Sin duda, creo que en este tipo de iniciativas debemos estar presentes, ¿alguien en Ecuador?. En cualquier caso un correo a la organización prestándoles apoyo no está de más.
Micho Garcia GIS Developer Artisan michogarcia.org geomati.co 2012/6/12 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas <[email protected]>: > Buenas, > > Parece que en Ecuador se han animado a organizar un evento de SIG > Libre, creo que estaría bien que como Capítulo buscáramos puntos de > colaboración con el comité organizador para tratar de ganar actores en > Ecuador. Ignoro si los organizadores conocen de la existencia de este > grupo pero parece conveniente contactar con ellos. > > ¿Qué os parece? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Maria Brovelli <[email protected]> > Date: 12 June 2012 21:14 > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] First Latin American Conference of Free and > Open Source GIS > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > > > Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral - Guayaquil - Ecuador > with Politecnico di Milano and ISPRS WG IV/5 (Distributed and > Web-Based Geoinformation Services and Applications) > > is organizing in Guayaquil the > > > First Latin American Conference of Free and Open Source GIS - I > Congreso Latinoamericano de Aplicación de Sistemas de Información > Geográfica (SIG) de código libre y abierto. > > Background of the event > The awareness about the necessity of integrating, if not basing, the > most of environmental and territorial analyses with geography and > mapping has been growing at every administrative and governmental > level. In the meanwhile the success of application, like for instance > Google Earth, demonstrates the dramatic curiosity and active interest > of people with respect to the space in which they live. Lowering > barriers to contributing, making easier the interaction and the > possibility of participation will result in more photos, maps and > other pieces of information uploaded and therefore plays an important > role in that success. > The availability of a richer information (from institutional and/or > crowd sourced data) can help decision-makers in their activity. > Free and Open Source Tools and Applications are rapidly increasing in > number and quality. Many and different actors are involved in such a > kind of process: large and small companies, professional > practitioners, public agencies, universities, research centers but > also simple map lovers. > The conference aims at foster interdisciplinary discussions in all > aspects of the geospatial and free and open source domains. The > conference will be organized in a way to promote networking between > the participants, to initiate and favour discussions regarding > cutting-edge technologies in the field, to exchange research ideas and > to promote national and international collaboration. > > Themes of the Event > Presentations should cover aspects of the use or development of open source > GIS. > Some topics of interest: > > Case Studies and Application of free and open source GIS > State of Development of free and open source GIS > Migration from proprietary to free and open source solutions: > problems, advantages, drawbacks > > > The proposed dates of the event are: 24-25 October 2012. > > Other possible co-organizers of the event are the Ecuadorian Secretary > for Risk Management and ICA (requests sent, waiting for reply). > > The Organizer Committee is asking for OSGeo support in whichever form > it is possible. > > > For more information please contact: > > Indira Nolivos Alvarez > Departamento de Sistemas y Control > Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación > Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral > [email protected] > > Sergio Flores > Departamento de Sistemas y Control > Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación > Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral > [email protected] > > Maria Antonia Brovelli > Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering > Politecnico di Milano - Campus Como > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > Jorge Sanz > http://es.osgeo.org > _______________________________________________ > Spanish mailing list > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/spanish > http://es.osgeo.org > http://twitter.com/osgeoes _______________________________________________ Spanish mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/spanish http://es.osgeo.org http://twitter.com/osgeoes
