Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship
+1 Charlie Schweik On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan < ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote: > Jeff, > > Many thanks for the great job you are doing in > representing OSGeo with selfless dedication > and for sharing your vision with all of us. > > I wish you great fun and safe travel for representing OSGeo at > the GISConf in Moscow [1] that is coming up this weekend. > > Best > > Venka > > [1] http://gisconf.ru/ > > On 2015/11/16 4:13, Jeff McKenna wrote: > >> Hi Cameron, >> >> Thank you for your message. It is very refreshing to speak on this topic >> openly here, as others would rather send me strong private messages >> questioning my sanity, and making threats. I realize that many cannot be >> open on this topic for various reasons. >> >> Let me assure everyone here that I only have one agenda, which is very >> rare these days, and that is to help the OSGeo foundation. I am not >> muzzled by fear or threats, and I will stand up for the OSGeo foundation >> whenever that is required. If by standing up for OSGeo's only event all >> year, FOSS4G, means that I am called "confrontational" and "obstructive", >> then yes you are fully right. >> >> Some may not know this by reading this thread, but I have always been a >> big supporter of LocationTech. I was involved in the beginning of >> LocationTech, involved in the sense of being one of the first subscribers >> to their mailing list, and I even have had many chats inside their >> #locationtech IRC channel, even answering questions from new LocationTech >> community members (technical readers will find it interesting to join their >> IRC channel now on freenode and see the first message that is displayed >> when entering their channel "LocationTech: location aware open source >> software friendly to commercialization."). I have followed the development >> of that organization right from the beginning, where they smartly filled a >> void by aiming at the business/commercial side of Open Source geospatial >> (of course, recently they publicly pointed out to me, even questioned my >> sanity, that this was false, I am dreaming, that they have always focused >> instead on the same goals as OSGeo, but readers, do a google search for LT >> and press release, and you will see their early visions). Which is why I >> asked now to hear the vision of LocationTech (I was not answered, but >> someone else pointed to an FAQ just made). In any case, no I am not >> insane, I have always followed LocationTech closely. >> >> I do travel to many OSGeo local chapters around the world, constantly, >> and especially to developing areas that are just becoming interested in >> Open Source. In a few days I will again take 3 more planes and represent >> OSGeo at a growing community, again putting life on hold, including my >> health, my money, and my life in general, to go help grow the OSGeo >> community. In this event I can bet that I will speak personally to over >> 100 developers, students, decision makers, and researchers; I bet I will >> personally talk to over 20 businesses looking at OSGeo. Those who know me >> well know that this is why I make those trips (I don't go for presentations >> etc.), it is that face to face representation that is so very important, >> especially in the long run. >> >> As the leader of the OSGeo foundation, part of my role is to listen to >> all of the criticism about me; and I realize that the negative words you've >> used about me here for everyone to read, are not the first negative ones >> used at me in years past, nor will they be the last. In the big theater >> room that is the community, there will always be those that disagree with >> me, and I value their opinion as well. >> >> Few in this community see me being so involved behind the scenes. New >> committees, new MoUs, FOSS4G local committees, all just pop up on the scene >> and grow, but few see me behind the scenes helping them form initially, and >> I am ok with that. The core community members in the OSGeo foundation know >> that I support them in every way that I can. I often am actively working 2 >> or even 3 years in advance of a FOSS4G for that region, talking with those >> regions members, getting them to think of the possibilities, years before >> the release of the call for hosting. To you and others it looks like I >> have no innovation, no new ideas, I don't work with community leaders, >> because you don't see me working behind the scenes for OSGeo. I am ok with >> that. You can keep going on in thinking this way of me, but I am very >> proud of what I do for OSGeo, what I constantly try to do for OSGeo. >> Long-time members of OSGeo know how I have failed in several proposals to >> past OSGeo boards, and to this day those so-called "failures" are my most >> proud moments. But yes, you can always argue that I am not innovative and >> do not help OSGeo. >> >> I am also not wired to think of "money" first. I follow my heart and I >> try
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial ...
