
>>>
>>> o  Case studies of open source implementations
>>>
>>> o  Open Source GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
>>>
>>> o  Using Open Source GIS with proprietary software
>>>
>>> o  Transition to Open Source GIS
>>>
>>> o  Open Source GIS business models
>>>
>>> o  Open Source GIS implementation and deployment case studies
>>>
>>> o  Sensor Web enablement
>>>
>>> o  Hands-on workshops on using and developing open source GIS tools
>>>
>>> Abstracts (max 1500 words) are be submitted to before 30 January 2011
>>> to Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
>>> <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>    with subject header OSGIS
>>> 2011. The conference registration will be activated on March 2011. In
>>> order to reserve your place, please register online.
>>>
>>> Workshops already confirmed:
>>>
>>> # OGC- OSGeo Interoperability Day Workshop (21 June 2011) - (Organised
>>> by Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director, Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
>>>
>>> #  OpenGov: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards Workshop (21
>>> June 2011) - (Organised by Dr Hanif Rahemtulla, University of Nottingham)
>>>
>>> We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham for the OSGIS 2011
>>> conference and to continuing to build a Open Source, Open Standards,
>>> Open Data research community.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Suchith
>>>
>>> Dr Suchith Anand//
>>>
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