Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UNGGIM Private Sector

2018-02-03 Thread Cameron Shorter 

Suchith, I agree with Marc's points.

I notice a similar discussion on the OSGeo Board thread about joining GEO.


I think there is little value in setting up "trophy" MOUs or becoming 
members of communities unless we have specific community members who are 
actively wanting to get involved. So steps I'd suggest:


1. Find our community members who want involvement

2. If our community members feel that joining some external group will 
help our community be more effective, then OSGeo supports them in the 
activity.



At the moment, I don't think we have passed step 1 yet.


On 2/2/18 12:03 am, Suchith Anand wrote:


Thanks Marc. I am trying to think ideas to make sure that OSGeo is 
involved in all levels at all different forums for maximising impact. 
We are very active in the UNGGIM Academic Network (thanks to Maria).



https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037059.html


We need to be more active in regional networks in UNGGIM and spread 
our ideas.We need champions to spread ideas in UNGGIM Private Sector 
and the main way to do this is to join these networks . As far as I am 
aware they are free to join at http://unggim-psn.org/psn-members.html



Best wishes,


Suchith




*From:* Marc Vloemans 
*Sent:* 01 February 2018 11:43
*To:* Suchith Anand
*Cc:* discuss@lists.osgeo.org
*Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UNGGIM Private Sector
Thx Suchith,

However I struggle to see the opportunities for SME’s in particular. 
Especially, since these make up for the large part of the present 
OSGeo sponsors.
I think the argument to join the initiative needs to be SMART. 
Otherwise it is a plea in a virtual ocean of requests upon open source 
businesses.
Apologies, but I can not bolster the argument for joining. Perhaps 
others on the list can help you.


Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


Op 1 feb. 2018 om 12:33 heeft Suchith Anand 
> het volgende geschreven:



Hi Marc,


I do not have any expertise in this but seeing all the companies who 
have joined this already ( including many proprietary GIS 
companies),  it is important that SMEs in the OSGeo ecosytem should 
be part of this to make sure there is balance of opportunities for 
everyone.



Best wishes,


Suchith




*From:* Marc Vloemans >

*Sent:* 01 February 2018 11:24
*To:* Suchith Anand
*Cc:* discuss@lists.osgeo.org 
*Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UNGGIM Private Sector
Hi Suchith,

What would be the business value of joining as an SME or other 
(commercial) company?


Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


Op 1 feb. 2018 om 12:09 heeft Suchith Anand 
> het volgende geschreven:


I was looking at UNGGIM Private Sector website and I didn’t much  
presence of commercial sector in the OSGeo ecosystem in the UNGGIM 
Private Sector Network.


There are lot of SMEs in the OSGeo ecosystem and I think this will 
be a good opportunity for the commercial sector in the OSGeo 
ecosystem [2] to join this network  at 
http://unggim-psn.org/psn-members.html and proactively engage with 
UNGGIM Private Sector


Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/service-providers/



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben

2018-02-03 Thread Stefan Keller 
Congrats to Barend also from our side!

:Stefan


_
Stefan Keller, Professor for Information Systems
Geometa Lab at Institute for Software
University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (HSR)
Oberseestrasse 10
CH-8640 Rapperswil (Switzerland)
http://www.hsr.ch/geometalab - @geometalab

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Forthcoming events at HSR Rapperswil:
* February 16, 2018: Swiss Python Summit, www.python-summit.ch
* March 16, 2018: 9. Micro Mapping Party, http://giswiki.hsr.ch/Party
* April 5, 2018: GeoBeer #20 @ HSR, https://ti.to/geobeer/20
* June 29, 2018: Swiss PGDay 2018, www.pgday.ch
* Visit also https://giswiki.hsr.ch/Agenda for courses in QGIS and PostGIS.