Nikos, Suchith, OSGeo software project teams: Re the GeoForAll newsletter: Please consider having a regular section in the newsletter that does a story on some class or material someone in our network has developed, and promotes the open access educational material that GeoForAll labs are building through this metadata inventory system [1]. I hope the OSGeo software project teams might consider writing a post about their own training activities and consider posting metadata links to their materials via this system as well. This will be a further step toward a closer partnership between our education network and the software teams. Cheers, Charlie Schweik [1] http://www.osgeo.org/education On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Kurt, This is great work that you are doing and thank you for sharing this . I am sure there are thousands of excellent examples like these in our OSGeo community which we need to highlight to the wider world to build more ideas and collaborations. Our Geo for All newsletters will reach thousands of readers and it will make sure more collaborations are build. So i request everyone to send their examples (from Government, Industry, SME, Startups, NGOs etc) to the lists or directly to Nikos ( email - labri...@eled.auth.gr ) and we will aim to get these examples published in our monthly newsletters as regular feature. So it will good to have lot of examples so we can get them published one by one. Best wishes, Suchith From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [ ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Davis [ pda...@delmar.edu] Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 9:25 PM To: Charles Schweik; Kurt Menke Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial ... Kurt is a GeoAcademy SME and faculty. :) From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [ ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles Schweik [ cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu] Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 3:24 PM To: Kurt Menke Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial ... That's awesome Kurt! When ready, consider posting a link to the material on our metadata search database. [1,2] Cheers, Charlie [1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content [2] http://www.osgeo.org/education On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Kurt Menke k...@birdseyeviewgis.com mailto:k...@birdseyeviewgis.com wrote: For the last several years I have been working with the National Library of Medicine to document and teach a minority public health mapping workflow. The idea is that minority public health organizations have limited staff and budgets, but have mapping needs. What we came up with is designed for public health professionals, people who don’t have the time to be full time GIS specialists. So we’ve outlined and taught a workflow from A) field mapping with smart phones/tablets, B) bringing the data into QGIS to combine with other datasets to tell a story/analysis, and C) dissemination over the web via CartoDB or GIS Cloud. This link is the project synopsis: http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/about/ The basic goal is to empower minority communities by teaching them to collect and work with their own data, versus what is sent to them by the CDC. As part of this, I’ve been authoring a blog Community Health Mapping http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/ . The blog is written at a layperson level of technical detail and serves to keep the workflow current with rapidly developing technology. It also is forum for case studies and new advances in community health mapping tools. There are several case studies written by guest bloggers. One of these was written by several high schools students in a poor island near Charleston, SC, who I trained to map their neighborhood in an afternoon. http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/2015/02/11/community-health-maps-conducts-a-training-in-the-south-carolina-lowcountry/ They were really excited to be able to use their phones to do this work! I have also developed a public health mapping course with six labs, built in the same style as the GeoAcademy courses. It essentially takes a student through the workflow. The labs are in beta at the moment but will be freely available once completed. To date we’ve trained public health professionals in Charleston, SC, Seattle, WA, Honolulu, HI, and Tuskeegee, MI. It has been very successful and a lot of fun. This work has been presented at several FOSS4G meetings in past years. Cheers, Kurt ** Kurt Menke, GISP Bird’s Eye View 3016 Santa Clara Ave SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 www.BirdsEyeViewGIS.comhttp://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ Cell: 505-362-1776tel:505-362-1776 Work: 505-265
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case
