[OSGeo-Discuss] ICA-OSGeo Labs in Brazil meeting, São Paulo

2013-06-19 Thread Suchith Anand
The first meeting of the ICA-OSGeo Labs in Brazil is held at São Paulo , parallel to MundoGEO # Connect Latin America 2013. Thanks to Prof. Arlete Meneguette (UNESP) and Prof. Silvana Camboim (UFPR) for leading this in Brazil. We are aiming for 10 new universities in Brazil establishing Open Sou

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Silviana Comboin as OSGeo Charter Member

2013-07-11 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi all, I would like to nominate Silviana Comboin as OSGeo Charter member. Silviana has provided us huge support in our education efforts esp. in her lead in establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs in Brazil. Last year, she established the first Open Source Geospatial Lab in Brazil at Federal

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Sergio Acosta y Lara as OSGeo Charter Member

2013-07-17 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi All, I would like to nominate Sergio Acosta y Lara from Uruguay as OSGeo Charter Member. Sergio has been actively involved in many Open Source Geospatial initiatives such as gvSIG Batoví. Details at http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/Articulos/Paginas/gvsig-batovi-resumen.aspx He has been working to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from Jul 17th 2013 at Coursera

2013-09-04 Thread Suchith Anand
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 ide

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from Jul 17th 2013 at Coursera

2013-09-04 Thread Suchith Anand
make sure all learning materails developed is available for all. Suchith -Original Message- From: Mr. Puneet Kishor [mailto:punk.k...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 September 2013 12:09 To: edu_disc...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions Cc: Cameron Shorter; Suchith Anand; Anthony C Robinson Subject

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Results 2013

2013-09-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Welcome to all new directors and many thanks to all candidates. Thanks to Arnulf for managing the election process. Looking forward to welcoming you all to Nottingham in a week's time. Suchith From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.o

[OSGeo-Discuss] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

2013-09-22 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, FOSS4G 2013 has been a great success (28 Workshops, 180 Presentations., 833 delegates ) thanks to the countless hours of efforts put in by our dedicated volunteers. Special thanks to our team members Abi, Addy, Antony, Barend, Barry, Claire, Franz-Josef, Jeremy, Jo, IanH, IanE, Mark,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

2013-09-23 Thread Suchith Anand
also request all of you to put atleast one slide about our education initiative in any presentation you are giving. From: TUONG THUY VU [tuongthuy...@nottingham.edu.my] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 4:06 AM To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

2013-09-25 Thread Suchith Anand
y Lara [mailto:saco...@dntopografia.gub.uy] Sent: 25 September 2013 14:01 To: Suchith Anand Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; edu discuss; ica-opensou...@lists.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched Hi Suc

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Software, Education and Research

2013-10-03 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi all, Dr. Tuong Thuy Vu did an excellent presentation on "Open Source Geospatial Software, Education and Research" at Asia Geospatial Forum in Kuala Lumpur last week which is at http://prezi.com/hv18xf8_wolq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy It will help to give an overview of the OSGeo Ed

[OSGeo-Discuss] Inaugural webinar of ”Open Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series on 18th October

2013-10-12 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, The ICA-OSGeo Lab Network and MundoGeo are now pleased to inform the inaugural webinar of ”Open Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series on 18th October. The webinars will be open and free to all on first come register basis. The first webinar will be on "OSGeo Live for Edu

[OSGeo-Discuss] Thanks to all webinar participants

2013-10-18 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi All, Let me first thank Eduardo Freitas and GeoMundo for providing this webinar opportunity for the ICA-OSGeo lab network. I regret that some of you were not able to attend the Webinar. We will greatly appreciate if anyone can provide us with a webinar platform for rectifying this problem. I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inaugural webinar of "Open Geospatial Science & Applications" webinar series on 18th October

2013-10-18 Thread Suchith Anand
work started and looking forward to your contributions. Suchith -Original Message- From: b.rowling...@gmail.com [mailto:b.rowling...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson Sent: 18 October 2013 16:24 To: Margherita Di Leo; Suchith Anand Cc: Miles Fidelman; discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thanks to all webinar participants

