[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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 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] [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 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] [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] 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

[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] 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] 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.

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] 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

[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

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] 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] 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

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] 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] [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] 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] 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: [

[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

[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] 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

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

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

[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] [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

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] [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

[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

[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] 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

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] 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

[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] 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

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] “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

2016-09-05 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] 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

[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] 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

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

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

[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

[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] 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

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] 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

[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

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] 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

[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] 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] 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

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

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

[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] 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] 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] R: [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...

2016-10-21 Thread Suchith Anand
+ 1 to Data4All initiative idea. This is a good opportunity for OSGeo to take leadership to bring together not just OSM, HOT, OSM communities but also the wider citizen science and PPGIS communities. We can start MoUs with like minded organisations to support Data4All as we did for Geo4All :-)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] 2017 World Bank Land and Poverty Conference CfP and Registration - Anyone able to present OSGeo-Live

2016-10-22 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Arnulf, Cameron for this. This is a really important area for GeoforAll and the UN GIS Committee also esp. linking to the UN SDG 2030 aims, so i am requesting our colleagues (esp. those in US as the event is in Washington) to take proactive role in this. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchit

[OSGeo-Discuss] Please share Open Principles in Education ideas and philosophy at all Geo events (Geography Awareness Week, OSM Geo week , GIS day etc )

2016-10-23 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleague, May i request all who are taking part in various Geo events (Geography Awareness Week, OSM Geo Week, GIS day etc ) to also make use of the opportunity to promote Open Principles in GeoEducation by sharing information on GeoForAll and welcoming those interested to be part of thi

[OSGeo-Discuss] EUROGEO 2017 & Inviting ideas for compiling a book to record "GeoForAll" developments and initiatives

2016-10-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, Professor Karl Donert (President EUROGEO and Director European Centre of Excellence, digital-earth.eu University of Salzburg, Austria) has kindly invited me to deliver a keynote presentation at EUROGEO 2017 in Amsterdam on 2-3 March 2017. EUROGEO promotes the European dimen

[OSGeo-Discuss] AgriGIS Workshop and ThinkTank meetings in Kenya #agrigisNR2016

2016-10-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) Capacity Development Working Group aims to promote capacity development initiatives in agriculture and nutrition globally . It is with this aim GODAN, The University of Nottingham , the Regional Centre for Mapping of

[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy news from GeoForAll

2016-10-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi all, GeoForAll will take up this challenge with great pleasure and humility. We have so many examples of hundreds of schools already benifiting from GeoForAll principles that are lead from Sergio to Bridget that these publications should also publish if they are serious about geoeducation an

[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy news from GeoForAll

2016-10-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi all, GeoForAll will take up this challenge with great pleasure and humility. We have so many examples of hundreds of schools already benifiting from GeoForAll principles that are lead from Sergio to Bridget that these publications should also publish if they are serious about geoeducation an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Vision for an OSGeo education program

2016-10-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Excellent to see all these ideas coming in. +1 for simplicity. One of things i learned talking to students from India to Africa to Europe is that they are all using QGIS . In Spanish speaking regions this might be different (gvSIG) . Students are not using the 50 + software that is available

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Vision for an OSGeo education program

2016-10-28 Thread Suchith Anand
From: Discuss on behalf of Suchith Anand Sent: 29 October 2016 4:02 AM To: Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl; 'Cameron Shorter'; 'Randal Hale' Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Di

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Vision for an OSGeo education program

2016-10-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Yes, we are making use of all opportunities to promote GeoForAll ideas and i don't think any properitery vendor can stop GeoMentors from promoting GeoForAll ideas on the sidelines :-) or stopping students from using GIS Day to promote GeoForAll [even though that was not at all the properite

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Vision for an OSGeo education program

2016-10-29 Thread Suchith Anand
us with the social media presence for GeoForAll. GeoForAll has website but no social media accounts as of now. So i request volunteers to come forward and manage our GeoForAll social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc). Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss o

[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy news from GeoForAll

2016-10-30 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Bridget for sharing the experiences from South Africa and i fully agree with your insights on this. Talking to students in India and many other developing countries, i understood that they all (esp. in developing countries) download QGIS usually from their university network and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Award for the Biggest donors of GIS software goes to all our Students Worldwide

2016-10-30 Thread Suchith Anand
to make sure we all work together to create global citizens contributing to the betterment of humanity. I thank all teachers and students in Africa and worldwide for your dedication and efforts. We are proud to honour you all as the Biggest donors of GIS software. Best wishes, Suchith Dr

[OSGeo-Discuss] SMARTIES are part of the UK Prime Minister’s Ministerial Delegation to India for the TECH Summit 2016

2016-10-31 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to inform that SMARTIES will be represented strongly at the India-UK TECH Summit 2016 on 7-9 November 2016 in New Delhi. Professor Michele Clarke (Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Nottingham) and our other SMARTIES colleagues will be part of the UK Pri

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy news from GeoForAll

2016-10-31 Thread Suchith Anand
om/content/article/the-dynamic-world-of-open-source​) Regards, Sergio Acosta y Lara Departamento de Geomática Dirección Nacional de Topografía Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330 http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/ ____ De: Suc

[OSGeo-Discuss] The United Nations Open GIS Initiative – Open Source Geospatial S/W for the UN

