Upcoming events

Informática 2009, Havana

jsanz — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:28:41 -0400

Start: 2009-02-09 00:00

End: 2009-02-13 23:59

Timezone: Cuba

OSGeo-es will take part in the congress «Informática 2009» in La Havana, Cuba

On February 9-14, 2009 the 13th "Feria y Convención Internacional Informática 2009"[1] will take place in Havana. At the VI Internacional Congress of Geomatics [2], part of the greater congress, the Spanish Language Local Chapter of OSGeo (OSGeo-es [3]) will attend to promote the Free Software for Geomatics (FOSS4G), foster the implementation of Open Standards and their usage for interoperability and promote the access to Free Geo-data.

The Spanish Language Local Chapter of OSGeo invites everybody to participate, Monday Feb. 9 2009, in the Convention Palace (Palacio de las Convenciones), in a day of workshops and practical demonstrations [4] prepared by some of the members of its community. These workshops promise to offer an overview of FOSS4G state of the art technologies and to let users, developers and Latin-American communities meet the international one.

OSGeo and OSGeo-es will be introduced in a dedicated session. A round table on Free Software for Geomatics will be organized too.

The VI Geomatics International Congress will join together a group of high level specialist who will address several issues on IT and Earth Sciences. For further information and to submit your talk or workshop proposal, please visit the web site of the event [2]. Call for Papers deadline is set on Oct. 30, 2008.

[1] http://www.informaticahabana.com/
[2] http://www.informaticahabana.com/?q=es/listeventos_es&e=13&id=es&ci=1
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Spanish
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_en_Informatica_2009

First Open Source GIS UK Conference - University of Nottingham

lbecchi — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:40:36 -0400

Start: 2009-06-22 00:00

End: 2009-06-22 23:59

Timezone: Etc/GMT

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.

Dr Suchith Anand

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/anand.shtml

Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2009 Workshop, Prague

warmerdam — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:34:05 -0500

Start: 2009-09-17 10:00

End: 2009-09-18 17:00

Timezone: Europe/Prague

The Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2009 Workshop will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from the Thursday 17th to Friday 18th September 2009. The workshop is organized by Department of Mapping and Cartography, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.

The workshop is focused on Free and Open Source Software (not only) in Geoinformatics concerning wide range of topics.

Information on the workshop can be found at http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/wiki/index.php/Geoinformatics_FCE_CTU_2009.