[OSGeo-Discuss] Where is your organisations’s Open Source Report Card?

2016-10-19 Thread Suchith Anand
I saw this information on Google sharing thier Open Source Report Card, highlighting thier most popular projects, sharing a few statistics and detailing some of the projects they have released in 2016. https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/10/google-open-source-report-card.html I thought it

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Principles in Education

2016-10-18 Thread Suchith Anand
xternal parties to review and duplicate the analysis performed as part of a each paper. -- Jody Garnett On 14 October 2016 at 06:21, Suchith Anand mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Dear all, I would like to thank the Open Education SIG for the giving me opportunity to share

[OSGeo-Discuss] Urban Observatories

2016-10-17 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, The RCUK funded SMARt ciTIES is lead by Professor Michele Clarke (Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Nottingham) and Dr. Ajith Kaliyath (National Institute of Urban Affairs, India) brings together a consortium of multidisciplinary, international researchers with expertise

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Jachym, Apologies if i do not correctly understand the context/background of the discussion. In my humble opinion, OSGeo is software foundation but very much involved in open standards, open data etc hence we have MoU with OGC etc . We should not have silo approach. Openness is key. Than

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Asia 2017 at Hyderabad

2016-10-15 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Ravi Kumar for the updates and to our Geo4All colleagues at IIITH for hosting the event. It is also good to see the event is close to Geospatial World Forum http://geospatialworldforum.org/ that is taking place in 22-25 January, 2017 at Hyderabad, India, so international speakers can aim

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Principles in Education

2016-10-14 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear all, I would like to thank the Open Education SIG for the giving me opportunity to share our experiences on establishing and building Open Geospatial Science for the benefit of all to support Open Principles in Education. Webinar recoding available at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.or

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All Newsletter - October 2016 issue

2016-10-11 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Nikos and all editors for your efforts on another edition of our newsletter. We would like to introduce our colleagues at Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Greece, as our "Geo4All" lab of the month. Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Greece, has developed as a hub

[OSGeo-Discuss] Capacity Assessment Survey on Open Data - We welcome your inputs

2016-10-08 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, With the objective to promote open data knowledge and increase awareness of ongoing open data initiatives, innovations and good practices, the leader organisations of GODAN Action[1] are working on the creation of a GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development. Details at htt

[OSGeo-Discuss] AgriGIS Workshop and Think Tank meetings - help needed to share the info. with your contacts in Africa

2016-10-06 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear all, I am on secondment to the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) [1] and would appeciate your help in connecting to your contacts in Africa for this AgriGIS ThinkTank and workshop that we are planning and invite participation. Details below. The University of Notting

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board of Directors elections results

2016-10-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you to everyone who participated in the elections. Congratulations to the new Board. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Jorge Sanz Sent: 05 October 2016 9:59 AM To: OSGeo Discussions; charter-memb...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: CRO Subje

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: Geo4All webinar FOSS/FOSS4G in Mexico Thurs Sept 29 5:00 PM (GMT)

2016-09-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear all, As part of our mission to expand geospatial education opportunities for all and empower everyone, we are pleased to share the excellent work done by our Geo4All colleagues in Mexico as part of the next Geo4All webinar. Our lab there lead by Manuel Haro in addition to the excellent res

[OSGeo-Discuss] Webinar on “Open Principles in Education – Building Bridges, Empowering communities” on 22 Sep 2016

2016-09-19 Thread Suchith Anand
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/09/open-principles-in-education-building-bridges-empowering-communities/ Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science This message and any attachment are intended solely for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Newsletter September 2016

2016-09-18 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you to Nikos and all editors for thier excellent work in producing another excellent newsletter . As Nikos said, we now have huge readership of the newsletter and it is an excellent way to spread our ideas globally. So do make use of it and send your latest updates etc to Nikos and have th

[OSGeo-Discuss] Tell World Leaders: We Must Unlock the Data Needed to Feed the Hungry

