[SoC] Travel grant to attend FOSDEM Geospatial devroom - Was: Geospatial devroom - Call for Participation

[Margherita Di Leo]

Dear former GSoC students,

I have the pleasure to announce that the OSGeo Board approved the motion
for a travel grant for a former GSoC student to present his/her work at
FOSDEM Geospatial devroom 2018. Details below on how to submit your
abstract and requesting the grant. The grant is 500USD for one student
chosen by the conveners among those who request it.

Best regards,

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Students,
>
> as you might have seen in this mailing list, there might be the
> possibility for a GSoC student to access a travel grant to present his/her
> work at FOSDEM Geospatial devroom 2018. The proposal of grant is currently
> under discussion by the OSGeo Board of Directors, and I'll keep you posted
> about the final decision. Meanwhile, remember that the deadline to submit
> your abstract is 1 December. If you want to concur for the grant, you must
> specify it in your abstract.
>
> Thanks
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Please forward!
>>
>> FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 8000
>> developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
>> software developers and communities a place to meet and share
>> thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
>> welcome. The next edition will take place on 3 - 4 February 2018. For
>> the fourth time there will be a Geospatial devroom and will be
>> happening on Sunday *4/2/2018*!
>>
>> Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work, but
>> nowadays location and maps are becoming part of many
>> projects/applications, which usually use only a small subset of the
>> possibilities the data and software offer.
>>
>> The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open, geo-related
>> data and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and
>> tools, e.g. for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial
>> services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and
>> visualizing purposes.
>>
>> We welcome submissions about:
>> * Web and desktop GIS applications;
>> * Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata and metadata;
>> * Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications;
>> * Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites;
>> * Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries;
>> * Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations)
>> and dedicated databases;
>> * Big geodata, distributed and scalable GIS applications;
>> * Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata.
>>
>> HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK
>>
>> Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers?
>> Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit
>> your proposal at:
>>
>>  https://fosdem.org/submit
>>
>> Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. If you have
>> an account from previous years, you should be using the same.
>>
>> Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either
>> a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20
>> minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are
>> indicative and will be assigned according to the timing of the
>> session.
>>
>> The DEADLINE for submissions is Thursday **1st December 2017**.
>>
>> Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2017
>> at the latest.
>>
>> Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch
>> with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial at gisky.be!
>>
>> Want to know what FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and
>> the presentations of our previous editions.
>>
>> The organizers
>> Johan Van de Wauw
>> Margherita Di Leo
>> Anne Ghisla
>> Martin Hammitzsch
>> Marc Vloemans
>>
>> [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/
>> [2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/
>> [2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/
>>
>> --
>> Margherita Di Leo
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Margherita Di Leo
>



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Margherita Di Leo
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