Jeff: I would also be wiling to help out with a reboot of the committee. After your done collecting volunteers, let me know how you want to move forward.
Landon On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Thank you Jeff for this call . Many thanks to everyone who contributed to > Geodata over the years. > > Please do not dissolve this committee. Let us work to reactivate this > committee with more interested colleagues . I would like to volunteer > to work for OSGeo Geodata Committee for linking ideas with the education > aspects of Geodata. Just this month Charlie Schweik has given call in > GeoForAll to identify 2-4 collaboration projects by at where at least > 2-labs are collaborating on open access educational content they want to > develop over 2018 and I think working on a project on GeoData aspects will > be a great opportunity to link the education community ideas for this. So I > will follow up this using geodata as an example and try to get colleagues > in various GeoForAll labs working on this to come together . I am sure > working together we can make this happen. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > > [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2017-November/004311.html > > > > ________________________________________ > From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jeff McKenna > <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> > Sent: 25 November 2017 1:11 PM > To: osgeo > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Volunteers for Geodata Committee > > > Dear OSGeo community, > > We are all aware of how important Open data is for our community, and > for the mission of OSGeo. Most of you are aware that the OSGeo > foundation has a committee dedicated to this, called the Geodata > Committee; however the reality is that this committee is quiescent/not > active/at rest, as its mailing list has not really been used since a > message was posted in May of 2015 (which no one answered actually). > > The Geodata Committee is still listed as a working committee on the > OSGeo website, and points to a page[1] that contains the mailing list > and the wiki. The mailing list has 387 members, and the archives go all > the way back to March of 2006. Back in those days, the committee would > meet regularly on IRC and it was very vibrant (thanks to Jo, Arnulf, and > the many early visionaries pushing forward and sharing). > > More recently, there was a "reboot" push for this committee around 2012, > and also another one in October of last year. Of course there were > likely many other attempts, but those are the ones that come to mind. > > We believe that open data is even more critical to the mission of OSGeo > today, and a strong relationship with the various data communities is > important for the health of the ecosystem. We also look to the massive > success of GeoForAll for sharing the passion for education and Open as a > great example of what we can all do together. > > Would you be willing to help revive the OSGeo Geodata Committee? It > would be great to hear more thoughts and ideas on this. It does not > seem right to dissolve the committee; in fact we want the opposite to > occur. > > Thank you, > > Maria, Codrina, Vasile, Jeff on behalf of the OSGeo Board of Directors > > [1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/projects/geodata.html > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > 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 to me, and immediately delete it. > > Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this > message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the > author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the > University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an > attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your > computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email > communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as > permitted by UK legislation. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Landon "Homemade cookies. Mmmmmmmmmmm!" Web: www.landonblake.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/landonblake Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LandonBlake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScottLandonBlake <https://www.facebook.com/scott.l.blake.3> Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/landon_blake/
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