2016-09-15 Thread Suchith Anand
e heard at http://summit.godan.info/petition I will be sharing Geo4All ideas on the importance of Openness in research at the GODAN Summit tomorrow (16 Sep at 1:30 local time). Details at http://summit.godan.info/schedule/ I look forward to your active support. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith

[OSGeo-Discuss] Kalpana Chawla Chair on Geospatial Technology and our new OSGeo lab at PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India

2016-09-12 Thread Suchith Anand
ty, as the Chairman. CRIKC has signed MoU with University of Nottingham to have academic collaboration in many different ways. I can see many research synergies in open geospatial esp. in Opencitysmart research that we will be able to able to explore in the future. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith A

[OSGeo-Discuss] 2nd consultation meeting of EO Open Science in ESRIN (Frascati, Italy)

2016-09-11 Thread Suchith Anand
Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://www.geoconnexion.com/uploads/publication_pdfs/uk_v15i18-058-059-Op951AF3.pdf [2] http://www.geoconnexion.com/publications/geo-uk/issue/sept-oct-2016/article/open-geospatial-scienc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies - latest updates

2016-09-09 Thread Suchith Anand
plans to attend the workshop and the AutoCarto 2016 research symposium but did not, it just might not be too late. If you have any questions, please let me know. Mike Finn On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Suchith Anand mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Dear all, The

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Maria Brovelli

2016-09-09 Thread Suchith Anand
Excellent nomination . I am sure Maria's experience and dedication to OSGeo over many years will be a great asset to the OSGeo Board. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Jorge Sanz Sent: 09 September 2016 11:08 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Su

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Principles in Education - Bridging Bridges, Empowering communities

2016-09-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - 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 in error, please send it back t

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Geospatial Science and Vision 2030

2016-09-07 Thread Suchith Anand
wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/06/open-consultation-on-the-vision-2030-for-open-geospatial-science/ This message and any attachment are intended solely

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador of the month – Nimalika Fernando

2016-09-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, It is my great pleasure to introduce Nimalika Fernando as our GeoAmbassador. I am grateful for this opportunity of introducing some of our amazing colleagues from different parts of our world each month as our GeoAmbassadors and this has also helped me also to learn and get in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-09-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Henrique, Thank you for your mail. I am finding it difficult to understand your exact aims as in your previous mail you mention that there is some license fees for your tools [1] and now you mention they are free, open and libre. Will these conditions keep changing? Also if what you are pr

[OSGeo-Discuss] “Geo4All” Lab of the Month –University of Zagreb, Croatia

2016-09-03 Thread Suchith Anand
ssion. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165<http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165> This message and any attachment are intended

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-09-03 Thread Suchith Anand
versity of Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands) ITC Building (room 1-065) @barendkobben +31-(0)53 4874 253 From: Discuss on behalf of Munich Orientation Convention Date: Tuesday 16 August 2016 at 09:02 To: 'Suchith Anand' , "discuss@lists.osgeo.org" , "s

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to "Open Geospatial Science & Applications" webinar on Tangible Landscape on August 31 at 6 PM GMT

2016-08-26 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, You are invited to join the next "Open Geospatial Science & Applications" webinar series on August 31, 2016 (Wednesday) at 6 PM (GMT).The webinars are open and free to all on first come register basis. This webinar is organised jointly with ASPRS (American Society of Photogrammetry

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-15 Thread Suchith Anand
tions... Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - 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 in er

[OSGeo-Discuss] Tangible Landscape: open source environment for geospatial learning, science, and community engagement

2016-08-08 Thread Suchith Anand
tails at https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/tangible-landscape.html More details and how to connect will be updated at http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/ Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/suchith-anand-6447b42 Geo for All - Building

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Europa Challenge is Geo4All Alive and Well, and WorldWind Explorer is All4You

2016-08-06 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Patrick, all, This is great to see the excellent response to Europa Challenge. Thanks to all the students and thier mentors over the years that make this program a success. These students will all greatly benefit from the experiences gained from participating in challenges like these and i

[OSGeo-Discuss] Inviting ideas from research groups globally working in Geospatial Data Science

