[OSGeo-Discuss] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

Dear colleagues, On behalf of GeoForAll, I am pleased to see excellent projects taking shape for this year's NASA Europa Challenge . All these students have put lot of efforts and even if they don’t win the final awards , they all are true winners. Some of the excellent projects submitted

[OSGeo-Discuss] OPEN: What do we value?

Dear colleagues, The Open Ed SIG hosted a webinar last week to bring together the most active thinkers and do-ers in the international world of open representing many exciting projects from across the many Open Education communities in order to facilitate a discussion of our shared values. The

[OSGeo-Discuss] Research Data Alliance's outputs facilitating public procurement in Europe

This might be of interest A major milestone for the Research Data Alliance in Europe: four ICT specifications in the area of research data produced by this initiative are now eligible for referencing in public procurement in the EU. The rules on European standardisation allow the European

[OSGeo-Discuss] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone

less fortunate. I will be a voice for Open Principles in Science and Education and promote this pledge through my networks.” Thank you for your support. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org GeoForAll - Building and expanding

[OSGeo-Discuss] A Small Circle in Asia Contains More Than Half the World's Population – But How many GI Scientists are from here?

Dear colleagues, For decades high cost properitary GIS reduced the education and entrepreneurship opportunities in GIS for the economically poor. But now Thanks to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and all OSGeo and open education volunteers , these inequalities for access to geospatial

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone

, turn over builds, and so on. And I think you will find people who are creating value by helping in practical ways will gain much greater personal satisfaction than signing a pledge. So I'd focus on working out ways to help people help others. Warm regards, Cameron On 16/7/17 9:28 pm, Suchith

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll - BoF on 19th July @ 18:30 - All welcome

after 21:00 Good luck , I am looking forward to meeting you on Thursday and Friday! Best regards - Franz-Josef Am 16.07.2017 um 09:49 schrieb Suchith Anand: I have added this in the wiki at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-Europe_2017_Bof Room is L006 on 19th July Wednesday. See you all there.

[OSGeo-Discuss] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone

. I will work to advance and increase Open Knowledge for the benefit of all humanity with special consideration of those less fortunate. I will be a voice for Open Principles in Science and Education and promote this pledge through my networks. 2017-07-15 11:49 GMT+02:00 Suchith Anand

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] The future of Geo is Open

Stefan P.S. Thanks Suchith for your engagement. I wish I could make it more to all those conferences like FOSS4G... Actually, I'm planning to go at least to State of the Map in Japan in August (OpenStreetMap, http://2017.stateofthemap.org/ ). May be I could pitch OSGeo there? 2017-07-15 11:49 GMT+02

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The future of Geo is Open

17-07-06 10:24 GMT+02:00 Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>>: Dear colleagues, This is a request for help as I need inputs from the wider community to get more ideas for my presentation at FOSS4G-Europe 2017 later

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: OPEN: what do we value?

Join us today at 1pm . Details below. Best wishes, Suchith From: Open Educational Resources on behalf of Teresa MacKinnon Sent: 11 July 2017 11:29 AM To: oer-disc...@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: OPEN:

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll Newsleter Vol.3, no.7 July 2017

Thank you Nikos and all editors for another excellent edition of our newsletters at http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/ Congrats to our colleagues at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento, Italy as the GeoForAll Lab of the month .The

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The future of Geo is Open

lps? I like that we are hitting the same ideas / concepts. -- Jody Garnett On 6 July 2017 at 01:24, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Dear colleagues, This is a request for help as I need inputs from the wider community to get

[OSGeo-Discuss] The future of Geo is Open

Dear colleagues, This is a request for help as I need inputs from the wider community to get more ideas for my presentation at FOSS4G-Europe 2017 later this month. My keynote presentation will be on “The future of Geo is Open” and I would like to invite ideas/inputs for this. It is also an

[OSGeo-Discuss] Thank you to Boston LOC

Charlie, thanks for sharing these excellent updates. Great work on setting the Academic track infrastructure for future FOSS4G events. I want to thank all the Boston LOC volunteers for their commitment and efforts over many months to make FOSS4G 2017 possible. The magic of FOSS4G is team work