OK, I raised the question of appropriate content to Jeff after I looked at the FOSS4G website for a reference for a grant proposal I am writing at a time when I was thinking specifically about diversity recruitment to GeoForAll. By asking Jeff about it offline, I was raising the question that those slides could turn some women off who are considering attending and I think those kinds of signals are moving the community the wrong direction, and that perhaps the author should consider this. I raised this because I have been in conferences where I've witnessed women being offended by things happening on stage and I think as a community we want to be sensitive to this since we are hopeful for more women to become engaged in FOSS4G. From my eye going through the slides, I didn't understand (and still don't) why zoom in on the Dali image needed to be on the slideshow. After a more careful examination -- that other viewers won't likely do -- I see that the first slide is an enlargement of part of that painting and then a second picture of it hanging in some building, under the group heading of 'Seoul is far away.' I still don't get why the enlargement is needed... but perhaps that is just me. But I think I am still right -- some women might be turned off to the conference by that zoom-in. Sangee, your explanation of the side of the female models is helpful. But some people around the world will not understand it or misinterpret its meaning or why it is there. The 'Culture' heading helps I suppose. So at least consider having something on those slides explaining to readers what they represent better than they do currently. I'll close by saying, with all due respect to Sanghee and the others in this community who disagree with me, is that if you are trying to encourage people to come, and especially if your email footer says 'Towards Diversity' as a goal of the conference, then the 'Precautionary Principle' might be wise to follow. If I was doing the advertising to recruit people, I'd be conservative and wouldn't put up imagery that could turn off potential attendees. I'm not advocating any kind of censorship here, and I am not judging whether a COC is necessary or not. I just was simply raising a concern about underlying or subtle messages embedded in a 'commercial' being used to recruit people to our global conference. It appears that others disagree with this view. Charlie Schweik On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses pfer...@osgeo.org wrote: Hello Sanghee, I was asked to remove a few slides from my presentation 7 Reasons why you should come to FOSS4G 2015 Seoul”[1], which is at the main page of FOSS4G Seoul, as being possibly offensive to women. Specifically to say, slide #6 (nude female in painting) and slide #20 (row of female models) are those controversial ones. I'd like to have a little bit more of context to make up my mind * Who asked to remove the slides? * Is «being possibily offensive to women» the only reason it was given to you? On the other hand, obviously you have you own reasons to keep the slides, but those reasons are not clear in the presentation because it lacks of... well, it lacks of someone *explaining* what are we seeing. May be a less-dependant-on-someone-explaining-presentation is more suitable for being in the landing page of the Conference. But this is just my POV. Best regards, -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Charlie Schweik Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/ Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545 Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case
(I've been trying not to post again, but since in a way I started this (not meant to go so publicly!), here's my last post): This isn't a COC issue. This is a discussion about FOSS4G recruitment and messaging issue, representing all of us globally who feel part of the FOSS4G community and want to see it thrive and grow. The posts by Milo and Margherita captured the confusion I had over messaging better than I did. Agreed, I'm male. Please forgive me for trying to be sensitive to half the world's population and one that our discipline has trouble recruiting, and not understanding what the message was in the Dali sequence and the models sequence. Sanghee - I regret not contacting you about this directly and meant no disrespect. Jeff- sorry for the heartburn. Charlie Schweik On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch wrote: Just my 0.0002 cents, I feel things are getting over complicated. We have a CoC, and I think all the Charther member should confirm they agree (actually a pre-requisite to become a charter member). Then if a serious case is detected the Member can be eventually banned from the community. Otherwise we could pretend to do a have an official censorship system checking all contents and decides what is fine or not... :-D My point of view is that unless explicitly offensive and against law it is responsability and credibility of each person to act according correct moral society rules. Maxi 2015-06-24 15:13 GMT+02:00 Sanghee Shin shs...@gaia3d.com: Dear All, One thing I could say about the controversial #6 slide is that that is exactly what Salvador Dali try to point out. I didn’t crop out the image intentionally for ‘commercial.’ Image in #6 can be found in internet as well as art history book. If you visited Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain and stood just in front of that painting, Dali’s ‘Lincoln in Dalivision’ just look like that, a nude female. However if you move back to 10~20 meters away from that, now you can realise the real meaning of that painting, that’s the portrait of Abraham Lincoln - the president of USA. I just used that image to stress the importance of long distance from the object or sometimes from the too experienced ordinary culture. I feel like this discussion is just like Dali’s painting. All the best, Sanghee --- Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul! http://2015.foss4g.org Twitter: @foss4g Facebook: FOSS4G2015 email: foss4gch...@osgeo.org 2015. 6. 24., 오후 1:08, Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.net 작성: Hi Sanghee, Thank you for taking this matter to the discuss mailinglist. My first reaction when clicking the links from your post was, no problem, this is well accepted from my european perspective and I do not directly see any offense in them nor see any offense in other cultures. However, after looking at them in context (in the slideshare presentation) this is my opinion. 