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From: On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
We are pleased to announce 5 "Open Nottingham" bursaries for excellent
students to participate in OSGIS 2012. This is part of our strong commitment
to actively support, widen and promote Open Nottingham initiative. In
implementing the Open Nottingham programme, the University of Nottingham has
strategically embraced an agenda of open access to teaching. More details
of Open Nottingham at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/open/opennottingham.aspx
The "Open Nottingham" bursaries will cover the cost of one day registration
fees to participate in OSGIS 2012 and are open for students from all UK
universities (both postgraduate and undergraduate) . Applicants should email
their one page CV and brief statement of their open source research to
[log in to unmask] with subject header "Open Nottingham
bursary application". The deadline for application is 6th August 2012. The
winners will be notified on 10th August 2012.
This year's OSGIS Keynote presentations are:
# "2011: the first Open census and beyond? " Prof. David Martin (University
of Southampton)
# "What a long strange trip it's been" - Steven Feldman (KnowWhere
Consulting and FOSS4G 2013 Chair)
# "Ordnance Survey - embracing the open source opportunity" - Ian James (
Chief Architect, Information Systems, Ordnance Survey & Technical Architect,
UK Location Programme)
OSGIS 2012 Workshops include
# How to setup and use an SDI in 3 hours- Geocat (Netherlands)
# Getting started with GeoServer and INSPIRE services - GeoSolutions
(Italy)
# Educational use of OSGeo Live - Ari Jolma, Aalto Uni (Finland)
# Advanced GeoNetwork - Geocat (Netherlands)
# OSM-GB services and data - NGI (UK)
More details at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx
We look forward to welcoming you for joining us in our vision and mission on
further building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open data research.
Best wishes,
Suchith
Dr Suchith Anand
Nottingham Geospatial Institute
Nottingham Geospatial Building
University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU
Tel: (0)115 82 32750
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