FOSS4G-Europe Welcoming Contributions
Independent software developers, scientists, industry experts, and agency representatives will
come to meet at the FOSS4-Europe conference held in Bremen, Germany from July 15 to 17.
Contributions can now be submitted on the conference website www.foss4g-e.org/ until April 15.
Under this year’s motto “Independent Innovation for INSPIRE, Big Data and citizen participation” the
conference series FOSS4G-Europe (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - Europe) is uniting
the GIS community from a broad spectrum of fields like geodesy, geo information, land management,
and remote sensing. Industry and public authorities are expressly invited as they increasingly realize
value and economic potential of free and open source products.
Several additional events make the FOSS4G-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 honored
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.
Conference Dates
General presentations and workshops:
• Abstract submission: 2014-apr-15
• Review notification: 2014-apr-30
• Conference: 2014-jul-13
Scientific Track:
• Abstract submission: 2014-apr-15
• Full paper submission: 2014-apr-22
• Review notification: 2014-may-15
• Camera ready version: 2014-jun-15
• Conference: 2014-jul-13
Early bird registration deadline: 2014-may-22
Follow us at http://www.foss4g-e.org/
Cheers
The FOSS4G Europe organizing commitee