1. I don't understand the slides with the Dali painting. What do you want to say with them? In my opinion they can be removed without downgrading the presentation. 2. In my opinion; the slide with the header Culture showing the row of female models will bring a better message with another picture. Currently I interpret this slide as: Come to Korea for the beautiful women and I believe that is not the message you want to send under the header Culture. 3. There are a few slides with a lot of prominently displayed alcoholic drinks, in one slide, it even looks like a drinking game. There are a lot of cultures that are offended by that too. Simply removing them, again, would not make your presentation worse, it would make it stronger. Final thought: I agree with the request for removal/replacement but I think you should also do something about the alcoholic drinks given this presentation holds a prominent position on the main page for the foss4g event. This would make your presentation stronger, because apart from this minor thing, it is an interesting slideshow that has me interested in going to Seoul! So thank you for that! With respect, kind regards. 2015-06-24 12:22 GMT+02:00 Sanghee Shin shs...@gaia3d.com: Dear All, It’s now time to apply OSGeo CoC(Code of Conduct)[0] in real case. I was asked to remove a few slides from my presentation 7 Reasons why you should come to FOSS4G 2015 Seoul”[1], which is at the main page of FOSS4G Seoul, as being possibly offensive to women. Specifically to say, slide #6 (nude female in painting) and slide #20 (row of female models) are those controversial ones. I refused this asking immediately because I don’t believe my presentation breach the OSGeo CoC and I don’t agree with that view. However since this is not the first time asking me to remove those slides from my presentation and OSGeo now have CoC, I think we’d better discuss this issue more openly to
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure
Hi, This probably relates directly to my last post to the OSGeo Board and the distinction between OSGeo Education Committee and GeoForAll. I think we can, and probably should, combine them. If others agree, this would mean building from the OSGeo Education page [1]. I have the authority to update that page and need to because the ELOgeo link is not functioning on it and some other updating is needed. My problem here is time... I'm trying to focus my attention on a GeoForAll grant proposal right now! If someone can come up with revised content for those pages (or we replace with a GeoForAll link)... But I think we should see what the board thinks about whether the Education group and GeoForAll should be combined or separated? Or what do others think of this question? (sorry -- I forsee a bunch of threads on this coming in our in-boxes!) Cheers, Charlie [1] http://www.osgeo.org/education On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Phillip Davis pda...@delmar.edu wrote: Suchith you can count on my limited talents to contribute to this worthy and necessary cause. Phillip Davis From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [ ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [ suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:31 AM To: Steven Feldman; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure Colleagues, I would like to call upon all of you , if you can help volunteer to build a website for Geo for All http://www.geoforall.org/ in OSGeo infrastructure Key advantages: 1. We can ensure long term hosting and development as the initiative grows 2. We will be able to provide the whole $5k of our budget for student travel awards for FOSS4G- Seoul 2015 I am sure our University of Southampton colleagues will be happy to work with any interested volunteers to move the website from the current hosts (University of Southampton) to OSGeo infrastructure. It will be great if we can have many volunteers so we can spread the efforts. I am willing to volunteer my time and efforts for provide content etc for this. Could you please let us all know if you are wlling to help by 30th May 2015, so we can plan ideas. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith From: board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Steven Feldman [shfeld...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:11 AM To: Suchith Anand; OSGeo-Board Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Reminder of meeting tomorrow Suchith, Board We should not be diverting money from the student travel budget to build a web site for Geo4All. Either use the OSGeo infrastructure or get volunteers to spin something up, with all of the universities involved there must be some people with the necessary skills who can do this, we should not be paying Southampton to do it steven From: Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto: suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Reminder of meeting tomorrow Date: 21 May 2015 01:01:15 BST To: Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.chmailto: massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch Cc: osgeo-board List bo...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:bo...