[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoEthics Awareness Dialogues - Ethics of GIS Vendor feudalism/colonialism in GIS Education

2022-10-31 Thread Suchith Anand via Discuss 
Dear colleagues


GeoEthics is an important topic that needs more attention and GeoEthics 
Awareness Dialogues are a way to build and share ideas for developing GeoEthics 
and ethical business practices. It is important to find the courage to speak 
out on ethical issues affecting humanity.


“The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not everyone's greed" - Mahatma 
Gandhi



I am interested to learn more on Ethics of GIS Vendor Feudalism/Colonialism in 
GIS Education as I am writing an article on GIS education.


Does current GIS curriculums support GIS Vendor Feudalism/Colonialism  in GIS 
Education ? If so, why?



What policies and curriculum are universities, educators adopting to reduce GIS 
Vendor Feudalism/Colonialism in GIS education?


Does your course cover topics on data rights, digital citizenship ?


Are there any university policies and code of conduct to follow if any 
academics/researchers are funded by any GIS vendor (for example, through GIS 
vendor funded faculty posts , research funding by any GIS vendors)?



Can academics and researchers publish articles on GIS education promoting the 
vendor products (either directly or indirectly)?


https://rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/ethics-digital-feudalism-gis-education



More details at 
https://datavaluesdigest.substack.com/p/how-digital-feudalism-hurts-farmers




GeoEthics Awareness Dialogues are informal and can be part of any meetings, 
events , conferences etc in the GIS community (for example in Geography 
Awareness week, GIS Day, GEO meetings , OGC meetings, GEO week etc) to build 
and share ideas for developing GeoEthics and ethical business practices.


Some examples below



https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/geoethics-awareness-dialogues-speaking-truth-power-suchith-anand/


https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/geoethics-awareness-dialogues-suchith-anand/



Ethical frameworks in governance at all levels (from global to national to 
local) are important to protect democracy, protect human rights and prevent 
corruption.


Best wishes


Suchith



Dr Suchith Anand

Senior Adviser to Governments and International Organisations | Scientist | 
Board member | Governance | Policy | Consultant in Data Science and Data Ethics 
| Global Citizen | SDG Volunteer and Advocate


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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive Version 15.0 Released

2022-10-31 Thread Astrid Emde (OSGeo) via Discuss 

31. October 2022
see News Item: 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeolive-15-0-released/


The OSGeoLive team are proud to announce the release of version 15.0 of 
the OSGeoLive GIS software collection.


http://live.osgeo.org

Release Highlights

Highlights for this release include:

-Based on Lubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish [4]
-New application ETF 
https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/ETF_overview.html

-Version ​updates [3] to most of the included packages.
-The Virtual Machine version now includes applications that could 
not fit into the iso version. List of VM only applications available 
here.
-Improved documentation supporting the languages: English | Deutsch 
| Español | Suomen kieli | Français | Italiano | 日本語 | Hungarian.


OSGeoLive 15.0 is ready to be used at events 
(​https://www.osgeo.org/events/)


Download [1]

Download the OSGeoLive 15.0 image at 
https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html


About OSGeoLive

​OSGeoLive is a ​Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source 
Software, available via a Virtual Machine, USB and DVD. OSGeoLive is 
pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be 
tried without installing anything.


It includes:

-Close to 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed 
and pre-configured

-Free world maps and sample datasets
-Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
-Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's 
script

-Translations to multiple languages

Credits

Hundreds of people have [12] directly helped with OSGeoLive packaging, 
documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in 
building the packaged software. Thank you to all involved.

Sponsoring organisations

 -   ​OSGeo - the Open Source Geospatial Foundation provides development 
& hosting infrastructure for OSGeoLive and many of the included 
applications.
 -   ​Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of 
California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support.
 -   ​Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of 
Athens, provides hardware resources and development support.
 -   The ​Debian GIS and ​UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure 
many of the core packages.
 -   ​Okeanos is kindly providing Virtual Machines for building the 
OSGeoLive iso images.



Contact us

If you would like to add a new project, help us to get in the cloud or 
have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are 
very welcome. [11]


OSGeoLive team


About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) 
organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The 
software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach 
and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal 
support for the open source geospatial community.


OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, camptocamp and other sponsors, 
along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, 
standards, data and education.


https://osgeo.org

[1] https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html

[2] ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10

[3] ​https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4

[4] ​https://lubuntu.me/

[5] Schedule 
​https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?ouid=117562597770546956812=sheets_home=true


[6] Packages 
​https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q5BaEgQtgw4O1bXyeWMlM8XtAOhUgcjZ7Y2O0FZc2H0/edit#gid=690914723


[7] ​​https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/

[8] 
​​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex


[9] ​https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive

[10] IRC see Communication ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki

[11] https://live.osgeo.org/en/contact.html

[12] https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html
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