Thanks Arnulf, Cameron for this.
This is a really important area for GeoforAll and the UN GIS Committee also esp. linking to the UN SDG 2030 aims, so i am requesting our colleagues (esp. those in US as the event is in Washington) to take proactive role in this. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith ________________________________________ From: Live-demo <live-demo-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Cameron Shorter <cameron.shor...@gmail.com> Sent: 21 October 2016 9:09 PM To: live-demo Cc: Arnulf Christl Subject: Re: [Live-demo] [OSGeo-Discuss] 2017 World Bank Land and Poverty Conference CfP and Registration - Anyone able to present OSGeo-Live OSGeo-Live folks, Are there any within our community who would be willing to stand up and give an OSGeo-Live lightening presentation, and/or an OSGeo-Live workshop in Washington? A presentation is ready to go, along with abstract: https://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html#/ https://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/abstract.txt We have also been discussing putting together a workshop, but as yet this hasn't been done. For a 90 minute workshop, you could draw on quickstarts. Something like: 15 minutes: Introduction to OSGeo and Open Source 15 minutes: Databases: Postgis Quickstart 15 minutes: WebServices: GeoServer Quickstart 15 minutes: Desktop: QGIS Quickstart 15 minutes: Browser: Openlayers or Leaflet Quickstart 15 minutes: Spare for questions, extra exercises, extra Quickstart On 21/10/2016 10:56 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote: Folks, following up from the FOSS4G 2016 conference in Bonn where "Land Information" was one of the four key topics this CfP from the World Bank may be of special interest to us. I have personally attended the last three editions of this conference. Land Information is obviously all about geospatial and location but the community is widely unaware of the potential of geospatial software and even less so about Open Source. There are only a handful of software vendors in the domain and practically no Open Source providers. In his keynote at FOSS4G Klaus Deininger (Lead Economist at the Development Research Group of the World Bank) specifically asked for support from the Open Source Geospatial Community to support the Land Information Domain with technical know-how (see the video of his presentation http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/FOSS4G-2016/foss4g-2016-1574-keynote_vi_--hd.mp4 ). If we (from the Open Source community in general) manage to get in a dozen of talks then we may even get a separate conference thread. Software tools from the FOSS4G domain like QGIS, PostGIS, OpenLayers, etc. already permeate many projects but are oftentimes not sustainable because of a lack of service providers and direct contact to the communities. This domain has basically been waiting for us. Please note that the deadline for abstracts is approaching fast! See below for details: The 2017 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2016/08/22/land-and-poverty-conference-2017-responsible-land-governance-towards-an-evidence-based-approach will be held from March 20 to 24, 2017 in Washington D.C. under the theme of Responsible Land Governance: Towards an Evidence-Based Approach. Reminder call for paper abstracts Please note the deadline for individual paper abstract submission is Midnight October 31, 2016 (Eastern Standard Time). Please check the conference website http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2016/08/22/land-and-poverty-conference-2017-responsible-land-governance-towards-an-evidence-based-approach#2 for more information on conference themes, submission instructions and review process. Call for lightning talk proposals: innovation day on March 23 The conference is partnering with the Open Geospatial Consortium http://www.opengeospatial.org/ to organize the 'Innovation Day' ("lightning talks" presenting use cases, followed by hands-on demonstrations). Please submit proposal for a lightning talk through the conference website http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2016/08/22/land-and-poverty-conference-2017-responsible-land-governance-towards-an-evidence-based-approach#6 (see also priority themes, submission instructions http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/614341475264834515/Lightning-Talk-Submission-Guidelines-2017.pdf > and review process). Call for MasterClass proposals: learning & knowledge sharing day on March 24 The knowledge sharing and learning day (March 24) is an opportunity for presenting and discussing cutting edge tools, research approaches, and methodologies during focused 90 min sessions. Please submit proposal for a MasterClass through the conference website (please view the submission guidelines http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/660221475264836609/MasterClass-Submission-Guidelines-2017.pdf ). Early bird registration We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird registration rate of $250, which will expire on December 15, 2016. The conference brings together technical experts, government representatives, academia, CSO and industry from all over the world. We very much look forward to your abstracts and meeting you at the conference. 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