Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

[Charles Schweik]

+1
Charlie Schweik


On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan <
ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Many thanks for the great job you are doing in
> representing OSGeo with selfless dedication
> and for sharing your vision with all of us.
>
> I wish you great fun and safe travel for representing OSGeo at
> the GISConf in Moscow [1] that is coming up this weekend.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> [1] http://gisconf.ru/
>
> On 2015/11/16 4:13, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>
>> Hi Cameron,
>>
>> Thank you for your message.  It is very refreshing to speak on this topic
>> openly here, as others would rather send me strong private messages
>> questioning my sanity, and making threats.  I realize that many cannot be
>> open on this topic for various reasons.
>>
>> Let me assure everyone here that I only have one agenda, which is very
>> rare these days, and that is to help the OSGeo foundation.  I am not
>> muzzled by fear or threats, and I will stand up for the OSGeo foundation
>> whenever that is required.  If by standing up for OSGeo's only event all
>> year, FOSS4G, means that I am called "confrontational" and "obstructive",
>> then yes you are fully right.
>>
>> Some may not know this by reading this thread, but I have always been a
>> big supporter of LocationTech.  I was involved in the beginning of
>> LocationTech, involved in the sense of being one of the first subscribers
>> to their mailing list, and I even have had many chats inside their
>> #locationtech IRC channel, even answering questions from new LocationTech
>> community members (technical readers will find it interesting to join their
>> IRC channel now on freenode and see the first message that is displayed
>> when entering their channel "LocationTech: location aware open source
>> software friendly to commercialization.").  I have followed the development
>> of that organization right from the beginning, where they smartly filled a
>> void by aiming at the business/commercial side of Open Source geospatial
>> (of course, recently they publicly pointed out to me, even questioned my
>> sanity, that this was false, I am dreaming, that they have always focused
>> instead on the same goals as OSGeo, but readers, do a google search for LT
>> and press release, and you will see their early visions).  Which is why I
>> asked now to hear the vision of LocationTech (I was not answered, but
>> someone else pointed to an FAQ just made).  In any case, no I am not
>> insane, I have always followed LocationTech closely.
>>
>> I do travel to many OSGeo local chapters around the world, constantly,
>> and especially to developing areas that are just becoming interested in
>> Open Source.  In a few days I will again take 3 more planes and represent
>> OSGeo at a growing community, again putting life on hold, including my
>> health, my money, and my life in general, to go help grow the OSGeo
>> community.  In this event I can bet that I will speak personally to over
>> 100 developers, students, decision makers, and researchers; I bet I will
>> personally talk to over 20 businesses looking at OSGeo. Those who know me
>> well know that this is why I make those trips (I don't go for presentations
>> etc.), it is that face to face representation that is so very important,
>> especially in the long run.
>>
>> As the leader of the OSGeo foundation, part of my role is to listen to
>> all of the criticism about me; and I realize that the negative words you've
>> used about me here for everyone to read, are not the first negative ones
>> used at me in years past, nor will they be the last. In the big theater
>> room that is the community, there will always be those that disagree with
>> me, and I value their opinion as well.
>>
>> Few in this community see me being so involved behind the scenes. New
>> committees, new MoUs, FOSS4G local committees, all just pop up on the scene
>> and grow, but few see me behind the scenes helping them form initially, and
>> I am ok with that.  The core community members in the OSGeo foundation know
>> that I support them in every way that I can.  I often am actively working 2
>> or even 3 years in advance of a FOSS4G for that region, talking with those
>> regions members, getting them to think of the possibilities, years before
>> the release of the call for hosting.  To you and others it looks like I
>> have no innovation, no new ideas, I don't work with community leaders,
>> because you don't see me working behind the scenes for OSGeo.  I am ok with
>> that.  You can keep going on in thinking this way of me, but I am very
>> proud of what I do for OSGeo, what I constantly try to do for OSGeo.
>> Long-time members of OSGeo know how I have failed in several proposals to
>> past OSGeo boards, and to this day those so-called "failures" are my most
>> proud moments.  But yes, you can always argue that I am not innovative and
>> do not help OSGeo.
>>
>> I am also not wired to think of "money" first.  I follow my heart and I
>> try to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial ...

[Charles Schweik]

Nikos, Suchith, OSGeo software project teams:

Re the GeoForAll newsletter:

Please consider having a regular section in the newsletter that does a
story on some class or material someone in our network has developed, and
promotes the open access educational material that GeoForAll labs are
building through this metadata inventory system [1].

I hope the OSGeo software project teams might consider writing a post about
their own training activities and consider posting metadata links to their
materials via this system as well.  This will be a further step toward a
closer partnership between our education network and the software teams.