2013-10-18 Thread Suchith Anand
and host the new webinar system to achieve our objectives. Until then, we will continue using existing facilities kindly provided to us by MundoGeo. Suchith From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith

[OSGeo-Discuss] AGSE 2013 and ISPRS two-day workshop on the theme "Innovative Learning Tools 2013"

2013-10-20 Thread Suchith Anand
The CfPs for these two events in December might be of interest to some of you. AGSE (Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment) series of conferences is an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge and expertise among the scientists, academia, researchers, professiona

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Thanks to all webinar participants

2013-10-29 Thread Suchith Anand
.gov > > Project Manager > > NASA World Wind > > 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 Manuel >

[OSGeo-Discuss] Advisory Board of "Geo for All" Initiative

2013-12-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear all, I am pleased to inform that Jeff McKenna and Prof. Georg Gartner as the OSGeo and ICA Presidents have accepted all 14 nominations received from the member labs for the Advisory Board of the "Geo for All" initiative. The Advisory Board for the Geo for All initiative are as follows:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fifth Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School

2014-01-31 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, The SIGTE (University of Girona), the Nottingham Geospatial Institute (University of Nottingham) and Prodevelop are pleased to announce the Fifth Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School, from 7th to 11th of July 2014 at Girona, Spain. The Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Announce] Happy 8th Birthday, OSGeo!

2014-02-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Many congratulations to everyone. Why not let us celebrate OSGeo birthday (Feb 4th) from next year as "Geo for All" Day to celebrate and help spread the message. Thanks Jeff and Anne for reminding everyone. Suchith -Original Message- From: announce-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:an

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to the Symposium on Service Oriented Mapping 2014 -"Geospatial Processing and Visualization"

2014-02-06 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, The International Cartographic Association (ICA) and our host, the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, is pleased to invite you to the Second International Symposium on ServiceOriented Mapping in Potsdam from October 6th to 8th 2014. This symposium is coorganised by

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OsGeo representative in the Boulder, CO area... GeoScience IT/CS/FOSS Assembly Workshop

2014-02-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Stephen, Many thanks for bringing this to our attention and it is very important that OSGeo is represented for this workshop. I think Dr Rafael Moreno (University of Colorado Denver) will be attending this. He is also Advisory Board member http://www.geoforall.org/advisory_board/ of "Geo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OsGeo representative in the Boulder, CO area... GeoScience IT/CS/FOSS Assembly Workshop

2014-02-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Puneet and great to hear that you will also be there. Suchith From: Puneet Kishor [punk.k...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 9:01 PM To: Dr. Suchith Anand Cc: Steve Richard; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Anna Katz Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo For All: FOSS4G In Geospatial Education

2014-03-13 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi All, Directions Magazine interviewed Helena Mitasova, associate professor in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University, to get an update on the "Geo for All" initiative. http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/geo-for-all-foss4g-in-geospatial-

[OSGeo-Discuss] Importance of Open Geospatial Science for our discipline

2014-04-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear Colleague, As some of you know , there is pre-AAG workshop on "Open GIS: New Opportunities for Research and Education" on Monday (7th April) that Prof. Sergio Rey (Arizona State University) and Prof. Daniel Sui (Ohio State University) are organising. The primary goal of this workshop is

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGIS 2014 abstracts and workshop proposals - 22 April 2014

2014-04-13 Thread Suchith Anand
On behalf of OSGIS 2014 Program Committee, we are pleased to inform that the Nottingham Geospatial Institute, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation’s UK Chapter and the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies are hosting the Fifth Open Source GIS UK Conference on 2nd-3rd September

[OSGeo-Discuss] 75th ICA-OSGeo lab - University of Salzburg

2014-04-15 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, It is my great pleasure to inform you that Z_GIS ,Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg http://www.zgis.at/index.php/en/ has become our 75th ICA-OSGeo lab. It is an important milestone in our growth and we warmly welcome them to our "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGIS 2014 submissions extended by one week - 2nd May 2014

2014-04-23 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, Because of many requests for extension because initial deadline clashing with Easter holidays , we have decided to extend the submission deadline by one week (2nd May 2014) Building upon the momentum of a very successful FOSS4G 2013 in the UK http://2013.foss4g.org/ , we are plea

