Hi Peter,
I have been reading your posts with interest but have only know got the chance
to respond. FOSS4G 2016 in Dublin would be splendid.
I work in the University of Ulster, currently as Course Director for the MEd,
but have done and am doing a lot of work with schools and the school assessment
body in Northern Ireland CCEA. I developed and am Chief moderator for a Space
Science Technology curriculum. It has, among other things, Open Street Map as
apart of a GIS core unit. You can find some details if you search for CCEA
Space Science Technology microsite.
I am research active, but largely in GIS in Education and in GPS tracking at
the moment. I would be interested in exploring whether there would be research
opportunities that we could take forward.
Best wishes,
Stephen
> On 22 Jan 2015, at 09:56, Peter Mooney wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> In December I wrote to this list announcing that I would be leading a bid
> to host FOSS4G 2016 in Dublin.
> Here's a link to the email in the archives [
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ie/2014-December/000913.html]
>
> We were delighted to hear yesterday that the Dublin bid and Bonn (see both
> here http://www.osgeo.org/conference/rfp/) have been invited to submit full
> proposals (due before the end of February). I am delighted to share this
> news with you. This was announced on OSGeo yesterday [
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2015-January/002870.html]
>
> Whilst this is only a very small step we feel that Dublin FOSS4G 2016 can
> be a very strong contender.
>
> Thanks to some people on the list here who gave me some ideas and feedback
> for the initial Letter of Intent.
>
> I will keep you informed of the development of the full proposal. While the
> full proposal doesn't need to be very prescriptive of what the exact shape
> of FOSS4G 2016 will be I will be trying to create an exciting programme.
>
> In particular I'm very interested to chat with any OSM Ireland people (or
> OSM anywhere people) on what role OSM might like to play in Dublin FOSS4G
> 2016. If you have any ideas please get in touch.
>
> I'm also very interested to learn about the use of FOSS4G in companies,
> SMEs, startups, volunteer organisations, etc in Ireland as this was
> something we have been asked to expand on in the full proposal. Again I'd
> be delighted to hear and learn of your experiences and include them in the
> proposal.
>
> Thanks for reading and I will keep you posted,
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Peter
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