[OSGeo-Discuss] Call For Participation : First Open Source GIS UK Conference - University of Nottingham (22 June 2009)

2008-10-13 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All,

The University of Nottingham and Open Source Geospatial Foundation are
happy to announce the First Open Source GIS UK Conference on 22nd June
(Monday), 2009 at the  University of Nottingham. Tyler Mitchell,
Executive Director of Open Source Geospatial Foundation will deliver the
keynote presentation.

The key aims of this conference are:

(i) to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy
makers on open source geospatial technologies
(ii) to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future
collaborative work in open source GIS
(iii) to understand current developments in open source GIS

Contributions are invited in the following topic areas

#  State of the Art developments in Open Source GIS
#  Open Source GIS in Education
#  Interoperability and standards - OGC, ISO/TC 211
#  Open Source GIS application use cases : Government, Participatory
GIS, Location based services, Health, Energy, Water, Climate change etc 
#  Web processing services 
#  Open architectures, open data 
#  Case studies of open source implementations 
#  Open Source GIS Internationalisation and Localisation 
#  Using Open Source GIS with proprietary software 
#  Transition to Open Source GIS 
#  Open Source GIS business models 
#  Open Source GIS implementation and deployment case studies 
#  Sensor Web enablement 
#  Hands-on workshops on using and developing open source GIS tools

More details of the conference including details of registration will be
informed soon. The conference website will be activated on January 15,
2009. Any one interested to be involved  in the conference please email
me.

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
Tel: (0)115 846 8408
url: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/anand.shtml

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2009 Code sprint

2008-10-13 Thread Jeroen Ticheler

Hi Tim,

On Oct 12, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Tim Bowden wrote:

Just to confuse things again, we're reconsidering the idea of having  
it

before.  It runs the risk of diverting attention from the last minute
things that need to be done in the run up to the conf itself.  After  
is

looking like a great option right now (which would reduce by 1 the
number of nights accommodation as well).


I think that if there's a clear goal set for the Code Sprint and its  
relation to the conference, it can actually help to get a good turnout  
and instead of diverting attention it could increase it. If it is  
organized as _just a code sprint_ without objective(s) the risk is  
indeed there, otherwise I think the contrary can be true.


You suggested the idea of an interoperability integration showcase,  
maybe as a permanent platform that shows both proprietary and open  
source software interoperate. I think that is an excellent idea and is  
well worth pursuing in collaboration with OGC and vendors. If such  
goal is pursued, a three days final preparation code sprint would be  
extremely valuable, also with respect to the workshops in the  
conference.


I realize that both conference and code sprint are tiring events, so  
having them in one rush can be exhaustive. If there's a good chance to  
relax between the two (a long weekend) however, it may be worthwhile.


My 2 cents, ciao,
Jeroen
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