[OSGeo-Discuss] Deadlines approaching

2018-01-31 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Hi everybody! Two important deadlines are approaching: 1) Academic Track abstract submission to FOSS4G NA (https://2018.foss4g-na.org): 8 February 2018 2) Academic Track abstract submission to International FOSS4G (http://2018.foss4g.org): 15 February 2018. Don't miss these occasions of presenti

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community

2018-01-31 Thread Suchith Anand
Great work everyone. I will request Nikos to promote this in next month's GeoForAll newsletter Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Maria Antonia Brovelli Sent: 31 January 2018 21:49 To: Margherita Di Leo; news_i...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community

2018-01-31 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Dear Margherita and all wonderful team of mentors Thanks a lot. In my opinion, this is one of the most valuable activity of 2017. As educator, I can say that behind this numbers there is a great commitment, work and also enthusiasm and generosity. And there are probably fantastic stories and fa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] identifying sponsorship opportunities for 2018

2018-01-31 Thread Jody Garnett
Asking our community what activities are available for sponsorship has been ... mediocre at best. We have our first sponsorship renewals starting in February - and several key activities are late to the party: - FOSS4G - while esri, google and world bank are listed there is no invitation to spons

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community

2018-01-31 Thread Margherita Di Leo
*OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source communityAfter participating many years in the Google Summer of Code, OSGeo recently participated for the first time in the Google Code-in. Google Code-in is a contest held each year to introduc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Can anyone please update on OSGeo interactions with GEO?

2018-01-31 Thread Suchith Anand
Gilberto, I also understand that GEO is working on Identifying WP [1] opportunities for Commercial Sector [2] . I think this will be a good opportunity for the commercial sector in the OSGeo ecosystem [3] to proactively engage with GEO. I didn’t see any presence of commercial sector in the OSGe