Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Awesome OSGeo Vision and Analysis from Marc Vloemans!

[Landon Blake]

Good work Marc. I will print this out and read it over in detail tonight.

Landon

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Jody Garnett 
wrote:

> Thanks for the interesting read Marc, you are inspiring as always. I
> argued with the wiki on your behalf to restore the bulleted lists /
> numbered lits you had typed in.
>
> I would love to consider the participating projects as "stakeholders" in
> your piece, and consider the role OSGeo plays as a software foundation.
> Both for projects (a place to belong, a legal party to own code, etc...)
> and for protecting users (holding projects to a standard of not just open
> source but inclusive/open governance etc...).
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 15 April 2016 at 03:28, Cameron Shorter 
> wrote:
>
>> Mark has started an excellent SWOT analysis of OSGeo, laying a foundation
>> for a practical, implementable vision for OSGeo. I suggest everyone grad a
>> coffee and take the time to read and then comment:
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Marketing_Committee
>>
>> Mark, thank you for the deep thought you have obviously put into this.
>> I'm excited to hear feedback from others, and ideas on how to refine your
>> ideas and put them into practice.
>>
>> Warm regards, Cameron
>>
>> On 15/04/2016 2:04 am, Marc VLOEMANS wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Thanks for the invite and effort preparing it. I will certainly try to
>> fill it out to my best of abilities. But I feel it lacks an objective frame
>> work to sift, group, choose, prioritise and execute the results of the
>> questionnaire.
>> The present leap from vision/mission to objectives is often a bit too big
>> for me (I miss a storyline); explicit transparent strategy formulation
>> should make the questionaire easier :-).
>>
>> Unfortunately there are too many implicit assumptions when it comes to
>> our intended strategy. We already do many things (events, projects,
>> products, partnering, other initiatives) for many stakeholders. But which
>> add more value to these than others (having a volunteer does not make
>> something worthwhile doing)? What do stakeholders expect from OSGeo (did we
>> ever ask)? Which initiatives are more instrumental to fullfil our mission
>> than others (not necessarily the number of mentions in the
>> questionaire...)? Which initoatives deserve more attention than others (eg
>> those fullfilling more objectives at the same time)? If none of us is
>> interested in executing a certain activity/task, it does not mean that this
>> activity is not crucial to our existence.
>>
>> I have done some quick thinking and writing on how general strategic
>> principles would apply to OSGeo, where the Board's objectives fit in and
>> what possible avenues we have to meet them. So I share this with the list
>> via this link: 
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Marketing_Committee
>> For those who take the time to read, hopefully my thought process can
>> help with filling in the questionaire and deciding what we are going to do
>> and monitoring the results!
>>
>> (For those who do not know me; I have a multi-decade track record in
>> strategy, business development and marketing with most types of
>> organzations. Good software has an architecture, good strategy does too ;-)
>>
>> Please, do not consider this as a critique or an alternative to
>> vision/mission/objectives and related questionaire, but rather as a means
>> to fill essential gaps. Ones to fill in order to optimise our added value
>> as an organisation.
>>
>> Happy reading.
>> Cheers, Marc Vloemans
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Marc Vloemans
>>
>> Mobile +31(0)651 844262
>> LinkedIn: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcvloemans
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/marcvloemans
>> http://www.slideshare.net/marcvloemans
>>
>>
>> 2016-04-12 18:41 GMT+02:00 Massimiliano Cannata <
>> massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch>:
>>
>>> Dear OSGeo Community member,
>>> during the Face to Face board meeting held in February in Eide (Holland)
>>> a new 2026 OSGeo strategy has been formulated. We are now in a phase of
>>> community engagement to define the tactics to be implemented in the 2016 so
>>> that we can advance toward our goals.
>>>
>>> For this reason, the board kindly ask you to participate in the survey
>>> by filling (as many time as your ideas are) the form at this url:
>>> http://goo.gl/forms/HTGTlKv7SB [1]
>>>
>>> Details on the process and on the strategy are available at
>>> http://www.slideshare.net/cannata/osgeo-2026-strategy [2] and are
>>> described in the preamble of the survey.
>>>
>>>
>>> In the name of the Board of Directors,
>>> Thanks and Best regards,
>>> Maxi
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://goo.gl/forms/HTGTlKv7SB
>>>
>>> [2]  http://www.slideshare.net/cannata/osgeo-2026-strategy
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Massimiliano Cannata*
>>>
>>> Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica
>>>
>>> Responsabile settore Geomatica
>>>
>>>
>>> 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN training material

