Hi Suchith,
I will be available for the next telemeeting, thanks for the invitation.
I am also waiting confirmation from my department chair to bootstrap our
ICA-OSGeo lab.
Best,
Angelos
On 09/25/2013 05:24 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
Hi Sergio,
That is excellent. We definitely want to get your expertise and inputs for the
"Train the trainer" GIS program for school teachers. As you know , thanks to
some volunteers we are now translating gvSIG Batovi documentation from Spanish-English
and will make it available in ELOGeo to benifit other GIS educators . Once the documents
are available in English more people will benefit from your excellent work.
OSGeo Live will be important part of our Training program. I will invite
Angelos, Astrid and other interested members from the OSGeo Live community to
join our next monthly ICA-OSGeo labs telemeeting (I had been busy catching up
with many workloads after FOSS4G - so will send the meeting time etc in Oct
beginning) where we will be discussing more ideas and plans to take this
forward.
Our new website of the ICA-OSGeo labs initiative "Geo4All.org" will be active
in one month (colleagues from University of Southampton are working on it), and having
the new website is important so we build up momentum for our education efforts. Thanks
again for your support and contribution.
Suchith
-----Original Message-----
From: Sergio Acosta y Lara [mailto:saco...@dntopografia.gub.uy]
Sent: 25 September 2013 14:01
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; edu discuss;
ica-opensou...@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched
Hi Suchith. I will like to have some feedback from that "Train the Trainer" GIS
program for school teachers as I'll probably be organizing a workshop on gvSIG Batoví for
teachers' trainers soon and I would like to be in harmony with it.
Regards,
Sergio Acosta y Lara
Sección Sistemas de Información Geográfica Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY
----- Mensaje original -----
De: "Suchith Anand" <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>
Para: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org, discuss@lists.osgeo.org, "edu discuss"
<edu_disc...@lists.osgeo.org>, ica-opensou...@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Enviados: Domingo, 22 de Septiembre 2013 19:37:57
Asunto: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched
Dear All,
FOSS4G 2013 has been a great success (28 Workshops, 180 Presentations., 833 delegates ) thanks to the
countless hours of efforts put in by our dedicated volunteers. Special thanks to our team members Abi, Addy,
Antony, Barend, Barry, Claire, Franz-Josef, Jeremy, Jo, IanH, IanE, Mark, Matt, Rollo and Steven who not only
made FOSS4G 2013 http://2013.foss4g.org/about-foss4g/committee/ a great success but also has given firm
foundation for the "Geo for All" Education initiative . We also launched OSGeo Live 7.0 at FOSS4G
2013 in Nottingham. Thanks to the selfless efforts and dedication of hundreds of volunteers worldwide that
help make this excellent resource possible for the benefit of the wider community . Details at
http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html Having free and open GI software is key for making possible for students
in developing and poor countries to be also able to get geospatial education (without the need for high cost
proprietary GI software ) and OSGeo Liv e is cen tral to our education efforts. Our Education Team will
now with full dedication and focus will carry on the "Geo for All" initiative to all across the
world. Our key aim is to make it possible for students in developing and poor countries to be also able to
get geospatial education. By 2015, we will have 50 Open Source Geospatial Labs established in universities
in Africa alone and they will all be teaching GIS courses to hundreds of students. We also will be starting
work on "Train the Trainer" GIS program for school teachers all over the world.
We also launched our latest ICA-OSGeo research lab in Switzerland at ETH
Zurich at FOSS4G 2013 . The Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich is
part is part of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, chair of
Cartography . Details at http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/karto/index_EN
The preceding Institute of Cartography was founded in 1925 by Professor Eduard
Imhof, one of the main founders of modern academic cartography. It is therefore
the oldest university institute in cartography world-wide. In 2011, with the
establishment of the new chair of Geoinformation Engineering, the scope of
activities of the institute was expanded and its name was adapted. In
cartography, the institute strives to maintain its leading position in
topographic cartography (relief representation), thematic cartography, and
atlas cartography (school atlases, national atlases) by exploiting and further
developing cartographic knowledge and adapting it to new interactive
technologies and application domains. Geoinformation Engineering aims at
analyzing, representing, modelling, and visualizing spatio-temporal decision
processes and integrates such models in mobile geoinformation services and
spatial information technologies.It also aims to provide support for increasing
the number
and qua
lity of open source teaching and training materials for Cartography and GIS.
As a proud member of the ICA-OSGeo Network , the ETH Zurich OSGL is focusing on
Education, Open Geodata and on Cartographic and Geospatial Research. The lab
website at http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html
Thanks to the momentum build by FOSS4G 2013, we have got many new applications
from universities in this week alone for establishing research labs, so we are
well in track to keep bringing investment for staff and infrastructure to
establish over 100 research labs in universities world wide by Sep 2014 (the
time of the next FOSS4G conference ). We will be now working to setup a
brand new website for our rapidly expanding education initiative and take this
to the next level.
Once again many thanks to all of you who helped for making FOSS4G 2013 a great
success. Without all of your help, we would not have been able to make this
possible. Also thanks to all volunteers who made and kept their pledges at
FOSS4G 2013 http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/pledge/
Best wishes,
Suchith (on behalf of "Geo for All" Team of FOSS4G 2013
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