@lists.osgeo.org, ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Hi Massimiliano, Thank you for your queries. Yes, GeoforAll is 100 percent an OSGeo Education initiative (but supported by others like ICA, ISPRS through MoUs and we hope more like minded organisations who have interest in enabling Geospatial education and opportunities for all join us in the future). Regarding your questions: - Does a budget for Geo4All exists? Yes, the only budget we have is the $5k allocation for ICA/OSGeo Labs Student Travel in the OSGeo budget last year and this year. Last year budget [1] if i remember correctly we did not use it . [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2014 - ISPRS, ICA and OSGeo how they support the initiative, apart from having signed the MoU? For example in addition to the amazing support that both ICA and ISPRS has given which helped us expand to many universities globally , they have been contributing to student awards etc. For example for the Europa World Wind challenge 2015, both ICA and ISPRS are contributing student prizes http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-May/001531.html I remember ICA gave student awards last year also for Europa challenge. - Why Geo4All need a website hosted in Nottingham and is not using the OSGeo infrastructure, like the OSGeo committees (incubation, marketing, etc.)? First of all, it is NOT hosted in Nottingham, it is developed and hosted by the University of Southampton. We had
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure
The below view makes sense to me. I'm cc'ing the OSGeo Board list so they can see your thoughts here, Suchith. Charlie On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Hi Charlie, My suggestion is to have a link the GeoforAll website from OSGeo Education or ideally directly from OSGeo homepage. It is important to keep both OSGeo Education Committee and GeoforAll as they are complimentary. The whole idea of GeoforAll was to make this a wider geocommunity initiative (hence we have OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS Presidents as cochairs in our Advisory Board along with GeoforAll community nominated members http://www.geoforall.org/advisory_board/ Best wishes, Suchith From: Charles Schweik [cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:43 AM To: Phillip Davis Cc: Suchith Anand; Steven Feldman; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure Hi, This probably relates directly to my last post to the OSGeo Board and the distinction between OSGeo Education Committee and GeoForAll. I think we can, and probably should, combine them. If others agree, this would mean building from the OSGeo Education page [1]. I have the authority to update that page and need to because the ELOgeo link is not functioning on it and some other updating is needed. My problem here is time... I'm trying to focus my attention on a GeoForAll grant proposal right now! If someone can come up with revised content for those pages (or we replace with a GeoForAll link)... But I think we should see what the board thinks about whether the Education group and GeoForAll should be combined or separated? Or what do others think of this question? (sorry -- I forsee a bunch of threads on this coming in our in-boxes!) Cheers, Charlie [1] http://www.osgeo.org/education On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Phillip Davis pda...@delmar.edumailto: pda...@delmar.edu wrote: Suchith you can count on my limited talents to contribute to this worthy and necessary cause. Phillip Davis From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [ ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [ suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:31 AM To: Steven Feldman; discuss@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure Colleagues, I would like to call upon all of you , if you can help volunteer to build a website for Geo for All http://www.geoforall.org/ in OSGeo infrastructure Key advantages: 1. We can ensure long term hosting and development as the initiative grows 2. We will be able to provide the whole $5k of our budget for student travel awards for FOSS4G- Seoul 2015 I am sure our University of Southampton colleagues will be happy to work with any interested volunteers to move the website from the current hosts (University of Southampton) to OSGeo infrastructure. It will be great if we can have many volunteers so we can spread the efforts. I am willing to volunteer my time and efforts for provide content etc for this. Could you please let us all know if you are wlling to help by 30th May 2015, so we can plan ideas. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith From: board-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [board-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Steven Feldman [shfeld...@gmail.commailto:shfeld...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:11 AM To: Suchith Anand; OSGeo-Board Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Reminder of meeting tomorrow Suchith, Board We should not be diverting money from the student travel budget to build a web site for Geo4All. Either use the OSGeo infrastructure or get volunteers to spin something up, with all of the universities involved there must be some people with the necessary skills who can do this, we should not be paying Southampton to do it steven From: Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto: suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Reminder of meeting tomorrow Date: 21 May 2015 01:01:15 BST To: Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.chmailto: massimiliano.cann...@supsi.chmailto:massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch mailto:massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch Cc: osgeo-board List bo...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:bo
[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll/OSGeo at the International Society of the Study of the Commons global conference (Edmonton, Canada, late May, 2015)?