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Help needed on Open weather data

data too for India. Just need to register on it. http://www.mosdac.gov.in/data/ With Best regards Darshana Rawal On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Dear colleagues, I have a request for help. Rahul To

[OSGeo-Discuss] Help needed on Open weather data

Dear colleagues, I have a request for help. Rahul Tomar and students from IIIT Jabalpur, India are working on the GODAN-NASA Challenge. Thier project called FarmsNtech aims to help farmers by providing a complete understanding about the weather pattern to maximize the crop yield or lessen the

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Hokkaido 2017 - Live conference webcasts now

Greetings to all our colleagues in Japan who are organising FOSS4G Hokkaido 2017 this week to expand the wave of ‘Openness’ that is sweeping across the world and gains traction and momentum in every facet of society. The full conference program at http://foss4g.hokkaido.jp The theme of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN SDG book updates

0 http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/ De: GeoForAll-ab <geoforall-ab-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> Enviado: domingo, 04 de junio de 2017 7:48 Para: geoforall...@lists.osgeo.org Asunto: [geoforall-ab] UN SDG boo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Statement of the Ministers for Agriculture at the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Data (GODAN) Conference

Might be of interest to those in open data http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/06/statement-of-the-ministers-for-agriculture-at-the-global-open-data-for-agriculture-and-nutrition-data-godan-conference-and-the-4th-agritec-africa-exhibition/ Best wishes, Suchith This message and any

[OSGeo-Discuss] Greetings to everyone at FOSS4G Africa 2017

Greetings to all our colleagues who are working for the success of FOSS4G Africa 2017 in Johannesburg this week. It is also a great lead-up to FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam and to expand the wave of 'Openness' that is sweeping across the world and gains traction and momentum in every facet of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RDA EU Early Career support Programme for the RDA10 @ Montrèal, Canada

on (NR) Assistant Professor, Civil Engg Deptt., PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh Cell No. 09888607006, 09463594149 0172-2753373/51 (O) On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Dear colleagues, The Rese

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please help GeoForAll look good

Thanks Jody for the updates. I am ccing GeoForAll colleagues who will get back to you with inputs. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Jody Garnett Sent: 23 June 2017 5:31 PM To:

[OSGeo-Discuss] RDA EU Early Career support Programme for the RDA10 @ Montrèal, Canada

Dear colleagues, The Research Data Alliance ( https://www.rd-alliance.org) is a community-driven organization that brings together data scientists, computer scientists, and domain scientists with one common goal – to remove the barriers to data sharing and reuse. The RDA Plenaries are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone

Luís, Many thanks for your inputs. There is an economic and social inequality with regard to access to, use of, or impact of digital opportunities . Yes, we need to highlight the need for bridging the “digital divide” and the importance of providing access to quality education opportunities

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone

est wishes, Suchith From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> Sent: 18 June 2017 7:10 PM To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; geoforall...@lists.osgeo.org; d

[OSGeo-Discuss] Updates from RDA-Europe / BlueBRIDGE Datathon on Fisheries and Aquaculture

Dear all, The summary and slides from the RDA-Europe / BlueBRIDGE Datathon on Fisheries and Aquaculture that was held on 15-16 June 2017 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece might be of interest. The event was kindly hosted by the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture of the

[OSGeo-Discuss] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone

Dear colleagues, Please find below the draft of the pledge for supporting Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone. Please add/modify as needed and send your ideas/inputs and we should aim to have the pledge wording confirmed by July 1st 2017. I

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

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

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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Vol.3, no.06 - June 2017 issue

May I also take this opportunity to send our congratulations to Nikos on his promotion as Professor of Geography Teaching. This is well deserved and we are all happy to see this. Best wishes, Suchith From: GeoForAll

[OSGeo-Discuss] Science for the benefit of people. All people. Worldwide

Dear Colleagues , Last week (7 - 9 June 2017) TU Delft organised an Urban Thinkers’ Campus (UTC ) on Higher Education for the New Urban Agenda. The title of the UTC was “EDUCATION FOR THE CITY WE NEED”. A concept sponsored by UN HABITAT in partnership with the World Urban Campaign. The aim