2016-08-06 Thread Suchith Anand
-geospatial-science/ Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/next-steps-for-the-open-consultation-on-open-geospatial-science-vision-2030/ [2] http

[OSGeo-Discuss] Inviting ideas to expand "GeoStudents for GeoFuture"

2016-08-06 Thread Suchith Anand
eative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expandin

[OSGeo-Discuss] Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies - latest updates

2016-08-05 Thread Suchith Anand
we are extremely grateful for her contributions to Geo for All. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/?lang=en [2] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/06/open-c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa

2016-08-03 Thread Suchith Anand
t; http://jsbin.com/nomafey/edit?output > > And an example of encouragement you can also establish for Africa > http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ > > And if we want the world to work together from the ground up > (speaking city-wis

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa

2016-08-03 Thread Suchith Anand
Fully agree that it is the duty of all to try and contribute in thier own way for the benifit of the global community. RECTAS is very welcome to join Geo for All . Please contact the Africa chairs for info. For the AARSE 2016 conference, i am ccing in Anthony Gidudu, Yazidhi Bamutaze,Hussein Fa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Charter Member elections results

2016-08-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Congrats and big welcome to all the new charter members. Excellent to see the growing global representation. Thank you Vasile for your efforts as CRO. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss on behalf of Dirk Frigne Sent: 01 August 2016 5:13 PM To: discus

[OSGeo-Discuss] “Geo4All” lab of the month -Open Source Geospatial Lab of Department of Geodesy and Surveying at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics , Hungary

2016-08-01 Thread Suchith Anand
the Budapest lab for their contributions to the Geo4All 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/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa

2016-07-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Gildas, Thank you for your mail and interest. Your idea to organise FOSS4G Africa and to create a network of capacity-building and knowledge and experience-sharing in Africa is excellent. I am ccing our wider community so that we will be able to bring in more ideas to support you. btw i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Vote for Charter

2016-07-24 Thread Suchith Anand
Though i might not know directly all the excellent 33 nominees, i can sense from the nominations and the supporting emails that all of them share thier dedication to OSGeo . OSGeo is a global organisation and it is great to see the geographic spread of the charter members. Ravi - you made a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies

2016-07-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleague, Please find details of Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies organised by the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies at AutoCarto 2016, USA . Thanks to Mike Finn and Silvana Comboim for thier leadership. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand

[OSGeo-Discuss] Next steps for the Open Consultation on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030

2016-07-19 Thread Suchith Anand
ontributing to this. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/06/open-consultation-on-the-vision-2030-for-open-geospatial-science/ [2] http://indico.ictp.it/event/765

[OSGeo-Discuss] Building Bridges, Empowering communities

2016-07-18 Thread Suchith Anand
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/how-can-we-contribute-our-efforts-for-united-nations-2030-agenda-for-sustainable-development-for-building-a-better-world-for-everyone-3/ Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Charter Member: Monia Molinari

2016-07-15 Thread Suchith Anand
+1 from me also for Monia Molinari's nomination. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Marco Minghini [marco.minghin...@gmail.com] Sent: 15 July 2016 9:22 AM To: Markus Neteler Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Charter Member: Shailesh Chaure

2016-07-13 Thread Suchith Anand
I second the nomination of Shailesh Chaure as OSGeo charter member. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Vasile Craciunescu [vas...@geo-spatial.org] Sent: 13 July 2016 3:37 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Free and Open Source Geographic Information Technologies Conference in South America

2016-07-13 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Edwin, Sergio and all others planning to present Geo for all at various events, Many thanks for your efforts. May i request that you contact the OSGeo Marketing Committee (cc in) and synchronise activities on your plans to have OSGeoLive DVDs given to participants at these events Marketing

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free and Open Source Geographic Information Technologies Conference in South America

2016-07-12 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Sergio, Thank you for the updates on the Free and Open Source Geographic Information Technologies Conference in South America and great to hear that you will be presenting Geo4All. It is a great opportunity to spread Geo4All ideas to more universities and educational institutes in the regio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Andy Anderson as OSGeo Charter Member

2016-07-12 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Charlie for this excellent nomination. I am happy to second this nomination of Andy Anderson as OSGeo Charter Member. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Vasile Craciunescu [vas...@geo-spatial.org] Se

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Update about UN OpenGIS Initiative

2016-07-11 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Maria and everyone involved in the UN OpenGIS Initiative, Many thanks for this excellent initiative and updates. This is an excellent example of how can we contribute our efforts for United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for building a better world for everyone [1]. Dear all

[OSGeo-Discuss] How can we contribute our efforts for United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for building a better world for everyone?

