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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">FOSDEM 2019: Geospatial Devroom - Call for
Participation</span></b><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing
together about 8000 developers in Brussels, Belgium.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">The goal is to provide open source software developers
and communities a place to meet and share thoughts. The participation is free
of charge, although donations are welcome. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">The next edition will take place on 2 - 3 February 2019.
For the fifth time there will be a Geospatial devroom and it will be happening
on Sunday *3/2/2019* from 9.00-17.00!<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be
specialist work, but nowadays location (awareness) and maps are becoming part
of many products/projects/applications, which usually use only a small subset
of the possibilities the data and software offer.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open,
geo-/spatial related data and software and their community and ecosystem. This
includes standards and tools, e.g. for spatial databases, and online mapping,
geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and
visualizing purposes.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">We welcome submissions about:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">* Web and desktop GIS applications;</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">* Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata and
metadata;</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">* Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications;</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">* Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites;</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">* Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries;</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">* Geospatial extensions for classical databases
(indexes, operations) and dedicated databases;</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">* Big geospatial data processing, distributed and scalable
GIS applications in the Cloud;</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">* Geospatial information and Smart Cities, IoT and
Automotive/Autonomous-connected vehicles</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">* Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced
geodata - OpenStreetMap</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">Are you thrilled to present your work to other open
source developers? Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please
submit your proposal at: <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19">https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19</a></span></u></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'.
If you have an account from previous years, you should be using the same.
Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either a short
timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20 minutes
presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are indicative and
will be assigned according to the timing of the session. The DEADLINE for
submissions is Saturday **1st December 2018**. Notification of acceptance will
be sent to the Authors by 8/12/2017 at the latest.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
get in touch with the organisers of the devroom via marcvloemans1 at gmail dot
com! Want to know what FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and the
presentations of our previous editions.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">The organizers </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif">Jody Garnett, Anne Ghisla, Martin Hammitzsch, Marc
Vloemans<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif"><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/">https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/</a></span></u></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif"><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/">https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/</a></span></u></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier"><span></span></span></p>

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