2016 Key Topics

Keytopics:
 * Land Information
 * Land information comprises land access, tenure, farming, and conflict management in its broadest sense. It is a global and growing hot topic but as yet with little support from geospatial technology.
 * OSGeo has very good contacts and an MoU with GLTN (the Global Land Tool Network) and the World Bank (upcoming conference in March)
 * Invite keynote speaker (e.g. Klaus Deininger
 * Disaster Management
 * contact to BBK Bonn, UN Spider
 * perhaps this also might be part of "land information?
 * could be a key topic in sight of connectiong Land Information, OpenData and also Remote Sensing as an example?
 * Remote Sensing
 * EARSEL Conference in Bonn in June
 * Copernikus as European Satellite program - Open Data
 * How we do that?
 * Keynote from ESA (Bianca Hoersch, Datam anger of Sentinel II)
 * TopicTalk on Copernikus (managed by Christian Strobl from DLR Munich)
 * potential sponsorship from ESA and also DLR (german aroespace agency)


 * Open Data
 * Open Data in the EU; what has been the effect of the EU directive on Open data
 * Open data / open source software / open standards. What is their relationship (e.g. is open data the fuel, whereas open source software is the (or: an) engine
 * Licensing: what is the impact of several open data license types: how to choose one, and how to use one
 * How we do that?
 * one in the series before the core programm (as a "open data tasting session"),
 * after that participant can hack their way through the data,
 * during the core event a presentation on the (preliminairy) results form a broader audience,
 * after the core conference another workshop as a round-up


 * CMS