2016-07-10 Thread Suchith Anand
open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination

2016-07-09 Thread Suchith Anand
I would like to second Victoria Rautenbach's nomination for Charter member. Thanks to Serena for this excellent nomination. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Vasile Craciunescu [vas...@geo-spatial.org] Sen

[OSGeo-Discuss] First Anniversary edition of our Geo4All Newsletter

2016-07-08 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr Nikos Lambrinos ( Chief Editor) and our wonderful team of co-editors for the first year anniversary of our Newsletter (this is our twelfth issue). Details at http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/ We are very grateful for thier selfl

[OSGeo-Discuss] Introducing GeoAcademy GIS GeoBadges

2016-07-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, Thanks to Sergio for sharing this info http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=023a4ebf81fd06583f67b9f62&id=e4afa669bc I am sure you all will join me in congratulating Dr. Christopher Tucker on his new role as the chairman of American Geographical Society (AGS) . Chris is also the foun

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial - next steps

2016-07-06 Thread Suchith Anand
welcome. Suchith From: Cameron Shorter [cameron.shor...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 July 2016 11:56 AM To: Suchith Anand; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [Geo4All] National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial - next steps On 5/07

[OSGeo-Discuss] National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial - next steps

2016-07-05 Thread Suchith Anand
effective policy decisions. I am looking forward to your active contributions and support. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx [2] http://opensourcegeospatial.

[OSGeo-Discuss] How can you contribute to enable geospatial education opportunities to all ? Be our GeoAmbassodors

2016-07-02 Thread Suchith Anand
ogies in empowering communities and helping improving the Quality of Life and standards of living for everyone. Let us all work together 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:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Why Openness is key for True Empowerment and Sustainability? Ideas and inputs welcome

2016-07-01 Thread Suchith Anand
s job and son's school) i will be based in Nottingham, but i am keen to explore secondment and visiting academic opportunities in other universities to expand Open Geospatial Science . So if you are interested to explore this contact me at suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk Best wishes, Suchit

[OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing is Caring - Example from our colleagues in Uruguay

2016-06-14 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, Thanks to Nikos and team for another excellent edition of our Geo4All Newsletter. You can download the full newsletter at http://www.geoforall.org It is also my great pleasure to introduce our colleagues at the National Bureau of Surveying (Dirección Nacional de Topografía – MT

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK AGM further details

2016-06-13 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Jo & Team. Looking forward to see you all soon. Best wishes, Suchith From: UK [uk-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Jo Cook [joc...@astuntechnology.com] Sent: 12 June 2016 2:43 PM To: OSGeo Discussions; u...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Science ‐ Entering into a New Era for Science -Meeting of G7 Science and Technology Ministers 2016 communique

2016-06-11 Thread Suchith Anand
resources for the effective utilization of open science for the benefit of all. = We are very pleased with these excellent developments. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science

2016-06-09 Thread Suchith Anand
om: Helena Mitasova [hmit...@ncsu.edu] Sent: 09 June 2016 9:20 PM To: Suchith Anand Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science Suchith, are you coordinating this with the official OSGeo Open

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science

2016-06-09 Thread Suchith Anand
e add your name and details so we can acknowledge your contribution) at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_geospatial_science_-_vision_2030 or email suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk by 30th August 2016. Thanks for your contributions and support. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inputs invited for "The need for National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial" - please email your inputs/ideas by 10th June 2016

2016-06-06 Thread Suchith Anand
les in Geospatial and i am looking forward to your active contributions and support. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/inputs-invited-for-the-need-for-n

