Hi folks,
Let me remind you that there is an annual open-source conference in Brussels,
FOSDEM, which is the largest and most fun of all. Thousands of OS enthusiasts
road around a dozen buildings in ULB, share their passion and enjoy waffles and
coffee. People come from many countries, mostly Europe though.
As always, there will be a Geospatial devroom. I have made talks there since
2016, and plan to submit one for the next year. I invite you to come to
Brussels and join me in celebrating open source, drinking various liquids and
discussing all things geospatial. Submit a presentation and book a ticket!
Conference website: https://fosdem.org/2019/
Geospatial devroom announcement:
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002793.html
Below is a copy of the most of the announcement:
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 2 - 3 February 2019. For the fifth time
there will be a Geospatial devroom and it will be happening on Sunday
*3/2/2019* from 9.00-17.00!
Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work, but nowadays
location (awareness) and maps are becoming part of many
products/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-/spatial related
data and software and their community and 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 geospatial data processing, distributed and scalable GIS applications in
the Cloud;
* Geospatial information and Smart Cities, IoT and
Automotive/Autonomous-connected vehicles
* Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata - OpenStreetMap
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://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19
<https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19>
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 Saturday **1st
December 2018**. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by
8/12/2017 at the latest.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the
organisers of the devroom via marcvloemans1 at gmail dot com! Want to know what
FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and the presentations of our
previous editions.
The organizers: Jody Garnett, Anne Ghisla, Martin Hammitzsch, Marc Vloemans
See you there,
Ilya
_______________________________________________
talk mailing list
talk@openstreetmap.org
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
