[OSGeo-UK] April Notices

Mon Apr 28 02:55:08 PDT 2014

Hi All,

For information, myself, Matt and Antony at Astun have all submitted
workshops/talks to OSGIS, and I (Jo) will also be speaking at the AGI event
in Belfast. Hope to see a few people there!

Jo

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Edwards, Ian
<ian.edwards at metoffice.gov.uk>wrote:

>  *OSGeo UK Update*
>
>
>    1. OSGIS 2014 - Call for papers and workshops ends *this Friday*: 2nd
> May 2014 (see below for details)
>
>   2. Geo Big 5 continues: The *Open Geospatial* event is in Belfast on
> 13th of May
>       http://www.geobig5.com/events/open-geospatial/
>
>   3. Do we need an Open Standards Forum for geographic information in the
> UK?
>       http://data.gov.uk/blog/agi-workshop-open-geo-standards
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>
>
> Thank you to those of you who have offered to help in various ways
> with OSGIS 2014. I'll send out information about our basecamp project this
> week.  We're due for the UK chapter meeting today, but I'm unable to
> attend due to project commitments. Feel free to join the IRC channel at 1pm
> and feedback any actions.
>
>
>
> Ian Edwards
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>
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>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Edwards, Ian
> *Sent:* 21 March 2014 11:08
> *To:* uk at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* OSGIS Conference - Call for papers
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> *OSGIS 2014*
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> *2nd – 3rd September 2014*
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> Building upon the momentum of a very successful FOSS4G 2013 in the UK
> http://2013.foss4g.org/  , we are pleased to inform that the Nottingham
> Geospatial Institute, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation’s UK Chapter
> and the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies are hosting
> the Fifth Open Source GIS UK Conference on 2nd-3rd September at the
> University of Nottingham.
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> This conference series is based in the UK open source GIS community but
> has an international reach and holistic outlook bringing together speakers
> and delegates from government, academia, industry, software development,
> open source communities, geospatial research, and elsewhere. High profile
> speakers from around the globe will give presentations and hands-on
> workshops at the conference. Preliminary website at
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx    for more info.
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> The first day (2nd Sep 2014) will be workshops and second day (3rd Sep
> 2014) will be the main conference. We are also planning to organise  *"Building
> up Open Access, Open Education and Open Data for Open Science"* in
> September (2nd Sep 2014) in parallel to OSGIS 2014 for bringing together
> colleagues from Open Access , Open Data and Open Education for building
> synergies and collaboration opportunities with the *"Geo for All"*initiative.
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> The key aims of this conference are:
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> •             To present papers from government, academia, industry and
> policy makers on open data, open standards and open source geospatial
> technologies
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> •             To provide a platform to network and develop ideas for
> future collaborations in open source GIS
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> •             To understand current developments in open source GIS
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> •             To act as a focus for open source, open standards and open
> data research
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> Contributions are invited but are not limited to the following topic areas:
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> •             State of the art developments in Open Source GIS
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> •             Open Source GIS in Education
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> •             Interoperability and standards - OGC, ISO/TC 211
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> •             Open Source GIS application use cases: e.g. Government,
> Participatory GIS, Location based services, Health, Energy, Water, Climate
> change
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> •             Web processing services
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> •             Open architectures, open content, open science
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> •             Case studies of open source implementations
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> •             Open Source GIS internationalisation and localisation
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> •             Using Open Source GIS with proprietary software
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> •             Transitioning to Open Source GIS
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> •             Open Source GIS business models
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> •             Open Source GIS implementation and deployment case studies
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> •             Sensor Web enablement
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> •             Hands-on workshops on using or developing open source GIS
> tools
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> Abstracts (max 1500 words) for papers should be submitted to
> Jeremy.Morley at nottingham.ac.uk  before 5pm GMT on*  Friday 2nd May  *2014.
> The programme will be published in May 2014.
>
> Workshop proposals submission to be send to Ian.Edwards at metoffice.gov.uk
>
> Conference registration will be activated in March 2014. In order to
> reserve your place, please register online.
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> Important Dates:
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> Abstract submission deadline:   *2nd May 2014 *
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> Workshop proposals deadline:  *2nd May 2014 *
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> This year's OSGIS chairs will be Jeremy Morley and Ian Edwards (Met
> Office, UK and OSGeo UK Chair).  We look forward to welcoming you to
> Nottingham for OSGIS 2014 and to building further research and development
> collaborations in this exciting and rapidly developing research theme.
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> Best wishes,
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> Suchith
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> Dr Suchith Anand
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> Nottingham Geospatial Institute
> Nottingham Geospatial Building
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> University of Nottingham  NG7 2 TU
> Tel: (0)115 82 32750
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> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm
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> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx
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> http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/
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> http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/
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