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Helsinki-NASA Europa Challenge 2017

Great updates Gaurav. HealthGIS is key area that needs open source GIS solutions and your leadership is greatly appreciated. I request all colleagues interested in HealthGIS work together for the benefit of all. Best wishes, Suchith From: GeoForAll

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Helsinki-NASA Europa Challenge 2017

May I also remind that those submitting innovative solutions for urban farming are eligible to compete for the NASA GODAN Local Farming award for the best student application (1000 Euros) http://www.godan.info/news/godan-nasa-europa-student-challenge-announcement There is already a excellent

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Irish Local Chapter Symposium - 26th May 2017

Excellent to hear this updates. Thanks Peter and Irish OSGeo Chapter . Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Jeff McKenna Sent: 27 May 2017 11:11 PM To: osgeo Subject:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Thank you for your support for the global commons movement in education

Dear colleagues, GeoforAll supports the global efforts in advancing high quality education and opportunities for all. All our educational tools like QGIS is free for all schools globally forever. The schools, teachers, students and wider global community are the owners of the software not the

[OSGeo-Discuss] The Fourth Global Soil Week

Dear colleague, The Fourth Global Soil Week (GSW) http://globalsoilweek.org will take place in Berlin, Germany, from 22-24 May 2017. The event will bring together around 600 representatives from governments, and scientific and civil society organizations to assess some the gaps and synergies

[OSGeo-Discuss] The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) signs MoU

Dear colleagues, On behalf of GeoForAll, i warmly welcome the MoU between The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) to establish a collaborative relationship between the members of the AGILE and OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development

ergies in helping each other! http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ -Patrick From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 7:38 AM To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Twentieth S

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Africa 2017

Please share the info. with your contacts and colleagues in Africa. Best wishes, Suchith From: GeoForAll-Africa on behalf of Bridget Fleming Sent: 17 May 2017 5:21 PM To:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to Webinar on The Agriculture Open Data Package - 16th May 2017 @ 3:00 - 4:00 PM BST

Dear all, We would like to invite you to the GODAN Action Webinar on Capacity Development - The Agriculture Open Data Package on 16th May 2017 at 3:00 - 4:00 PM BST Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4973709399892908035 Background: In 2016 GODAN, ODI, the Open Data Charter

[OSGeo-Discuss] The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development

Dear colleagues, The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development was held from 08 – 12 May 2017 ,Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. I am thankful for the opportunity to present my inputs to the esteemed members of the UN Commission on

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll newsletter - Vol.3 no.5 issue

Many thanks Nikos and team for your efforts . Our newsletter http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/ is key instrument to reach out to new communities.Thank you for making this possible. Best wishes, Suchith From: labri...@eled.auth.gr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Summary Outputs from the RDA Agriculture data sessions

he RDA Agriculture data sessions So what is the open source angle of this Suchith? Are we promoting the idea of open source analysis to go with open data / open science? Or is open source just being assumed... -- Jody Garnett On 6 May 2017 at 01:46, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@notting

[OSGeo-Discuss] Summary Outputs from the RDA Agriculture data sessions

Dear colleague, The Research Data Alliance Plenary Meetings constitute a major event where more than 4000 members from 100 countries come together to discuss, develop and promote data-sharing and data-driven research infrastructure through Working and Interest Groups. The 9th Plenary of the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo welcomes 15 GSoC students!

This is excellent. Congrats to all. Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA Sent: 05 May 2017 3:04 PM To: Margherita Di Leo; OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-SoC Subject: Re:

[OSGeo-Discuss] The role of open geodata and innovation in ensuring food security by 2030 – your ideas needed

Dear All, I have a request for help to get your ideas/inputs on 'The role of science, technology and innovation in ensuring food security by 2030'. I have been invited to deliver a presentation at the upcoming 20th session of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for

[OSGeo-Discuss] “GeoForAll” Lab of the Month – the Laboratory of socio-geographical research of the University of Siena, Italy

