<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div>Hey everyone, if you were not aware, FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2014 is going to be held in Portland this year.<div><br></div><div>We just released our Call For Papers, which I thought I’d share. </div><div><br></div><div>We’re also looking for volunteers to help out in organizing the conference. Check out some of our opportunities.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope we can see you all here in September.</div><div><br></div><div>Darrell</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">FOSS4G 2014 <<a href="mailto:foss4g2014-info@osgeo.org">foss4g2014-info@osgeo.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Call for Proposals - FOSS4G 2014, Portland, Oregon</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">February 11, 2014 at 08:54:34 PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><br></div><div><div leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" offset="0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; height: 100% !important; width: 100% !important;"><center><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" id="bodyCell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px; height: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; border-top-width: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; padding: 9px 18px;"><h2 class="null" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 26px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.75px; text-align: left; color: rgb(64, 64, 64) !important;">Three invitations in one!</h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://foss4g.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=92023a5676f520b1414335d36&id=a7a9336425&e=739b913ff0" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">FOSS4G</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) is pleased to invite proposals for workshops, papers, and presentations for its 2014 conference to be held in Portland, Oregon, USA from September 8th to 13th.<br><br>The annual FOSS4G conference is the largest global gathering for all those currently or potentially working with open source geospatial software. It brings together a mix of developers, users, decision makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields of operation for six days of workshops, presentations, discussions, and cooperation.</p><h4 class="null" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; color: rgb(128, 128, 128) !important;">Conference Dates</h4><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Sep 8th-9th: Workshops<br>Sep 10th-12th: Main Conference<br>Sep 13th: Code Sprint<br><br>For more information or to keep up to date on news from FOSS4G 2014, follow<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://foss4g.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=92023a5676f520b1414335d36&id=d10154d7df&e=739b913ff0" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">@foss4g</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on Twitter, subscribe to our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://foss4g.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=92023a5676f520b1414335d36&id=d8c779a175&e=739b913ff0" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">announcements list</a>, or contact:<a href="mailto:foss4g2014-info@osgeo.org" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">foss4g2014-info@osgeo.org</a>.</p><h3 class="null" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-align: left; color: rgb(96, 96, 96) !important;">Call for Presentations</h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Deadline: April 15th<br><br>For complete details, see our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://foss4g.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=92023a5676f520b1414335d36&id=42917b58ff&e=739b913ff0" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Regular Session CFP</a> page, or jump right to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://foss4g.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=92023a5676f520b1414335d36&id=e4922f44e0&e=739b913ff0" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">the submission page.</a><br><br>Presentations may cover any aspect of the development and use of open source geospatial software. For 2014, the committee plans to include tracks focused on end-users, and presentations addressing them are especially appreciated.<br><br>Presentations will be allotted 25 minutes, though longer slots may be made available to outstanding submissions. You may submit more than one proposal.<br><br>After the deadline there will be a community voting mechanism to help select the final program. We expect to accept around 225 presentations out of an anticipated 400 submissions.</p><h3 class="null" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-align: left; color: rgb(96, 96, 96) !important;">Call for Papers (Academic Track)</h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Deadline: April 15th<br>For complete details, see the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://foss4g.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=92023a5676f520b1414335d36&id=090b2ba367&e=739b913ff0" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Academic Track CFP</a>.<br><br>We invite academics and researchers to submit full papers in English, of maximum 6,000 words.<br><br>Your contributions will be reviewed (double-blind) by a committee of geospatial experts, who will assess the papers on originality and academic rigour, as well as interest for the wider FOSS4G community.<br><br>We expect to select 20-25 papers for presentation and publication. From this selection, as many as 8-10 papers will be published in a special issue of the renowned international journal Transactions in GIS. The remaining papers are planned to be published in the online OSGeo Journal.</p><h3 class="null" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-align: left; color: rgb(96, 96, 96) !important;">Call for Workshops</h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Deadline: March 15th<br><br>For complete details, see our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://foss4g.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=92023a5676f520b1414335d36&id=8bd2246b2d&e=739b913ff0" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Workshop Proposals</a> page.<br><br>Workshops are half or full-day hands-on experiences with participants following along with an instructor and working directly with the application(s) under discussion.<br><br>Workshops are a very popular part of FOSS4G, and demand always outstrips supply.<br><br>We are looking for dynamic instructors on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:<br> </p><ul><li dir="ltr">End-user focused introductions to FOSS4G software</li><li dir="ltr">Software frameworks for developers</li><li dir="ltr">Interoperability / Spatial Data Infrastructure</li><li dir="ltr">Integration between open and closed source solutions</li><li dir="ltr">Free and open geospatial data</li><li dir="ltr">Performance tuning</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateFooter" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="footerContainer" style="padding-bottom: 9px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center><img src="http://foss4g.us3.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=92023a5676f520b1414335d36&id=2858fae55b&e=739b913ff0" height="1" width="1" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>