Also... It may be too late, but it occurred to me that it might be valuable to try and expand the footprint of GeoForAll/OSGeo users through a connection to the International Association of the Study of the Commons, and its global conference (May 25, 2015, Edmonton, Alberta) [1]. 1) I wonder if it would be worth investigating a proposal of a 1-day workshop on one of OSGeo's desktop GIS packages (e.g., and Introduction to GIS) or going through the LiveDVD, or the use of NASA WorldWind to support landcover change research (brainstorming here...)? 2) Would anyone on this list be able to go to Edmonton and want to propose a workshop -- maybe that would require participants to bring laptops? (I can help make that connection to the conference organizers). Again, it might be too late, but this is an important global scholarly and practitioner association who would have users and appreciation of OSGeo technology and GeoForAll open access educational efforts. Contact me if you think you might be interested in going and flying the GeoForAll flag there, maybe by offering a workshop. Cheers Charlie [1] http://www.iasc2015.org/ On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Colleagues, Let me also take this opportunity to also thank Charlie and the whole GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 committee for their help and inputs for this initiative which will have long term positive impacts in education efforts globally. I would like to also congratulate Charlie ( i just saw this today!) on his winning the international award honouring the late political economist Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. I am really grateful to Charlie's strong support for all our Open Geo Education efforts from the very start. On behalf of Geo for All' community, we are really proud and happy that Charlie has been recognised as one of the top 50 innovators in education for his cutting-edge use of open-source software in the classroom and as a research tool. Details at http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/open-source Open Education Week is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on the bigger purpose and join forces in using our collective knowledge to help open education opportunities to all to enable a better future for all. Best wishes, Suchith From: Anand Suchith Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 7:27 AM To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 Dear colleagues, On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015 http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , Geo for All community http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all educators worldwide who have made contributions to open education efforts and being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all. We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for us to thank colleagues for their excellent contributions to Openness in Education principles in the Geo domain. Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award In no particular order, the nominees are: INDIVIDUALS - Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1] - Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2] - Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for the course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos orientado a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems for Education using Open Data” [3] - Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central New Mexico Community College [4] - Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for his course on “Open Web Mapping” [5] - Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6] TEAMS - Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for their EduGIS Academy [7] - Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for their Interactive Web Maps course [8] - Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, USA for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing” [9] - Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy Morley (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz (Prodevelop) for their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University of Girona in Spain [10] - Ricardo
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo for All logo
Maybe a new global contest topic - a logo for GeoForAll? - Charlie On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) patrick.ho...@nasa.gov wrote: Suchith, Everybody has all the their clothes on! And just too much repeat of the same four people. Looks like a lot of Northern Hemisphere folks without much 'middle planet' people I think we need more diversity. And the land/sea masses just don’t look right. There is no sense that this is Earth. [image: http://2013.foss4g.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/geo4all.jpg] -Patrick (650) 604-5656 (office) (650) 269-2788 (cell) -Original Message- From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 10:11 AM To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo for All logo Hi All, I have been getting lot of queries on if there is a logo for Geo for All and i think it is now time for us to have logo. As Geo for All started with FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham and i saw we did have a logo but i don't remember who/when it was created other than the info given at the website [Geo for All thx to Julia Freeman-Woolper ] at http://2013.foss4g.org/welcome/index.html Steven or anyone in the FOSS4G 2013 Team - Do any of you remember this Julia Freeman-Woolper or got her contact? Did she contribute the logo for us? If so, please let me know as i like the logo she created and would like to use this as the Geo for All logo in our website etc. from now. Suchith . This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ ica-osgeo-labs mailing list ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs ___ ica-osgeo-labs mailing list ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs -- Charlie Schweik Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/ Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545 Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominations invited for Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015 - keep them coming!