Cheers,
Charlie Schweik

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/education




On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Kurt, This is great work that you are doing and thank you for sharing this
> .
>
> I am sure there are thousands of excellent examples like these in our
> OSGeo community which we need to highlight to the wider world to build more
> ideas and collaborations. Our "Geo for All" newsletters will reach
> thousands of readers and it will make sure more collaborations are build.
>
> So i request everyone to send their examples (from Government, Industry,
> SME, Startups, NGOs etc) to the lists or directly to Nikos ( email -
> labri...@eled.auth.gr ) and we will aim to get these examples published
> in our monthly newsletters as regular feature. So it will good to have lot
> of examples so we can get them published one by one.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> 
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Davis [
> pda...@delmar.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 9:25 PM
> To: Charles Schweik; Kurt Menke
> Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial
> ...
>
> Kurt is a GeoAcademy SME and faculty.  :)
>
> ____
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles Schweik [
> cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 3:24 PM
> To: Kurt Menke
> Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial
> ...
>
> That's awesome Kurt! When ready, consider posting a link to the material
> on our metadata search database. [1,2]
>
> Cheers, Charlie
>
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
> [2] http://www.osgeo.org/education
>
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Kurt Menke  <mailto:k...@birdseyeviewgis.com>> wrote:
> For the last several years I have been working with the National Library
> of Medicine to document and teach a minority public health mapping
> workflow. The idea is that minority public health organizations have
> limited staff and budgets, but have mapping needs. What we came up with is
> designed for public health professionals, people who don’t have the time to
> be full time GIS specialists. So we’ve outlined and taught a workflow from
> A) field mapping with smart phones/tablets, B) bringing the data into QGIS
> to combine with other datasets to tell a story/analysis, and C)
> dissemination over the web via CartoDB or GIS Cloud. This link is the
> project synopsis:  http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/about/  The
> basic goal is to empower minority communities by teaching them to collect
> and work with their own data, versus what is sent to them by the CDC.
>
> As part of this, I’ve been authoring a blog Community Health Mapping
> http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/ . The blog is written at a
> layperson level of technical detail and serves to keep the workflow current
> with rapidly developing technology. It also is forum for case studies and
> new advances in community health mapping tools. There are several case
> studies written by guest bloggers. One of these was written by several high
> schools students in a poor island near Charleston, SC, who I trained to map
> their neighborhood in an afternoon.
> http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/2015/02/11/community-health-maps-conducts-a-training-in-the-south-carolina-lowcountry/
>  They were really excited to be able to use their phones to do this work!
>
> I have also developed a public health mapping course with six labs, built
> in the same style as the GeoAcademy courses. It essentially takes a student
> through the workflow. The labs are in beta at the moment but will be freely
> available once completed.
>
> To date we’ve trained public health professionals in Charleston, SC,
> Seattle, WA, Honolulu, HI, and Tuskeegee, MI. It has been v

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case

[Charles Schweik]

Hello Sanghee,

I am saddened that you removed the entire presentation, for I think,
overall, it was a good idea. I apologize for my role in that result.

I encourage in the BOF the idea to potentially review key conference
marketing material with an eye toward the messaging before it goes public,
be discussed. Perhaps OSGeo could create a multi-cultural conference
marketing committee for this purpose?

Finally, one of my goals at FOSS4G EU co-leading the GeoForAll discussions
will be to help to identify what the GeoForAll community does in Seoul
during BOF and other open conference times.

I wish you nothing but the best in your upcoming conference.

Respectfully,

Charlie Schweik







On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Sanghee Shin  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I’d like to report updates on our discussion.
>
> 1. Regarding CoC offline discussion at FOSS4G Seoul, we may have
> discussion at BOF meeting[0]. I believe Jeff already marked the timeslot
> there on 16th September. If you need more timeslots, just add to the BOF
> wiki please. Also if you want have any BOF meeting during FOSS4G Seoul,
> please add your plan to the wiki page.
>
> 2. I removed my controversial(?) presentation from the main page. I think
> it was too outdated and  not so attractive. It’s now time to promote
> through FOSS4G Seoul program itself. You may see new main page there[1].
>
> Your attending and participation is very crucial to the success of FOSS4G
> Seoul. Please register FOSS4G Seoul(
> http://2015.foss4g.org/attending/registration/) and meet up in Seoul
> altogether!!
>
> All the best,
>
> Sanghee
>
> [0]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2015_BirdsOfAFeather
> [1]http://2015.foss4g.org/
> ---
> Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
> "Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!"
> http://2015.foss4g.org
> Twitter: @foss4g
> Facebook: FOSS4G2015
> email: foss4gch...@osgeo.org
>
>
>
> 2015. 6. 25., 오전 9:34, Sanghee Shin  작성:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Thank you for all your great opinions, advices and inputs through this
> mailing lists and through to my private mail. I think we’ve discussed
> enough on this.
>
> I agree with Maria and Maxi’s suggestion to have a offline discussion time
> in Seoul. I’ll explore the possibility whether we can have that spaces
> before/during/after FOSS4G Seoul and will report to you.
>
> And I also agree with some advices that because my presentation was highly
> dependent on verbal explanation, it not so effective itself to deliver my
> clear intention. I’ll think about how to handle this.
>
> Thanks again for great and wonderful inputs.
>
> How about having a break for while?
>
> All the best,
>
> Sanghee
> ---
> Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
> "Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!"
> http://2015.foss4g.org
> Twitter: @foss4g
> Facebook: FOSS4G2015
> email: foss4gch...@osgeo.org
>
>
>
> 2015. 6. 25., 오전 9:22, Massimiliano Cannata 
> 작성:
>
> Once again I express my opinion:
> I think that OSGeo shall express and support a CoC that is respecting
> diversity in any form, but we don not have the right to censure anything.
>
> If something really bad happens than someone will take action based on the
> agreed CoC.
> Do we really want to argue about the images and content of anyone
> presentation?
>
> The community is the best referee of the conduct of its members not a
> bunch of people deciding what is good or not.
>
> And YES, we can discuss it in Seoul to find a way to rise attention to the
> CoC and discuss more (but friendly and with respect of diversity  ;-) )
>
>
> Maxi
>
>
>
> 2015-06-25 10:07 GMT+02:00 Pat Tressel :
>
>> I hesitate to step into the "sexism in tech" debate, but...  There may be
>> some recent events that folks aren't aware of, that may be relevant -- some
>> specifically have to do with conferences.  This list is not R-rated, so
>> rather than directly describe the relevant events, I'll just give you
>> search queries that will bring them up:
>>
>> "PyCon donglegate"
>> "TechCrunch sexism"
>> "Pax Dickenson brogrammer"
>> "GamerGate"
>>
>> Those are only tips of the iceberg -- they are specific symptoms of a
>> more general attitude.  I've listed them in order of seriousness.  I expect
>> that these will get the "that's just PC" objection, but are threats of rape
>> and murder really just "for fun"?  And if the objection is that women just
>> just force their way into tech, I have two words for you:  hiring manager.
>> And no, not all of us have the resources to start our own companies.
>> Venture funding is rarely offered to women.
>>
>> When I worked as a software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation
>> (DEC) in the 90s, the group I was in was half women.  No, not secretaries
>> and support staff -- engineers.  But there was a difference in attitude,
>> which one can see in the fact that although DEC ceased to exist in 1998
>> (sold to Compaq), we *still have reunions* and active social networks.  The
>> switch to deliberately provoking competition an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case

