[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder! A first GeoForAll lab webinar "mini-conference" tomorrow Oct 10, 1:00-3:00 GMT, on "GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals"

[Charlie Schweik]

Dear GeoForAll colleagues,

A reminder that a *first GeoForAll webinar "mini-conference"* will take
place tomorrow!

   - *Topic:* "GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable
   Development Goals"
   - *Date/time: * Thursday, October 10th from 1-3:00 pm GMT.
   - *What time is it for you?* Use this link to find out:
   
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20191010T13=tz_gmt
   - *Participating GeoForAll labs/members and mini-conference program*:
  - Suchith Anand (Chief Scientist, GODAN)  – Introduction
  - Victoria Rautenbach (GeoForAll chair) – Welcome to GeoForAll
  - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Dirección Nacional de Topografía,Ministerio
  de Transporte y Obras Públicas, Uruguay) -Experiences from the
3rd edition
  of the course-contest Projects with students and gvSIG Batoví
  - Victor Sunday (Director, Unique Mappers Team) – Open Source and
  Open Data for All
  - Cameron Green (University of Pretoria)-GeoNode for data management
  and sharing
  - Paulo Cesar Coronado Sanchez (Universidad Distrital Francisco José
  de Caldas, Colombia)- SIG con herramientas OSGeo (GIS with OSGeo tools)
  - Suchith Anand (Chief Scientist, GODAN) – Open Principles in Science
  and Education
  - Q& A and Discussions
  - Join the Zoom-based webinar at: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/470742725.
   (Thanks to Rafael Moreno at UC Denver for hosting the mini-conference).

Full details can be found at
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geoforall-contributions-to-the-united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/.


Thanks to all the participants for their preparation efforts and time!

This event is a part of a larger global event called "World Commons Week
<https://wcw2019.iasc-commons.org/>" which hopefully is helping to draw
attention to GeoForAll and OSGeo from others who may not know about these
communities.  And hopefully, this is the start of perhaps more regular
cross-GeoForAll lab dialog using virtual conferencing technology that will
reduce our community's carbon footprint on the global atmospheric commons.
In other words, perhaps the start of something like a FOSS4G conference
that complements -- not replaces -- the in-person event, but takes
advantage of our global access to webinar technology to allow more frequent
community interaction.

Cheers

Charlie Schweik
Organizer, World Commons Week <https://wcw2019.iasc-commons.org/>2019

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward on geoeducation

[Charlie Schweik]

Thanks Suchith for your volunteering to moderate the GeoForAll lab
mini-conference (or whatever we call it).

I added some thoughts to your document (under Attachment 1 at the bottom)
for the Bucharest BOF since I won't be there. I hope perhaps one of the
people who volunteered to participate (thanks!) might be there to help try
and organize the online mini-conference.

