Dear All, We are pleased to make available the webcasts of presentations (Stream 1) of The First Open Source GIS UK Conference at Centre for Geospatial Science at http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ for the benefit of the wider GIS community. The key aims of OSGIS conference series is to: * act as a focus for open source GIS research * to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS * to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy makers on open source geospatial technologies * to understand current developments in open source GIS We also congratulate the winners of the Open Source GIS UK Conference Awards 2009. CGS Best Presentation winner for OSGIS 2009 is Mapping Future Climate : A Case Study for the Deployment of the Open Source Geo-stack in Scalable Web-based Applications Philip James, Simon Abele, David Alderson,Stephen Pascoe, Ag Stephens Newcastle University, and British Atmospheric Data Centre, Rutherford Labs, UK CGS Best Presentation runner up prize for OSGIS 2009 SEXTANTE - The free geoprocessing library Victor Olaya University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain CGS Best Presentation runner up prize for OSGIS 2009 An introduction to Mapwindow Dr Daniel Ames, Idaho State University, USA The Wiley BlackWell prizes for best full paper prizes are awarded to the following papers Development of Sensor Web Applications with Open Source Software Arne Broring,Eike Hinderk Jurrens, and Simon Jirka from 52 North and Christoph Stasch from the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster. The SDIlight OSGEO stack at ITC Barend Kobben, Rob Lemmens, Javier Morales, Rolf de By, Theodor Foerster International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),Enschede, The Netherlands. Visualising Alternative Futures using Open Source technologies William Cartwright , RMIT University, Australia Congratulations to all winners... Well Done... Also we would like to thank the following organisations for their support: Open Geospatial Consortium, Open Source Geospatial Foundation, International Cartographic Association, Ordnance Survey, GNSS Research & Application Centre of Excellence (GRACE), Wiley-Blackwell, GIS Professional, Geoconnextion and Directions Magazine. Once again we thank the GIS Community for the fantastic support provided to us on this initiative and we look forward to your active participation for OSGIS 2010. Please email me if you or your organisation are interested in being involved in OSGIS Conference Series. Best wishes, Suchith Anand Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.