Forwarding, announcement and call for presentations for Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM.
Another geo highlight in a BIG event on free and open source universe. Please read more below and forward. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Margherita Di Leo" <direg...@gmail.com> Date: Oct 13, 2016 4:54 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM 2017 on Sunday 5/2/2017 in Brussels To: "OSGeo Discussions" <disc...@lists.osgeo.org> Cc: Call for Presentations > > Please forward! > > FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000 > developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source > software developers and communities a place to meet and share thoughts. The > participation is free of charge, although donations are welcome. The next > edition will take place on 4 - 5 February 2017. For the third (!) time > there will be a Geospatial devroom and will be happening on Sunday > 5/2/2017! > > Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work, but > nowadays location and maps are becoming part of many projects/applications, > which usually use only a small subset of the possibilities the data and > software offer. > > The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open, geo-related data > and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. > for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial services, used for > collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing purposes. > > We welcome submissions about: > > - > > Web and desktop GIS applications; > > > - > > Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata and metadata; > - > > Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications; > - > > Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites; > - > > Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries; > - > > Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) > and dedicated databases; > - > > Big geodata, scalable GIS applications; > - > > Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata. > > > HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK > > Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers? > Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? > > Please submit your proposal at: > > https://fosdem.org/submit > > Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. If you have an > account from previous years, you should be using the same. > > Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either a > short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20 minutes > presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are indicative > and will be assigned according to the timing of the session. > > The DEADLINE for submissions is Thursday **1st December 2016**. > > Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2016 at > the latest. > > Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with > the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial at gisky.be! > > Want to know what FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and the > presentations of our previous two editions: [1,2] > > The organizers > > Johan Van de Wauw > > Margherita Di Leo > > Anne Ghisla > > Martin Hammitzsch > > [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ > > [2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ > > > -- > Margherita Di Leo > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > disc...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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