[OSGeo-Discuss] "Building up Open Access, Open Education and Open Data for Open Science" on 2nd Sep 2014

2014-07-07 Thread Suchith Anand
; Leaflet (led by Matt Walker, Astun Technologies) * Data Processing with WPS and PostGIS (led by Jo Cook, Astun Technologies) * RDA for newcomers - (led by Dr Herman Stehouwer, Research Data Alliance) * Open Science workshop (led by Suchith Anand, University of

[OSGeo-Discuss] CfP Special Issue "Open Geospatial Science and Applications"

2014-07-10 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear all, We would like to invite your contributions to the Special Issue on "Open Geospatial Science and Applications" of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964) which is an international, open access journal on geo-information. We are very pleased to have this spe

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Charter Member Nomination - Jeremy Morley

2014-07-22 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, It is my great pleasure to nominate Jeremy Morley for OSGeo Charter membership. I have known and worked with Jeremy for many years now and his help and support was key for expanding OSGeo in the UK. He is the cochair of OSGIS conference series and has been the co-chair of the very suc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Steven Feldman

2014-07-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Excellent nomination. I had the pleasure to be part of the amazing LOC of FOSS4G 2013 that Steven led and i can proudly say that the efforts put in by Steven and all LOC for FOSS4G 2013 also helped me to build up momentum for our "Geo for All" education initiative. In fact, it is part of legac

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nomination- Luciene Delazari

2014-07-29 Thread Suchith Anand
It is my great pleasure to nominate Dr Luciene Delzari (Federal University of Parana, Brazil) for OSGeo charter membership. Dr Luciene Delazari is assistant professor in Cartography and GIS at the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. Over the years Luciene taught many courses in Cartography

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț Iosifescu

2014-08-01 Thread Suchith Anand
I would like to second Ionuț Iosifescu's nomination. Ionut's has been activily contributing to OSGeo's education and research by setting up the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich and promoting OSGeo education efforts in Europe. We need more educators and academics like Ionut as ch

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Andreea Marin

2014-08-01 Thread Suchith Anand
+1 from me also. Andreea has been the main force behind the first Romanian ICA-OSGeo Lab. I also had the opportunity to meet Andreea at FOSS4G-Europe and was really impressed with her commitment to OSGeo's education efforts. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osge

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando

2014-08-01 Thread Suchith Anand
+1 from me for Nimalika Fernando's contributions for OSGeo education efforts by helping establish ICA-OSGeo Labs in Sri Lanka and helping spread education opportunities for more students. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.os

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of David Percy

2014-08-01 Thread Suchith Anand
I would like to second this excellent nomination and also thank David Percy for his efforts and help for establishing ICA-OSGeo lab at Portland State University. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorg

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Prof.Massimiliano Cannata

2014-08-18 Thread Suchith Anand
+1 from me too for Maxi's nomination. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Maria Antonia Brovelli Sent: 18 August 2014 14:15 To: Jachym Cepicky; Jorge Sanz Cc: OSGeo Discussions; CRO Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Di

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board Nomination for Jeff McKenna

2014-08-18 Thread Suchith Anand
+1 and I am also hoping Jeff will be standing another term as President. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Maria Antonia Brovelli Sent: 18 August 2014 16:06 To: Jachym Cepicky; Jorge Sanz Cc: OSGeo Disc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board Nomination for Vasile Crăciunescu

2014-08-20 Thread Suchith Anand
+1 Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Codrina Maria Ilie Sent: 20 August 2014 17:07 To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board Nomination for Vasile Crăciunescu I ful

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board of Directors elections results

2014-09-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks to all the excellent candidates and also Jorge for running the elections. Best wishes to the new Board. Suchith From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Posta Maria Sent: 30 August 2014 15:03 To: Jorge Sanz Cc: OSGeo Discussions; CRO; c

[OSGeo-Discuss] ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Award for Open Geospatial Science

