FOSS4G-Europe Welcomes Contributions

Independent software developers, scientists, industry experts and agency representatives will come together to meet at FOSS4G-Europe held in Bremen, Germany from 15 to 17 July. Contributions can now be submitted on the conference website until 15 April. Under this year’s motto, 'Independent Innovation for INSPIRE, Big Data and Citizen Participation', the conference series FOSS4G-Europe is uniting the GIS community from a broad spectrum of fields including geodesy, geoinformation, land management and remote sensing.

Industry and public authorities are expressly invited as they increasingly realise value and economic potential of free and open source products.

Several additional events make the FOSS4G-Europe (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - Europe) in Bremen a unique event. A public viewing of the soccer World Championship final will kick off a week packed with events. The week will open with a workshop “Big Geo Data & INSPIRE” especially targeted at public authorities. INSPIRE Annex II and III will be discussed in relation to the pertaining standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium. Canadian Jeff McKenna, President of the OSGEO Foundation, will open the event with his keynote talk. As a charter member McKenna has got involved with spreading and usage of open-source software for geo information systems for many years. In a plenary, the winners of the international academic NASA World Wind Challenge Europe programming contest will be announced and honoured at the conference.

Being in the tradition of the worldwide FOSS4G conference series, this event will bring together open-source experts and enthusiasts from all over Europe and beyond creating a unique, visionary atmosphere.

For the conference website see here.