Cheers all,
Charlie Schweik

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:19 AM Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
>
>
> Thank you for the excellent ideas and inputs. This is very helpful for
> moving our community forward. This now added to the agenda at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTgLetei863hY2a-oz0PMy9ejcT6HkEq5IqZG1k8Wn4/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> I volunteer to  help you and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this
> GeoForAll community miniconference for the World Commons Week. Please let
> me know the exact day/time and I will coordinate this with Rafael. I thank
> all colleagues who volunteered to present for this webinar mini conference.  
> Your
> help and support is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> I would also like to add one more agenda item on GeoForAll support for
> STEM education in schools especially for economically poor students
> globally. I came across an excellent initiative for widening STEM education
> opportunities for female students that GEO is involved in Ghana at
> http://earthobservations.org/geo_blog_obs.php?id=368
>
>
> GeoForAll is committed to support STEM education opportunities for
> women. As many  GEO colleagues will be at FOSS4G, I suggest that we reach
> out to GEO and explore ways for working together for expanding STEM
> education opportunities for students globally.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
> --
> *From:* Charlie Schweik 
> *Sent:* 21 August 2019 16:00
> *To:* Suchith Anand 
> *Cc:* GeoForAll ; discuss@lists.osgeo.org <
> discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us
> forward on geoeducation
>
> Hi Andreea, Suchith and other GeoForAll/OSGeo colleagues,
>
> (Sorry I won't be there next week).
>
> Again, one tangible GeoForAll community building effort we can do is to
> start an annual GeoForAll community webinar mini-conference, as part of
> this World Commons Week (October 6-12)
> <https://wcw2019.iasc-commons.org/local-events/> I am organizing. Open
> Source Geospatial projects are an important subset of "world commons"
> digital projects. I hope in the GeoForAll BOF meeting this idea of a
> mini-conference as part of this global event can be discussed and refined.
> It will also help draw attention to OSGeo/GeoForAll by others who need
> geospatial technologies to study natural resource commons who don't know
> about them.
>
> But from my previous posts on this idea, here are the colleagues who
> responded and signaled their interest to do this (thanks to those below!).
> I'm not sure each wanted to present something or not?
>
>- Victor N.Sunday, Team Coordinator, UniqueMappersTeam, Port Harcourt
>Nigeria. -- Open Source and Open Data for All
>- Suchith Anand Dr. Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition By
>webinar United Kingdom  -- Open Principles in Science and Education
>- Sergio Acosta y Lara, Architect Comunidad gvSIG, Uruguay, Montevideo
>Uruguay -- Experiences from the 3rd edition of the course-contest Projects
>with students and gvSIG Batoví
>- Victoria Rautenbach, Dr University of Pretoria Pretoria South
>Africa.  GeoNode for data management and sharing
>- Paulo Cesar Coronado, Engineer, Universidad Distrital Francsico José
>de Caldas, Bogota Colombia. SIG con herramientas OSGeo (GIS with OSGeo
>tools)
>
> But this is a nice cross-section of some of the GeoForAll labs. Raphael
> Moreno has nicely agreed to use his webinar platform.
>
> *QUESTIONS, maybe for the BOF meeting:*
>
> *1) What is the goal of such a online "mini-conference"? I would argue it
> would be to learn what other labs are doing and to build a richer dialog
> across labs. *
> *2) Would each of these people listed want to present, say, for 15-30
> minutes about their topics or lab activities? Anyone else want to
> participate?*
> *3) What day/time range during the week of October 6-12 would we want to
> run this GeoForAll community online miniconference?*
> *4) Is there someone in the GeoForAll community who would be willing to
> help me and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this GeoForAll community
> miniconference? With me running the broader event I don't think I can do
> this. *
>
> I hope this 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward on geoeducation

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Andreea, Suchith and other GeoForAll/OSGeo colleagues,

(Sorry I won't be there next week).

Again, one tangible GeoForAll community building effort we can do is to
start an annual GeoForAll community webinar mini-conference, as part of
this World Commons Week (October 6-12)
<https://wcw2019.iasc-commons.org/local-events/> I am organizing. Open
Source Geospatial projects are an important subset of "world commons"
digital projects. I hope in the GeoForAll BOF meeting this idea of a
mini-conference as part of this global event can be discussed and refined.
It will also help draw attention to OSGeo/GeoForAll by others who need
geospatial technologies to study natural resource commons who don't know
about them.

But from my previous posts on this idea, here are the colleagues who
responded and signaled their interest to do this (thanks to those below!).
I'm not sure each wanted to present something or not?

   - Victor N.Sunday, Team Coordinator, UniqueMappersTeam, Port Harcourt
   Nigeria. -- Open Source and Open Data for All
   - Suchith Anand Dr. Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition By
   webinar United Kingdom  -- Open Principles in Science and Education
   - Sergio Acosta y Lara, Architect Comunidad gvSIG, Uruguay, Montevideo
   Uruguay -- Experiences from the 3rd edition of the course-contest Projects
   with students and gvSIG Batoví
   - Victoria Rautenbach, Dr University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa.
   GeoNode for data management and sharing
   - Paulo Cesar Coronado, Engineer, Universidad Distrital Francsico José
   de Caldas, Bogota Colombia. SIG con herramientas OSGeo (GIS with OSGeo
   tools)

But this is a nice cross-section of some of the GeoForAll labs. Raphael
Moreno has nicely agreed to use his webinar platform.

