Great news Adam, congratulations and thanks for keeping us posted! I'll watch the repo with interest. Let me know if I can help...
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 12:25, adam steer <adam.d.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey folks > > I pitched a talk about the growing OSGeo Oceania community at the C3DIS > conference (http://www.c3dis.com) and it was accepted as an oral > presentation. > > Why? C3DIS is all about computational and data intensive science - and > much of that relies on the geospatial tools and data this community builds > and maintains. So it’s a bit of a PR / community building exercise; and > timing is a couple weeks ahead of the scheduled call for 2019 FOSS4G SotM > Oceania papers. it’s also introducing our new organisation - so some timing > is a bit ambitious. > > Title and abstract below, I’ll build a revealJS-based talk here: > https://github.com/adamsteer/c3dis2019 - so please feel free to dump > relevant thoughts as issues; and help shape the conversation we want to > have with the ‘big science computers’ community. > > Cheers > > Adam > > --- > > Title: The open geospatial community in Oceania > > Abstract: > The Open Geospatial Foundation (OSgeo) and the Open Streetmap Foundation > (OSMF) have been mainstays in support of; and advocacy for; open geospatial > software and data for many years. > > OSGeo supports foundational geospatial tooling used across the eResearch > community - from invisible infrastructure (GDAL; Proj4; pyWPS; Zoo-WPS ) to > prominent user-focussed, user facing applications (QGIS, geonode, > geoserver, geonetwork, leafletJS; openlayers) - to name just a few. > > In 2009, an international conference of the OSGeo foundation was held in > Sydney; and after a long hiatus, the community was revived in 2018. The > result was a sold-out joint conference of the OSGeo and OSMF communities > for the Oceania region in Melbourne. This was both an incredible show of > community support, and an incredible showcase of open source innovation in > the region. > > …and the momentum continues. By the time C3DIS happens, there will be a > fully-fledged local OSGeo Oceania organisation, aimed at supporting a > regional community of open source geo-developers, geo-users, and > geo-enablers - and 2019 conference organisation will be in full swing. > > This talk will be about charting the journey of OSGeo Oceania so far, and > how the eResearch community in Australia and Oceania can engage with, > support, and benefit from this local and global community. > > Come and join the party! > > > -- > Dr. Adam Steer > http://spatialised.net > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Steer > http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer > http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-7236 > +61 427 091 712 > skype: adam.d.steer > tweet: @adamdsteer > _______________________________________________ > Oceania mailing list > ocea...@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania >
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