Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AGS GeoBadges.org

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Jon,

First, my apologies for slow response  as was juggling many work here :)  
GeoBadges is an excellent idea http://www.geobadges.org/  and thanks for making 
this possible. This is of interest to Geo4All and will help us  recognise (and 
say thank you ) to our excellent volunteers (both educators and students) for 
thier contributions.

Not sure why you were not able to post to OSGeo list, you just need to 
subscribe at http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs  
Anyway i am now ccing to the OSGeo lists, so those interested to contribute to 
GeoBadges efforts can join in.

All - we welcome volunteers to make use of this initiative to work with Jon and 
Selene  to help build a roadmap for GeoBadges for the Geo4All community. Please 
let us know if you are interested before 30th Jan and we can then arrange a 
google hangout with all interested in Feb so Jon can explain us details and  go 
through the model  and plan next steps.

Best wishes,

Suchith





From: Jonathan Marino [mar...@mapstory.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:15 PM
To: aiman...@ucdavis.edu; Suchith Anand
Cc: Selene Lawrence; Christopher Tucker
Subject: AGS GeoBadges.org

Hi Alex and Suchith,

I don't have permission to write to the OSGeo list, so reaching out to ya'll. 
Feel free to share.

I've been working with AGS to get GeoBadges.org, on the side of my day job at 
MapStory.org

I know I/they would love to work with you to onboard you as an Issuer 
Organization of GeoBadges.

The first step is setting up a google hangout where we can walk through the 
model. Then you and your team can begin constructing the badges themselves. 
Some of the initial ideas you shared sound pretty good!

I know AGS is also looking for supporting Sponsors to help improve and grow the 
platform, so if anyone comes to mind on that front I'm sure AGS would 
appreciate as well.

Happy holidays to all,

Jon
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815.222.9088
@MapStory





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[OSGeo-Discuss] It is time to light up our global commons

[Suchith Anand]

Colleagues,

Let us work together to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable 
and full of innovation by helping make open licensing policies the default on 
publicly funded education resources.

Support Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/remix/video/  

Best wishes,

Suchith




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGRS'16 -> 2nd Call for Sessions & Workshops (new deadline < February 10th, 2016)

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Oliver,

Thanks for the heads-up!
NASA WorldWind plans to be there with a session.
Prof Maria Brovelli and I have proposed,
“CitySmart, Open Source Apps for Urban Management.”

We look forward to seeing you all in ^bellissimo^ Perugia this coming October
We hope this might also be the climax for the Europa Challenge this year.

The weather is already telling us we need to get our cities ready for more!
OpenCitySmart, one app for one world working together in each other’s interest.
Let’s finally rock this joint from the bottom up with the ‘killer app’ for 
cities.
Open source, open innovation, open solutions, open for business!

-Open S Patrizio

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Ertz
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 2:10 AM
To: OSGeo-edu; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGRS'16 -> 2nd Call for Sessions & Workshops (new 
deadline < February 10th, 2016)

About Open Source Geospatial Research & Education Symposium, Perugia, Italy, 
12/14 October 2016, also known as OGRS'16.

Please notice the new deadline date that has been extended to February 10th, 
2016. So you have still time to submit a proposal for a workshop. The same goes 
for a proposal of session dedicated to a subject that is important for you.

See below the text of first call.

---


The OGRS Community steering committee is pleased to announce the next edition 
of OGRS, in Perugia, Italy, 12/14 October 2016. The main scope of the 2016 
symposium is within the general scope of OGRS events (see founding articles on 
the [ogrs-community.org] website). In summary, the 
2016 symposium aims at bringing together students, technicians, researchers, 
developers and teachers working in different disciplines but with the common 
interest of using and developing Open Source Geospatial software and Open Data.

OGRS2016 [2016.ogrs-community.org] is an 
exchange platform that will offer two days of presentations and one day of 
workshops. Grouped by thematic sessions, presentations (including posters as 
well) are about original and recent research results, educational practices and 
innovation experiences. Workshops are hands-on sessions on a specific theme and 
software with an educational component, reinforcing the education side of the 
symposium.

All OGRS publications will be released in collaboration with PeerJ Open Access 
publisher. On one hand, the short papers (1000-1500 words) submitted to 
OGRS2016 will be published in the proceedings of the Symposium in the frame of 
PeerJ Preprint. Moreover, the best contributions selected by the OGRS 
Scientific Committee will be invited to submit an article to the PeerJ Computer 
Science journal, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems subject.

Prior to the opening of the call for short papers, we run a Call for Sessions 
together with a Call for Workshops (deadline < February 10th, 2016)
-> 
[2016.ogrs-community.org/call-for-sessions-and-workshops]

Submission of short paper (deadline < April 15th, 2016)
-> 
[2016.ogrs-community.org/submission-of-short-papers]

Other important dates
-> 
[2016.ogrs-community.org/importantdates]


Pr. Olivier Ertz
on behalf of the OGRS Community steering committee.
--

HEIG-VD, Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud
Pr. Olivier Ertz, département comem+
Professeur HES associé / Ingénieur Universitaire Master

HES-SO / UAS, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
MEI, Media Engineering Institute :: http://www.heig-vd.ch :: 
http://mei.heig-vd.ch
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGRS'16 -> 2nd Call for Sessions & Workshops (new deadline < February 10th, 2016)

[Olivier Ertz]

About *Open Source Geospatial Research & Education Symposium*, Perugia, 
Italy, 12/14 October 2016, also known as OGRS'16.


Please notice the new deadline date that has been extended to *February 
10th, 2016*. So you have still time to submit a proposal for a workshop. 
The same goes for a proposal of session dedicated to a subject that is 
important for you.


See below the text of first call.

