GSDI

From the GSDI Website:

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association is an inclusive organization of organizations, agencies, firms, and individuals from around the world. The purpose of the organization is to promote international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national and international spatial data infrastructure developments that will allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance.

GSDI 10 Conference

The GSDI Association organizes the International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure 2007. OSGeo will submit proposals for Workshop sessions to demonstrate the FOSS SDI stack. Please help to put together a comprehensive proramm, submission deadline is June 1st.

There is interest from several projects:

• GeoNetwork opensource
• GeoServer
• Mapbender
• please add more only if you can contribute

OSGeo can highlight the whole software stack and present how it interoperates plus explain FOSS advantages beyond the obvious.

Letter from the Organizers

Workshops this time will be offered under a slightly different arrangement that we hope will attract strong attendance. We are requesting workshop proposals by the end of this month so that people registering for the conference will be able to sign up for specific workshops in advance. In this manner instructors will know the number of people attending their workshops and have the contact information for their participants in advance.

We highly encourage you to submit a workshop proposal. For reference, the description of the workshop you presented in Santiago in 2006 may be found at http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/09_Act_Work_Sched.htm. Submit your proposal on or before 1 June 2007 to onsrud@gsdi.org with a copy to astevens@gsdi.org. If you submit, you should have a decision by the evaluation committee in early June.