Dear Colleagues, It is my great pleasure, to introduce our colleagues at the Laboratory of socio-geographical research of the University of Siena, as our “GeoForAll” lab of the month. The University of Siena is one of the most ancient Italian Universities, founded in 1240. LADEST is the

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador– Dr. Peter Mooney

Dear colleagues, On behalf of GeoforAll community, It is my great pleasure to introduce Dr. Peter Mooney as our GeoAmbassador. Peter Mooney received his PhD in Computer Science in 2004 from Maynooth University. The topic of his PhD research was on shortest path optimisation. For the next

[OSGeo-Discuss] Webinar on Capacity Development - "Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" - on April 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

a, let the farmers contribute (via cell phone). Maybe a GODAN Forum where farmers could ask each other questions about practices, pests or other. -Patrick From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:10 AM To: geofor...@li

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reducing scope of OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release

From a education/training perspective i think lowering the release frequency of OSGeo Live to a yearly base will be helpful esp. if we are planning to build educational materials to link OSGeo Live for the future. I am ccing GeoforAll lists as well as there might be other views/opinions.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

OSGeo Live is one of the excellent success stories of OSGeo and it is important as a community we need to pool our ideas/resources for not only keeping building upon this but expanding for the future. Hence i put this in the wider lists to stimulate ideas. For example at the recent RDA meetings

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

I would like to also support the idea that it is convenient to have someone (ideally many) to do the "mass production" of the OSGeo Live USBs esp for training and education programs globally . Are there any SMEs doing this? If not, this is a great opportunity for the SMEs in the OSGeo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Building ideas and frameworks for the global research agenda for Geospatial Data Science

especially for the poorest people (who have less access to costly technologies)? The full list of slides of all presentations are at https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-geospatial-rda-9th-plenary-meeting Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: Open Data Questionnaire - returns by 30 April please!

This might be of wider interest not only to NMAs and other geodata vendors but also the wider geocommunity. Best wishes, Suchith From: GSDI News Sent: 05 April 2017 9:55 AM To: Anand Suchith Subject: Open Data Questionnaire - returns

[OSGeo-Discuss] GODAN Action: Webinar on Capacity Development - "Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" - on April 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

education and training on Open Data in food and agricultural sciences. This is open and free to all interested. Join at https://dgroups.org/fao/godan_cd Best wishes Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ GeoForAll - Building and expa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Newsletter Vol.3, no.04, - April 2017

Thanks to Nikos and all editors for another excellent edition and updates of our newsletter at http://www.geoforall.org/resources/newsletters/vol_3_4/Newsletter%20Vol%203_4.html It is my great pleasure, to introduce our colleagues at Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Geomatics,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] gvSIG receives the award for the best European open source project

Congrats to the whole gvSIG Team on this excellent achievement. This news needs to be added in the OSGeo website and send to Announce lists and other key lists. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Alvaro

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

read, and let us discuss to derive a 'Note', for those facing 'Questions', evangelising Free and Open GIS. I suggest this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_platform for many who wish to know. May be we can have a page on, 'OSGeo Wiki' on this topic. Cheers Ravi Kumar On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] Ideas for the building global research agenda for Geospatial Data Science - Telemeeting link for those connecting remotely

:45. Have a good meeting! Maria Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung Messaggio originale ---- Da: Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> Data: 25/03/17 07:55 (GMT+01:00) A: discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:di

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)

uggest that they have in some way been mislead by vendors whether they are proprietary or open source. Let’s grow the usage of Open Source GI through positive advocacy of its benefits, investment of time and money in high quality marketing and an understanding of and respect for the strengths of our competit

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)

.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier > properitery product as Open ? (Suchith Anand

[OSGeo-Discuss] Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) Pre-Plenary meeting

Dear colleagues, This might be of interest to those working in AgriGIS. The Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) Pre-Plenary meeting is scheduled on 3-4 April 2017 in Barcelona. The two-day meeting, will include presentations during the first day, related to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

and let us discuss to derive a 'Note', for those facing 'Questions', evangelising Free and Open GIS. I suggest this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_platform for many who wish to know. May be we can have a page on, 'OSGeo Wiki' on this topic. Cheers Ravi Kumar On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:45