---

The OGRS Community steering committee is pleased to announce the next 
edition of *OGRS, in Perugia, Italy, 12/14 October 2016*. The main 
scope of the 2016 symposium is within the general scope of OGRS events 
(see founding articles on the [ogrs-community.org 
] website). In summary, the 2016 symposium 
aims at bringing together students, technicians, researchers, 
developers and teachers working in different disciplines but with the 
common interest of using and developing Open Source Geospatial 
software and Open Data.


OGRS2016 [2016.ogrs-community.org ] is 
an exchange platform that will offer two days of presentations and one 
day of workshops. Grouped by thematic sessions, presentations 
(including posters as well) are about original and recent research 
results, educational practices and innovation experiences. Workshops 
are hands-on sessions on a specific theme and software with an 
educational component, reinforcing the education side of the symposium.


All OGRS publications will be released in collaboration with PeerJ 
Open Access publisher. On one hand, the short papers (1000-1500 words) 
submitted to OGRS2016 will be published in the proceedings of the 
Symposium in the frame of PeerJ Preprint. Moreover, the best 
contributions selected by the OGRS Scientific Committee will be 
invited to submit an article to the PeerJ Computer Science journal, 
Spatial and Geographic Information Systems subject.


*Prior to the opening of the call for short papers, we run a Call for 
Sessions together with a Call for Workshops (deadline < February 10th, 
2016)*
-> [2016.ogrs-community.org/call-for-sessions-and-workshops 
]


Submission of short paper (deadline < April 15th, 2016)
-> [2016.ogrs-community.org/submission-of-short-papers 
]


Other important dates
-> [2016.ogrs-community.org/importantdates 
]



Pr. Olivier Ertz
on behalf of the OGRS Community steering committee.
--

HEIG-VD, Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud
Pr. Olivier Ertz, département comem^+
Professeur HES associé / Ingénieur Universitaire Master

HES-SO / UAS, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
MEI, Media Engineering Institute :: http://www.heig-vd.ch :: 
http://mei.heig-vd.ch


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Outcomes of #FloodHack at ECMWF - Help improve the Global Flood Awareness System

[Suchith Anand]

Dear Julia,

Thank you for sharing this summary of #FloodHack at ECMWF and i hope more 
people will  contribute to help improve the Global Flood Awareness System in 
the future.

As you rightly pointed  making GloFAS more user friendly to end users is very 
important and will help provide faster emergency response. Also it is key that 
educators worldwide have access to educational resources and tools for 
increasing awareness of extreme flood events and to help inform students about 
what they should be doing when a flood watch/warning alert is issued in their 
region.

For our educator community in Geo4All, A Flood Awareness Education Platform  
that was developed at this event might be of interest . Overview at
 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p6LPj5nZAGzyI7jpRfdUScsnOVFDQyowWgoxqlkMR00/edit#slide=id.ged8e06e1a_1_0

Thanks to you and all colleagues in ECMWF for organising this successful event  
and bringing together a great team of volunteers sharing thier expertise for 
improving the Global Flood Awareness System.

Best wishes,

Suchith



From: ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of 
Julia Wagemann [wagemann.ju...@gmx.de]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 10:16 AM
To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Outcomes of #FloodHack at ECMWF - Help improve the 
Global Flood Awareness System

Dear Suchith, Dear OSGeo members,

as promised I herewith give you an update about ECMWF's first-ever hackathon 
that took place on the weekend 16 and 17 January, 2016.
The event brought together participants from ECMWF, universities, environmental 
consultancies and software development companies. Their goal was to explore 
ways of making the Global Flood Awareness System 
(GloFAS) more user-friendly for its end-users. GloFAS 
already provides pre-operational global forecasts of extreme flood events.

The hackathon saw about 50 volunteers working day and night to collaboratively 
develop software prototypes using data from the GloFAS system. More than 3.5 TB 
of data have been prepared, which were partly served with the help of a Web 
Coverage Service (WCS), a standard protocol that facilitates data access and 
retrieval. This OGC WCS server is currently set up in the framework of the 
EarthServer-2 project, where ECMWF participates as Climate Science Data 
provider.

Tools that could save lives worldwide

After some introduction to GloFAS and brainstorming around challenges that 
needed to be addressed, the participants were free to form teams and formulate 
a problem that could be solved within the time given. Five teams entered the 
competition and set out to create a prototype that would please the judges in 
terms of its technical solution, its wow factor and innovation. The three 
winning entries were:

  *   LIVE (Logistic and Infrastructure Visual Evaluation)
Using GloFAS forecast information to create a 'Time to respond' 
map
Sets out to summarise GloFAS forecast information into a 'Time to respond' map 
that helps decision-making before and during a flood emergency. This is 
presented in a user-friendly way with key statistics which could help 
decision-making.
  *   FloodIT
Provides more intuitive information based on the GloFAS output to help local 
users understand their situation.
  *   Interception
A Flood Awareness Education Platform
An educational game/online interactive platform to help inform people about 
what they should be doing when a flood watch/warning alert is issued in their 
region.
Also, the game/platform will educate them on what to do during and after a 
flood event.

The #FloodHack 
page
 on the ECMWF website has links to all the entries, along with photos from the 
weekend.

We at ECMWF are truly impressed what solutions all the teams came up with in 
only one and half days. We got very good inspirations in order to improve 
GloFAS, which will be essential for a better flood prediction and a faster 
emergency response.

We also hope that this was only the beginning of a series of similar events in 
order to improve tools such as GloFAS, but also to push the usage of open data 
to build applications upon. We could also think of a collaboration with OSGeo 
to organise a hackathon in order to leverage the full potential of open-source 
software and open data.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Best regards from Reading,

Julia




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