[Portugal] SECOND OPEN SOURCE GIS UK CONFERENCE - OSGIS2010 ; Abstracts Submission deadline: 30 January 2010

[Artur Gil]

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CFP - SECOND OPEN SOURCE GIS UK CONFERENCE - OSGIS 2010
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21- 22 June 2010, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of
Nottingham

Website: http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis10/os_home.html    


The Centre for Geospatial Science of University of Nottingham, Open
Source Geospatial Foundation (UK Chapter) and ICA Working Group on Open
Source Geospatial Technologies are organizing the Second Open Source GIS
UK Conference on 21-22nd June , 2010 at the University of Nottingham. 

The conference has very much international focus and holistic outlook
bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academic,
industry, software developers, open source communities, geospatial
researchers etc. High profile speakers from all over the world will be
giving presentations and hands on workshops for the conference. 

The key aims of this conference are:

1. to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy
makers on open source geospatial technologies 
2. to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future
collaborative work in open source GIS 
3. to understand current developments in open source GIS 
4. to act as a focus for open source GIS research and development

Contributions are invited 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 
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 before 30 January 2010. The
OSGIS2010 paper submissions and reviews will be  done through EasyChair
Conference system. Authors will submit their  papers through
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=osgis2010  

The conference registration will be activated on February 2010. In order
to reserve your place, please register online. 

IMPORTANT DATES:

o Abstracts Submission deadline: 30 January 2010 
o Notification of acceptance: 15th February 2010 
o Final papers delivered by: 15 March 2010 
o Notification of acceptance: 30th March 2010 


INVITED SPEAKERS:

# Inaugural Presentation - Professor Ari Jolma (Helsinki University of
Technology, Finland) 

# Keynote Address - Arnulf Christl (President of the Open Source
Geospatial Foundation) 

# Plenary Speaker - Tyler Mitchell (Executive Director of the Open
Source Geospatial Foundation) 

                                                                
OSGIS 2010 WORKSHOPS:

# gvSIG Desktop & Mobile Workshop- (gvSIG Association,SPAIN) 
# OS OpenSpace Workshop (Ordnance Survey, UK) 
# GEOSS Workshop (CGS, University of Nottingham) 

We look forward to welcoming you to the Centre for Geospatial Science
for an interesting conference and future collaborations in this exciting
and rapidly developing research theme. Please contact me for any
information required.

Best wishes,

Suchith Anand

Dr Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
The Nottingham Geospatial Building 
University of Nottingham  NG7 2 TU
Tel: (0)115 82 32750
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html
http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ 
http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ 


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