Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-16 Thread Brian M Hamlin 

Dear Colleagues -
 
  I strongly object to this statement.. 
" ... t this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition
and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with... "
 
  There are numerous references to cite here..  details on request
 
 
best regards from Berkeley, California
  --Brian M Hamlin   PSC OSGeo-Live, California Chapter
 
 
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Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- "

This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also
means IMHO that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual
definition and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved
with...

Yours,

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Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo AGM (Annual General Meeting) in Bonn

2016-08-16 Thread Dirk Frigne 
I think Venka will moderate this session. But he mentioned he would be
travelling from 4/8/16 until the Bonn conference.

I will add his name on the list, and be prepared to backup if necessary.

Dirk.

On 16-08-16 17:17, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
> Venka,
> thanks for starting this! It would be great if somebody from the board
> would volunteer to moderate the session. I am happy to help out but
> would prefer someone official to lead this session.
> 
> 
> All,
> please add your name to the agenda and prepare a couple of slides (or
> even consider talking freely) highlighting what your OSGeo project,
> local chapter or initiative did in the last year. This is always a great
> inspiration for others even old honks like me because there is such an
> amazing diversity of things going on around Open Source geospatial.
> 
> 
> Looking forward to see many of you next week in Bonn!
> 
> Have fun,
> Seven (aka Arnulf)
> 
> 
> On 04.08.2016 08:10, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Please note the time and location of this year's OSGeo AGM in Bonn as below
>> 25 August @ 17:30  in the plenary Chamber
>>
>> It would be great to have volunteers from local chapters, committees, to
>> give a
>> very brief update on activities and outcomes.
>>
>> Please sign up here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2016
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Venka
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo AGM (Annual General Meeting) in Bonn

2016-08-16 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf) 
Venka,
thanks for starting this! It would be great if somebody from the board
would volunteer to moderate the session. I am happy to help out but
would prefer someone official to lead this session.


All,
please add your name to the agenda and prepare a couple of slides (or
even consider talking freely) highlighting what your OSGeo project,
local chapter or initiative did in the last year. This is always a great
inspiration for others even old honks like me because there is such an
amazing diversity of things going on around Open Source geospatial.


Looking forward to see many of you next week in Bonn!

Have fun,
Seven (aka Arnulf)


On 04.08.2016 08:10, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Please note the time and location of this year's OSGeo AGM in Bonn as below
> 25 August @ 17:30  in the plenary Chamber
> 
> It would be great to have volunteers from local chapters, committees, to
> give a
> very brief update on activities and outcomes.
> 
> Please sign up here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2016
> 
> Best
> 
> Venka
> 
> 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-16 Thread Munich Orientation Convention 
 

Hi Barend,

 

your point of view doesn’t cover all important aspects, for example the 
motivation to creativity. 

 

The symbolical fee for education means no more than the following: 

- it is a proven method to honor the inventor when the idea generates financial 
benefits.

- the agreement allows a controlled develop. 

 

The actual message to the students is:

 

-  Learn, learn, learn

-  Don’t be creative. Nobody will honor this and you’ll be isolated.

-  Ignore everything which seems not to be free or open, even if the 
idea comes from an inventor and not from a company and even if the idea could 
be helpful for you.

 

As already described, the target is a worldwide identical orientation standard 
for all orientation tools: signage, compasses with 12 directions, mapping, 
location codes, navigation devices, verbal expressions for emergency cases etc. 

 

The Costa Concordia catastrophe happened because of a right/left confusion 
during 8 seconds: the captain gave instructions to the Indonesian steerman in 
Italian language (destra/sinistra). Imaginary clocks are used for more than 100 
years also to avoid right/left and east/west confusions. They are free and open 
but nobody has been motivated to form a Convention. On 9/11, helpers didn’t 
know which one was the tower 1 or 2.  

 

PET bottles and sunshine can transform dirty water to potable water “free and 
open”, but there is no motivation to promote this.

 

If my system would be “open”, this would automatically be an invitation to 
develop “better” standards: other dimensions (Chinese feet etc.), accuracy 
www.volksnav.de/nanometers, shapes (squares instead of circles), identification 
letters (c12 instead of m12 in Chicago), colors etc., destroying the original 
target.

 

I’d be more than glad if the Twente University would have the courage to 
surprise the experts being world’s first one to analyze the benefits of 
imaginary clocks outside of schools www.volksnav.de/UniTwente .   

 

Henrique

 

 

 

 

Von: b.j.kob...@utwente.nl [mailto:b.j.kob...@utwente.nl] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. August 2016 10:47
An: volks...@volksnav.de; suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk; 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org; standa...@lists.osgeo.org
Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators 
globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness 
Week

 

Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- "

 

This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also means IMHO 
that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition and is 
therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with...

