[OSGeo-Discuss] UN Committee

Dear All We are happy to announce that the OSGeo UN Committee launched yesterday the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge [1], thanks also to the support of Boundless [2], who is sponsoring one of the three challenges. Two challenges are related to the UN Open GIS Initiative [to know more

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Townhall - Please participate if you are at EGU 2018

Thanks to Peter for sharing the excellent updates on OSGeo Townhall on 10th April at this year’s EGU General Assembly in Vienna (www.egu2018.eu) If you are attending EGU , please do participate in the discussion at the Townhall meeting TM8 "OSGeo Townhall: Open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO US National Chapter

Good Morning Maria, It's going well - I'm just moving slow in my juggling. My list has two things I need to accomplish today: OSGEO Page and Email listserve. Yes - in the months leading up to this we reached out to as many people as we could - some on the Wiki and some not. I hoped this

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for volunteers to join the GeoAmbassodor article team

Thank you Dirk. It is all thanks to the amazing volunteer work of our Editor and co-editors. Thank you for your offer to help promote and find people to contribute content. That is very gratefully accepted. We need wide range of skillsets (esp. those who can promote and try to find people

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO US National Chapter

Hi Randal, How is the chapter creation going? I see there is no page yet on the osgeo.org webpage: https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/ Can you make sure there is at least a draft page where the contact point and the status of the chapter are reflected? Also I see there are some local chapters

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for volunteers to join the GeoAmbassodor article team

Sushith, This is a great magazine and I will certainly promote it during the outreach activities we plan. I will/can not volunteer as an author, but I will promote and try to find people who can contribute to the content of the magazine. Hope this can help. Good work! Dirk On 01-04-18 09:53,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for volunteers to join the GeoAmbassodor article team

May I use this opportunity to also request interested colleagues to come forward to volunteer for the GeoAmbassodor article team. We have given this call out few times including in the Editorial that Nikos published in Aug 2016 [1] but no-one came forward so far . It will be great to have few

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Dr. Claus Rinner

Thank you Patrick for sharing this amazing cartographer Marie Tharp's story. I just listened to the recording , it is truly amazing work that she did. I request all colleagues to please send your nominations of our amazing colleagues globally (get their permission first!) to Nikos and myself.