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030

2016-05-30 Thread Suchith Anand
discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http

[OSGeo-Discuss] Inputs invited for "The need for National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial"

2016-05-29 Thread Suchith Anand
an action plan for National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial and i am looking forward to your active contributions and support. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Sci

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador of the month - for Geo4All newsletters

2016-05-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, It is thanks to the efforts and help of the thousands of our amazing volunteers globally that we were able to build Geo4All . All our Geo4All volunteers are our Geo Ambassadors. They are all volunteers who support Open Principles in Education . Central to "Geo for All" mission is the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Free book on "Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World"

2016-05-27 Thread Suchith Anand
getting a glimpse of future developments. There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [2],[3],[4]. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://ec

[OSGeo-Discuss] Session on "The need for National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial" on 15th June 2016

2016-05-24 Thread Suchith Anand
uss ideas for the future. If you are aiming to attend the session and contribute your ideas for this session, please do let me know asap. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science This message and any

[OSGeo-Discuss] Slides and recordings of the webinar on "Humanitarian Mapathons for Children"

2016-05-14 Thread Suchith Anand
to work with you all on this education mission and expand Open Geospatial Science [4],[5],[6] . Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/humanitarian-mapath

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All Newsletter - May 2016

2016-05-12 Thread Suchith Anand
Congrats to GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation at the Arizona State University who are our “Geo4All” lab of the month Many thanks to Nikos and all our editors for thier efforts for another excellent issue of Geo4All newsletter . This has been a great resource to share our ide

[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: gvSIG Festival: First virtual gvSIG Conference

2016-05-03 Thread Suchith Anand
Congrats Mario and all gvSIG community colleagues for this excellent initiative. I am sharing this info with Geo4All colleagues. Best wishes, Suchith From: Relating to all things GIS [gis...@jiscmail.ac.uk] on behalf of Mario Carrera [mcarr...@gvsig.com

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to Geo4All Webinar on 5th May 2016 on Humanitarian Mapathons for Children

2016-05-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, On behalf of Geo4All we would like to welcome you to the "Open Geospatial Science & Applications" webinar series. Thanks to Dr. Rafael Moreno and colleagues at University of Colorado Denver for organising the Geo4All webinar series. If you are interested to do a webinar for the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Technology Strategy for Intelligent Mobility

2016-04-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleague, The Transport System Catapult has led the development of the Technology Strategy in order to champion the Intelligent Mobility vision for the benefit of all organisations interested in this fast growing area. The strategy was launched earlier this month in Birmingham . The st

[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-UK] FOSS4GUK 2016 early bird tickets will be released tomorrow

2016-04-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Jo, Great to hear updates on the FOSS4G UK 2016 conference and thanks to you and everyone in the local chapter for your efforts. I am looking forward to seeing you all at Southampton soon. I am also happy to see OSGeo:UK chapter now firmly established and expanding fast. I think it will be r

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to info. event on two University Challenges - 3rd May 2016

2016-04-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Last week's terrible earthquakes in Japan and Equador, shows that we all need to think out of the box to find solutions to difficult research areas like Earthquake prediction. Current and future students will be the ones who will find solutions for seemingly difficult research areas like Eart

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Rafael presentations at Colorado GIS in Higher Education Summit

2016-04-24 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Rafael, Thank you for presenting and sharing these excellent resources with the community. The references you put for each presentation is also very important. I will be meeting Roberto Santos today (he kindly helps with our website). I will discuss ideas with him, if we can atleast get some

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] humanitarian mapathons for Japan and Ecuador

2016-04-19 Thread Suchith Anand
May i request anyone who is interested to help for the humanitarian mapathons for Japan and Ecuador to please contact Dr Marco Minghini (Email - marco.mingh...@polimi.it ) who is leading the Geo4All efforts on this. Our thanks to Marco and colleagues for thier help and efforts [1] Suchith

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to Geo4All Newsletter - April 2016

