Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] UN-GGIM Academic Network

2017-06-15 Thread Kiringai Kamau
Maria, Thanks for this invite. The Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing of the University of Nairobi, the linkages organization for the university, which I lead, will join to represent the SDG Agenda for us. Sincerely, Kiringai Kamau. Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Jun

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM Academic Network

2017-06-15 Thread Peter Mooney
This is great news - Congratulations and well done Maria on the development of the UN-GGIM Academic Network. Just to echo what Jody said about GeoForAll - I would be very interested to hear your opinion, and Suchith's opinion, on where GeoForAll stands now that this more formalised and high level

[OSGeo-Discuss] Request for Conference Committee Chairperson for FOSS4G NA 2018

2017-06-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
Dear FOSS4G Community, We, the FOSS4G NA Core Committee, are looking for a volunteer to chair the conference committee for the FOSS4G North America 2018 conference. The Conference Committee Chair (CCC) will be responsible for working with the Logistical Organizer (LO) to run a successful

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM Academic Network

2017-06-15 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
At the beginning of August. Therefore there is a bit of time for sharing our ideas. Best, Maria Sent from my Samsung device Original message From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA Date: 15/06/2017 18:52 (GMT+00:00) To: Suchith Anand

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] assistance needed for changes in GeoForAll wikipages and mailing lists

2017-06-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Sergio, Please file a separate ticket for each issue in OSGeo's Trac instance (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/newticket) : - one ticket for the mailing list changes (choose component "Mailing Lists" when filing ticket) - another ticket for the wiki changes (choose component "Wiki" when

[OSGeo-Discuss] assistance needed for changes in GeoForAll wikipages and mailing lists

2017-06-15 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Hi all. I need assistance as we need to make some changes to 2 wikipages inside GeoForAll. We need to delete one of them and I don't know how to do this. Also, we need to change it's corresponding mailing lists: delete one of them and change the name of the other but keeping its subscribers (of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM Academic Network

2017-06-15 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Hi María. Thanks for sharing this. When is it the meeting going to take place? Regards, Sergio Acosta y Lara Departamento de Geomática Dirección Nacional de Topografía Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330 http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM Academic Network

2017-06-15 Thread Suchith Anand
Yes and this is exactly what we want as it will us more impact for Open Principles in GeoEducation in as many dimensions as possible. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Maria Antonia Brovelli

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM Academic Network

2017-06-15 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Did you look at the website of UN-GGIM? It is a forum of representatives of the Members States or, in case of the Academic Network, of representatives of Universities and Research Centers. It is another level (instututional) with respect to GeoForAll. The Universities involved in GeoForAll can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM Academic Network

2017-06-15 Thread Jody Garnett
Can they consider joining GeoForAll, or is there a reason a new network is being setup... -- Jody Garnett On 15 June 2017 at 02:52, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote: > Dear All > As probably some of you already know, recently was created, under UN-GGIM, > the Academic

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM Academic Network

2017-06-15 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Maria for sharing this excellent updates. We need to have all our labs join the UN-GGIM Academic Network and ensure strong support for Open Principles in Education. I am in Africa right now for a G77 Ministerial conference and it is important that Africa and other developing regions

[OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM Academic Network

2017-06-15 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Dear All As probably some of you already know, recently was created, under UN-GGIM, the Academic Network. Here you can see all details http://unggim.academicnetwork.org In my opinion it is relevant that all universities and research centers contributing to the UN mandate and the SDGs are part of