[OpenGeoscience] [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and OSGeo

Fri May 25 02:03:35 PDT 2018

Dear All,

Its a Grate News,  I am sure the OSGeo community will be grate to
contribute, and personally I will.

Thanks for initiative.

All the Best

Darshana Rawal

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:

> Dear all,
> Im sure the opengeoscience committee of OSGeo will be glad to contribute,
> and personally I will.
>
> Thanks for the initiative.
>
> Let me know the next steps required.
>
> Best,
> Maxi
>
> Il ven 25 mag 2018, 09:34 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> ha scritto:
>
>> Thanks Maria, Helena for sharing this excellent opportunity. I have added
>> myself as volunteer for this . I think this is a great opportunity for
>> OSGeo-France and OSGeo-Europe to have strong presence and activities
>> promoting OSGeo . There is huge interest in OSGeo and we need to make use
>> of all opportunities. We will aim to have a strong education focus as well
>> for this. I request colleagues in GeoForAll in Europe to plan ideas for
>> this. This might be a great opportunity to plan to bring together all
>> GeoForAll Europe colleagues. As it is in 2020, we got enough time to plan
>> this. All ideas welcome.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Helena
>> Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>
>> *Sent:* 25 May 2018 02:29
>> *To:* discuss osgeo
>> *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France
>> (2020) and OSGeo
>>
>> As a follow up to Maria’s call, as you probably know, we have a MoU
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ISPRS
>> with ISPRS and these kind of activities are good examples of
>> opportunities that the MoU covers.
>> I have set up a wiki page where you can sign up  if you are interested in
>> helping out to organize an OSGeo Pavilion
>> and a forum (or several fora) on all things Open-Geo at the ISPRS
>> congress in Nice in 2020.
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGEO_at_ISPRS2020
>>
>> Please sign up on the wiki by June 1 (next Friday) so that we can see how
>> much interest there is and we will prepare the answer to ISPRS congress
>> organizers based on the interest from the community.
>> Here is the congress website again: http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/
>>
>> Thank you all for supporting this excellent opportunity,
>>
>> Helena
>>
>>
>> On May 24, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
>> maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All
>> probably many of you know ISPRS (http://www.isprs.org/), which is the
>> International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, a Society with
>> a long history and which is our partner  for instance in the GeoForAll
>> initiative and in the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018.
>> ISPRS has (among the others) also a Technical Commission on Spatial
>> Information Science, whose topics are very close to ours. And they are very
>> open to collaboration with OSGeo.
>> Last year Gerald Fenoy  co-organised  FOSS4G Europe in Paris with a good
>> success.
>>
>> Every four years ISPRS organises a big congress attracting thousand of
>> people ( researchers, companies, tecnicians of administrations, etc). In
>> 2020 it will be in Nice (France).
>>
>> http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/
>>
>> I was contacted by Nicolas Paparotidis (the Director of the Congress) who
>> proposed OSGeo to co-organise, in the frame of the Congress, these two
>> initiatives:
>>
>> -  a forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and  Geo-Open-Data. The
>> motivation of fora is  to encourage strong exchanges between academia,
>> institutions, industry, and users on important structuring subjects. The
>> program built for the fora must cover all aspects of the theme (integrating
>> also policy issues) and not only scientific/tecnical aspects.
>>
>> - a pavilion,  where to group open-source companies to give them a
>> stronger impact during the congress.
>>
>> The two initiatives are really challenging and therefore, for answering
>> positively, we need to have a team of people who are interested in
>> collaborating on that. Consider please that there is a great curiosity
>> and interest with respect to open source and we have the occasion of
>> showing the potential of our technologies in a new context. It is a
>> challenge but, if well played, with many opportunities.
>>
>> Please circulate this news and answer to this call if you are interested.
>> We will verify if there are the conditions (i.e. people/energy) for
>> accepting this challenge and answer consequently to such an offer.
>> Best regards!
>> Maria
>>
>>
>> *----------------------------------------------------*
>> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
>> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
>> Politecnico di Milano
>>
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>>
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