[Charles Schweik]

OK, having been the one that unwittingly ‘lit the match’, here are my
concluding thoughts for use for the discussion in Seoul (and I agree with
Sanghee we should end this thread!)


1) This discussion was about the recruiting message and signals to the
world about who we are as a global community, on a critically important
venue – the flagship annual global conference, front webpage.


2) Organizations (even loose ones) do vetting of major recruitment material
to make sure the messages conveyed represent that organization or community
accurately.  That’s what some of this dialog was about.  In the future -- I
throw out the idea for consideration -- that it might be useful to consider
a pre-publishing comment period of any **major** recruitment material. The
goal is not to censure – but to gather reactions about message from our
global, multi-cultural community and to gauge whether there are
possibilities for misinterpretation -- across any culture -- and to solicit
ideas on how the messages conveyed can be improved.


3) Organizers of any single conference should have the freedom to weigh
these comments and then do what they think is right, given that particular
event is representing their particular culture and area of the world.


Two closing points.


-  I do agree with one of the last posts; in my view, in a time when the
world needs more positive global collaboration, OSGeo and FOSS4G lead the
way.


- I want to publicly that Sanghee for his willingness to listen and
contemplate and again pass on my regrets that I didn’t pass on my own
personal misinterpretations of his content directly to him. He is a great
example of the kind of positive people who make up this community.


Respectfully,


Charlie Schweik
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case

[Charles Schweik]

(I've been trying not to post again, but since in a way I started this (not
meant to go so publicly!), here's my last post):

This isn't a COC issue.

This is a discussion about FOSS4G recruitment and messaging issue,
representing all of us globally who feel part of the FOSS4G community and
want to see it thrive and grow. The posts by Milo and Margherita captured
the confusion I had over messaging better than I did.

Agreed, I'm male. Please forgive me for trying to be sensitive to half the
world's population and one that our discipline has trouble recruiting, and
not understanding what the message was in the Dali sequence and the models
sequence.

Sanghee - I regret not contacting you about this directly and meant no
disrespect. Jeff- sorry for the heartburn.

Charlie Schweik







On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> wrote:

> Just my 0.0002 cents,
>
> I feel things are getting over complicated.
>
> We have a CoC, and I think all the Charther member should confirm they
> agree (actually a pre-requisite to become a charter member).
> Then if a serious case is detected the Member can be eventually banned
> from the community.
>
> Otherwise we could pretend to do a have an official censorship system
> checking all contents and decides what is fine or not... :-D
>
> My point of view is that unless explicitly offensive and against law it is
> responsability and credibility of each person to act according correct
> moral society rules.
>
> Maxi
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2015-06-24 15:13 GMT+02:00 Sanghee Shin :
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> One thing I could say about the controversial #6 slide is that that is
>> exactly what Salvador Dali try to point out. I didn’t crop out the image
>> intentionally for ‘commercial.’ Image in #6 can be found in internet as
>> well as art history book.
>>
>> If you visited Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain and stood just in front of
>> that painting, Dali’s ‘Lincoln in Dalivision’ just look like that, a nude
>> female. However if you move back to 10~20 meters away from that, now you
>> can realise the real meaning of that painting, that’s the portrait of
>> Abraham Lincoln - the president of USA.
>>
>> I just used that image to stress the importance of long distance from the
>> object or sometimes from the too experienced ordinary culture.
>>
>> I feel like this discussion is just like Dali’s painting.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Sanghee
>> ---
>> Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
>> "Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!"
>> http://2015.foss4g.org
>> Twitter: @foss4g
>> Facebook: FOSS4G2015
>> email: foss4gch...@osgeo.org
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015. 6. 24., 오후 1:08, Milo van der Linden  작성:
>>
>> Hi Sanghee,
>>
>> Thank you for taking this matter to the discuss mailinglist. My first
>> reaction when clicking the links from your post was, no problem, this is
>> well accepted from my european perspective and I do not directly see any
>> offense in them nor see any offense in other cultures. However, after
>> looking at them in context (in the slideshare presentation) this is my
>> opinion.
>>
>> 1. I don't understand the slides with the Dali painting. What do you want
>> to say with them? In my opinion they can be removed without downgrading the
>> presentation.
>>
>> 2. In my opinion; the slide with the header "Culture" showing the row of
>> female models will bring a better message with another picture. Currently I
>> interpret this slide as: "Come to Korea for the beautiful women" and I
>> believe that is not the message you want to send under the header "Culture".
>>
>> 3. There are a few slides with a lot of prominently displayed alcoholic
>> drinks, in one slide, it even looks like a "drinking game". There are a lot
>> of cultures that are offended by that too. Simply removing them, again,
>> would not make your presentation worse, it would make it stronger.
>>
>> Final thought:
>>
>> I agree with the request for removal/replacement but I think you should
>> also do something about the alcoholic drinks given this presentation holds
>> a prominent position on the main page for the foss4g event. This would make
>> your presentation stronger, because apart from this minor thing, it is an
>> interesting slideshow that has me interested in going to Seoul!
>>
>> So thank you for that!
>>
>> With respect, kind regards.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015-06-24 12:22 GMT+02:00 Sanghee Shin :
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> It’s now time to apply OSGeo CoC(Code of Conduct)[0] in real case.
>>>
>>> I was asked to remove a few slides from my presentation "7 Reasons why
>>> you should come to FOSS4G 2015 Seoul”[1], which is at the main page of
>>> FOSS4G Seoul, as being possibly offensive to women. Specifically to say,
>>> slide #6 (nude female in painting) and slide #20 (row of female models) are
>>> those controversial ones.
>>>
>>> I refused this asking immediately because I don’t believe my
>>> presentation breach the OSGeo CoC and I don’t agree with that view.
>>>
>>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case

