Re: [Foss4ga.discuss] Successful Conclusion of FOSS4G-Asia 2014

-- Associate Research Fellow, Ph.D in GIS Geospatial Information Research Division Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements T. +82 031-380-0405 H. +82 010-2033-5998 F. +82 031-380-0475 www.krihs.re.kr 2014-12-16 13:18 GMT+09:00 Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp >: > > Dear All, > > 10 days have passed since the successful conclusion of FOSS4G-Asia 2014. > On behalf of the organizers, I will like to thank one and all for support > and active participation in FOSS4G-Asia 2014. The conference was attended > by more then 112 participants for 18 different countries and by all > means a grand success. > > International Journal of Geoinformatics [1] is planning > to bring out Special Issue of FOSS4G-Asia 2014 sometimes in > June 2015. We will send notifications to authors whose papers > will be shortlisted for the special issue by the scientific committee > of FOSS4G-Asia 2014. > > Three awards were presented as below. > > 1) Best FOSS4G Use Case Award to Kazeem Owolabi and others for > "Use case: supporting polio eradication and Ebola outbreak response" > > 2) Best FOSS4G Developer Award to Gérald Fenoy and NIcolas Bozon > for "MapMint: The 100% service-oriented GIS platform" > > 3) Best Poster Award to Jayasinghe and others for > "Assess the level of vulnerability to climate exaggerated disasters in > Sri Lankan Coastal Areas: An Application of Open Source Geographic > Information System" > > 2015 we will have the global gathering of FOSS4G in Seoul [2] and > a special Asian Session at FOSS4G-2015 was announced by the > Conference Chair Mr. Sanghee Shin during FOSS4G-Asia 2014. > We hope to see all of you at FOSS4G-Seoul in 2015. FOSS4G-Asia > will be held again in 2016 somewhere in Asia. If have any suggestion > for the FOSS4G-Asia 2016 venue, please let us know. > > This FOSS4G-Asia Conference mailing list [3] will remain active and if you > have any feedback to help to improve the future conference, please > feel free to write on the ML. Please ask your friends and colleagues > interested in FOSS4G to subscribe to the ML too. > > I take this opportunity to thank the Sponsors, Local Organizers and > Volunteers > without whose help, FOSS4G-Asia 2014 would not be possible. > > Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. > > Venka > > [1] http://journals.sfu.ca/ijg/index.php/journal/index > [2] http://2015.foss4g.org/ > [3] http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/cgi-bin/mailman/ > listinfo/foss4ga.discuss > > -------- > Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan > Osaka City University > Co-Chairperson FOSS4G-Asia 2014 > _______________________________________________ > Foss4ga.discuss mailing list > Foss4ga.discuss@gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp > http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4ga.discuss >