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<p>I know it's a bit late in the year - BUT - </p>
<p>The FOSS4GNA Community has announced the next North America
Conference in St Louis Missouri - May 14-16th 2018. </p>
<p>Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://2018.foss4g-na.org/">https://2018.foss4g-na.org/</a></p>
<p>Unapologetically stolen (and tweaked) from the website: </p>
<p><i>The <a href="https://2018.foss4g-na.org/about-pc"
target="_blank">conference
committee</a></i> <i>is a geographically-dispersed team of
volunteers
from a variety of backgrounds – software developers, educators,
</i>GIS
professionals – <i>and FOSS4G is the common thread that binds us
together.</i></p>
<p><i>We invite you to join this community as an attendee, speaker,
or sponsor at North America’s largest gathering of students and
professionals who share the common interest of free and open
source
geospatial tools. If you’re interested in speaking, <a
href="https://2018.foss4g-na.org/cfp" target="_blank">submit
your talk or workshop proposal today</a>. If you or your
company
would like to know more about partnering or sponsoring this
event,
see the online <a href="https://2018.foss4g-na.org/prospectus"
target="_blank">sponsor
prospectus</a>.</i></p>
<p><i>The program will include content on these topics, and more:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><i>Software Projects (like QGIS,
PostGIS, Cesium, Python, R)</i></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><i>Business (we actually using
this stuff)</i></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><i>Government (you can too)</i></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><i>Nonprofit & Humanitarian
Work (they use it to save lives)</i></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><i>Education & Academia (they
use it to teach GIS)</i></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><i>The Sciences (That's everyone)</i></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><i>Data Visualization (Look at
your data upside down, front, and back)</i></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><i>New & Emerging Technology (The edge of tech where
things crash and great things happen)</i></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><i>Right now, we are especially looking for workshop proposals,
since the workshop submission deadline is January 15, 2018.</i></p>
<p><i>See you in St. Louis!</i></p>
<p>Randy</p>
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Randal Hale
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.northrivergeographic.com">https://www.northrivergeographic.com</a>
(423)653-3611
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