<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto">The huge FOSDEM is back In Brussels! There's a geospatial track, and OSM related stuff is welcome there. There's a tight deadline though. Submissions should be sent by December 1st! <br><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 8000<br>
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source<br>
software developers and communities a place to meet and share<br>
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are<br>
welcome. The next edition will take place on 3 - 4 February 2018. For<br>
the fourth time there will be a Geospatial devroom and will be<br>
happening on Sunday *4/2/2018*!<br>
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Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work, but<br>
nowadays location and maps are becoming part of many<br>
projects/applications, which usually use only a small subset of the<br>
possibilities the data and software offer.<br>
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The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open, geo-related<br>
data and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and<br>
tools, e.g. for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial<br>
services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and<br>
visualizing purposes.<br>
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We welcome submissions about:<br>
* Web and desktop GIS applications;<br>
* Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata and metadata;<br>
* Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications;<br>
* Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites;<br>
* Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries;<br>
* Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations)<br>
and dedicated databases;<br>
* Big geodata, distributed and scalable GIS applications;<br>
* Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata.<br>
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HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK<br>
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Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers?<br>
Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit<br>
your proposal at:<br>
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<a href="https://fosdem.org/submit" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fosdem.org/submit</a><br>
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Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. If you have<br>
an account from previous years, you should be using the same.<br>
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Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either<br>
a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20<br>
minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are<br>
indicative and will be assigned according to the timing of the<br>
session.<br>
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The DEADLINE for submissions is Thursday **1st December 2017**.<br>
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Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2017<br>
at the latest.<br>
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Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch<br>
with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial at <a href="http://gisky.be" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gisky.be</a>!<br>
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Want to know what FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and<br>
the presentations of our previous editions.<br>
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The organizers<br>
Johan Van de Wauw<br>
Margherita Di Leo<br>
Anne Ghisla<br>
Martin Hammitzsch<br>
Marc Vloemans<br>
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[1] <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.fosdem.org/<wbr>2015/schedule/track/<wbr>geospatial/</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.fosdem.org/<wbr>2016/schedule/track/<wbr>geospatial/</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.fosdem.org/<wbr>2017/schedule/track/<wbr>geospatial/</a><br>
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