[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo UN Committee Challenge: update

2018-05-01 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Dear All please pay attention to this important update about UN Challenge: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/ Considering the many requests, the following condition "The proposal will be shortlisted and its content reviewed only if the sum of the

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Dar es Salaam Update

2018-05-01 Thread Mark Iliffe
Fellow FOSS4Gers! Things are getting hotter in Dar es Salaam!! The DLOC is in the process of finalising the program, after receiving over 10,000 votes in the community voting, the program will be out very soon - our thanks to Paul Ramsey who helped with the running of the program. We received

[OSGeo-Discuss] USAID Offers Prize Money to Combat Fall Armyworm in Africa

2018-05-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, The U.S. Agency for International Development is offering prize money for ways to combat the fall armyworm, a crop-eating pest that has spread across sub-Saharan Africa. The USAID warned last week the pests threaten the livelihood of millions of African farmers.“It is

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoDa- An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis

2018-05-01 Thread Suchith Anand
This workbook for GeoDa might be of wider interest. GeoDa is a free and open source software tool that serves as an introduction to spatial data analysis. It is designed to facilitate new insights from data analysis by exploring and modeling spatial patterns. I am very grateful to Luc