[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G South East Asia - July 2012
Thanks to efforts of Dr Tuong Thuy Vu (Head of Open Source Geospatial Lab, Malaysia), Prof Franz-Josef Behr (Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences) and colleagues, FOSS4G South East Asia - Open Source Tools and Application in Southeast Asia http://foss4g-sea.org/will be held in conjunction with AGSE 2012 on July 18-19th in Malaysia. This will help establish strong OSGeo Malaysia chapter and build more research collaborations and start process to establish Open Geospatial Labs in other key universities in Malaysia and the region in the next 1-2 year time frame helping us build a strong network of research labs for scaling up research and teaching for the future. We welcome participation from all for this initiative. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Nottingham Geospatial Institute Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences
Dear all, I saw with great pleasure the call for organizing the 1st Latin America FOSS4G conference. Congrats to the friends there and let me add my offer to help in any possible way to those who preceded me. The purpose of my e-mail though is a bit different. Taking into account the fact the this year we had the North America regional conference, the central European regional conference and now the Latin America Regional Conference I feel that it is due time to move to a mixed scheme of an international and regional conferences. Thus I propose that we have the odd years (starting from 2013) ONLY the international event (our very successful FOSS4G conference) and the even years (starting from 2014) ONLY the regional conferences. Being in a world in crisis where funding for travel becomes more difficult and where people cannot participate in too many conferences in a year I feel that this is an acceptable compromise. So I call upon the board to decide on this proposal and, of course, all of you to argue in favor :) or against! One final note for the European participation on this list: I suggest that we start organizing a regional European level FOSS4G (if there is agreement also integrating in it the Central-Eastern Europe event) starting from 2014. I volunteer Greece to host the first such event (OK, given that things in Greece will not turn out too bad :)). If there is an initial agreement we can organize things a bit more. Thanks for the consideration of both proposals, Dimitris Kotzinos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences
I fully support this concept, Helena On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Dimitris Kotzinos kotz...@csd.uoc.gr wrote: Dear all, I saw with great pleasure the call for organizing the 1st Latin America FOSS4G conference. Congrats to the friends there and let me add my offer to help in any possible way to those who preceded me. The purpose of my e-mail though is a bit different. Taking into account the fact the this year we had the North America regional conference, the central European regional conference and now the Latin America Regional Conference I feel that it is due time to move to a mixed scheme of an international and regional conferences. Thus I propose that we have the odd years (starting from 2013) ONLY the international event (our very successful FOSS4G conference) and the even years (starting from 2014) ONLY the regional conferences. Being in a world in crisis where funding for travel becomes more difficult and where people cannot participate in too many conferences in a year I feel that this is an acceptable compromise. So I call upon the board to decide on this proposal and, of course, all of you to argue in favor :) or against! One final note for the European participation on this list: I suggest that we start organizing a regional European level FOSS4G (if there is agreement also integrating in it the Central-Eastern Europe event) starting from 2014. I volunteer Greece to host the first such event (OK, given that things in Greece will not turn out too bad :)). If there is an initial agreement we can organize things a bit more. Thanks for the consideration of both proposals, Dimitris Kotzinos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Helena Mitasova Associate Professor Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University 1125 Jordan Hall NCSU Box 8208 Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/ email: hmit...@ncsu.edu ph: 919-513-1327 (no voicemail) fax 919 515-7802 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences
Hopefully I'll be sooner or later in place to support this in practice. +1 for a Greek GFOSS, we can do it! The FOSS session(s) in the latest HellasGI conference gave me the impression that GFOSS is slowly, yet steadily, growing in Greece. Kind regards, Nikos On Friday 15 of June 2012 20:15:27 Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: Dear all, I saw with great pleasure the call for organizing the 1st Latin America FOSS4G conference. Congrats to the friends there and let me add my offer to help in any possible way to those who preceded me. The purpose of my e-mail though is a bit different. Taking into account the fact the this year we had the North America regional conference, the central European regional conference and now the Latin America Regional Conference I feel that it is due time to move to a mixed scheme of an international and regional conferences. Thus I propose that we have the odd years (starting from 2013) ONLY the international event (our very successful FOSS4G conference) and the even years (starting from 2014) ONLY the regional conferences. Being in a world in crisis where funding for travel becomes more difficult and where people cannot participate in too many conferences in a year I feel that this is an acceptable compromise. So I call upon the board to decide on this proposal and, of course, all of you to argue in favor :) or against! One final note for the European participation on this list: I suggest that we start organizing a regional European level FOSS4G (if there is agreement also integrating in it the Central-Eastern Europe event) starting from 2014. I volunteer Greece to host the first such event (OK, given that things in Greece will not turn out too bad :)). If there is an initial agreement we can organize things a bit more. Thanks for the consideration of both proposals, Dimitris Kotzinos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