2014-09-17 Thread Suchith Anand
f. Helena Mitasova (North Carolina State University, USA ) * Dr. Suchith Anand (University of Nottingham, UK) Professor Maria Brovelli is organising FOSS4G-Europe 2015 in Como (July 2015) and will be running the third edition of the very successful NASA World Wind Europa Challenge. T

[OSGeo-Discuss] University of Colorado Denver's FOSS4G Lab

2014-09-30 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear all, On behalf of the “Geo for All” initiative, it is my great pleasure to inform the launch of the new website for the University of Colarado Denver's FOSS4G Lab. Thanks to Dr. Rafael Moreno-Sanchez who has been leading this at University of Colarado, Denver, USA. It is also great to see

[OSGeo-Discuss] "Building up Open Access, Open Education and Open Data for Open Science" - Presentations now online

2014-09-30 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, The recordings of presentations for OSGIS 2014 "Building up Open Access, Open Education and Open Data for Open Science" are now available at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspxfor the benefit of the wider community. or go directly to http://uilapech01.nottingham.ac.uk:8

[OSGeo-Discuss] InterGeo

2014-10-04 Thread Suchith Anand
Is anyone attending InterGeo next week http://www.intergeo.de If so, please let me know as it will good to have GeoforAll promoted. Thanks. SuchithThis message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] InterGeo

2014-10-04 Thread Suchith Anand
for thier presentation. Suchith From: Chris Pettit [cpet...@unimelb.edu.au] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 10:55 AM To: Suchith Anand Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] InterGeo Hi Suchith I am

[OSGeo-Discuss] Launch of University of Gloucestershire Open Geospatial Lab

2014-10-07 Thread Suchith Anand
On behalf of the global ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs network, we are pleased to announce the launch of University of Gloucestershire Open Geospatial Lab (GOGL) The University of Gloucestershire has an ambitious vision for open source geospatial education and research, a vision that will be driven and d

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoforAll

2014-10-08 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, Intergeo is happening this week and it is great to hear that many of you are attending it. It was just 3 years ago (at Intergeo 2011) that Prof. Georg Gartner and Arnulf Christl signed the MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA for this initiative and GeoforAll started and st

[OSGeo-Discuss] "Geo for All" @ UN GGIM meeting

2014-10-21 Thread Suchith Anand
I would like to thank Professor Chen Jun who will be presenting "Geo for All" during his presentation at the Third High Level Forum on UN Global Geospatial Information Management in Beijing, China, from 22-24 October 2014. The theme of the meeting is on "Sustainable Development with Geospatial

[OSGeo-Discuss] Budapest lab

2014-10-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Congrats to our colleagues in Department of Geodesy and Surveying at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics for the launch of their new lab website at http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab/ Thanks to Dr Siki Zoltán and all our colleagues there http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab/team.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Hands-on workshop on Open GIS and Modern Webmapping , Nov 24th-25th, Vienna

2014-10-27 Thread Suchith Anand
On behalf of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and the ICA Commission on Map Production and Geobusiness , we are pleased to announce two-day hands-on workshop on "Open Source GIS and Modern Webmapping", which will be held on November 24th and 25th in Vienna, Austria, imme

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to AGSE 2014

2014-10-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear all, The ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS research lab at Stuttgart University of Applied Science http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en led by Prof. Franz-Josef Behr, are organising the AGSE - Ap

[OSGeo-Discuss] Global Land Tool Network

2014-11-11 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi all, I have used the FIG Commission 3 meetings http://com3fig.wix.com/fig-commission3-2014 in Bologna, Italy last week to also explore ideas for joint collaborations/building training programs based on Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) which is a pro poor land information tool. Detail

[OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Commons

2014-11-24 Thread Suchith Anand
This report released by Creative Commons on 'State of the Commons' https://stateof.creativecommons.org/report/ might be of interest… Infographic at https://stateof.creativecommons.org/ Best wishes, Suchith This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may co

[OSGeo-Discuss] Full paper submissions for IJGI Special Issue on "Open Geospatial Science and Applications" - 30th Jan 2015

2014-12-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Selected abstracts for the planned special issue   of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information on "Open Geospatial Science and Applications" are available at  http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications The last decade has seen a rapid growth in open source geo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Season's greetings and "Geo for All" expansion ideas for 2015

