[Talk-africa] Fwd: [OSGeo Africa] FOSS4G 2018: The Geospatial Event of the Year !

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi All, (With apologies for cross posting)

FYI

- Enock


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From: Tim Sutton 
Date: ven. 1 juin 2018 à 07:42
Subject: [OSGeo Africa] FOSS4G 2018: The Geospatial Event of the Year !
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Hi All. (With apologies for cross posting)

The annual Free and Open Source Software 4 Geospatial 
(FOSS4G) conference is the largest community gathering focused on open
source geospatial software. FOSS4G brings together developers, users,
decision-makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and
fields of operation. Through six days of workshops, presentations,
discussions, and code sprints, FOSS4G participants, learn, exchange, and
create new collaborations, geospatial products, standards.

FOSS4G is a global conference, with attendees from around the world! Last
year, Boston, USA was the host city, before that in 2016 it Bonn, Germany.
Now is the time for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania! FOSS4G 2018 will host numerous
workshops over 27 - 28 August with exciting keynotes and presentations at
the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre 29 - 31 August, and
finally Code Sprints and community building events September 1 & 2. In
addition to bringing together the FOSS4G community in Dar, the 21st QGIS
Developer meeting
 will take
place in Zanzibar (a short 60min ferry trip away!) the 20 - 24 of August -
the Geospatial Savanna is on the rise in East Africa!

The vision for our conference is to make it as accessible and inclusive as
possible, bridging the gaps between the various communities that make us so
strong, to make us stronger. This will be achieved through a Travel Grant
Program that will enable economically disadvantaged participants the
opportunity to attend, covering travel, lodging and conference costs. This
will be bolstered by an exciting conference program, taking the very best
that the open source geospatial community can offer. This ranges from
locating schools to the instrumentation of communities with cheap, open
source, 3D printed weather stations that improve community resilience to
climate change.

Our theme for FOSS4G 2018 is “Leave No-One Behind”. We live in a world
where our users and developers have the opportunity to make a difference to
the lives of everyone, whether it’s those in extreme poverty looking for
access to clean water, to those using routing algorithms to calculate the
fastest route to work. Location and geography are at the heart of these
challenges and a FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam will invigorate our existing
projects, bringing them to new users and developers while supporting and
nurturing the existing community.
To deliver on this mission, we've built collaborations with various
communities, from within the open source geospatial community and beyond.
For example, in collaborating with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
, FOSS4G 2018 will host their annual summit as a
track within the main program; collaborating with Understanding Risk:
Africa, to focus on the use of open geospatial tools like Geoserver,
Geonode, and Inasafe while be bringing users and developers together at an
extent not done before. To see the full extent of this exciting program,
have a look at the lists of presentations
 and workshops
!

Ultimately, you should attend FOSS4G 2018 because:

   - Dar es Salaam is the centre of technological innovation, culture and
   social activities in Tanzania;
   - A vibrant city of many cultures and warm hospitality;
   - The gateway to African sights, such as world beating safaris, heritage
   and world leading beaches;
   - A historic centre surrounded by the construction of a new Africa;
   - At the centre of East Africa, within easy reach of the world;


Workshop, Main Conference (and experience tickets!) are now available at
2018.foss4g.org at the lowest early bird price in years for a global
FOSS4G: $500. Early bird registration ends on June 5, book your place
today. We're looking forward to welcoming you to Dar es Salaam in the warm
Tanzanian sun!


Regards

Tim

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*Tim Sutton*

*Co-founder:* Kartoza
*Ex Project chair:* QGIS.org

Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source:

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[Talk-africa] OpenStreetMap Data Model for Sports, MapSet

[Douglas Ssebaggala]

Dear OSM Community,

Advance apologies for cross-posting.

Could any one point out an OSM data model that has been used for sports
activities, or any past, present, or future-planned project that has/will
make use of sports, for example: football/soccer or swimming to be specific?

The existing list of OSM based services

only
mentions hiking, geocaching and biking. Other information on taginfo
 is very scanty. Although - *OSM
Stories *seems not updated of recent, there are no sports-related case
studies. 

The OSM Wiki  as
well has information on sports and related tags
, which has been used to
update the *Data and Mapping

-
*section of MapSet - Wiki Page still a work in progress.

Most organisations consider sport as a corporate social responsibility
(CSR) activity, other individuals do sport for leisure, whereas talented
individuals do sports as a career.

In the humanitarian world, sports can fall in the category of livelihood
 with various themes
 but there could be other numerous
ways of applying sports in different fields.

MapSet would like to engage* volunteer passionate mappers* from
existing mapping
groups

and communities in Uganda and else where to create a new initiative/focus
on sports.

Feel free to send your comments on the above wikis/references, directly to
me, or respond to this thread.

*Ssebaggala Douglas | **Skype: douglo.m |** Twitter**:* @douglaseru
 | *Mob - Uganda: +256 772 422524*

Member of Wikimedia Community Usergroup Uganda

*Founding Director *- *@mapuganda *
*Now creating: **MapSet Initiative
 **Twitter:**@mapset78
 *(
*Follow your passion)*
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[Talk-africa] OSM Awards 2018

[Geoffrey Kateregga]

Hi all,

Voting is now live for the OpenStreetMap Awards, Vote here:
http://awards.osmz.ru/list

Thanks,

Geoffrey
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