[Charles Schweik]

OK, I raised the question of appropriate content to Jeff after I looked at
the FOSS4G website for a reference for a grant proposal I am writing at a
time when I was thinking specifically about diversity recruitment to
GeoForAll.

By asking Jeff about it offline, I was raising the question that those
slides could turn some women off who are considering attending and I think
those kinds of signals are moving the community the wrong direction, and
that perhaps the author should consider this. I raised this because I have
been in conferences where I've witnessed women being offended by things
happening on stage and I think as a community we want to be sensitive to
this since we are hopeful for more women to become engaged in FOSS4G.

>From my eye going through the slides, I didn't understand (and still don't)
why zoom in on the Dali image needed to be on the slideshow. After a more
careful examination -- that other viewers won't likely do -- I see that the
first slide is an enlargement of part of that painting and then a second
picture of it hanging in some building, under the group heading of 'Seoul
is far away.' I still don't get why the enlargement is needed... but
perhaps that is just me. But I think I am still right -- some women might
be turned off to the conference by that zoom-in.

Sangee, your explanation of the side of the female models is helpful. But
some people around the world will not understand it or misinterpret its
meaning or why it is there. The 'Culture' heading helps I suppose. So at
least consider having something on those slides explaining to readers what
they represent better than they do currently.

I'll close by saying, with all due respect to Sanghee and the others in
this community who disagree with me, is that if you are trying to encourage
people to come, and especially if your email footer says 'Towards
Diversity' as a goal of the conference, then the 'Precautionary Principle'
might be wise to follow. If I was doing the advertising to recruit people,
I'd be conservative and wouldn't put up imagery that could turn off
potential attendees.

I'm not advocating any kind of censorship here, and I am not judging
whether a COC is necessary or not. I just was simply raising a concern
about underlying or subtle messages embedded in a 'commercial' being used
to recruit people to our global conference.

It appears that others disagree with this view.

Charlie Schweik


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses <
pfer...@osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hello Sanghee,
>
> > I was asked to remove a few slides from my presentation "7 Reasons why
> you should come to FOSS4G 2015 Seoul”[1], which is at the main page of
> FOSS4G Seoul, as being possibly offensive to women. Specifically to say,
> slide #6 (nude female in painting) and slide #20 (row of female models) are
> those controversial ones.
>
> I'd like to have a little bit more of context to make up my mind
>
> * Who asked to remove the slides?
>
> * Is «being possibily offensive to women» the only reason it was given to
> you?
>
> On the other hand, obviously you have you own reasons to keep the
> slides, but those reasons are not clear in the presentation because it
> lacks of... well, it lacks of someone *explaining* what are we seeing.
>
> May be a less-dependant-on-someone-explaining-presentation is more
> suitable for being in the landing page of the Conference.
>
> But this is just my POV.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
> Valencia (España)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

[Charles Schweik]

The below view makes sense to me.

I'm cc'ing the OSGeo Board list so they can see your thoughts here, Suchith.

