Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] what osgeo committees are active?

[Jody Garnett]

   - Board of Directors  -
   yep
   - Code of Conduct Committee
    - recent activity
   is members stepping down, committee mandate still active
   - Conference Committee  - active!
   - Finance Committee  -
   does not appear active, board set budget this year without input from this
   committee
   - Geo for All  - active
   - Incubation Committee  - active
   - Marketing Committee
    - in the middle of
   a reboot
   - Open GeoScience Committee
    - recent
   meeting 2015-10-30
   - Project Steering Committees
    - active, tend
   to measure projects by release
   - Public Geospatial Data Committee
    - recent email is
   spam ...
   - System Administration Committee (SAC)
    - active
   - UN Committee  -
   recent email in march
   - Website Committee  -
   recent email, needs volunteers


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Jody Garnett

On 14 June 2016 at 10:35, Jody Garnett  wrote:

> Quick question, was looking at setting up a "workparty" hangout later this
> month ... and wonder which committees (
> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html) are active?
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Volunteers needed for the FOSS4G 2016 Booth in Bonn

[Marc VLOEMANS]

To all

who (intend to) visit FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn (http://foss4g2016.org):

OSGeo needs (very ;-) part-time booth-attendants to answer general
questions about our community, its projects, its initiatives, redirect
tough questions and so on.

Our own OSGeo-booth will be a focal point during the conference,
the place to hang out with old friends and make new ones,
the opportunity to welcome new community members.

If you happen to be there and feel like you can spend an hour (or two)
during one of the core conference days (24-25-26 August), mainly during one
of the breaks and afternoon,

please contact me at marcvloema...@gmail.com

so I can put together a roster that suits all.

Thanks in advance and 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
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing is Caring - Example from our colleagues in Uruguay

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleagues,

Thanks to Nikos and team for another excellent edition of our Geo4All 
Newsletter. You can download the full newsletter at http://www.geoforall.org

It is also my great pleasure to introduce our colleagues at the National Bureau 
of Surveying (Dirección Nacional de Topografía – MTOP), Montevideo ,Uruguay as 
the Geo4All lab of the month for June 2016. The amazing work that Sergio Acosta 
Y Lara and colleagues in Uruguay have done through gvSIG Batovi initiative has 
been an inspiration for all of us.

Through thier focus on Open Principles in Education they have now provided high 
quality spatial technologies education to students in all schools across 
Uruguay . Thanks to the Plan Ceibal they also have free laptops for all Primary 
and Secondary students in the country so they truly have the opportunity to 
reach every student no matter they are rich or poor with high quality teaching 
and learning tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo  (Video with English translation)

gvSIG Batoví is a GIS (Geographic Information System) software tool applied to 
educational environments driven by the National Bureau of Surveying (Dirección 
Nacional de Topografía – MTOP) for the Plan Ceibal (OLPC initiative for 
Uruguay), through which Primary and Secondary students can acquire knowledge of 
geography using laptops through informative and interactive information. Based 
on Free/Libre Open Source GIS software, the initiative was the result of 
collective work that included the coordinated participation of four 
institutions: the National Bureau of Surveying, the gvSIG Association (Spain), 
the Geospatial Information Technologies Working Group (GTIG) of the College of 
Engineering (UDELAR ) and the Ceibal Center (Centgro Ceibal).

Scalability is key for cost/sustainability issues esp if we are thinking of 
national and global scale of expansion for providing high quality education 
opportunities for all . The cost of hardware is getting lower (and will keep 
decreasing), internet access is increasing (even in developing countries, it 
will keep increasing) , so if we can also provide free and open technologies , 
open data, open educational resources etc it will be a big enabler for bridging 
the digital divide. gvSIG Batovi is an excellent example of a successful 
initiative in Open Principles in Education and helps us to understand why 
scalability and costs for scaling is fundamental . This is a good example of 
scalability of education opportunities with very little resources using Open 
Principles. Imagine if all these hundreds of schools and thousands of students 
had to depend on buying software and data for their teaching and learning. This 
simple idea can be scaled to millions of schools globally .This empowerment of 
educators and students is the true essence and gift of Open Principles.

We also have amazing academic colleagues in Geo4All globally who are 
contributing thier knowledge for Open Education efforts. We can get a flavor 
from last year’s GeoForAll – Global Educator of the Year Award 2015. Details 
are at http://www.geoforall.org/news/?action=story=20

We are now working with MapStory Foundation http://mapstory.org/  to expand our 
spatial literacy in school level program globally. For example, “mapping the 
neighbourhood” exercises to help teach spatial literacy in schools globally. I 
think having MapStory examples of deforestation in different places might also 
be a good example to help teach students on effects of climate change as well 
as need for protecting the environment. Teaching Spatial literacy in schools is 
key for also helping build good global citizens.

Through our new initiative of Geo4All Schools we aim to use geotechnologies as 
a usecase to advance STEM interest in Schools through Open Principles so that 
students develop creative minds and develop to be future thought leaders and 
creative thinkers to help solve global challenges (not just to be just users). 
The bigger aim is to also to advance STEM education across the world and bring 
together schools, teachers and students across the world in joint projects and 
help building international understanding and global peace.

Best wishes,

Suchith



From: GeoForAll [geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of 
labri...@eled.auth.gr [labri...@eled.auth.gr]
Sent: 14 June 2016 7:34 AM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Newsletter vol 2 no 6

Dear GeoForAll members,

I would like to inform you that the June issue of our Newsletter has
been uploaded onto our website.
I would like to thank all co-editors for their continouus help and
contibution.

For the next issue please sent your articles no later than June 27th,

Thank you very much
Nikos Lambrinos


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[OSGeo-Discuss] what osgeo committees are active?

[Jody Garnett]

Quick question, was looking at setting up a "workparty" hangout later this
month ... and wonder which committees (
http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html) are active?
--
Jody Garnett
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