Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...

2016-10-27 Thread Jeff McKenna
Maybe what we are missing are the existing OSGeo-led education labs inside highschools - I was cooking now and thought of the great work being done by Bridget Fleming with the South African highschool geography teachers. How can we publish and share this great work, and spread that out to othe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...

2016-10-27 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Sergio, Thank you for sharing this news. I'd like to take this opportunity to take a moment for us, our foundation, to look in the mirror. Like this article points out strongly (yet indirectly), we still have much work to do to reach the youth of today and tomorrow. And I don't mean the U

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...

2016-10-27 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Sergio, geo4all, Sounds like a challenge to me. Why not reach out to the editor and offer to help them write another article about all the Open Source Geospatial initiatives? On 28/10/2016 2:36 AM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote: Sadly, only ESRI seems to exist for some in the USA...Imagine t

[OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...

2016-10-27 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Sadly, only ESRI seems to exist for some in the USA...Imagine the consequences of this: http://www.pobonline.com/articles/100610-gathering-up-geospatial-pros-to-meet-massive-market-growth? Sergio Acosta y Lara Departamento de Geomática Dirección Nacional de Topografía Ministerio de Transporte y

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo Africa] FOSS GIS service providers

2016-10-27 Thread Jeff McKenna
Sharing a nice message from the OSGeo-Africa chapter Forwarded Message Subject: [OSGeo Africa] FOSS GIS service providers Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:10:15 +0200 From: Gavin Fleming Reply-To: Africa local chapter discussions To: Africa local chapter discussions If you o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] EUROGEO 2017 & Inviting ideas for compiling a book to record "GeoForAll" developments and initiatives

2016-10-27 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Dear Karl, thanks. I want also to be involved and I can contribute writing about the UN Open GIS Initiative. Many thanks and best regards! Maria Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor Politecnico di Mila