Charlie

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
>
> My suggestion is to  have a link the GeoforAll website from OSGeo
> Education or ideally directly from OSGeo homepage. It is important to keep
> both OSGeo Education Committee and GeoforAll as they are complimentary. The
> whole idea of GeoforAll was to make this  a wider geocommunity initiative
> (hence we have OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS Presidents as cochairs in our Advisory
> Board along with GeoforAll community nominated members
> http://www.geoforall.org/advisory_board/
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
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> From: Charles Schweik [cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:43 AM
> To: Phillip Davis
> Cc: Suchith Anand; Steven Feldman; discuss@lists.osgeo.org;
> ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with
> building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure
>
> Hi,
>
> This probably relates directly to my last post to the OSGeo Board and the
> distinction between OSGeo Education Committee and GeoForAll.
>
> I think we can, and probably should, combine them. If others agree, this
> would mean building from the OSGeo Education page [1]. I have the authority
> to update that page and need to because the ELOgeo link is not functioning
> on it and some other updating is needed.
>
> My problem here is time... I'm trying to focus my attention on a GeoForAll
> grant proposal right now! If someone can come up with revised content for
> those pages (or we replace with a GeoForAll link)...
>
> But I think we should see what the board thinks about whether the
> Education group and GeoForAll should be combined or separated?
>
> Or what do others think of this question? (sorry -- I forsee a bunch of
> threads on this coming in our in-boxes!)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charlie
>
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/education
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Phillip Davis  pda...@delmar.edu>> wrote:
> Suchith you can count on my limited talents to contribute to this worthy
> and necessary cause.
>
> Phillip Davis
> 
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> [
> ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [
> suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>]
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:31 AM
> To: Steven Feldman; discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>;
> ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building
> and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I would like to call upon all of you , if you can help volunteer to build
> a website for "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org/  in OSGeo
> infrastructure
>
> Key advantages:
>
> 1. We can ensure long term hosting and development as the initiative grows
>
> 2. We will be able to provide the whole $5k of our budget for student
> travel awards for FOSS4G- Seoul 2015
>
> I am sure our University of Southampton colleagues will be happy to work
> with any interested volunteers to move the website from the current hosts
> (University of Southampton) to OSGeo infrastructure.
>
> It will be great if we can have many volunteers so we can spread the
> efforts. I am willing to volunteer my time and efforts for provide content
> etc for this. Could you please let us all know if you are wlling to help
> by 30th May 2015, so we can plan ideas. Thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> 
> From: board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>
> [board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>] On
> Behalf Of Steven Feldman [shfeld...@gmail.com<mailto:shfeld...@gmail.com>]
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:11 AM
> To: Suchith Anand; OSGeo-Board
> Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Reminder of meeting tomorrow
>
> Suchith, Board
>
> We should not be diverting money from the student travel budget to build a
> web site for Geo4All. Either use the OSGeo infrastructure or get volunteers
> to spin something up, with all of the universities involved there must be
> some people with the necessary skills who can do this, we should not be
> paying Southampton to do it
>
> steven
>
>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

[Charles Schweik]

Hi,

This probably relates directly to my last post to the OSGeo Board and the
distinction between OSGeo Education Committee and GeoForAll.

I think we can, and probably should, combine them. If others agree, this
would mean building from the OSGeo Education page [1]. I have the authority
to update that page and need to because the ELOgeo link is not functioning
on it and some other updating is needed.

My problem here is time... I'm trying to focus my attention on a GeoForAll
grant proposal right now! If someone can come up with revised content for
those pages (or we replace with a GeoForAll link)...

But I think we should see what the board thinks about whether the Education
group and GeoForAll should be combined or separated?

Or what do others think of this question? (sorry -- I forsee a bunch of
threads on this coming in our in-boxes!)

Cheers,

Charlie

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/education


On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Phillip Davis  wrote:

> Suchith you can count on my limited talents to contribute to this worthy
> and necessary cause.
>
> Phillip Davis
> 
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [
> suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:31 AM
> To: Steven Feldman; discuss@lists.osgeo.org;
> ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building
> and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I would like to call upon all of you , if you can help volunteer to build
> a website for "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org/  in OSGeo
> infrastructure
>
> Key advantages:
>
> 1. We can ensure long term hosting and development as the initiative grows
>
> 2. We will be able to provide the whole $5k of our budget for student
> travel awards for FOSS4G- Seoul 2015
>
> I am sure our University of Southampton colleagues will be happy to work
> with any interested volunteers to move the website from the current hosts
> (University of Southampton) to OSGeo infrastructure.
>
> It will be great if we can have many volunteers so we can spread the
> efforts. I am willing to volunteer my time and efforts for provide content
> etc for this. Could you please let us all know if you are wlling to help
> by 30th May 2015, so we can plan ideas. Thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> 
> From: board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On
> Behalf Of Steven Feldman [shfeld...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:11 AM
> To: Suchith Anand; OSGeo-Board
> Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Reminder of meeting tomorrow
>
> Suchith, Board
>
> We should not be diverting money from the student travel budget to build a
> web site for Geo4All. Either use the OSGeo infrastructure or get volunteers
> to spin something up, with all of the universities involved there must be
> some people with the necessary skills who can do this, we should not be
> paying Southampton to do it
>
> steven
>
> From: Suchith Anand  suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>>
> Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Reminder of meeting tomorrow
> Date: 21 May 2015 01:01:15 BST
> To: Massimiliano Cannata  massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch>>
> Cc: osgeo-board List mailto:bo...@lists.osgeo.org>>,
> "ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org" <
> ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
> Hi Massimiliano,
>
> Thank you for your queries.
>
> Yes, GeoforAll is 100 percent an OSGeo Education initiative (but supported
> by others like ICA, ISPRS through MoUs and we hope more like minded
> organisations who have interest in enabling Geospatial education and
> opportunities for all join us in the future).
>
> Regarding your questions:
>
> - Does a budget for Geo4All exists?
>
> Yes, the only budget we have is the $5k allocation for ICA/OSGeo Labs
> Student Travel  in the OSGeo budget last year and this year. Last year
> budget [1] if i remember correctly we did not use it .
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2014
>
>
> - ISPRS, ICA and OSGeo how they support the initiative, apart from having
> signed the MoU?
>
> For example in addition to the amazing support that both ICA and ISPRS has
> given which helped us expand to many universities globally , they have been
> contributing to student awards etc. For example for the Europa World Wind
> challenge 2015, both ICA and ISPRS are contributing student prizes
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-May/001531.html  I
> remember ICA gave student awards last year also for Europa challenge.
>
> - Why Geo4All need a website hosted in Nottingham and is not using the
> OSGeo infrastructure, like the OSGeo committees (incubation, marketing,
> etc.)?
>
> First of all, it is NOT hosted in Nottingham, it is developed and hosted
> by the University of Southampton. We h