Dear colleagues, a reminder: We continue to accept nominations for Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015. Anyone who wish to nominate should send the details by email to me [email - cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu ] with the subject header - Nomination for Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015. Please include the Course instructor details with the url to the course details (or attachment with the course details). Ideally if there is website for the program it will be helpful. Or any other information on more broad, relevant educational efforts. All applications should be received by 28th Feb 2015 before 12:00 PM GMT to be considered for this award. Thank you -- and thank you to the sponsors of this award. Charlie Schweik, (on behalf of the award committee:) Prof. Charlie Schweik (USA) - Chair of the Committee Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA) Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo) Chen Jun (President, ISPRS) Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli ( Italy) Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA) Dr. Luciene Delazari ( Brazil) Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu ( Malaysia) Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India) Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil) Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands) Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa) Prof. Helena Mitasova ( USA) Anne Ghisla (Germany) Patrick Hogan (USA) Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Edu] Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from Jul 17th 2013 at Coursera
Sorry Anthony, OSGeo edu folks - my bad. That email from Suchith was held up in the Mailman system and it was posted last week. I just approved the post without noticing that it was mentioning the telemeeting that took place a few days ago. In short, there IS NOT a telemeeting tomorrow. Charlie Schweik On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Hi Anthony, ** ** It was good to meet you briefly at ICC 2013 in Dresden last week and i hope i was able to provide basic information on ELOGeo and ICA-OSGeo Lab education initiatives. ** ** It will be very helpful, if you can share your ideas and experiences to OSGeo Edu community so we can think of ideas for MOOC program entirely using OSGeo Software for the future. We also have an rapidly expanding ICA-OSGeo Lab Network. Details at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives (we are now working to setup a new portal) and we hope you join the lab network. ** ** We have monthly telemeetings which are open to all interested and you are welcome to join. For example, our next telemeeting is tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. Agenda at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Network_2013-09-05 ** ** We look forward to work with you on the education initiatives. ** ** Best wishes, ** ** Suchith ** ** ** ** *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Cameron Shorter *Sent:* 29 June 2013 23:23 *To:* Anthony C Robinson *Cc:* 'OSGeo Discussions'; edu_disc...@lists.osgeo.org *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from Jul 17th 2013 at Coursera ** ** Hello Anthony and others in the OSGeo Education space. Anthony, It seems your email is not getting through to our email lists, which is probably because you are not subscribed. I suggest doing so here: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss All, See Anthony's response below. This email thread was started on the OSGeo Discuss list, but please continue on the edu-discuss list. In responding to this email, please drop the discuss@lists.osgeo.org in response (and subscribe to the edu-discuss if you wish to follow along). Anthony, There have been quite a bit of discussion on our edu-discuss list about MOOCs, and so your course and what you have learned so far is very relevant to all of us. The part of MOOC development which personally interests me (extending from my involvement in OSGeo-Live) is how to develop a process for maintaining and extending MOOC courses. In particular, from within the 30,000 students attending your course, there is likely to be many with excellent ideas for improvements. How do you capture such ideas, and at the same time retain the single focus and simplicity core to good educational material? How do you ensure that your material is updated whenever software is updated? How can your training material be retasked for a different audience (eg for primary school students)? Then once you have multiple courses all based upon the same core material, how do you ensure they all get updated together? These are questions we have working on when generating documentation for OSGeo-Live, which I've described here: http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/memoirs-of-cat-herder-coordinating.html With regards to some of your other points, I'll be interested to hear responses from the Educators within the OSGeo community. (I'm better described as a Software Developer, Technical Writer and Coordinator). On 30/06/13 03:20, ANTHONY C ROBINSON wrote: Hi Cameron, I really appreciate you touching base with me about this and sharing your discussions on my MOOC. I hadn’t yet seen the OSGeo-Live site or packages – this is great to know about and I will change my instructions in the class to point to these resources instead of the piece-by-piece approach I’d been taking with respect to highlighting various open source geo-efforts. While students in the class will use ArcGIS Online for 4 of the 5 lab assignments, for the final lab assignment I have created a tiered-approach with multiple options to hopefully encourage some of the most eager/tech savvy students to try out platforms like QGIS, GRASS, etc… I’m aware of some OS community angst about my selection of AGOL for doing most of the labs in the course. I’ve worked for 10 years in the GeoVISTA Center, a GIScience research center that has been very active in developing open source systems for geovisualization and geocomputation. In addition, I lead Online Geospatial Education programs at Penn State, which to my knowledge represent the only Geography programs that provide Open Educational Resources for nearly all of its online courses ( open.ems.psu.edu). So the clear value and innovation associated with all things open is not lost on me, and I
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Dear Professor Schweik,