2014-12-14 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All,  As 2014 is nearly over, let me take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your support and contributions which helped to build up the "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org/ initiative. It has been amazing to see our humble initiative grow rapidly and this has been

[OSGeo-Discuss] "Geo for All" Heros 2014

2014-12-16 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear all, When i look back at 2014 and see the amazing work that all of you have done for , it gives me great inspiration for working hard for this mission in 2015 and   each and every one of you who have been contributing your efforts are "Geo for All" Heros.  But i thought it will be appropria

[OSGeo-Discuss] Please support the International Map Year

2015-01-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, Please support and participate in the International Map Year (IMY) activities led by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and supported by the United Nations that will be celebrated worldwide with the aim to provide opportunities to demonstrate, follow, and get invo

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2015 Europe

2015-01-08 Thread Suchith Anand
FOSS4G 2015 Europe Call below. There will be meeting of labs involved in Geo for All initiative (and those interested to join) at FOSS4G -Europe, so it will be great to have your participation. Also encourage your students to participate in the NASA World Wind Europe Challenge 2015. We will be

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAcademy

2015-01-14 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, Please pass this free course opportunity to your students. Over 1000 students have already registered for the next course starting Feb 23-Mar 29, 2015 on Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS. Register at https://www.canvas.net/browse/delmarcollege/courses/cn-1681-i

[OSGeo-Discuss] Please participate in Map Competitions at FOSS4G events globally to support the International Map Year

2015-01-16 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform that there will be Map competitions at the various FOSS4G conferences worldwide in support of the International Map Year. For FOSS4G North America 2015 (March 9-12th , 2015) in San Francisco, California , USA the Call for Maps & Posters is now live at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015

2015-01-19 Thread Suchith Anand
My suggestion is that there should be two options. I am ccing our ICA-OSGeo labs list also as OSGeo Live is of great importance for the various education activities/events also. 1. Have a mechanism for creating working OSGeoLive USB drives centrally for those conference/events organisors who do

[OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our "Openness in Geoeducation" mission

2015-01-24 Thread Suchith Anand
OSGeo colleagues, It is a great pleasure to inform you all that we now have over 2000 students registered for the free MOOC course on "Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS" which is excellent momentum for our Openness in GeoEducation mission. Details at http://www.osgeo.org/node/1

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our "Openness in Geoeducation" mission

2015-01-26 Thread Suchith Anand
ni [cavall...@faunalia.it] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 8:51 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our "Openness in Geoeducation" mission Il 24/01/2015 11:54, Suchith Anand ha scritto: > OSGeo colleagues, > > It is a great pleasure to inform you al

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our "Openness in Geoeducation" mission

2015-01-30 Thread Suchith Anand
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 2:42 PM To: Jorge Sanz Cc: Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our "Openness in Geoeducation" mission Hello All, I'm one of the organizers working on the MOOC. We agree with the above comments ab

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to NASA Worldwind Europa challenge 2015

2015-02-01 Thread Suchith Anand
On behalf of "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org, we would like to welcome strong global participation for the third edition of the NASA Worldwind Europa challenge. The aim of this challenge is to inspire ideas for building great applications that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NA

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to NASA Worldwind Europa challenge 2015

2015-02-03 Thread Suchith Anand
_ From: Mueller, Thomas [muel...@calu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 8:36 PM To: Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: Invitation to NASA Worldwind Europa challenge 2015 Suchith This is fantastic. Charlie - I wonder if doing something similar

[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy 9th Birthday, OSGeo and Thank you to the thousands of contributors who made this happen

2015-02-04 Thread Suchith Anand
This is also an opportunity to thank the selfless work and kind contributions of thousands of volunteer contributors (from educators to developers to translators). In less than one decade, OSGeo software and technologies have become the major contributor for the global geospatial economy and us

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015): Call for Participation - Spread the News and Participate

2015-02-06 Thread Suchith Anand
] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 11:59 AM To: Igor Lesko; open-educat...@lists.okfn.org Subject: Re: [Open-education] Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015): Call for Participation - Spread the News and Participate Hi Igor, On behalf of "