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll/OSGeo at the International Society of the Study of the Commons global conference (Edmonton, Canada, late May, 2015)?

[Charles Schweik]

Also...

It may be too late, but it occurred to me that it might be valuable to try
and expand the footprint of GeoForAll/OSGeo users through a connection to
the International Association of the Study of the Commons, and its global
conference (May 25, 2015, Edmonton, Alberta) [1].

1) I wonder if it would be worth investigating a proposal of a 1-day
workshop on one of OSGeo's desktop GIS packages (e.g., and Introduction to
GIS) or going through the LiveDVD, or the use of NASA WorldWind to support
landcover change research (brainstorming here...)?

2) Would anyone on this list be able to go to Edmonton and want to propose
a workshop -- maybe that would require participants to bring laptops? (I
can help make that connection to the conference organizers).

Again, it might be too late, but this is an important global scholarly and
practitioner association who would have users and appreciation of OSGeo
technology and GeoForAll open access educational efforts.

Contact me if you think you might be interested in going and flying the
GeoForAll flag there, maybe by offering a workshop.

Cheers
Charlie

[1] http://www.iasc2015.org/



On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> Let me also take this opportunity to also thank Charlie and the whole
> GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 committee for their help
> and inputs for this initiative which will have long term positive impacts
> in education efforts globally.
>
> I would like to also congratulate Charlie ( i just saw this today!) on his
> winning the international award honouring the late political economist
> Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in
> Economic Sciences.
>
> I am really grateful to Charlie's strong support for all our Open Geo
> Education efforts from the very start.  On behalf of "Geo for All'
> community, we are really proud and happy that Charlie has been recognised
> as one of the top 50 innovators in education for his cutting-edge use of
> open-source software in the classroom and as a research tool.
>
> Details at http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/open-source
>
> "Open Education Week" is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on
> the bigger purpose and join forces in using our collective knowledge to
> help open education opportunities to all to enable a better future for all.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> 
> From: Anand Suchith
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 7:27 AM
> To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015
> http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , "Geo for All" community
> http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all educators worldwide
> who have made contributions to open education efforts and being good global
> citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all.
>
> We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll - Global
> Educator of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for us to thank
> colleagues for their excellent contributions to Openness in Education
> principles in the Geo domain.
>
> Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or
> more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award
> In no particular order, the nominees are:
>
>
> INDIVIDUALS
>
> - Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his
> course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1]
> - Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and
> tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2]
> - Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for the
> course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos
> orientado a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems
> for Education using Open Data” [3]
> - Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his
> Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central
> New Mexico Community College [4]
> - Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for
> his course on “Open Web Mapping” [5]
> - Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his
> “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6]
>
>
> TEAMS
>
> - Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for their
> EduGIS Academy [7]
> - Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for
> their Interactive Web Maps course [8]
> - Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of
> Minnesota, USA for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and Google
> Maps to Spatial Computing” [9]
> - Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy Morley
> (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz
> (Prodevelop) for thei

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" logo

[Charles Schweik]

Maybe a new global contest topic - a logo for GeoForAll?
- Charlie

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
patrick.ho...@nasa.gov> wrote:

>  Suchith,
>
> Everybody has all the their clothes on! And just too much repeat of the
> same four people.
>
>
>
> Looks like a lot of Northern Hemisphere folks without much 'middle planet'
> people
>
>
>
> I think we need more diversity. And the land/sea masses just don’t look
> right. There is no sense that this is Earth.
>
> [image: http://2013.foss4g.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/geo4all.jpg]
>
> -Patrick
>
> (650) 604-5656 (office)
>
> (650) 269-2788 (cell)
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 10:11 AM
> To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" logo
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I have been getting lot of queries on if there is a logo for "Geo for All"
> and i think it is now time for us to have logo. As "Geo for All" started
> with FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham and i saw we did have a logo but i don't
> remember who/when it was created other than the info given at the website
> [Geo for All thx to Julia Freeman-Woolper ]  at
> http://2013.foss4g.org/welcome/index.html
>
>
>
> Steven or anyone in the FOSS4G 2013 Team - Do any of you remember this
> Julia Freeman-Woolper or got her contact? Did she contribute the logo for
> us?  If so, please let me know as i like the logo she created and would
> like to use this as the "Geo for All" logo in our website etc. from now.
>
>
>
> Suchith
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominations invited for "Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015" - keep them coming!