2016-11-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, Please join us for the next GeoForAll-ASPRS-UCGIS webinar on the United Nations Open GIS Initiative – Open Source Geospatial S/W for the UN. Details below. Openness is key fundamental aspect for acheiving the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030. We look forward to your activ

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Department of Science and Technology Sponsored 21 Day Training Programme on Geo-spatial Technology

2016-11-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Darshana for sharing this excellent news of funded training program at http://cept.ac.in/events/geospatial-technology . This will be of wider interest to OSGeo colleagues in India. Congrats to you and CEPT colleagues for making this possible. I will be in India next week for attendin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy news from GeoForAll

2016-11-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Edwin. Great to hear this and you have all our support for using OSGeo and GeoForAll logos for your event. You can download the GeoForAll overview presentation from the website at http://www.geoforall.org/resources/downloads/GeoforAllslides.ppt I can also email you the latest version .

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo social media contacts

2016-11-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Can someone let me know who are in charge of the OSGeo's social media accounts (Twitter etc). Please email me thier info as we would like to have them to be involved with GeoForAll's social media expansion plans from now. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith This message and any attachment are inten

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador of the month – Victoria Rautenbach

2016-11-03 Thread Suchith Anand
Pretoria. We are proud to honour Victoria as our GeoAmbassodor and we are extremely grateful for her contributions to Geo for All. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science

[OSGeo-Discuss] "GeoForAll” Lab of the Month – Department of Geoinformatics, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

2016-11-03 Thread Suchith Anand
wishes, 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador of the month – Victoria Rautenbach

2016-11-04 Thread Suchith Anand
esenters). [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail//discuss/2012-April/thread.html#10267 On 3/11/2016 11:33 PM, Suchith Anand wrote: Dear colleagues, It is my great pleasure to introduce Victoria Rautenbach from the Centre of Geoinformation Scienc

[OSGeo-Discuss] Pass it on - Joy of selfless sharing on GIS Day and other Geo events

2016-11-04 Thread Suchith Anand
time has come is the most powerful force in the universe, and the time for "Access to quality education opportunities for everyone" has arrived. Education + Empowerment = GeoForAll Happy GIS Day greetings in advance to all... May the FOSS be with everyone... Best wishes, Suchith D

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador / OSGeo Advocate – Teacher badge?

2016-11-05 Thread Suchith Anand
ocate#Understanding_OSGeo_roles On 4/11/2016 6:43 PM, Suchith Anand wrote: Thanks Cameron. This concept was build up from your excellent ideas and discussions back in 2012 though we started this initiative specifically for those contributing in widening geoeducation opportunities in som

[OSGeo-Discuss] Volunteers needed for producing a simple webform and website for publishing data on annual Open Source Report Card for organisations

2016-11-05 Thread Suchith Anand
etter. Could anyone help us with this. Please let Nikos or myself know if you are interested . Thanks in advance. 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 s

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador / OSGeo Advocate – Teacher badge?

2016-11-06 Thread Suchith Anand
703-981-9373 On Nov 5, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Suchith Anand mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Thanks Chris. I would like to ccin Cameron as well so can get his ideas. Cameron - Chris had kindly provided us this opportunity. Myself, Maria, Nikos had discussions with Chris for creat

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo social media contacts

2016-11-07 Thread Suchith Anand
. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-11-02 3:25 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: > Can someone let me know who are in charge of the OSGeo's social media > accounts (Twitter etc). Please email me thier info as we wo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Department of Science and Technology Sponsored 21 Day Training Programme on Geo-spatial Technology at CEPT University, India

2016-11-07 Thread Suchith Anand
to be freely modified and distributed [1]. I thank all our GeoForAll lab colleagues at CEPT University for organising the program and expanding GeoForAll ideas to empower everyone. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geosp

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Video resources from NCSU GeoForAll Lab

2016-11-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Vaclav . These resources will be useful for the wider OSGeo community as well. Best wishes, Suchith Rafael - please add the videos in this that are not already in Geo4All youtube channel to the Geo4All channel. Thanks From: GeoForAll on behal

[OSGeo-Discuss] AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll

2016-11-10 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, We are pleased to send you the summary updates from the very successful AgriGIS Workshop & Think Tank meetings in Nairobi organised jointly by the The University of Nottingham, the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), the Global Open Data for Agriculture a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy GIS Day 2016

2016-11-15 Thread Suchith Anand
interested to be part of Open Principles in Education [1]. Everyday is a GeoForAll Day . So please share GeoForAll ideas [2] everyday from now to your colleagues, students and be our GeoAmbassadors. May the FOSS be with everyone... Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy GIS Day 2016

2016-11-15 Thread Suchith Anand
46 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: > Dear colleague, > > Happy GIS Day 2016 to all. May i request all who are taking part in > various Geo events (Geography Awareness Week, OSM Geo Week, GIS day etc > ) to make use of the opportunity to promote Open Principles in > Education by sharing i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll

2016-11-16 Thread Suchith Anand
of the University of Nairobi on a date to be communicated soon. We are and shall always remain at your disposal. Sincerely, Kiringai Kamau On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Suchith Anand mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Dear All, We are pleased to send you the summary updates f

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