Thanks Suchith for your volunteering to moderate the GeoForAll lab mini-conference (or whatever we call it).
I added some thoughts to your document (under Attachment 1 at the bottom) for the Bucharest BOF since I won't be there. I hope perhaps one of the people who volunteered to participate (thanks!) might be there to help try and organize the online mini-conference. Cheers all, Charlie Schweik On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:19 AM Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi Charlie, > > > Thank you for the excellent ideas and inputs. This is very helpful for > moving our community forward. This now added to the agenda at > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTgLetei863hY2a-oz0PMy9ejcT6HkEq5IqZG1k8Wn4/edit?usp=sharing > > > I volunteer to help you and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this > GeoForAll community miniconference for the World Commons Week. Please let > me know the exact day/time and I will coordinate this with Rafael. I thank > all colleagues who volunteered to present for this webinar mini conference. > Your > help and support is greatly appreciated. > > > I would also like to add one more agenda item on GeoForAll support for > STEM education in schools especially for economically poor students > globally. I came across an excellent initiative for widening STEM education > opportunities for female students that GEO is involved in Ghana at > http://earthobservations.org/geo_blog_obs.php?id=368 > > > GeoForAll is committed to support STEM education opportunities for > women. As many GEO colleagues will be at FOSS4G, I suggest that we reach > out to GEO and explore ways for working together for expanding STEM > education opportunities for students globally. > > > Best wishes, > > > Suchith > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Charlie Schweik <cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu> > *Sent:* 21 August 2019 16:00 > *To:* Suchith Anand <eza...@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> > *Cc:* GeoForAll <geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>; discuss@lists.osgeo.org < > discuss@lists.osgeo.org> > *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us > forward on geoeducation > > Hi Andreea, Suchith and other GeoForAll/OSGeo colleagues, > > (Sorry I won't be there next week). > > Again, one tangible GeoForAll community building effort we can do is to > start an annual GeoForAll community webinar mini-conference, as part of > this World Commons Week (October 6-12) > <https://wcw2019.iasc-commons.org/local-events/> I am organizing. Open > Source Geospatial projects are an important subset of "world commons" > digital projects. I hope in the GeoForAll BOF meeting this idea of a > mini-conference as part of this global event can be discussed and refined. > It will also help draw attention to OSGeo/GeoForAll by others who need > geospatial technologies to study natural resource commons who don't know > about them. > > But from my previous posts on this idea, here are the colleagues who > responded and signaled their interest to do this (thanks to those below!). > I'm not sure each wanted to present something or not? > > - Victor N.Sunday, Team Coordinator, UniqueMappersTeam, Port Harcourt > Nigeria. -- Open Source and Open Data for All > - Suchith Anand Dr. Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition By > webinar United Kingdom -- Open Principles in Science and Education > - Sergio Acosta y Lara, Architect Comunidad gvSIG, Uruguay, Montevideo > Uruguay -- Experiences from the 3rd edition of the course-contest Projects > with students and gvSIG Batovà > - Victoria Rautenbach, Dr University of Pretoria Pretoria South > Africa. GeoNode for data management and sharing > - Paulo Cesar Coronado, Engineer, Universidad Distrital Francsico José > de Caldas, Bogota Colombia. SIG con herramientas OSGeo (GIS with OSGeo > tools) > > But this is a nice cross-section of some of the GeoForAll labs. Raphael > Moreno has nicely agreed to use his webinar platform. > > *QUESTIONS, maybe for the BOF meeting:* > > *1) What is the goal of such a online "mini-conference"? I would argue it > would be to learn what other labs are doing and to build a richer dialog > across labs. * > *2) Would each of these people listed want to present, say, for 15-30 > minutes about their topics or lab activities? Anyone else want to > participate?* > *3) What day/time range during the week of October 6-12 would we want to > run this GeoForAll community online miniconference?* > *4) Is there someone in the GeoForAll community who would be willing to > help me and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this GeoForAll community > miniconference? With me running the broader event I don't think I can do > this. * > > I hope this is helpful and moves the community forward in a small way. > > Charlie Schweik > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 4:28 AM Suchith Anand < > suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > > Thanks to Andreea, Victoria and all colleagues working for GeoForAll > meeting next week. Andreea will be sending the draft agenda for you all to > provide inputs. Even if you are not able to attend FOSS4G 2019 GeoForAll > meeting, I request you to share your inputs/ideas on how we can move > forward on our education aims. > > > For the GeoForAll Como meeting in 2015 , Charlie had created the following > 4 key questions[1] for discussing . I think it is an excellent idea > that we need to use for our community meetings to get everyone's inputs. > > > * Geo4All - What would you like to see Geo4All in 5 years -- 2020 -- in > the context of educational collaboration? > > * Geo4All - What we need to do together to achieve this vision? > > * Geo4All - What can we do THIS YEAR to move forward? > > * Geo4All - What can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision? > > > > May i request all to reflect and share your ideas. Esp. we are interested > to hear on "what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision?". > Thanks. > > > Best wishes, > > > Suchith > > > > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_BOF1 > > _______________________________________________ > GeoForAll mailing list > geofor...@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall > > > > -- > Charlie Schweik > > Professor > Department of Environmental Conservation & School of Public Policy > University of Massachusetts, Amherst > > Facebook: Charles.Schweik > Twitter: @cschweik > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. If you have received this > message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and > attachment. > > Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not > necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. 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