2018-02-03 13:22 GMT+01:00 Maria Antonia Brovelli :
> Congratulations Barend!
>
> Best regards
>
> Maria
>
>
>
>
> Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:
>
> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies
>
>
>
> 
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
> Politecnico di Milano
>
> ISPRS WG IV/4 "Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)"
> http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of
> OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
> Advisory Board
>
>
> UN-GGIM Academic Network Deputy Chair, UN-GGIM Italy, UN OpenGIS Initiative
> (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)
>
>
> Sol Katz Award 2015
>
>
>
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
>
> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  maria.brove...@polimi.it
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 
> Da: Discuss  per conto di Suchith Anand
> 
> Inviato: sabato 3 febbraio 2018 13:17
> A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben
>
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to honour
> Barend Köbben as our GeoAmbassador.  Barend holds an MSc in Geography,
> specialising in Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He
> worked for 9 years as a Lecturer in cartography at that university and then
> moved to the International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth
> Observation (ITC) in 1997. The ITC is an international school providing
> courses on GIS and Remote Sensing to students from all around the world,
> ranging from short courses, through 18 month MSc degree courses, as well as
> a PhD programmes. Since 1 January 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University
> of Twente. Barend is at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic
> visualisation in the Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP).
>
>
> His  teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and
> WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualization.
> Outside ITC, Barend is  involved in teaching short courses and workshops in
> Open Source GIS & WebMapping, promoting the use of the Open Source
> geospatial applications and data.  The Commission on Open Source Geospatial
> Technologies of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) organised a
> series of short courses and workshops on Open Source GIS & Webmapping, for
> which they at ITC have developed course materials and provide teaching staff
> and resources.These are mostly hands-on practical workshops, intended to
> introduce the possibilities of using Open Source applications for GIS and
> webmapping to people who are interested in this technology, but that do not
> yet have much experience in the actual practical use of OSGeo applications.
>
>
>
> Barend used a set of exercises that guide the participants in setting up a
> webmapping site using OpenStreetMap data, adding their own data using the
> desktop QGIS application, serving that data as a Web Map Service using
> Geoserver and/or Mapserver, and finally bringing it all together on a
> interactive “slippy map” website using OpenLayers. Barend is using in
> general the free and open source GIS and webmapping applications from the
> OSGeo LiveDVD. Barend teach and have taught these workshops and courses in
> many forms: From very short (2 hours) to long (2/3 weeks), either
> face-to-face or using Distance Learning technology.
>
>
> Some examples of the Past courses & workshops that he contributed include:
>
>
> ·Hands-on Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff -- 24 & 25 November 2014
> -- Vienna (Austria) -- 2-day workshop organized especially for members of
> staff of United Nations (UN) bodies and entities.
>
> ·Hands-on Workshop Cartography in a Web World -- 3 October 2013 -- Amsterdam
> (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB
>
> ·EuroSDR EduServ11 Open Standards & Open Source WebMapping -- 8-19

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben

2018-02-03 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli 
Congratulations Barend!

Best regards

Maria



Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies




Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/4 "Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; 
GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

UN-GGIM Academic Network Deputy Chair, UN-GGIM Italy, UN OpenGIS Initiative 
(Chair of the Capacity Building WG)

Sol Katz Award 2015

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,   
maria.brove...@polimi.it








Da: Discuss  per conto di Suchith Anand 

Inviato: sabato 3 febbraio 2018 13:17
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben



Dear colleagues,


On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to honour Barend 
Köbben as our GeoAmbassador.  Barend holds an MSc in Geography, specialising in 
Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He  worked for 9 years 
as a Lecturer in cartography at that university and then moved to the 
International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation 
(ITC) in 1997. The ITC is an international school providing courses on GIS and 
Remote Sensing to students from all around the world, ranging from short 
courses, through 18 month MSc degree courses, as well as a PhD programmes. 
Since 1 January 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University of Twente. Barend is 
at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic visualisation in the 
Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP).


His  teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, 
Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualization. Outside ITC, 
Barend is  involved in teaching short courses and workshops in Open Source GIS 
& WebMapping, promoting the use of the Open Source geospatial applications and 
data.  The Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies of the 
International Cartographic Association (ICA) organised a series of short 
courses and workshops on Open Source GIS & Webmapping, for which they at ITC 
have developed course materials and provide teaching staff and resources.These 
are mostly hands-on practical workshops, intended to introduce the 
possibilities of using Open Source applications for GIS and webmapping to 
people who are interested in this technology, but that do not yet have much 
experience in the actual practical use of OSGeo applications.



Barend used a set of exercises that guide the participants in setting up a 
webmapping site using OpenStreetMap data, adding their own data using the 
desktop QGIS application, serving that data as a Web Map Service using 
Geoserver and/or Mapserver, and finally bringing it all together on a 
interactive “slippy map” website using OpenLayers. Barend is using in general 
the free and open source GIS and webmapping applications from the OSGeo 
LiveDVD. Barend teach and have taught these workshops and courses in many 
forms: >From very short (2 hours) to long (2/3 weeks), either face-to-face or 
using Distance Learning technology.


