The below view makes sense to me. I'm cc'ing the OSGeo Board list so they can see your thoughts here, Suchith.
Charlie On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Suchith Anand < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Charlie, > > My suggestion is to have a link the GeoforAll website from OSGeo > Education or ideally directly from OSGeo homepage. It is important to keep > both OSGeo Education Committee and GeoforAll as they are complimentary. The > whole idea of GeoforAll was to make this a wider geocommunity initiative > (hence we have OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS Presidents as cochairs in our Advisory > Board along with GeoforAll community nominated members > http://www.geoforall.org/advisory_board/ > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > ________________________________________ > From: Charles Schweik [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:43 AM > To: Phillip Davis > Cc: Suchith Anand; Steven Feldman; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with > building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure > > Hi, > > This probably relates directly to my last post to the OSGeo Board and the > distinction between OSGeo Education Committee and GeoForAll. > > I think we can, and probably should, combine them. If others agree, this > would mean building from the OSGeo Education page [1]. I have the authority > to update that page and need to because the ELOgeo link is not functioning > on it and some other updating is needed. > > My problem here is time... I'm trying to focus my attention on a GeoForAll > grant proposal right now! If someone can come up with revised content for > those pages (or we replace with a GeoForAll link)... > > But I think we should see what the board thinks about whether the > Education group and GeoForAll should be combined or separated? > > Or what do others think of this question? (sorry -- I forsee a bunch of > threads on this coming in our in-boxes!) > > Cheers, > > Charlie > > [1] http://www.osgeo.org/education > > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Phillip Davis <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > Suchith you can count on my limited talents to contribute to this worthy > and necessary cause. > > Phillip Davis > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]> [ > [email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [ > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:31 AM > To: Steven Feldman; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building > and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure > > Colleagues, > > I would like to call upon all of you , if you can help volunteer to build > a website for "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org/ in OSGeo > infrastructure > > Key advantages: > > 1. We can ensure long term hosting and development as the initiative grows > > 2. We will be able to provide the whole $5k of our budget for student > travel awards for FOSS4G- Seoul 2015 > > I am sure our University of Southampton colleagues will be happy to work > with any interested volunteers to move the website from the current hosts > (University of Southampton) to OSGeo infrastructure. > > It will be great if we can have many volunteers so we can spread the > efforts. I am willing to volunteer my time and efforts for provide content > etc for this. Could you please let us all know if you are wlling to help > by 30th May 2015, so we can plan ideas. Thanks. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On > Behalf Of Steven Feldman [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:11 AM > To: Suchith Anand; OSGeo-Board > Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Reminder of meeting tomorrow > > Suchith, Board > > We should not be diverting money from the student travel budget to build a > web site for Geo4All. Either use the OSGeo infrastructure or get volunteers > to spin something up, with all of the universities involved there must be > some people with the necessary skills who can do this, we should not be > paying Southampton to do it > > steven > > From: Suchith Anand <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]><mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>> > Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Reminder of meeting tomorrow > Date: 21 May 2015 01:01:15 BST > To: Massimiliano Cannata <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]><mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>> > Cc: osgeo-board List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected] > ><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>>, " > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected] > ><mailto:[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>>" <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]><mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>> > > > Hi Massimiliano, > > Thank you for your queries. > > Yes, GeoforAll is 100 percent an OSGeo Education initiative (but supported > by others like ICA, ISPRS through MoUs and we hope more like minded > organisations who have interest in enabling Geospatial education and > opportunities for all join us in the future). > > Regarding your questions: > > - Does a budget for Geo4All exists? > > Yes, the only budget we have is the $5k allocation for ICA/OSGeo Labs > Student Travel in the OSGeo budget last year and this year. Last year > budget [1] if i remember correctly we did not use it . > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2014 > > > - ISPRS, ICA and OSGeo how they support the initiative, apart from having > signed the MoU? > > For example in addition to the amazing support that both ICA and ISPRS has > given which helped us expand to many universities globally , they have been > contributing to student awards etc. For example for the Europa World Wind > challenge 2015, both ICA and ISPRS are contributing student prizes > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-May/001531.html I > remember ICA gave student awards last year also for Europa challenge. > > - Why Geo4All need a website hosted in Nottingham and is not using the > OSGeo infrastructure, like the OSGeo committees (incubation, marketing, > etc.)? > > First of all, it is NOT hosted in Nottingham, it is developed and hosted > by the University of Southampton. We had long , big discussions in Geofor > all maillists to see who can help us with the website development and > hosting . In fact, our first offer came from colleagues in Mexico but > unfortunately even after nearly 1 year delay nothing happened and > thankfully that time University of Southampton colleagues stepped in and > volunteered to develop a website for us free and i am very grateful for > that. > > If OSGeo intrstructure can be provided and we can get volunteers for > developing and maintaining our website , we will be very happy. The website > is really key for us and we need to make sure it is supported long term. > For example, the open educational repository that we at University of > Nottingham developed called ELOGeo, i wanted to transfer to OSGeo > infrastructure when the project funding ended and i did send many emails > but nothing happened. We do not want the same thing to happen to our > website as we spend huge amounts of time and effort reaching this stage and > hence we request support for the website developments . As you can see > from the links in my email there has been lot of discussions from the > community on this and supporting our website developments is the top > priority. > > - How Geo4All differentiates from the educational committee? Shall we > consider that committee dead and replaced by Geo4All? > > GeoforAll is a key element of OSGeo Education initiative not replacing the > educational committee . The biggest advantage of having GeoforAll > initiative is that we have made OSGeo Education into a wider geocommunity > initiative ( not just OSGeo but much wider geocommunity inititative in > collaboration with other like minded organisations) and we need to take > actions to expand this. > > Please let me know if there are any other queries. 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