Thanks to efforts of Dr Tuong Thuy Vu (Head of Open Source Geospatial Lab, Malaysia) , Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr(Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences) and colleagues,  FOSS4G South East Asia – “Open Source Tools and Application in Southeast Asia”  http://foss4g-sea.org/    will be held in conjunction with AGSE 2012  on July 18-19th in Malaysia.

This will build more research collaborations  and start process to establish Open Geospatial Labs in other key universities in Malaysia and the region in the next 1-2 year time frame helping us build a strong network of research labs for scaling up research and teaching for the future.

We welcome participation from all for this initiative.