Good Morning from Ghana, West Africa. I've been on this list for sometime now. I follow every bit just that I haven't seen any traffic from other Africa regions. As Tim said 'South Africa' centric :).
I think there is more work ahead talking about decentralization of Chapters and the way forward. Best, - Enock On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Maelle Vercauteren <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > As far as IGEAT (Free University of Brussels) is concerned, we have been > consulted and are happy to see that the event is taking shape by Gildas (an > trainee formed in 2009 by our intership). We will support the event as much > as we can. > Kind Regards, > Maë//e > > -- > Maëlle VERCAUTEREN DRUBBEL > Coordinatrice du stage SIG Libres ARES > > Université Libre de Bruxelles - IGEAT (CP 130 / 03) > Campus du Solbosch > Av. F. D. Roosevelt, 50 > B-1050 Bruxelles > Tél.: 02/650.68.14 Fax: 02/650.50.92 Local: DB6.143 > > 2016-07-29 6:18 GMT+02:00 Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <[email protected]> > : > >> Gildas, >> >> To compliment the encouragement and good guidance of Suchith, >> here is a starter app for you, the WorldWind Explorer 'reference app' >> that's all yours! >> Demo: http://explorer.worldwind.earth/ >> Code: https://github.com/emxsys/WorldWindExplorer >> >> And here is a fun sandbox to play in and to teach with >> 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-wise), >> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart >> >> -Patrick >> >> From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Suchith Anand >> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 6:38 PM >> To: Gildas Jr. Boko; [email protected]; >> [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa >> >> 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 CC'ing our wider community >> so that we will be able to bring in more ideas to support you. >> >> btw i could not get the link of your centre RECTAS www.rectas.org (maybe >> the site is currently down) that you emailed but i did find another link >> with info at >> >> >> http://www.un-spider.org/links-and-resources/institutions/regional-centre-training-aerospace-surveys-rectas >> >> Thanks again for your initiative. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Suchith >> ________________________________________ >> From: GeoForAll-Africa <[email protected]> on >> behalf of Gildas Jr. Boko <[email protected]> >> Sent: 27 July 2016 8:07 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa >> >> Dear all, >> >> I've a user or OSGEO products for almost ten years now. And while i >> notice a growing interest all over the world for these products and the >> creation of FOSS4G chapters in different countries, in Africa there nothing >> like that. >> >> My idea is to organise a FOSS4G conference for OSGEO products users in >> order to create a network of capacity-building and knowledge and >> experience-sharing in all the possible fields. >> >> I've been thinking about this for a while now and i think a centre like >> RECTAS (www.rectas.org<http://www.rectas.org>), where I've worked for >> the past two years can host such event thanks to their experience in the >> GIS field and also their hosting capacity. >> >> Well that is an aspect on which everybody can discuss. >> >> But i believe it is high time for a FOSS4G chapter in Africa. >> >> Thanks in advance for your opinion on this idea >> >> -- >> Gildas Jr BOKO (PhD) >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > -- > Maëlle VERCAUTEREN DRUBBEL > Coordinatrice du stage SIG Libres ARES > > Université Libre de Bruxelles - IGEAT (CP 130 / 03) > Campus du Solbosch > Av. F. D. Roosevelt, 50 > B-1050 Bruxelles > Tél.: 02/650.68.14 Fax: 02/650.50.92 Local: DB6.143 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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