Dear all We are very glad to inform that we have had an overwhelming response to our call for abstracts. Congratulations to all authors. Due to a large number of submission, the Program Committee has planned to have a much larger poster session with longer core time for interacting with the participants and also plan for demos in front of their poster using their own laptops. The authors can still access their accepted abstracts after logging in to the conference website. Accepted abstracts will show status for "pending". The "pending" status is for two reasons below; a) The authors can still edit their abstract and prepare final version for printing in the abstract volume before 30 Nov. 2016. The final abstract will be text version with no attachments and maximum words is 500. b) "Pending" status will be "Closed" after the authors complete their registration. We request the authors to avail the benefit of early registration before 30 Nov. 2016. Detailed information about registration will be made available soon [1]. Participants can select training workshops that they may wish to attend while registering. Details of the planned training workshops are available at [2]. Workshops having low attendance (less than 5 participants) maybe cancelled and registration is on first-come-first serve basis. We request all participants to subscribe to the conference mailing list and direct any general questions to the mailing list. Information about the conference mailing list and contact information is at [3]. Looking forward to seeing you all at FOSS4G-Asia 2017 and request all your support for organizing a great conference. Best Dr. Rama Chandra Pillutla Organizing Secretary FOSS4G-Asia 2017 Secretariat c/o Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIIT Hyderabad Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, 500 032 Phone: +91-40-6653-1332 Fax: +91-40-6653-1413 rcprasad@iiit.ac.in; fa-office@gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp [1] http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2017/registration-info/ [2] http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2017/programmenu/workshops/ [3] http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2017/about/organizer-committees/ Conference site for details: http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2017/