Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Education is central to the key missions of OSGeo, ISPRS and ICA . They all have thier seperate education committees, WGs etc but when we all join together on a common aim of making geospatial education and opportunities for all , it adds lot of synergies and that was the main reason of the succ

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
Hello, This is my personal view that do not reflect the opinion of the board, but only of a single member. If Geo4All is an extension of the edu committee aiming to be cross-organization, I would expect the edu-com to formerly represent osgeo with respect to Ica and ISPRS and this is not the case.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Tom but there no need for any donations for this. We have already got offers of volunteers to help us for the website developments ( 2 already) and i hope we get 3 more volunteers, so we can have them to support University of Southampton colleagues in the website developments. Also Un

[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC Point Cloud ad hoc meeting registration details

2015-05-21 Thread Scott Simmons
Dear OSGeo community, Please note that we have opened registration for the upcoming Point Cloud ad hoc session at the OGC Boulder Technical Committee meeting. That session is scheduled for 1300 Mountain Daylight Time (1900 UTC) on Monday, 1 June. Registration details can be found at: https:/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please vote and select "Geo for All" logo

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear Silvia, On behalf of "Geo for All", Congratulations for your logo design which will be now our logo for Geo for All :) Thank you for your help and efforts. Also my sincere thanks to all colleagues who send thier logos. Best wishes, Suchith From: M

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please vote and select "Geo for All" logo

2015-05-21 Thread Marco Minghini
Dear Suchith and all, the author of logo 3 was Silvia Guerini, our wonderful designer (in CC)! Thank you Silvia and congratulations! Marco Marco Minghini, Ph.D. GEO Laboratory, Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como (Italy) +39 031 3327540 marco.mingh...@polimi.it @Marco

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OTB Users meeting and hackfest 2015 (June 3, 4, 5)

2015-05-21 Thread Jeff McKenna
Thanks for sharing this (great to see familiar community names helping another project). You may also wish to submit an OSGeo news item for your event, so it appears on osgeo.org (follow short steps at http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/submit_news.html). -jeff On 2015-05-21 12:14 PM, Rash

[OSGeo-Discuss] OTB Users meeting and hackfest 2015 (June 3,4, 5)

2015-05-21 Thread Rashad M
Hello, The OTB user meeting && hackfest dates are finalized!. You can find program schedule on otb wiki[1]. For those interested in attending, please add your name in the wiki page. See you soon! [1] http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/OTB_Users_meeting_and_hackfest_2015 [2] http://wiki.orf

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please vote and select "Geo for All" logo

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Sergio, thank you for following this up :) Colleagues, we now have our "Geo for All" logo based on the maximum no. of votes. From the results GEO4All_3 logo is the clear winner with maximum votes. I thank everyone who contributed the logos. In fact, we didnt plan to have a logo competition but

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Charles Schweik
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 > Ed

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
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 ini

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Charles Schweik
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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Phillip for the prompt response. I am hoping to get as many volunteers for this as possible, so we can spread the efforts. Best wishes, Suchith From: Phillip Davis [pda...@delmar.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:34 AM To: Suchith Anand; Steve

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
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 whol