The competition below may be of interest to some OSGeo development teams. -- Charlie Schweik -- Forwarded message -- From: Flora Kang ossawa...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:48 PM Subject: Dear Professor Schweik, To: cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu My name is Sohee Kang. I’m in charge of attracting participants to the Korean government's Ministry of Science, ICT Future Planning's Open Source Software World Challenge 2013. This is the 7th competition. USD $31,000 in total will be awarded to winners in the international division of this open source software competition. I’m really sorry for bothering you, but we would feel highly honored to have your students as participants. *International participants are exclusively allowed to submit any open source software developed within one year, even if they got a prize from another competition with it. In addition, even projects over one year old will be accepted by our judging panel as well, if it has been significantly improved recently.* Please visit our website www.ossaward.org. Our registration deadline is August 4th. The final submission deadline is October 6th. I hope you encourage your students to participate. I’m quite sure that this will be a great opportunity for them. Every team that submits its completed project will get an official certificate issued by NIPA of Korea. They have only to submit project document, source code and demo video in English, or provide the project URL including all. We’ll wire the award money to the winners. If you have any questions or need more information, please contact me at ossawa...@gmail.com . Your help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Sohee Kang ‘Open Source Software World Challenge 2013’ Secretariat -- Charlie Schweik Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Environmental Conservation - http://eco.umass.edu Center for Public Policy and Administration - http://masspolicy.org Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government - http://ncdg.org Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545 Outsmart Invasive Species project: http://masswoods.net/outsmart ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] More on the OSGeo educational webinar idea
Dear OSGeo colleagues, Regarding our proposal to start an OSGeo educational webinar. It occurred to me that some on these lists might not fully understand what we are proposing. First, please check out [1] -- it is a recorded webinar stored on YouTube and example of what we hope to achieve. (This is a webinar put on by Phil Davis' GeoTech center -- Phil is an OSGeo education committee member, and nicely providing the webinar hosting system). Second, I urge knowledgable representatives from OSGeo software projects to consider working with us to schedule an Introduction to your technology webinar. Other webinar ideas are WELCOME. Please add your ideas (and your name, email) to our webinar ideas wiki page [2]. All of these would be recorded and, with permission of the speaker, stored on YouTube and hopefully inventoried in the new educational material repository being hosted by Suchith Anand and his ELOGeo group at the University of Nottingham, UK. See our main OSGeo education page [3]. I do hope some on these lists will step up and help us move this idea forward. This is a great marketing opportunity, especially knowing we can store these on YouTube and in our online searchable database. Charlie Schweik OSGeo Edu committee chair [1] http://www.youtube.com/user/GeospatialTechnology?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/-vv7OcxATh0 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_webinars [3] http://www.osgeo.org/education ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Let's start a new OSGeo education webinar initiative
Dear OSGeo colleagues, [This is a copy of a note I sent to the OSGeo education group yesterday. My hope is that some of the software teams will be willing to do an introduction webinar on their products.] I'd like to propose that we start a new OSGeo education webinar series. Thanks to Phil Davis and the GeoTech center [1] we now have webinar capabilities. An obvious first step would be to have a set of Introduction to OSGeo technologies webinars. These would be recorded so we can start to build a video educational repository. I've established a wiki page at [2] to allow potential presenters to sign up. With the new year coming soon, I'm hoping we can get at least 12 webinars identified for the 2012 year to be developed by people who are subject experts. Or, if you have any ideas on other potential topics, feel free to contact me. Thanks, Charlie Schweik OSGeo edu committee chair [1] http://www.geotechcenter.org/ [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_webinars ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open StreamMap?
Hi all, Thanks for all the comments on the Open Stream Map idea. The driving force behind my question was that I just came back from a workshop on citizen science and had seen a variety of successful efforts... for example the ebird project at Cornell University. Given the issues surrounding water in the future, I found myself wondering about the use of an open street map model but for water inventory. That's about as far as I am on this -- it was just an idea I thought might be worthwhile floating to the OSGeo group. Not sure where it goes from here... if anyone wants to move it along further -- go for it! Thanks for the responses... Charlie Schweik Quoting andrea giacomelli pibi...@gmail.com: Dear Charlie, The idea is interesting, but I concur with Robert that -in order to provide some more educated feedback, it would be also interesting to know a little more about your initial driver. I have worked in the past in surface hydrology and water resources management, and more recently I have been heavily involved in awareness raising on thematic crowdsourcing, so I could think of a couple of ways to start this... However, I think it would be important to understand a little more the invasive plant species effort part of your idea in order to elaborate on your request. Thanks! - Andrea Giacomelli http://www.pibinko.org i...@pibinko.org +39 347 15 33 857 2011/5/28 Charlie Schweik cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu Hi, I find myself wondering if there is a possibility of starting an open stream map project in a similar way to open street map? With the idea that this might be connected to an invasive plant species effort too... It is an interesting idea -- roads are relatively stable. Streams have additional attributes, like water levels. Any reactions or ideas on how this might be started? Cheers Charlie Schweik ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