[Charles Schweik]

Dear colleagues, a reminder:

We continue to accept nominations for "Geo for All - Open Education Award
2015.
Anyone who wish to nominate should send the details by email to me [email -
cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu ] with the subject header - "Nomination for Geo
for All - Open Education Award 2015". Please include the Course instructor
details with the url to the course details (or attachment with the course
details). Ideally if there is website for the program it will be helpful.
Or any other information on more broad, relevant educational efforts.

All applications should be received by 28th Feb 2015 before 12:00 PM GMT to
be considered for this award.

Thank you -- and thank you to the sponsors of this award.

Charlie Schweik,

(on behalf of the award committee:)

>
> Prof. Charlie Schweik (USA) -  Chair of the Committee
> Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)
> Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)
> Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli ( Italy)
> Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)
> Dr. Luciene Delazari ( Brazil)
> Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu ( Malaysia)
> Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
> Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)
> Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)
> Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)
> Prof. Helena Mitasova ( USA)
> Anne Ghisla (Germany)
> Patrick Hogan (USA)
> Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Edu] Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from Jul 17th 2013 at Coursera

[Charles Schweik]

Sorry Anthony, OSGeo edu folks - my bad. That email from Suchith was held
up in the Mailman system and it was posted last week. I just approved the
post without noticing that it was mentioning the telemeeting that took
place a few days ago.

In short, there IS NOT a telemeeting tomorrow.

Charlie Schweik


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
>
> ** **
>
> It was good to meet you briefly at ICC 2013 in Dresden last week  and i
> hope i was able to provide basic information on ELOGeo and ICA-OSGeo Lab
> education initiatives. 
>
> ** **
>
> It will be very helpful, if you can share your ideas and experiences to
> OSGeo Edu community so we can think of ideas for MOOC program entirely
> using OSGeo Software for the future. We also have an rapidly expanding
> ICA-OSGeo Lab Network. Details at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives (we are now
> working to setup a new portal)  and we hope you join the lab network.
>
> ** **
>
> We have monthly telemeetings which are open to all interested and  you are
> welcome to join. For example, our next telemeeting is tomorrow at 18:00
> UTC. Agenda at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Network_2013-09-05  
>
> ** **
>
> We look forward to work with you on the education initiatives.
>
> ** **
>
> Best wishes,
>
> ** **
>
> Suchith
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Cameron Shorter
> *Sent:* 29 June 2013 23:23
> *To:* Anthony C Robinson
> *Cc:* 'OSGeo Discussions'; edu_disc...@lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from
> Jul 17th 2013 at Coursera
>
> ** **
>
> Hello Anthony and others in the OSGeo Education space.
>
> Anthony,
> It seems your email is not getting through to our email lists, which is
> probably because you are not subscribed. I suggest doing so here:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss
>
> All,
> See Anthony's response below.
> This email thread was started on the OSGeo Discuss list, but please
> continue on the edu-discuss list. In responding to this email, please drop
> the discuss@lists.osgeo.org in response (and subscribe to the edu-discuss
> if you wish to follow along).
>
> Anthony,
> There have been quite a bit of discussion on our edu-discuss list about
> MOOCs, and so your course and what you have learned so far is very relevant
> to all of us.
>
> The part of MOOC development which personally interests me (extending from
> my involvement in OSGeo-Live) is how to develop a process for maintaining
> and extending MOOC courses. In particular, from within the 30,000 students
> attending your course, there is likely to be many with excellent ideas for
> improvements. How do you capture such ideas, and at the same time retain
> the single focus and simplicity core to good educational material? How do
> you ensure that your material is updated whenever software is updated? How
> can your training material be retasked for a different audience (eg for
> primary school students)? Then once you have multiple courses all based
> upon the same core material, how do you ensure they all get updated
> together?
>
> These are questions we have working on when generating documentation for
> OSGeo-Live, which I've described here:
>
> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/memoirs-of-cat-herder-coordinating.html
>
> With regards to some of your other points, I'll be interested to hear
> responses from the Educators within the OSGeo community. (I'm better
> described as a Software Developer, Technical Writer and Coordinator).
>
> On 30/06/13 03:20, ANTHONY C ROBINSON wrote:
>
> Hi Cameron,
>
>  
>
> I really appreciate you touching base with me about this and sharing your
> discussions on my MOOC. 
>
>  
>
> I hadn’t yet seen the OSGeo-Live site or packages – this is great to know
> about and I will change my instructions in the class to point to these
> resources instead of the piece-by-piece approach I’d been taking with
> respect to highlighting various open source geo-efforts. While students in
> the class will use ArcGIS Online for 4 of the 5 lab assignments, for the
> final lab assignment I have created a tiered-approach with multiple options
> to hopefully encourage some of the most eager/tech savvy students to try
> out platforms like QGIS, GRASS, etc… 
>
>  
>
> I’m aware of some OS community angst about my selection of AGOL for doing
> most of the labs in the course. I’ve worked for 10 years in the GeoVISTA
> Center, a GIScience research center that has been very active in developing
> open source systems for geovisualization and geocomputation. In addition, I
> lead Online Geospatial Education programs at Penn State, which to my
> knowledge represent the only Geography programs that provide Open
> Educational Resources for nearly all of its online course

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Dear Professor Schweik,

[Charles Schweik]

The competition below may be of interest to some OSGeo development teams.
-- Charlie Schweik

-- Forwarded message --
From: Flora Kang 
Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:48 PM
Subject: Dear Professor Schweik,
To: cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu


My name is Sohee Kang. I’m in charge of attracting participants to the
Korean government's Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning's Open
Source Software World Challenge 2013.
This is the 7th competition. USD $31,000 in total will be awarded to
winners in the international division of this open source software
competition.


