From: Suchith Anand <[log in to unmask]>
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FIRST OPEN SOURCE GIS UK CONFERENCE 2009
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22 June 2009, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham
Website: http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk
The Centre for Geospatial Science of University of Nottingham, Open
Source Geospatial Foundation (UK Chapter), ICA Working Group on Open
Source Geospatial Technologies, SOSoRNET and Open Knowledge Foundation
are organizing the First Open Source GIS UK Conference on 22nd June
(Monday), 2009 at the University of Nottingham.
The conference has very much international focus and holistic outlook
bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academic,
industry, software developers, open source communities, geospatial
researchers etc. High profile speakers from USA, Canada and all across
EU will be giving presentations and hands on workshops for the
conference.
The key aims of this conference are:
1. to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy
makers on open source geospatial technologies 2. to provide platform to
network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source
GIS 3. to understand current developments in open source GIS
Contributions are invited but are not limited to the following topic
areas:
o State of the Art developments in Open Source GIS o Open Source GIS
in Education o Interoperability and standards - OGC, ISO/TC 211 o Open
Source GIS application use cases : Government, Participatory GIS,
Location based services, Health, Energy, Water, Climate change etc o
Web processing services o Open architectures, open content o Case
studies of open source implementations o Open Source GIS
Internationalisation and Localisation o Using Open Source GIS with
proprietary software o Transition to Open Source GIS o Open Source GIS
business models o Open Source GIS implementation and deployment case
studies o Sensor Web enablement o Hands-on workshops on using and
developing open source GIS tools
Abstracts (max 500 words) can be submitted to
[log in to unmask] before 15 March 2009. Abstracts will be
reviewed by the members of the program committee.There will be two
parallel sessions for the accepted presentations from our call for
papers in addition to the hands on workshops. Speakers of accepted
papers and workshop presenters will get complimentary conference
registration. The conference registration will be activated on March 15,
2009. In order to reserve your place, please register online.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts Submission deadline: 15 March 2009 Notification of acceptance:
15th April 2009 Final papers delivered by: 15 May 2009 OSGEO UK Live
Software demo submission deadline: 30 April 2009 Notification of
acceptance: 15th May 2009
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Tyler Mitchell (Executive Director, Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
WORKSHOPS:
OSGeo Software - James Reid (EDINA)
Mapwindow - Dr Daniel Ames (Idaho State University) Quantum GIS and
GRASS -Jo Cook (Oxford Archaeology) and Jason Jorgenson (University of
Liverpool)
The workshop seats will be allocated on a first come first serve basis
as this is limited by the number of computers we have in the labs
arranged. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
SOFTWARE DEMOS:
Open Source GIS UK 2009 aims to have a live software demo session for
the conference. We are looking for for live software demonstrations of
open source technologies from interested people and organizations. They
should submit an abstract description of the Open source software demos
to [log in to unmask] before 30 April 2009
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Professor Mike Jackson
Dr Suchith Anand
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Professor Thierry Badard (Universite Laval, Canada) Professor Ari Jolma
(Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Professor Georg Gartner
(Vienna University of Technology) Professor Mike Peterson (University of
Omaha, USA) Professor Charlie Schweik (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, USA) Professor Hans-Jorg Stark (University of Applied Sciences
Switzerland) Dr Richard Kingston (University of Manchester, UK) Dr Jerry
Swan (University of Nottingham, UK) Dr James Goulding (University of
Nottingham,UK) Dr David Ames (Idaho State University, USA) Dr Muki
Hakley (UCL, UK) Dr J Mark Ware (University of Glamorgan, UK) Dr Gobe
Hobona (University of Nottingham, UK) Dr Didier Leibovici (University of
Nottingham, UK) Dr James Philip (University of Newcastle, UK) Dr Will
McClintock (University of California Santa Barbara, USA Mr Glen Hart
(Ordnance Survey, UK) Ms Jo Walsh (Open Knowledge Foundation) Mr George
Percival (Open Geospatial Consortium) Mrs Stella Fuller (University of
Nottingham, UK) Mr Jordan Hatcher (ipVA, UK) Mr Barry Rowlingson
(University of Lancaster, UK) Mr Theodor Foerster (ITC, Netherlands) Mr
Mike Saunt (Astun Technology Ltd, UK) Mr Jonathan Gray (Open Knowledge
Foundation) Mr James Reid (EDINA, UK) Ms Joanne Cook (Oxford
Archaeology, UK) Mr Chris Higgins (EDINA, UK) Mr Simon Abele (University
of Newcastle, UK)
We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham for an interesting
conference and discussions in this exciting and rapidly developing
research theme.
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/cgs_suchith_anand.html
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