The Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium (OGRS) is a meeting dedicated to exchanging ideas on development and use of open source geospatial software in both research and education.

In summary, OGRS2012 is a place to share geospatial knowledge and expertise in the open source paradigm to foster innovation. The main goals are:

• to build a panel of new scientific research and education practices using and contributing to open source initiatives in the geospatial fields;
• to discuss a framework and highlight a rationale about geospatial open source technology usage in research and education activities;
• to provide an innovation platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work between academia – from research to education – and other actors of the field (associations, foundations, local authorities, industry etc.).