Mateusz Loskot

A few weeks ago, CASCADOSS project leaders requested for patronage from the OSGeo Foundation for two upcoming events: International Symposium and International Information Workshop. The request was approved and final decision was made during the 36th OSGeo Board Meeting.

Yesterday, Frank Warmerdam officially announced this fact in the OSGeo News: OSGeo Supports CASCADOSS

Detailed document describing the Support for CASCADOSS is available on the OSGeo Wiki, together with body of letter of support. Printed copy of the letter was sent to the CASCADOSS project leaders.

This is a short post spreading the announcement about upcoming RMA 2008 conference. The RMA 2008 is the 2008 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling. It will be held at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Warsaw, Poland, June 15-18, 2008.

The conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent progress in the use of modeling techniques to help in the understanding and managing of complex natural resource systems

The call for papers has been opened very recently and not yet widely announced. As I’ve been told by organizers, it’s possible to present applications and software packages related to the conference matter. I’ve been wondering if there would be anyone from the OSGeo Community interested to present FOSS solutions for environmental related problems.

By the way, RMA 2008 is planned on the same week as Cascadoss symposium and workshop. So, there is some chance to visit both events.

Today is a wonderful day! The Canadian minister of immigration and citizenship Diane Finley announced that citizens of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Lithuania can travel to Canada and remain there for 3 months without a visa.

I’m a Polish, so hurray! One of my dream has become truth.

Visiting the Vancouver Island in September 2007 with my fiancee Aneta stroke our fancies and we are going to come to back there, probably after the journey to Cape Town for the FOSS4G 2008.

It is not a secret that our long term plan is to stay and work in Canada for a couple of years or longer.

In this post, I’m going to spread a word about the Cascados project. The project is founded by the European Commission in frame of the Sixth Framework Programme and is focused on development of a trans-national cascade training programme on Open Source GIS & Remote Sensing software for environmental applications. The Cascados project is formed by a number of partners from Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. More detailed information can be found on the project website (multilingual) recently launched at the http://cascadoss.eu/

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Following this link to the Starving Dog as Art- The Utter Outrage you can read a shocking story about pseudo-art exhibition given by pseudo-artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas with starving dog as the subject.

The Petition

Boicot a la presencia de Guillermo Habacuc Vargas en la Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008

On 29 November 2007 an interesting event will take place in Warsaw, Poland. The annual XIV GIS in Practice Conference is devoted to discuss topics about space management, local community development and communal participation.

Full name of the conference in Polish language:

XIV edycja konferencji GIS W PRAKTYCE - GIS - zarządzanie przestrzenią, rozwój lokalny i partycypacja społeczna

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find English translation of the conference overview and program, so I decided to produce it myself. Here is, more or less, detailed summary of the conference topics:

• New role of GIS in communication and communal participation support. (Paweł Decewicz, Centrum Gospodarki Przestrzennej)
• What does the geospatial infrastructure and INSPIRE directive bring to local governments, communities and municipalities? (dr ElĹźbieta Bielecka, Instytut Geodezji i Kartografii):
  • What exactly is INSPIRE?
  • Who are INSPIRE beneficiaries?
  • Is INSPIRE supposed to be success?
• Geoportals, traditional GIS on the Internet or another media (Maciej Sztampke, ESRI)
• New directions of GIS technology
• Do these tools provide users with objective information?
• Examples of interesting applications
• Panel discussion: What does INSPIRE implementation and strategy mean for local governments?
  Guests: prof. Bogdan Ney, dr Marek Baranowski, dr Tomasz Stuczyński and Marcin Guzik. Moderator: Paweł Decewicz
• Discussion of spatial conflicts in areas of NATURA 2000 network. (Katarzyna Twardowska i Ryszard Zakrzewski, Ministry of the Environment)
• Case Study: Geoportals in promotion of NATURA 2000 areas of Baltic Sea countries (SMAN) on the example of Polish regions: Suwalszczyzna and AugustĂłw. (dr Marcin Bajorski, City of AugustĂłw)
• Case study: GIS and Information Society, Graphic Database Varsovia.pl - preserving city’s identity. (dr Marek Ostrowski)
• Presentation: GIS in space management - ESRI solutions. (ESRI)
• Lecture: Using CommunityViz as GIS application to support public debate about the local development plan. (Paweł Decewicz, Centrum Gospodarki Przestrzennej)

All information above was stolen from the conference website maintained by Centrum Promocji Informatyki Ltd. company, the conference organizer.

http://ustream.tv/channel/foss4g2007