Some examples of the Past courses & workshops that he contributed include:


·Hands-on Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff 
 -- 24 & 25 November 2014 
-- Vienna (Austria) -- 2-day workshop organized especially for members of staff 
of United Nations (UN) bodies and entities.

·Hands-on Workshop Cartography in a Web World 
 -- 3 October 2013 -- 
Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB

·EuroSDR EduServ11  Open Standards & Open 
Source WebMapping  -- 
8-19 April 2013 -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party)

Concepts and tools for Spatial Data Visualization 
 -- 13 December 2012 -- Amsterdam 
(Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB

·Hands-on Workshop Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN 
staff -- 20 & 21 November 
2012 -- Vienna (Austria)

·EuroSDR EduServ10  Open Standards 
& Open Source WebMapping -- 7-18 
May 2012 -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party)

·Workshop Open Source GIS & 
WebCartography -- 24 April

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben

2018-02-03 Thread Suchith Anand 

Dear colleagues,


On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to honour Barend 
Köbben as our GeoAmbassador.  Barend holds an MSc in Geography, specialising in 
Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He  worked for 9 years 
as a Lecturer in cartography at that university and then moved to the 
International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation 
(ITC) in 1997. The ITC is an international school providing courses on GIS and 
Remote Sensing to students from all around the world, ranging from short 
courses, through 18 month MSc degree courses, as well as a PhD programmes. 
Since 1 January 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University of Twente. Barend is 
at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic visualisation in the 
Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP).


His  teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, 
Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualization. Outside ITC, 
Barend is  involved in teaching short courses and workshops in Open Source GIS 
& WebMapping, promoting the use of the Open Source geospatial applications and 
data.  The Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies of the 
International Cartographic Association (ICA) organised a series of short 
courses and workshops on Open Source GIS & Webmapping, for which they at ITC 
have developed course materials and provide teaching staff and resources.These 
are mostly hands-on practical workshops, intended to introduce the 
possibilities of using Open Source applications for GIS and webmapping to 
people who are interested in this technology, but that do not yet have much 
experience in the actual practical use of OSGeo applications.



Barend used a set of exercises that guide the participants in setting up a 
webmapping site using OpenStreetMap data, adding their own data using the 
desktop QGIS application, serving that data as a Web Map Service using 
Geoserver and/or Mapserver, and finally bringing it all together on a 
interactive “slippy map” website using OpenLayers. Barend is using in general 
the free and open source GIS and webmapping applications from the OSGeo 
LiveDVD. Barend teach and have taught these workshops and courses in many 
forms: >From very short (2 hours) to long (2/3 weeks), either face-to-face or 
using Distance Learning technology.


Some examples of the Past courses & workshops that he contributed include:


·Hands-on Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff 
 -- 24 & 25 November 2014 
-- Vienna (Austria) -- 2-day workshop organized especially for members of staff 
of United Nations (UN) bodies and entities.

·Hands-on Workshop Cartography in a Web World 
 -- 3 October 2013 -- 
Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB

·EuroSDR EduServ11  Open Standards & Open 
Source WebMapping  -- 
8-19 April 2013 -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party)

Concepts and tools for Spatial Data Visualization 
 -- 13 December 2012 -- Amsterdam 
(Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB

·Hands-on Workshop Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN 
staff -- 20 & 21 November 
2012 -- Vienna (Austria)

·EuroSDR EduServ10  Open Standards 
& Open Source WebMapping -- 7-18 
May 2012 -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party)

·Workshop Open Source GIS & 
WebCartography -- 24 April 
2012 -- Avignon (France)

·Walk-in Workshop Open Source GIS & 
WebCartography -- 5th, 6th & 
7th July -- Paris (France)



· YYou can also  kob...@itc.nl to request a course to be 
organised for your organization.



Barend participate in the research activities of the departmental Research 
Theme STAMP (Spatio–Temporal Analytics, Maps and Processing).


His main research interests are:


- Automated mapping in a services environment, with middleware services and 
Open Web clients (using the D3 library).

- Animated vector map services, using among others the RIMapper WMS Open Source 
platform that he developed.

- The SDIlight concept. The term SDI for Spatial Data Infrastructure may be 
usually connected with (very) large regional or national spatial data 
warehouses, but the principles of SDI can also be applied in more simple and 
cost–effective ways. The down–to–earth approach of SDIlight provides students 
and researchers with a platform for relatively simple, low–cost, yet powerful 
ways of sharing data amongst various distributed offices and institutions as 
well as the general