[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the FOSS4G 2019 EO Data Challenge

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear friends,

FOSS4G2019 Bucharest has in its foundation the belief that we live 
fortunate times having access to unprecedented technological and 
informational resources. For the first time in human history, we have an 
authentic opportunity to understand our changing environment and thus to 
make the right decisions for our future. True to our belief, we are 
launching today the EO Data Challenge, a competition inviting startups, 
developers, students and researchers to imagine and build valuable open 
source applications using large volumes of EO data and state-of-the art 
technologies. We are honoured to have as partners in this quest leaders 
from the industry and governmental and international institutions. Their 
valuable contribution and interest in the EO Data Challenge activities 
and results come to reaffirm the importance of this endeavor, which, we 
hope, could be relaunched in the following years.


Curious to see whom will look at your work or, even better, whom could 
be by your side in your challenge? Find out all the details on the 
Challenge webpage [1].


Warm regards,
Vasile

PS Don't forget that the deadline for submitting a talk/workshop is 
April 15. Tic Tac.


[1] https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/open-source-eo-data-challenge/


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[OSGeo-Discuss] EGU: OSGeo/OpenPlanetary Townhall on Open Science on Thursday

[Peter Löwe]

Dear Colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting!)

I would like to draw your attention to the upcoming joint 5th 
OSGeo/OpenPlanetary Townhall on Open Science event, which will be hosted at the 
General Assembly of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) on Thursday evening 
(April 11).
 

This Townhall meeting reaches out all across EGU, especially welcoming Early 
Career Scientists, to network and discuss the current challenges and 
opportunities

OpenPlanetary (OP) was born as a community-driven initiative to address the 
need of the planetary science community for sharing ideas and collaborating on 
common planetary research topics mostly related to data analysis problems. 
OpenPlanetary started back in 2015 from an initial participants effort to stay 
connected and share information related to and beyond the ESA’s first Planetary 
GIS Workshop. Since 2018 OP became a non-profit organization.

With 300+ members across many countries, the OpenPlanetary community is made-up 
of and intended for research and education professionals: scientists, 
engineers, designers, teachers, and students, as well as space enthusiasts and 
citizen scientists.

Our common goal is to promote and facilitate the open practice of planetary 
science and data analysis for professionals and amateurs. We do so by 
organizing events and conducting collaborative projects aimed at creating 
scientific, technical and educational resources, tools and data accessible to 
all. For two years OP has organized the OP-DataCafe within the European 
Planetary Science Congress, where researchers gather to discuss data and 
software related topics.

The OP flagship project is OpenPlanetaryMap (OPM), a mapping and social 
platform to foster planetary mapping and cartography on the web for all. 

This OSGeo/OPM townhall meeting represents the first contact between the 
newborn OP and the more than 10 years old OSGeo foundation. We will discuss and 
delineate possible common ground where to develop ideas and coordinates 
projects.
 


Abstract and session details here:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/session/33573

Further information about the EGU General Assembly 2018 can be found at 
http://egu2019.eu/

Please share this information with interested parties.

Regards,
Peter Löwe and Alessandro Frigeri

 

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit umbrella 
organization for Free and Open Source geospatial tools, including QGIS, gvSIG, 
GRASS GIS, Geoserver and many others. OSGeo is hosting this Townhall event to 
support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software by 
promoting sustainable Open Science within EGU.



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