 

Yours,

 

--

Barend Köbben

Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente

PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)

ITC Building (room 1-065)

@barendkobben

+31-(0)53 4874 253

 

From: Discuss  on behalf of Munich Orientation 
Convention 
Date: Tuesday 16 August 2016 at 09:02
To: 'Suchith Anand' , "discuss@lists.osgeo.org" 
, "standa...@lists.osgeo.org" 

Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators 
globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness 
Week

 

The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- 

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Join State of the Map Asia October 1-2, 2016 in Manila, Philippines

2016-08-16 Thread maning sambale 
Dear everyone,

[crosspost]

We are happy to announce that the 2nd State of the Map Asia will
happen in Manila, Philippines on October 1-2, 2016. Two days in the
Philippines with talks, discussions, and workshops all around the free
and open map of the world.

This is a free event (no registration fee), if you plan to join, head
over to the website to register.

http://stateofthemap.asia/

Call for proposal/prsentations is here: http://stateofthemap.asia/program.html

In the coming weeks, we will announce the scholarship applications and
other details. We are also looking for sponsors to cover for food and
other expenses needed to make this awesome.  If you are interested,
please contact: osmpilipinas+sotmasia2...@gmail.com

We hope the OSM community in Asia and all over the world can join.

Maning Sambale
In behalf of the SOTM-Asia 2016 Organizing Team
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-16 Thread b.j.kobben 
Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- "

This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also means IMHO 
that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition and is 
therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with...

Yours,

--
Barend Köbben
Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
ITC Building (room 1-065)
@barendkobben
+31-(0)53 4874 253

From: Discuss  on behalf of Munich Orientation 
Convention 
Date: Tuesday 16 August 2016 at 09:02
To: 'Suchith Anand' , "discuss@lists.osgeo.org" 
, "standa...@lists.osgeo.org" 

Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators 
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Week

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-16 Thread Munich Orientation Convention 
 

 

Hi Suchith,

 

concerning your call for ideas: why only software? 

 

For the first time, a geography teacher in Brazil got last week a diploma
using imaginary clocks as final year project. 

The test school was the Joao XXIII www.volksnav.de/JoaoXXIII and the project
also called the attention to actual week points e. g. division of the
horizon into 360 directions or none, the sunside trap
www.volksnav.de/sunside (test your students ! ) etc. 

Exercises like the finding of Easter eggs, finding rooms with the help of
children-proper and clickable room numbers etc. have been performed. 

Remark: no bits nor bytes have been needed, only synapses. 

 

The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- and in my
opinion this "iron curtain" isn't hindrance enough to cause an harem guard
or garden dog behavior: ignore the fruits but don't let others take the
benefit.  

 

I herewith offer my invention for use during the Geography Awareness Week to
the named fee. 

 

Henrique

 

 

Von: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Suchith
Anand
Gesendet: Montag, 15. August 2016 12:54
An: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
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globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography
Awareness Week

 

Dear colleague,

 

20 years back academics and educators (esp. in  developing countries)
struggled to start GIS courses for thier students and had to beg to vendors
for some "free" licences .Now they dont need any "charity" from any vendors,
as they are fully empowered and can start courses as they wish without any
permissions from any vendor owners . We want academics globally to be fully
empowered  from now and   give software as they wish to thier students
education. By  making free and open software and educational resources
available for all has empowered academics and educators globally and brought
down the "Iron Curtains" that  some  vendors have tried to create in
education. Now no vendors  can dictate terms to any academic or educator or
student. We want academics to be in full control of education from now not
any vendors. 

 

I would like to thank the OSGeo Live community for making available Version
10.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection that has been released, ready
for the FOSS4G conference in Bonn, Germany - the annual global event of the
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). 

OSGeo Live  is an excellent resource for academics and educators around the
world to teach geospatial science and give away the software for free to
thier students thereby empowering them in the true sense. This  excellent
resource is made  available to the global community thanks to the hardwork
and selfless dedication of hundreds of  volunteers (Developers, packagers,
documenters and translators) in addition to thousands who have been involved
in building the packaged software. Thank you all for making this possible.

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual
Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which
can be trialled without installing anything. 


OSGeo Live  includes:

*   Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed
and pre-configured
*   Free world maps and sample datasets
*   Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each
application
*   Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's
script
*   Translations to multiple languages

 

Details at  http://live.osgeo.org 

 

Download details at  http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html 

 

Contents overview at https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html 

 

I request all colleagues globally to make use of opportunities like
Geography Awareness Week (November 13 - 19, 2016) and other important
Geography events  like OSM Week 2016, GIS Day 2016etc to spread Geo4All
ideas and give away OSGeo Live DVD, USB   to your colleagues and  students
so they dont have to buy any properitery GIS software and truly empowering
them. By doing so, you are  gifting millions of dollars of software to your
students (if i may borrow some ideas from our properitery friends!  :-) So
go ahead and gift software for free from now at all  Geography Awareness
Week and all other key GIS events... We want all academics from now be the
owners of the software and tools . You dont have to get permission from any
properitery GIS vendor owners to start your courses or gift software to your
students!

 

Geo4All is and will be always open to all projects and initiatives that
support Open Principles in Education. We have a duty and long term view on
Open Principles in education to ensure that free and open geospatial
education opportunities  are available not just to current generation but
also to our future generations...


Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand

http://www.geoforall.org/ 


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