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominations invited for "Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015"

2015-02-07 Thread Suchith Anand
li ( 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 (U

[OSGeo-Discuss] CfP for Pre-conference workshop on Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015) - Abstract submission by 2nd March 2015

2015-02-12 Thread Suchith Anand
t for presenters: 6 July 2015 27th ICC 2015 Conference23-28 August 2015 Contact If you have any questions, please contact Antony Cooper acoo...@csir.co.za, Serena Coetzee serena.coet...@up.ac.za, Suchith Anand suchithanan...@gmail.com, or Silvana Ca

[OSGeo-Discuss] "Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015" - Nominations till 28th Feb 2015

2015-02-16 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015) is an annual opportunity to raise awareness about open education and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Help needed for setting up 9 new mail lists to support our new regional groups/subject thematics

2015-02-26 Thread Suchith Anand
OSGeo Community, This is a call for help from those who have expertise in OSGeo mail lists to help us setup the following new mail list for our regional groups as part of our expansion. We have also now appointed new chairs for all 5 regions (North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Help needed for setting up 9 new mail lists to support our new regional groups/subject thematics

2015-02-26 Thread Suchith Anand
+ Suchith Anand wrote: > OSGeo Community, > > This is a call for help from those who have expertise in OSGeo mail > lists to help us setup the following new mail list for our regional > groups as part of our expansion. We have also now appointed new > chairs for all 5 regi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Help needed for setting up 9 new mail lists to support our new regional groups/subject thematics

2015-02-26 Thread Suchith Anand
[xurxos...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz [js...@osgeo.org] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:47 PM To: Suchith Anand Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; Anne Ghisla; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Help needed for setting up 9 new mail lists to support

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-02-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Patrick, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I believe the OSGeo Board need to look into this and prepare a position paper with inputs from the community as this has wider implications. This also need to be discussed with like minded organisations. We all can provide the needed suppor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-01 Thread Suchith Anand
repeating these inappropriate actions in the future. Best wishes, Suchith From: Cameron Shorter [cameron.shor...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 10:47 AM To: P Kishor; Suchith Anand Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); bo

[OSGeo-Discuss] "Geo for All" Regional and subject thematic groups now established

2015-03-01 Thread Suchith Anand
OSGeo Colleagues, Thanks to Jorge and Anne's efforts and help for us, we now have the mail lists setup for our regional and subject thematic groups. The chairs of these will also be the administrators of these groups. Their details are at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geo_for_All Chairs : please

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-01 Thread Suchith Anand
> -Patrick > > -Original Message- > From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pram...@cleverelephant.ca] > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 9:32 AM > To: Carl Reed > Cc: Cameron Shorter; P Kishor; Suchith Anand; Scott Simmons; OSGeo > Discussions; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo-Board; >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Vaclav, Please accept my sincere apologies as it was my mistake that i did not think on this when we started the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative (so many things were going on at that time!). In universities, we generally use the "Labs" term to refer to infrastructure/people/facilities for a partic

[OSGeo-Discuss] "Geo for All" logo

2015-03-03 Thread Suchith Anand
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 webs

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

2015-03-03 Thread Suchith Anand
eo-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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-03 Thread Suchith Anand
me to modify the Incubation's "labs" term, to something like "Community Projects". [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2013-June/000134.html -jeff On 2015-03-03 3:42 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: > Vaclav, > > Please accept my sincere apologies as i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2016 host city & Planning to make use of our FOSS4G conferences to launch new Educational initiatives every year

2015-03-04 Thread Suchith Anand
Congrats to Bonn Team and great work by Dublin Team. I hope the Dublin Team will apply for FOSS4G 2017 Europe and build up your excellent efforts. Also my humble suggestion for all LOCs (present and future) and to our wider community (hence ccing in) is that we see and make use of the global an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Yes, i think "Incubator Projects" is an appropriate name for this. Vaclav - Is this ok for you? Suchith From: Bart van den Eijnden [bart...@osgis.nl] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:34 AM To: Vaclav Petras Cc: Suchith Anand; discuss@lists

