PROGRAM

8:50 AM     Welcome

9:00 AM     Silvana Camboim, Federal University of Paraná –   UFPR, BRAZIL, Commission Chair, “Experiences on How Openness Can Help to Reduce Inequality”

9:30 AM     Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, USA, “GRASS GIS as open source innovation platform: from dynamic visualizations to collaborative tangible modeling” (co-authors: Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, and Brandan Harmon) 

10:00 - 10:15     Short Break

10:15 AM     Alex Sorokine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA, “Open-Source Software in the Cutting Edge Geocomputaion Research at ORNL”

10:45 AM     James McAndrew, Colorado State University, contractor to the US National Park Service, USA, "Keeping Map Data Current Through the Use of Volunteered Geographic Information"

11:15 AM     Carl Sack, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, "Teaching Open Source Web Mapping" (co-author: Robert Roth)

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM   Lunch

1:15 PM     Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, GERMANY, “Doing Datacubes in Open-Source: the rasdaman Scalable Array Engine”

1:45 PM     Somesh Soni, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, INDIA, "Selection of site for solid waste management using GIS technology"

2:15 - 2:30     Short Break

2:30 PM     Syed Monjur Murshed, European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER), GERMANY, “Development of an Open Source 3D Browser to Visualize Modeling Results" (co-authors: Jochen Wendel, Akila Sriramulu, and Alexandru Nichersu)

3:00 PM     Open Discussion --  Silvana Camboim, Chair and Discussant, "Future Directions: Thinking About the Road Ahead"

4:15 PM     Adjourn

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