Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ICIMOD’s initiative on Empowering women in geospatial information technology

[Caroline Akoth]

Thank you for highlighting our work @Suchith.

We are grateful for the support we've received from the OSGEO community.

Kind regards,
Caroline
Advocacy and Operations Lead (WiGIS,KE)

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 2:42 PM Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
>
> The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD
> ) has been organizing the "Empowering women in
> geospatial information technology" training under its SERVIR Hindu Kush
> Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH ) Initiative for the past
> two years. The training course, extended exclusively to young women from
> Nepal, provides them with theoretical as well as practical knowledge in the
> use of EO data and GIT using real-world examples from the HKH region. In
> its third iteration and in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this
> intensive four-day course is being offered online to eligible women in
> Nepal. The training covers a wide range of topics, including principles of
> geographic information science (GIS), basic concepts of remote sensing
> (RS), image calculation and spectral indices, and mapping using open source
> tools to solve emerging environmental problems. Details at
> https://servir.icimod.org/events/empowering-women-in-geospatial-information-technology
>
>
> It is great to see that ICIMOD are using Free and Open GIS in their
> training programs. Details on their recent training event for Virtually
> empowering women in Nepal with geospatial skills during the COVID-19
> lockdown at
> https://servir.icimod.org/news/virtually-empowering-women-in-nepal-with-geospatial-skills-during-the-COVID-19-lockdown
>
>
> GeoForAll community would like to send our congratulations to ICIMOD for
> organising this important initiative . This is an excellent example of  
> Bridging
> the Geospatial Digital Divide and providing geo digital economy
> opportunities for all [1],[2],[3],[4].
>
>
> On behalf of GeoForAll, I would also like to thank Women in GIS, Kenya
> [5] for their contributions to GeoForAll*. *Details at
> https://www.osgeo.org/geo-for-all-labs/women-in-gis-kenya/
>
>
> Please keep sharing GeoForAll ideas and educational resources so that more
> faculty and students have access to the resources
>
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> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/
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> GeoForAll community are grateful to everyone working to make geoeducation
> and digital economy opportunities available for everyone.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
> Dr. Suchith Anand
>
> Chief Scientist
>
> Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition
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> https://www.godan.info
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> [1]
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/bridging-the-geospatial-digital-divide/
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> [2] https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geography-awareness-week/
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> [3]
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/
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> [4] https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/open-geospatial-science/
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> [5] http://wigis.co.ke
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Testing on multiple versions and upgrading

[Pierre Abbat]

On Monday, June 15, 2020 11:32:07 AM EDT James Klassen wrote:
> If you want to be thorough, testing on different versions of the "same"
> Linux distribution makes sense.  Generally, the compiler and all the
> surrounding libraries are upgraded between distribution versions and could
> have different behaviors or bugs.

Both AppVeyor and Travis have a few LTS releases of Ubuntu, but no Red Hat. 
Several months ago, Pat (one of my users) asked me to get PerfectTIN running 
on his CentOS 7 box. I found out that the CMake was too old to handle the 
version of C++ needed to implement readers-writer locks, which are essential 
in getting PerfectTIN to run at full speed on all threads. RHEL 7 (and 
therefore CentOS 7) was released five years before RHEL 8. Being used to 
Ubuntu's two-year LTS cycle, I advised him to get Fedora. I set up PerfectTIN 
on his Fedora NUC, and he can now run "git pull" on it and upgrade to the 
latest.

I think it's also important to test on the different BSDs. I'm planning to get 
some NUCs running BSDs. Differences I've run into are:
* Linux has M_PIl; DragonFly BSD doesn't.
* Including a certain system include file worked on Linux but not BSD. I had to 
include another file.

> You might want to look into a continuous integration (CI) tool that can
> automatically run the build and tests on multiple platforms whenever you
> push a commit.  Looking at how GDAL and/or PDAL handle this would be a good
> place to get started.

Are there CI tools that can handle Linux, the BSDs, and Windows? Do any CI 
providers have big-endian hardware, or do I have to buy my own box? I was 
thinking of getting some NUCs and running "git pull" and "ninja test" on each 
one.

The geoidboundary test of Bezitopo takes 45 seconds (on mooncat, I think). Are 
such long tests a problem with CI?

PerfectTIN has some automatic tests, but I still test it by converting point 
clouds, some of which take hours. Can you suggest some more automatic tests?

> Related to using CI, setting up development environments in different
> containers (like with Docker) can let you build and test different Linux
> versions on the same machine (and can help with setting up CI tools).  This
> makes keeping machines around with different versions of the OS around
> mostly unnecessary, and decouples the ability to test on a
> distribution/version from whatever distribution/version you use day-to-day.

Can Docker on Linux run BSD in a container? Can a Docker container on one BSD 
run a different BSD?

Pierre
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