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-05 Thread Suchith Anand
ase/techarticles/detail/42567 ("What versions of the OGC GeoPackage standard are supported?") I'm still looking for an answer for an "Enhancement Request" but I'm really concerned about Esri's commitment to (promised OGC) standards. Yours, S. 2015-03-01 22:38 G

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015

2015-03-09 Thread Suchith Anand
a) Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA) Anne Ghisla (Germany) Patrick Hogan (USA) Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India) REFERENCES [1] https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view [2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/ [3] http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81 [4

[OSGeo-Discuss] Flash survey of public opinion in Europe

2015-03-10 Thread Suchith Anand
To: 'Suchith Anand' Cc: 'Massimo Craglia' Subject: Flash survey of public opinion in Europe - PLEASE DISTRIBUTE Dear Suchith, The University of Siena and the JRC have launched this flash survey of public opinion in Europe on four key topics: environment, inequalities, privacy

[OSGeo-Discuss] Using Collective Knowledge for the Common Good

2015-03-10 Thread Suchith Anand
(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 S

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

2015-03-23 Thread Suchith Anand
nteers for this please? Suchith From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA [sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:24 PM To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: "Geo for All" logo Hi. I think

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [UTSG] FW: "Geo for All" logo

2015-03-23 Thread Suchith Anand
y on this. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith PS: All - so no need for any more volunteers for this. Thanks for your help. From: Evangelos Mitsakis [e...@certh.gr] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 8:00 AM To: 'Suchith Anand' Cc: apostoliademer...@gmail.com Su

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-India 2015

2015-03-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Jeff, Ravi for this info. Good to see a session dedicated to "Case Studies of FOSS4G in Education, Research and Soceity/ Roundtable on role of FOSS4G in SDIs" in the program at http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4g2015/ OSGeo India - Please do arrange a presentation for "Geo for All" to spread th

[OSGeo-Discuss] Next steps for "Geo for All" expansion

2015-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, On behalf of "Geo for All" we are pleased to welcome you to FOSS4G India -2015 in Dehradun , India (June 9-10th, 2015). It is great pleasure that colleagues in our first OSGeo lab to be established in India at IIIT Hyderabad have played key role for this. Details at http://lsi.iiit

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll logo ideas

2015-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
community for the cause. Best wishes, Suchith From: nicolas bozon [nicolas.bo...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 11:36 AM To: Siki Zoltan Cc: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] FW: GeoForAll logo ideas Hi list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll logo ideas

2015-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
s now under development from Greek colleagues (and any others) later this week. Best wishes, Suchith From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday, March 29,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Big Earth Data - the Documentary

2015-03-30 Thread Suchith Anand
thier contributions and looking forward to expand these ideas in the future. See you at P6 at Paris (23rd-25th Sep, 2015) with a focus on Research Data for Climate Change. https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting.html Best wishes, Suchith Anand, Peter Baumann, Andrea

[OSGeo-Discuss] Registration now open for SDI-Open 2015

2015-03-31 Thread Suchith Anand
Registration for the pre-conference workshop on Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015) jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Geoinformation Infrastructures and Standards, the Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and th

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015

2015-04-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, For those of you planning to be at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, please make sure you attend OSGeo: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Geosciences session. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/session/19197 The annual EGU General Assembly (GA)

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR

2015-04-13 Thread Suchith Anand
nd plan next steps. We welcome feedback and input from Esri and invite them to join this effort to support open LIDAR formats. I thank you all again for your attention and support for this important matter. Best wishes, Suchith Anand Founder, GeoForAll http://www.geoforall.org<http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [TC-Discuss] Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR

2015-04-16 Thread Suchith Anand
Software Development From: TC-Discuss [mailto:tc-discuss-bounces+kryden=esri@lists.opengeospatial.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 10:30 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; tc-disc...@lists.opengeospatial.org Subject: [TC-Discuss] Open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] [TC-Discuss] Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR

2015-04-17 Thread Suchith Anand
ormation for our users. Regards, Keith Ryden ESRI Software Development From: TC-Discuss [mailto:tc-discuss-bounces+kryden=esri@lists.opengeospatial.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 10:30 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osg

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