Dear all,
As part of CGS's collaboration with "Open Nottingham" initiative, we are
pleased to announce 10 "Open Nottingham" bursaries for excellent students to
participate in OSGIS 2011. This is part of CGS strong commitment to actively
support, widen and promote Open Nottingham initiative . More details of Open
Nottingham at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/open/opennottingham.aspx
The "Open Nottingham" bursaries will cover the cost of registration fees to
participate in OSGIS 2011 and are open for students from any UK universities
(both postgraduate and undergraduate) . Applicants should email their one page
CV and brief statement of their open source work/interest to
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> with
subject header "Open Nottingham bursary application". The deadline for
application is 30 May 2011. The winners will be notified on 3rd June 2011.
This year's OSGIS Keynote presentations are:
"Open Nottingham- Knowledge without borders" - Professor Christine Ennew (Pro
Vice Chancellor, University of Nottingham) & Prof. Wyn Morgan (University of
Nottingham)
"The impact of open data, open source software and open standards on the
evolution of National SDIs" -Professor Mike Jackson, Director, Centre for
Geospatial Science
OSGIS 2011 Keynote address - Professor Thierry Badard (Laval University, Canada)
OGC-OSGeo Interoperability Day (Organised by Tyler Mitchell, Executive
Director, Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
OSGIS 2011 Workshops include
# One Geology Workshop - (British Geological Survey)
# Geoserver Workshop - (GeoSolutions, Italy)
# Consuming and Publishing Ordnance Survey Open Data with Open Source software
Workshop - (Astun Technology, UK)
# WMS/QGIS Workshop - (Faunalia,UK)
# Open Gov Workshop - (Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of
Nottingham and Creative Commons)
# gvSIG Technology Sessions- gvSIG Association, Spain [As part of gvSIG Day on
22nd June 2011]
More details at http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
We look forward to welcoming you for joining us in our vision and mission on
further building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open data research.
Best wishes,
Suchith
Dr Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
The 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.opensourcegis.org.uk/
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Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for
bridging the digital divide
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