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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I am</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> grateful to all colleagues working for bridging the geospatial digital divide [1] . We are planning GeoForAll meeting on 28th August 2019 (Wednesday)
18:00-19:30 (Bucharest time) at FOSS4G 2019 [2],[3] to discuss and plan ideas for the future. It will be similar to FOSS4G 2018 GeoForAll meeting [4] and aimed to bring together colleagues from around the world to plan ideas for expanding Open Principles
in Science and Education.</span><br></div></div><div id="ydp5086a610yahoo_quoted_6733515506" class="ydp5086a610yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633"><div dir="ltr"><div id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" dir="ltr">
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">Andreea Marin (Faculty of Geography,University of Bucharest) [5] will be the organiser for the GeoForAll meeting at FOSS4G 2019. Andreea worked to establish the first Romanian Open Source Geospatial Lab
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">We welcome all colleagues attending FOSS4G 2019 to join the GeoForAll meeting and contribute your ideas.</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">If you are not able to attend the meeting, please share this information and start making use of all our teaching and software resources at
</span><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/" id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633LPlnk39015" class="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:#454545;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">If you wish to join GeoForAll please complete the form at
</span><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/lab-submission/" id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633LPlnk897236" class="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/lab-submission/</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">All GeoForAll participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the </span><a href="http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/" id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633LPlnk662709" class="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228, 175, 10);"><b><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">UN
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</span></b></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;"> for building a better world.</span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">Also join the mailing lists at
</span><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall" id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633LPlnk849681" class="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">You can contact GeoForAll chairs Dr. Victoria Rautenbach (South Africa) and Professor Helena Mitasova (USA)</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">or our Regional chairs [6] for any advice or help.</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">We are grateful to FOSS4G 2019 LOC colleagues [7] for their work and efforts. Looking forward to you joining GeoForAll and contribute for expanding Open Principles in Science and Education. Let us all work
together to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities for everyone.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:11pt;">[1]
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<span style="color:#454545;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">[2] </span><a href="https://2019.foss4g.org/schedule/bird-of-a-feather/" id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633LPlnk15723" class="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228, 175, 10);font-size:11pt;">https://2019.foss4g.org/schedule/bird-of-a-feather/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;">[3] </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:11pt;">https://2019.foss4g.org/scheule/full-schedule/</span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">[4] </span><a href="https://2018.foss4g.org/geoforall/" id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633LPlnk267855" class="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228, 175, 10);font-size:11pt;">https://2018.foss4g.org/geoforall/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></span><br>
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<span style="color:#454545;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">[5] </span><a href="https://2019.foss4g.org/speakers/andreea-marin/" id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633LPlnk110211" class="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228, 175, 10);font-size:11pt;">https://2019.foss4g.org/speakers/andreea-marin/</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;">[6] <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/how-to-join-geo-for-all/" class="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633OWAAutoLink" id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633LPlnk82099" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/how-to-join-geo-for-all/</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;">[7] <a href="https://2019.foss4g.org/about/committees/" class="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633OWAAutoLink" id="ydp5086a610yiv4872787633LPlnk29467" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
https://2019.foss4g.org/about/committees/</a></span><br>
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