[OSGeo-Discuss] “Open Standards for ICT Procurement: Saving while reducing ICT lock-in” workshop at DG CONNECT, Brussels
Colleagues, Under Digital Agenda, the European Commission commits itself through Action 23 to provide guidance on the link between ICT Standardisation and Public Procurement in order to help public authorities use standards to promote efficiency and reduce lock-in. As a matter of fact, using ICT open standards results in: - Higher savings when procuring ICT - An increased level of competition among suppliers - Being compliant with EU Public Procurement directives This workshop on “Open Standards for ICT Procurement: Saving while reducing ICT lock-in” workshop, taking place in Brussels - at DG CONNECT - on June 12th, 2015 might be of interest. Details at https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/open_standards_ict/event/open-standards-ict-procurement-saving-while-reducing-ict-lock-0 This Workshop will be a great opportunity to meet MSP members, procurement managers, policymakers and ICT suppliers to discuss how to effectively reduce lock-in by using Open Standards. Best wishes, Suchith PS - Please also give your inputs to our Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR before 25th April 2015. Details at http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-April/001473.html 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] FOSS4G North America selection process
Dear Everyone, (x-posted to OSGeo LocationTech discussion lists, please fwd to all interested parties) As a fairly new conference, FOSS4G North America has lacked a formal selection process in terms of how to select which city/venue, who was organizing, and more. Until now... A team of concerned people from the community including many past chairs of North American FOSS4G events have collaborated to draft a proposal for how FOSS4G North America will be governed. On behalf of the team, we would like to invite you to review the draft and participate in the process. The review period will last until April 29th. After which, we will enact the process for FOSS4G NA 2016. The governance document is available publicly here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WlgmJgtl0LaV0EO0NtDDSnloTgsIvxu9KwddPDwX1WU/edit#. Anyone can comment. All discussion takes place via. a Google group here https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/foss4gna_selection. A brief summary is as follows: The city venue selection process will be conducted by a committee consisting of: * The 3 most recent FOSS4G NA chairs * One appointed representative from OSGeo * One appointed representative from LocationTech The committee will select the next conference location factoring their votes, plus votes from attendees sponsors from the previous conference. The same committee will also select the organization to run the logistics for the conference. The conference chair will be elected at the previous conference by conference attendees. If you're interested, please do join the Google group to discuss and participate. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Andrew ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] “Open Standards for ICT Procurement: Saving while reducing ICT lock-in” workshop at DG CONNECT, Brussels
Hi, Could anyone organising or attending this event please encourage presenters to share this information publicly. This sort of information is very powerful when building a business case to back the use of standards. Regards, Cameron. On 23/04/2015 3:00 am, Suchith Anand wrote: Colleagues, Under Digital Agenda, the European Commission commits itself through Action 23 to provide guidance on the link between ICT Standardisation and Public Procurement in order to help public authorities use standards to promote efficiency and reduce lock-in. As a matter of fact, using ICT open standards results in: - Higher savings when procuring ICT - An increased level of competition among suppliers - Being compliant with EU Public Procurement directives This workshop on “Open Standards for ICT Procurement: Saving while reducing ICT lock-in” workshop, taking place in Brussels - at DG CONNECT - on June 12th, 2015 might be of interest. Details at https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/open_standards_ict/event/open-standards-ict-procurement-saving-while-reducing-ict-lock-0 This Workshop will be a great opportunity to meet MSP members, procurement managers, policymakers and ICT suppliers to discuss how to effectively reduce lock-in by using Open Standards. Best wishes, Suchith PS - Please also give your inputs to our Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR before 25th April 2015. Details at http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-April/001473.html 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. ___ ica-osgeo-labs mailing list ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs -- Cameron Shorter, Software and Data Solutions Manager LISAsoft Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] r100 for Twin Cities
Hi Bob in St. Paul, r100 could consolidate the old idea of Twin Cities: www.volksnav.de/r100TwinCities. A convenient common pole could be the Lake street bridge. Henrique -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. April 2015 17:54 An: Serena Coetzee; ICA-OSGeo Lab Network; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding Serena, You should definite mention US National Grid (or from the World Perspective, I think Universal Grid is the pertinent label). It has already been demonstrated to work very well as an addressing method. You can find more info at these links: http://usngcenter.org/ http://www.usngstore.com/ bobb -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Serena Coetzee Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 3:10 AM To: ICA-OSGeo Lab Network; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding Dear all, on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to the Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization with 192 member countries [1]. If you know about interesting open source software or open data related to addressing and/or geocoding, let me know. Anything that I receive by Wednesday evening, I could include in the presentation. [1] www.upu.int Regards, -- Serena Coetzee Geography Building 3-5 Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 * Tel: +27 12 420 3823 * Fax: +27 12 420 6385 ___ 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Belgium update
Hi all, As was previously announced on this list[1], we had a first meeting of OSGeo Belgium last week on Wednesday. A full report of the meeting can be found on the OSGeo wiki[2]. Our goals are in line with the goals of OSGeo: * Community-building and networking * Organisation of events * Lobbying * Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl) * Support to higher levels of OSGeo * Possibly: OSGeo focal point for EU-related activities Our first concrete goal is to try organising a one day event FOSS4G Belgium in October/November, where we could officialy launch an OSGeo Belgium chapter. In the meantime it would be useful to have an OSGeo Belgium mailinglist so everyone interested can join our discussions! Kind Regards, Johan [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-March/014093.html [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [FOSS4G Seoul]Call for Presentation will Close on this Friday.
Dear All, FOSS4G Seoul team would like to remind you that Call for Presentation deadline is approaching. Presentation submission closes on this Friday, 24th April. If you haven’t yet submitted your presentation topics, please submit your topics through FOSS4G Seoul page[1]. Presentations are the heart of the conference. We expect many interesting presentations during the conference showing the uses of open-source geospatial solutions in various fields and benefits of open-source geospatial solutions. Each individual presentations will be allowed about 25 minutes and 5 minutes for QA. International FOSS4G 2015 will take place from 14th to 19th in Seoul, South Korea for the first time in Asia. There will be Asia Special Session discussing past, present and future of open-source geospatial in Asia during FOSS4G Seoul. Also FOSS4G Seoul conference will be held in conjunction with SmartGeoExpo[2] – the largest geospatial event in Korea – at the same venue during the same period. FOSS4G Attendees can go to any talks or exhibition booth at SmartGeoExpo without additional cost. You can also find your research/business partners from Korea through SmartGeoExpo. Thus FOSS4G Seoul will be your ideal place to show off your brilliant recent works to more broader audiences. Academic abstracts/posters submission will be closed on 15th, May. If you want to know more about academic track, please pay a visit here[3]. Hope to see many interesting talks here in Seoul in this September. Best, Sanghee [1]http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/presentations/ http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/presentations/ [2]http://smartgeoexpo.kr/eng/main [3]http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/academic-track/ --- Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul! http://2015.foss4g.org Twitter: @foss4g Facebook: FOSS4G2015 email: foss4gch...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