I’m really sorry for bothering you, but we would feel highly honored to
have your students as participants.



*International participants are exclusively allowed to submit any open
source software developed within one year, even if they got a prize from
another competition with it. In addition, even projects over one year old
will be accepted by our judging panel as well, if it has been significantly
improved recently.*



Please visit our website  www.ossaward.org.

Our registration deadline is August 4th.

The final submission deadline is October 6th.



I hope you encourage your students to participate. I’m quite sure that this
will be a great opportunity for them. Every team that submits its completed
project will get an official certificate issued by NIPA of Korea. They have
only to submit project document, source code and demo video in
English, or provide
the project URL including all. We’ll wire the award money to the winners.



If you have any questions or need more information, please contact me at
ossawa...@gmail.com .

Your help would be greatly appreciated.



Best regards,



Sohee Kang

‘Open Source Software World Challenge 2013’ Secretariat





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Department of Environmental Conservation - http://eco.umass.edu
Center for Public Policy and Administration - http://masspolicy.org
Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government - http://ncdg.org
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[OSGeo-Discuss] More on the OSGeo educational webinar idea

[Charles Schweik]

Dear OSGeo colleagues,

Regarding our proposal to start an OSGeo educational webinar. It  
occurred to me that some on these lists might not fully understand  
what we are proposing.


First, please check out [1] -- it is a recorded webinar stored on  
YouTube and example of what we hope to achieve. (This is a webinar put  
on by Phil Davis' GeoTech center -- Phil is an OSGeo education  
committee member, and nicely providing the webinar hosting system).


Second, I urge knowledgable representatives from OSGeo software  
projects to consider working with us to schedule an "Introduction to  
your technology" webinar. Other webinar ideas are WELCOME. Please add  
your ideas (and your name, email) to our webinar ideas wiki page [2].


All of these would be recorded and, with permission of the speaker,  
stored on YouTube and hopefully inventoried in the new educational  
material repository being hosted by Suchith Anand and his ELOGeo group  
at the University of Nottingham, UK. See our main OSGeo education page  
[3].


I do hope some on these lists will step up and help us move this idea  
forward. This is a great marketing opportunity, especially knowing we  
can store these on YouTube and in our online searchable database.


Charlie Schweik
OSGeo Edu committee chair


[1]  
http://www.youtube.com/user/GeospatialTechnology?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/-vv7OcxATh0

[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_webinars
[3] http://www.osgeo.org/education
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Let's start a new OSGeo education webinar initiative

[Charles Schweik]

Dear OSGeo colleagues,

[This is a copy of a note I sent to the OSGeo education group  
yesterday. My hope is that some of the software teams will be willing  
to do an introduction webinar on their products.]


I'd like to propose that we start a new OSGeo education webinar
series. Thanks to Phil Davis and the GeoTech center [1] we now have
webinar capabilities.

An obvious first step would be to have a set of "Introduction to OSGeo
technologies" webinars. These would be recorded so we can start to
build a video educational repository.

I've established a wiki page at [2] to allow potential presenters to
sign up. With the new year coming soon, I'm hoping we can get at least
12 webinars identified for the 2012 year to be developed by people who
are subject experts. Or, if you have any ideas on other potential
topics, feel free to contact me.

Thanks,
Charlie Schweik
OSGeo edu committee chair

[1] http://www.geotechcenter.org/
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_webinars
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Post-process DGPS software?

[Charles Schweik]

Hi all,

Is there any open source software to do post-process differential  
correction of GPS data, similar to Trimble's Pathfinder software?


Thanks in advance,

Charlie Schweik
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open "StreamMap"?

[Charles Schweik]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the comments on the "Open Stream Map" idea. The driving  
force behind my question was that I just came back from a workshop on  
citizen science and had seen a variety of successful efforts... for  
example the ebird project at Cornell University. Given the issues  
surrounding water in the future, I found myself wondering about the  
use of an open street map model but for water inventory.


That's about as far as I am on this -- it was just an idea I thought  
might be worthwhile floating to the OSGeo group. Not sure where it  
goes from here... if anyone wants to move it along further -- go for it!


Thanks for the responses...

Charlie Schweik

Quoting andrea giacomelli :


Dear Charlie,

The idea is interesting, but I concur with Robert that -in order to provide
some more educated feedback, it would be also interesting to know a little
more about your initial "driver".

I have worked in the past in surface hydrology and water resources
management, and more recently I have been heavily involved in awareness
raising on "thematic crowdsourcing", so I could think of a couple of ways to
start this...

However, I think it would be important to understand a little more the
invasive "plant species effort" part of your idea in order to elaborate on
your request.


Thanks!

-
Andrea Giacomelli
http://www.pibinko.org
i...@pibinko.org
+39 347 15 33 857

2011/5/28 Charlie Schweik 


Hi,

I find myself wondering if there is a possibility of starting an "open
stream map" project in a similar way to open street map? With the idea that
this might be connected to an invasive plant species effort too...

It is an interesting idea -- roads are relatively stable. Streams have
additional attributes, like water levels.

Any reactions or ideas on how this might be started?

Cheers
Charlie Schweik

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