Abstract

Development, maintenance and usage of free and open source software solutions, standards and data can be observed in the geospatial information technology since years. More and more individuals and companies have committed themselves to the idea of Open Source and completed their portfolio with freely available components. The public lecture will present the fundamental principles of this movement, its motivating factors and basic business models of the Open Source realm.

Brief Biographical sketch of Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr graduated in Geodesy from Karlsruhe University (KIT), Germany, in 1983. He joined Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences as a full time professor of spatial information processing in 2002. He is currently teaching software development, Internet Technology and Internet GIS as well as Database design, XML technologies and scientific writing. 
He published two GIS text books, more than 60 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is head of the Laboratory for interoperable, and open-source Geospatial Software, Data and Standards (HFT ICA-OSGeo-Lab). He is co-founder and head of the Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment conferences which will take place in Windhoek this year.

Date: Wednesday, 17 October 2018 
Time: 10:00 to 11:00 (Guests are requested to arrive at 09:45 for 10:00)  
Venue: Geography 1-2, Hatfield Campus
RSVP: [email protected]

Light refreshments to be served after the lecture. 

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