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.an...@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-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Helena > Mitasova <hmit...@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.brove...@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 > > P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy) > Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867, <maria.brove...@polimi.it> > maria.brove...@polimi.it > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > Helena Mitasova > Professor at the Department of Marine, > Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences > Associate director and faculty fellow at the Center for Geospatial > Analytics > North Carolina State University > Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 > hmit...@ncsu.edu > http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/publications.html > > "All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are > sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records > Law and may be disclosed to third parties.” > > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. 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