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

create one...we do need this very much in Africa. Kiringai Sent from my iPhone On 22 Mar 2017, at 23:15, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi all, I have a query. If a properitery GIS vendor starts marketing thier pro

[OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas for the building global research agenda for Geospatial Data Science

our previous meetings and draft agenda below * Updates on Geospatial IG - Suchith Anand (GODAN/University of Nottingham) * Discussions on new WG in Transport Data that is in progress - Beth Zeitler (Millennium Challenge Corporation, USA) * Coverage: Standards for Big Earth Data - Peter Baumann

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

+1 . I am also interested in how we can protect taxpayers money in this. The need for cost savings by using Open source GIS software will help the local authorities and various government departments across Europe in reducing huge licence fee costs for proprietary software and Government and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

Hi all, I have a query. If a properitery GIS vendor starts marketing thier properitery products as Open platform and software then what rights do the organisations and customers have who are mislead buying the properitery software thinking it is open have ? The definision of Proprietary

[OSGeo-Discuss] Recording of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) webinar on capacity development

Dear colleague, The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security. At the GODAN Summit in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll at FOSS4G 2017 - abstracts deadline March 21

Thank you Helena for this. This is excellent ideas. For CitySmart latest updates, I hope Patrick and others can contribute ideas. I was at the Heritage for Planet Earth conference in Florence last week where the students and SMEs presented thier latest work on this. Really impressive

[OSGeo-Discuss] The March to Open continues

Came across this... http://www.directionsmag.com/entry/googles-geospatial-evolution-is-open/490745 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Is Geographic Information Science Proprietary?

to enable open principles in education to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities for everyone. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to GODAN Webinar @ 2pm -3pm (UK time) 15th March 2017

of the activities of the WG and explain how you can get involved. Speakers - André Laperrière (GODAN), Suchith Anand (GODAN) and Isaura Lopes Ramos (CTA) We welcome all interested in joining the GODAN WG on Capacity Development and contributing to education and training on Open Data in food

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll newsletter - web version (Vol. 3, no.3, March 2017)

Thank you Nikos and great to see the html version of our newsletter . Thank you to Jason and colleagues of University of Southampton for this. http://www.geoforall.org/resources/newsletters/vol_3_3/Newsletter%20Vol%203_3.html The voluntary contributions of our editor Nikos and all our

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to join pledge for Presidents of Universities United against Hunger (PUSH)

and sent back either to me or to the address appearing on it. Looking forward to your prompt response and strong support for our common pledge against world hunger. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org GeoForAll - Building

[OSGeo-Discuss] Help Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team map against malaria!

and for their contributions to the GeoForAll initiative and look forward to working and building more collaborations with all interested on this education mission. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ GeoForAll - Building

[OSGeo-Discuss] How NASA and the UN are using location intelligence to build smart cities in developing countries

Very interesting article on How NASA and the UN are using location intelligence to build smart cities in developing countries is at https://www.devex.com/news/how-nasa-and-the-un-are-using-location-intelligence-to-build-smart-cities-in-developing-countries-89721 GeoForAll is very happy to be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy #OpenDataDay

Happy OpenDataDay everyone... Want to say thank you to our all colleagues in The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) at Reading who are running the #OpenDataHack @ECMWF - Beyond weather: explore creative uses of open data ECMWF this weekend. I have great memories of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017

tailed summary if you need it. https://digitalspatial.com/blog/lagos-2017-mapping-party-summary/ Regards Ayo Akinseye Original Message Subject: Re: [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017 From: Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailt

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo India event

Thanks for sharing this updates Ravi Kumar. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Ravi Kumar Sent: 03 March 2017 7:53 AM To: discuss Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo India event

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

There are so many examples of close collaboration of both communities .One recent example of joining efforts was in the relief efforts following Nepal earthquake in 2015 [1] which saved thousands of lives. OSGL Kathmandu University lead by Dr Shashish Maharjan and whole team along with many

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of OpenStreetMap as a World Mapping Agency

ubject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency Suchith Anand wrote: > [...] to further discuss ideas on the rise of Open Street Map > (OSM) as a World Mapping Agency (WMA) build by the efforts of thousands of > volunteers. It is also interesting to se

