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A comprehensive range of exciting abstracts has been announced for the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009.
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Abstracts are being presented by the best international Developers, Policy Makers, Sponsors, Decision Makers and Geospatial Professionals who are showing off the latest geospatial applications, standards, government programs, business processes and case studies.
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Abstracts cover mobile platforms, location based applications, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, development and uptake of spatial standards, integration of cross-agency data through Spatial Data Infrastructures, Sensor Webs and Web Processing Services, Integration of Open Source and Proprietary, along with the latest developments, case studies and business models.
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... showcase the technologies, standards, case studies and geospatial trends up-heaving today's IT industry ...
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Over 150 community members selected 85 general abstracts from 183 submitted, with a further 12 academic abstracts were selected by by 52 academic peers.
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* Community selection
 
* Community selection
 
* 183 papers submitted, viaing for 97 slots, 85 slots for general track, + 12 slots for academic track.
 
* 183 papers submitted, viaing for 97 slots, 85 slots for general track, + 12 slots for academic track.
 
* 52 reviewers for the academic track, over 150 reviewers for the general track, with 47 pages to review.
 
* 52 reviewers for the academic track, over 150 reviewers for the general track, with 47 pages to review.
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Revision as of 14:52, 12 July 2009

Translations at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_21_Translations

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FOSS4G abstracts announced

Sydney, Australia. 20 July 2009.

http://2009.foss4g.org

A comprehensive range of exciting abstracts has been announced for the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009.

Abstracts are being presented by the best international Developers, Policy Makers, Sponsors, Decision Makers and Geospatial Professionals who are showing off the latest geospatial applications, standards, government programs, business processes and case studies.

Abstracts cover mobile platforms, location based applications, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, development and uptake of spatial standards, integration of cross-agency data through Spatial Data Infrastructures, Sensor Webs and Web Processing Services, Integration of Open Source and Proprietary, along with the latest developments, case studies and business models.

... showcase the technologies, standards, case studies and geospatial trends up-heaving today's IT industry ...


Over 150 community members selected 85 general abstracts from 183 submitted, with a further 12 academic abstracts were selected by by 52 academic peers.

  • Community selection
  • 183 papers submitted, viaing for 97 slots, 85 slots for general track, + 12 slots for academic track.
  • 52 reviewers for the academic track, over 150 reviewers for the general track, with 47 pages to review.


Upcoming milestones

  • 31 Jul 2009, Early bird registration deadline
  • 14 Sep 2009, Completed program available on the wiki
  • 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
  • 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
  • 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

Media Sponsors

For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/

or contact:

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-2-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

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