Registrations open for third OSGIS Conference

Registrations are now open for the Third Open Source GIS Conference at http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html 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 technologies2. to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS 3. to understand current developments in open source GIS4. to act as a focus for open source, open standards, open data GIS research # OSGIS 2011 Keynote presentation: Professor Thierry Badard (Laval University, Canada) # "Open Nottingham" presentation -Prof. Christine Ennew (Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Nottingham) & Prof. Wyn Morgan (University of Nottingham) # "The impact of open data, open source software and open standards on the evolution of National SDI's" - Prof. Mike Jackson (Director, Centre for Geospatial Science)OSGIS 2011 workshops: Open Data Revolution Workshop - (Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham and Creative Commons)Mapserver Workshop - (Astun Technology, UK) One Geology Workshop - (British Geological Survey) Geoserver Workshop - (GeoSolutions, Italy) WMS/QGIS Workshop - (Faunalia,UK) OGC-OSGeo Interoperability Day will be held on 21 June 2011 (Organised by Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director, Open Source Geospatial Foundation) gvSIG Day (Organised by gvSIG Association, Spain) will be held on 22 June 2011Full conference agenda will be published in mid April. Early bird registration closes on 22 April 2011.

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