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of OpenStreetMap as a World Mapping Agency

Mar 2, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Benoit Fournier <ben.fourn...@gmail.com<mailto:ben.fourn...@gmail.com>> wrote: Suchith Anand wrote: > [...] to further discuss ideas on the rise of Open Street Map > (OSM) as a World Mapping Agency (WMA) build by the efforts of thousands of > volunteer

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador– Dr Tuong-Thuy Vu

, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message

[OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/geospatial-ig.html This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee

[OSGeo-Discuss] SMARTIES Entrepreneurship competition - NASA Europa Challenge 2017

forward to work with you to create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities for everyone. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017

Ayo, Thank you for sharing the updates and great to see the community build up . Great to see the community links of OSM and OSGeo expanding rapidly both locally and globally. OSM is now truly the Global Mapping Agency and OSGeo is the world's largest geospatial ecosystem. What a great

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to GODAN Webinar - 15th March 2017

of the WG and explain how you can get involved. Speakers - André Laperrière (GODAN), Suchith Anand (GODAN) and Isaura Lopes Ramos (CTA) We welcome all interested in joining the GODAN WG on Capacity Development and contributing to education and training on Open Data in food and agricultural sciences

[OSGeo-Discuss] SDI-Open 2017

Dear colleague, 28th International Cartographic Conference pre-conference workshop on Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2017) jointly organized by the Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and the Commission on SDI and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: Humanitarian Mapping Education Survey

I request your participation for this Humanitarian Mapping Education Survey (details below) . Humanitarian Mapping community and OSM community have helped us greatly for spreading Open Geospatial Science ideas globally. Best wishes, Suchith From:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Welcoming Tanzania colleagues for expanding STEM Education ideas

l-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 12:45 AM To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Geo4All] Welcoming Tanzania colleagues for expanding STEM Education ideas GeoForAll Colleagues, I would like to welcome Karoli Fabian, Lwidiko Edward to GeoForAll and l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] STEM education using Open Principles

SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] STEM education using Open Principles Suchith, I’m more than happy to connect you to my team members that helped implement this. Best, Mark > On 17 Feb 2017, at 10:45, Suchith Anand &l

[OSGeo-Discuss] STEM education using Open Principles

Over the first week of January 2017, a group of 60 secondary school students gathered at Marian University College, Bagamoyo for a ground-breaking training session - the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Youth Boot Camp organised by Projekt Inspire in collaboration with the

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll Newsletter Vol. 3 no.2 - February 2017

Thanks Nikos and all our editors for another excellent edition. Great article on "DeepVGI – Deep Learning Volunteered Geographic Information - Combining OpenStreetMap, MapSwipe, and Remote Sensing" by Dr. Alexander Zipf (Heidelberg University, Germany) Congratulations to our colleagues at the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: Do you want to do a webinar about FOSS4G for Geo4All?

n Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Dear colleagues, Today, The Open Source Geospatial Foundation celebrates our 11th Anniversary. I would like to send our greetings to everyone on the happy

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy birthday to the community!

Venka, It was great meeting you and many colleagues at Hyderabad and discuss ideas for the future. Thanks for sharing the slides.I will use some of the slides for my presentations as well in the future :-) Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Greetings to everyone as we celebrate our 11th Anniversary

and OSGeo for our efforts to empower everyone with open geo principles to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities for everyone. May the FOSS be with everyone... Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy birthday to the community!

Greetings and congratulations to everyone... Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Jeff McKenna Sent: 04 February 2017 2:29 PM To: osgeo Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] Nigeria Micro Mapping Parties

Hi Ayo, Many thanks for sharing these updates. I am sharing this with discuss list as this might be of wider interest. Please also send a summary of the mapping parties for our newsletter after your events. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith From:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to GODAN-NASA Europa Student Challenge – Bringing geoinnovation for solving Zero Hunger

est wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://geospatialworldforum.org/geoagri.asp [2] http://www.godan.info/working-groups/capacity-development [3] http://www.m

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