2016-04-13 Thread Suchith Anand
d opportunities accessible to all. Best wishes, Suchith [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall From: labri...@eled.auth.gr [labri...@eled.auth.gr] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:05 PM To: 'Suchith Anand'; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: labr

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to UCD Denver FOSS4G Lab webinar on Monday April 18 11:30 PM GMT - Introduction to Citizen Science

2016-04-12 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, You are invited to attend this free webinar on Introduction to Citizen Science organised by our lab at University of Colarado, Denver, USA. Connecting details below.Also we welcome those interested in working on joint research in Citizen Science to join our Geo4All Citizen Science th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldWind GeoForAll @ OSGeo+ICA+ISPRS+OGRS

2016-04-10 Thread Suchith Anand
Patrick, This is truly amazing and thank you for sharing these excellent updates. Thanks to ESA , NASA and everyone who are working to make this possible. We will be having some more excellent updates later this month so we can further expand the Europa Challenge :-) Best wishes, Suchith

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All Webinars page updated with links; Subscribe to YouTube channel

2016-04-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Rafael, Thank you for leading the webinars for Geo4All community and making it available for all. This will develop as an excellent resource to share new ideas and build new collaborations for the community. All - i request everyone who is interested to contribute to the webinar series to c

[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: CFP - The Future of Open Source - SIGOPEN Workshop at OSS2016

2016-03-30 Thread Suchith Anand
Might be of interest… = The Future of Open Source: SIGOPEN Developmental Workshop at OSS2016 May 30, 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 The open source landscape has changed d

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to Geo4All Webinar on March 29th 2016 (Tue) at 17:00 GMT

2016-03-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Invitation to Geo4All Webinar on March 29th 2016 (Tue) at 17:00 GMT "Geo for All" is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's Open Educational outreach with our partners worldwide with the mission for making geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all. On behalf of Geo4All we w

[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for abstracts: Geographic Information for a better world

2016-03-24 Thread Suchith Anand
rt<http://www.twitter.com/karldonert> Also on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/ Academia.edu http://lhu.academia.edu/KarlDonert On Saturday, 12 March 2016, 8:01, Suchith Anand wrote: Dear all, Keeping the spirit of Open Education Week [1], i am pleased to share the presentation of Maria B

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation for Expression of Interest for Urban BigGeoData and OpenCitySmart Think Tank on 8th June 2016

2016-03-23 Thread Suchith Anand
rward to receiving your expressions of interest for the Think Tank on Urban BigGeoData and OpenCitySmart research. Register your details at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx Best wishes, Suchith Anand [1] http://www.geoforall.org/ [2]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGC March 2016 Point Cloud Domain Working Group meeting

2016-03-23 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Scott, Thanks for sharing the meeting updates with the wider Geo community. All - may i request anyone who has any specific queries on this to email Scott directly. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Sc

[OSGeo-Discuss] Draft European Open Science Agenda and Call for EoIs for the Selection of members for the High level Advisory Group "Open Science Policy Platform"

2016-03-19 Thread Suchith Anand
rt the EC . Best wishes, Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org [1] https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/pdf/draft_european_open_science_agenda.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential infor

[OSGeo-Discuss] Expanding open source GIS in the public sector - use cases needed

2016-03-19 Thread Suchith Anand
only way to make sure open principles message reaches everyone. So please share your use cases on Open Principles with the wider community . This also links to the need for National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial [1]. Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geofo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Leveraging American Ingenuity through Reusable and Open Source Software

2016-03-19 Thread Suchith Anand
Another good news to share on accelerating open innovation and saving taxpayers money. White House have released for public comment a draft policy to support improved access to custom software code developed for the Federal Government.As part of the Second Open Government Partnership National Ac

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

2016-03-18 Thread Suchith Anand
Congrats Patrick and WorldWind Crew. Well done! Suchith From: ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.ho...@nasa.gov] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 4:03 PM To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discu

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to Geo4All Webminar Series on March 29th 18:00 GMT

2016-03-15 Thread Suchith Anand
This webinar on urban forest management might be of wider interest. Thanks to Rafael Moreno and colleagues at University of Colorado Denver for organising the Geo4All webinar series. If you are interested to do a webinar for the Geo4All webinar series please contact Rafael (details below) and he