[Maria Brovelli]

Many thanks for your precious suggestions!
Maria

Il 14/04/2016 22:35, Cameron Shorter ha scritto:

Hi Maria,
I'd like to suggest that the second step in generating training 
material (after sourcing existing material) is to define a template 
and development process for UN Training material. The following list 
is based on what we have learned from building OSGeo-Live material.


Considerations:
* Structural Guidelines: What headings should be included. Should 
pictures be included, size of pictures, quality of pictures.

* Writing guidelines: What voice to use, the level of detail to go into.
* Translation guidelines: How should the documents be structured to 
allow easy translation? How do you know if a translation is up to date?

* Storage guidelines: Should it be stored in git?
* Maintenance guidelines: How often are the docs expected to be 
updated. How do you write documents such that they are timeless? How 
can people report errors or improvements in documentation? What is the 
plan for updating the documentation when an application is updated. 
How is this resourced.

* License guidelines: What license should material be published under?
* Target Audience: What level is the target audience.
* Flow between courses: Assuming students will do multiple courses, 
how to you avoid overlap between courses? What are prerequisites or 
assumed knowledge before attempting a course. How will material trace 
back to a qualification, learning goals? This leads to setting exams 
based on learning goals and material contents.
* Editorial control: Assuming you crowd source some material, will you 
have an editor on staff to ensure guidelines above to ensure quality 
and above guidelines are followed.
* Distribution format: How is documentation, sample data, and software 
to be distributed to the classroom? Note, classroom might be a MOOC 
run from someone's home. OSGeo-Live might be one way? Setting up on a 
cloud based virtual machine that people can log into is another.


Once the above has been defined, it will facilitate the OSGeo 
Community to maintain this documentation very efficiently at a very 
high level of quality.


It might be worth adding this list above into the training material 
wiki? And others may have more suggestions to add to this list.


On 12/04/2016 5:30 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
Thanks, I have added in a few links. We will need to watch this page 
as content is added - as new content is being added based on 
sometimes incomplete earlier examples. Thus far nobody has provided 
data references for example as requested.


Maria is a point-of-contact needed? In what circumstances would 
contact be made?


Bob - can I ask you to link to training material for GeoMOOSE? This 
wiki is gathering up training material for use in an open education 
context (so something that is free to be re-mixed into an academic 
course).


Jeff - GeoNode has been added as a project - but also lacks education 
material, and a point of contact?


--
Jody Garnett

On 11 April 2016 at 08:51, Maria Brovelli > wrote:


Yes, that could be repurposed...
Maria


Il 11/04/2016 17:26, Jody Garnett ha scritto:

Any restrictions on license Maria? I understood this initiative
was trying to gather material that could be repurposed for open
education use.

--
Jody Garnett

On 11 April 2016 at 03:36, Maria Brovelli
 wrote:

Dear All
as many of you know, OSGeo and G4A started a volunteer
initiative for evaluating a possible migration of UN
geospatial applications from proprietary to FOS S.
I'm there the representative of G4A and I'm in charge of
leading, together with Prof. Ki-Joune Li, the capacity
building program of this UN OpenGIS Initiative.
I'm kindly asking all of you, if you have short courses or
workshops (for instance those held at FOSS4G Conferences) about

QGIS, PostreSQL, PostGIS, Geoserver, OpenLayers, Geonode

of referencing them at this wiki page


_https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining_

If you have any doubt please contact directly me or Ki-Joune.

Thank you in advance.
Best regards.

Maria



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