Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research

Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham

21-22nd June 2011

OSGIS 2011 Call for papers

The OSGIS conference series has a strong international focus and takes a holistic approach in bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academe, industry and open source communities. High profile speakers from all over the world are invited for giving presentations and running hands-on workshops for the conference series.

The key aims of OSGIS conference series are:

1. to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy makers on open source, open standards and open data geospatial technologies

2. to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS

3. to understand current developments in open source GIS

4. to act as a focus for open source, open standards, open data GIS research

OSGIS 2011 Keynote address - Professor Thierry Badard (Laval University, Canada)

OGC- OSGeo Interoperability Day Workshop (21 June 2011) - (Organised by Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director, Open Source Geospatial Foundation

OpenGov: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards Workshop (21 June 2011) - (Organised by Dr Hanif Rahemtulla, University of Nottingham

OSGeo Director Board + stakeholder meeting - 23 June 2011 (By invitation only)

We look forward to welcoming you to the Centre for Geospatial Science for research collaborations in this exciting and rapidly developing research theme

http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html