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial - ideas and inputs needed

2016-03-15 Thread Suchith Anand
about the sustainability model of the gvSIG project and also to open possible type of collaboration: El 12/03/16 a las 10:50, Suchith Anand escribió: > Dear All, > > Few months back, i decided to start*Free GIS Workshops and Think Tanks > for UK government organisations, SMEs and startups* *

[OSGeo-Discuss] The 2nd International QGIS User and Developer Conference - Girona , Spain on May 26th 2016

2016-03-15 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, The 2nd International QGIS User and Developer Conference is happening in Girona on May 26th 2016. The International QGIS User and Developer Conference is a meeting point for the family of users and developers orbiting around the QGIS project, in order to gather experiences and sh

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to seminar on "Geospatial Information for United Nations" on 14th March 2016 at 15:30 (Italy time)

2016-03-13 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear Colleagues, You all are invited to join a seminar ( join the live webcast) on "Geospatial Information for United Nations" to be delivered by Kyoung-Soo Eom, Chief Geospatial Information Section, Department of Field Support, United Nations at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Thanks to Pro

[OSGeo-Discuss] National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial - ideas and inputs needed

2016-03-12 Thread Suchith Anand
h your colleagues and ask interested colleagues to contact me to discuss ideas. Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/08/ree-gis-info-workshop-for-uk-government-organisations-smes-and-startups-the-university-of-nottingham

[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy Open Education Week greetings to all

2016-03-09 Thread Suchith Anand
work together to enable open principles in education to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities for everyone. Happy Open Education Week everyone http://www.openeducationweek.org/ Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All Newsletter - March 2016

2016-03-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks to Nikos and all our editors for their dedication and work on producing another excellent edition of Geo4All newsletter. It is great to see the newsletter getting bigger and bigger and it just shows the vibrant activities of our colleagues globally from organising FOSS workshops for Tanz

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcoming ideas from all for MapStories for Geo4All Cartographic Challenge on how How Openness can help to reduce inequality

2016-03-02 Thread Suchith Anand
41 PM To: Christopher Tucker Cc: Suchith Anand; A.P.Pradeepkumar; Silvana Camboim; Finn, Michael; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: Welcoming ideas from all for MapStories for Geo4All Cartographic Challenge on how How Openness can help to reduce inequality Apologies. Correct link t

[OSGeo-Discuss] Updates from Geo4All Malaysia

2016-03-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, I would like to congratulate Dr Tuong Thuy Vu and all colleagues in UNMC, Malaysia who worked hard for organising a very successful “GIS information workshop” focussed on open-source geospatial tools, data, and standards on 26th Feb 2016. This full day GIS Information workshop wa

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: Announcing the release of QGIS 2.14 'Essen' - Long Term Release for enterprises and organizations

2016-02-29 Thread Suchith Anand
anity. Thanks again to the whole QGIS Team for making this amazing software available for everyone to use for free and the kind sponsors, developers, translators and the amazing QGIS community who make this possible. Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforal

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Maps Plus online graduate classes in open source web mapping – apply by March 27

2016-02-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Matthew, Thanks for sharing this excellent updates. We are pleased to see University of Kentucky's new online graduate classes in open source web mapping and we will share this info through our networks and encourage participation from all interested. Nikos - please add this course info to

[OSGeo-Discuss] Internationalization of Higher Education - Creative Initiatives, Critical Thinking, Educational Standard

2016-02-24 Thread Suchith Anand
l work together 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 Anand http://www.geoforall.org [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/02/future-of-gis-should-be-

[OSGeo-Discuss] Interexpo GEO- Siberia-2016 workshop and conference, 20-22 April 2016, Novosibirsk, Russia

2016-02-22 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Pavel for sharing this info. I will share this with the wider community. The Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies (SSUGT) Open Geospatial Lab is the central OSGeo node in Russian Federation. http://sgugit.ru/en/collaboration/international-cooperation/siberian-opensour

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