[Marketing] Re: [Board] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call For Participation : First Open Source GIS UKConference - University of Nottingham (22 June 2009)

[Arnulf Christl]

Hi,
this is great news, thanks for the work Suchith and Tyler!

Best regards,
Arnulf.

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Just for some background on this note, below, that might have surprised 
> more than a few people.  University of Nottingham is working with the UK 
> Local Chapter to make this event happen.  All OSGeo involvement has been 
> through the local chapter or local members, with a few suggestions from 
> me.  I've helped steer them to using the local chapter term more in 
> their announcements so that they get all the credit locally in the 
> future - e.g. Organised by OSGeo UK.
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
>> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call For Participation : First Open Source GIS
>> UKConference - University of Nottingham (22 June 2009)
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> The University of Nottingham and Open Source Geospatial Foundation are
>> happy to announce the First Open Source GIS UK Conference on 22nd June
>> (Monday), 2009 at the  University of Nottingham. Tyler Mitchell,
>> Executive Director of Open Source Geospatial Foundation will deliver the
>> keynote presentation.
>>
>> The key aims of this conference are:
>>
>> (i) to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy
>> makers on open source geospatial technologies
>> (ii) to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future
>> collaborative work in open source GIS
>> (iii) to understand current developments in open source GIS
>>
>> Contributions are invited in the following topic areas
>>
>> #  State of the Art developments in Open Source GIS
>> #  Open Source GIS in Education
>> #  Interoperability and standards - OGC, ISO/TC 211
>> #  Open Source GIS application use cases : Government, Participatory
>> GIS, Location based services, Health, Energy, Water, Climate change etc
>> #  Web processing services
>> #  Open architectures, open data
>> #  Case studies of open source implementations
>> #  Open Source GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
>> #  Using Open Source GIS with proprietary software
>> #  Transition to Open Source GIS
>> #  Open Source GIS business models
>> #  Open Source GIS implementation and deployment case studies
>> #  Sensor Web enablement
>> #  Hands-on workshops on using and developing open source GIS tools
>>
>> More details of the conference including details of registration will be
>> informed soon. The conference website will be activated on January 15,
>> 2009. Any one interested to be involved  in the conference please email
>> me.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>> Dr Suchith Anand
>> Centre for Geospatial Science
>> Sir Clive Granger Building
>> University of Nottingham
>> Tel: (0)115 846 8408
>> url: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/anand.shtml
>>
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