Re: [OSGeoLive] [Geo4All] Help needed for AgriGIS capacity development across Africa

2019-09-28 Thread Marguerite Madden 
Dear Kiringai,

My apologies for not responding sooner to your email. September is the 
beginning of our Fall Term and university duties have a way of consuming my 
time! I will confer with our special issue guest editors to see if they agree 
with this request to extend the deadline for manuscript submissions on 
"Applications of Geospatial Science in Disaster Mitigation and Conflict 
Resolution in Africa" to the journal Geo-spatial Information Science. This will 
allow you to distribute the announcement at the forum on Geospatial Data and 
Internet 
Conference
 in October.

Thank you so much for your support!
Best regards,
Marguerite

Marguerite Madden, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Center for Geospatial Research (CGR)
Department of Geography
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-2379 (Office)
706-340-7945 (Cell)

From: Kiringai Kamau 
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:33 PM
To: Marguerite Madden 
Cc: Suchith Anand ; Osgeolive 
; GeoForAll ; 
wmusa...@uj.ac.za ; fananu...@gmail.com 
; Van Niekerk, A, Prof [a...@sun.ac.za] 
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Help needed for AgriGIS capacity development across 
Africa

[External Sender]
Thank you so very much, Marguerite!

Your kindness to share the call and to extend the deadline for us to engage 
with the expected participants in the Ghana meeting is highly appreciated.

As you may advise, we can respond to this as GODAN Africa or share the same in 
the forums where we are spreading the word about the conference so that as many 
people as are facing challenges that you seek can respond.

Our agenda is to create awareness of the opportunities that lie in open 
solutions and what we have access to but we do not know exists, to address the 
potential that lies in GeoScience. We believe that the opportunities that lie 
untapped, the cause for the bulge in youth unemployment, can be addressed 
through knowledge sharing that derives from open data; and that the use of 
GeoScience can ably address this.

As soon as you share the drift in your expected mode of response to the email, 
I shall link up with our partners in RCMRD; with whom we have joined hands to 
promote this and give you a fitting response next week.

Sincerely yours,

Kiringai

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:03 PM Marguerite Madden 
mailto:mmad...@uga.edu>> wrote:
Dear Kiringai,

I have read with interest your email exchanges with Suchith about building 
geospatial capacity in Africa and wanted to share this announcement and Call 
for Papers for a special issue of Geo-spatial Information Science (GSIS) on 
"Application of Geospatial Science in Disaster Mitigation and Conflict 
Resolution in Africa".  All publication costs for Open Access articles accepted 
for this issue will be covered by Wuhan University so it may be a good 
opportunity for you and others to publish your success stories and challenges 
with earth observations, GNSS, sensor networks, GIS, mobile mapping and 
geovisualization - among others.

The submission deadline for manuscripts is noted as 10 October 2019, but I will 
be happy to negotiate for more time, especially given the timing or your 
upcoming conferences in Ghana.
Contact information for the Guest Editors are listed below. Please feel free to 
contact any of us if you have any questions.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Best regards,
Marguerite


  *   Walter Musakwa, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of 
Johannesburg, South Africa. wmusa...@uj.ac.za
  *   Fanan Ujoh, Centre for Sustainability and Resilient Infrastructure and 
Communities (SaRIC), London South Bank University, United Kingdom. 
fananu...@gmail.com
  *   Marguerite Madden, Center for Geospatial Research (CGR), Department of 
Geography, University of Georgia, USA. mmad...@uga.edu
  *   Adriaan Van Niekerk, Centre for Geographical Analysis, Stellenbosch 
University, South Africa. a...@sun.ac.za


Marguerite Madden, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Center for Geospatial Research (CGR)
Department of Geography
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-2379 (Office)
706-340-7945 (Cell)

From: GeoForAll 
mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>> 
on behalf of Kiringai Kamau 
mailto:kiringai.ka...@godan.info>>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:34 PM
To: Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>>
Cc: Osgeolive mailto:osgeolive@lists.osgeo.org>>; 
GeoForAll mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>>
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Help needed for AgriGIS capacity development across 
Africa

[External Sender]
Thanks, Suchith for the kind words and the good memories of where we have come 
from!

I am humbled to be invited to this forum and to join the community of the 
people keen to change the world through knowledge sharing. It is a pursuit we 
all s

[OSGeoLive] #2186: Contact US link in wiki doesn't send to a contact page

2019-09-28 Thread OSGeoLive 
#2186: Contact US link in wiki doesn't send to a contact page
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 Reporter:  bakaniko   |  Owner:  osgeolive@…
 Type:  enhancement| Status:  new
 Priority:  minor  |  Milestone:  OSGeoLive14.0
Component:  Documentation  |   Keywords:  documentation, contact us
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 The first link  in the contact us section [1] send to OSGeoLive Wiki [2].
 It contents only a link that send to the trac wiki [3]

 I suggest that it should refers to the trac page or nothing as the contact
 us page on the documentation [3] will be translated and be revised at each
 release.

 This is as been spotted with the help of aeylinen on Transifex (Thanks)

 [1] https://live.osgeo.org/en/contact.html
 [2] http\://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive#Contact_Us
 [3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive#Communication

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Re: [OSGeoLive] [OSGeo-Discuss] What terms should go into an OSGeo Glossary?

2019-09-28 Thread Cameron Shorter 

To keep you in the loop,

Both the OGC and ISO/TC211 Glossary teams, who manage glossaries of 
spatial terms have reached out to us about collaborating around 
developing an OSGeo glossary. It looks like they have tools which we 
could make use of.


The conversation is unfolding on the OSGeo Standards list. If you are 
interested, I suggest viewing the email archive and/or subscribing to 
the list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards


On 28/9/19 7:09 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Thanks everyone. Felicity and I have received scores responses, both 
publicly and privately. We've been pointed to a bunch of links to 
existing material, and received some really good suggestions.
... 


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