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Dear All, This is an invitation for those of you who are planning to be at ICC 2013 to attend the meeting of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies on 28th Aug 2013 . Details below Date - 28 August 2013 (Wednesday) Time - 14:30 - 16:00 Venue - International Congress Centre, Dresden The focus of the meeting will be welcoming new members and updating all on the various activities and in particular expansion plans for Open Source Geospatial Labs in universities and educational institutes worldwide as per the ICA-OSGeo MoU. We now have over 25 research labs established across the planet. With strong government policy instruments and investments happening in Open Data and Open GIS , we are in a very strong position to keep up the momentum for bringing more investment to keep expanding our research labs and achieve our target of establishing over 100 research labs worldwide in 3 years' time to rapidly accelerate research and teaching opportunities in geospatial science for universities worldwide. Details of ICC 2013 conference and registration are at http://www.icc2013.org/ I look forward to see and discuss ideas with many of you there. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Nottingham Geospatial Institute Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ Be part of FOSS4G 2013 - "Geo for All"<http://2013.foss4g.org/> Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. 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.