*QUESTIONS, maybe for the BOF meeting:*

*1) What is the goal of such a online "mini-conference"? I would argue it
would be to learn what other labs are doing and to build a richer dialog
across labs. *
*2) Would each of these people listed want to present, say, for 15-30
minutes about their topics or lab activities? Anyone else want to
participate?*
*3) What day/time range during the week of October 6-12 would we want to
run this GeoForAll community online miniconference?*
*4) Is there someone in the GeoForAll community who would be willing to
help me and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this GeoForAll community
miniconference? With me running the broader event I don't think I can do
this. *

I hope this is helpful and moves the community forward in a small way.

Charlie Schweik


On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 4:28 AM Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> Thanks to Andreea, Victoria and all colleagues working for GeoForAll
> meeting next week. Andreea will be sending the draft agenda for you all to
> provide inputs. Even if you are not able to attend FOSS4G 2019 GeoForAll
> meeting, I request you to share your inputs/ideas on how we can move
> forward on our education aims.
>
>
> For the GeoForAll Como meeting in 2015 , Charlie had created the following
> 4 key questions[1] for discussing  . I think  it is an excellent idea
> that we need to use for our community meetings  to get everyone's inputs.
>
>
> * Geo4All - What would you like to see Geo4All in 5 years -- 2020  -- in
> the context of educational collaboration?
>
> * Geo4All  - What we need to do together to achieve this vision?
>
> * Geo4All  - What can we do THIS YEAR to move forward?
>
> * Geo4All - What can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision?
>
>
>
> May i request all to reflect and share your ideas. Esp. we are interested
> to hear on "what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision?".
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_BOF1
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)

[Charlie Schweik]

FYI - All of the proceedings from recent past foss4g conferences can be
found at

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g

Cheers
Charlie

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 8:02 AM Andy Anderson  wrote:

> https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W8/
>
> > On Jun 14, 2019, at 6:53 AM, Vijay Tulasingam 
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all
> > Thank you, I would like to know where can I get FOSS4G2018 proceedings
> and if not available online I would like to know the ISBN no.
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G conference proceedings readership stats for October, and a question to whoever is the Academic chair of FOSS4G 2019, Bucharest

[Charlie Schweik]

Dear GeoForAll and OSGeo colleagues,

I thought you'd like to know, that:

Last month, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
Conference Proceedings had 1301 full-text downloads.
The three most popular papers for the month were:
Analyzing the performance of NoSQL vs. SQL databases for Spatial and
Aggregate queries (356 downloads)
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/4
Performance Analysis of MongoDB Vs. PostGIS/PostGreSQL Databases For Line
Intersection and Point Containment Spatial Queries (93 downloads)
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol15/iss1/50
Mapping WiFi measurements on OpenStreetMap data for Wireless Street
Coverage Analysis (68 downloads)
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol16/iss1/5

*QUESTION: Whoever is running the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2019, Bucharest,
it would be great to talk to you about the possible use of this system, for
publishing of the academic proceedings. Email me and Mohammed Zia
(mohammed.zi...@gmail.com ).*

... And *thanks* to Mohammed Zia who has acted as managing editor of these
proceedings and done a magnificent job.

Cheers,

Charlie Schweik

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] World Commons Week.

[Charlie Schweik]

Thanks Suchith!

Not sure how you heard about World Commons Week Suchith, but wonderful to
see. I'm the organizer of this global event in my separate role from
GeoForAll with the International Association for the Study of the Commons
(IASC; http://iasc-commons.org). As you say, open source software as a form
of digital commons. I've been trying to connect GeoForAll and OSGeo to this
international community for many people in IASC (academics, practitioners)
are users of geospatial technologies who study or manage forests, water
systems or other natural resource "commons". In 2017, Rafael Moreno and I
gave a presentation on OSGeo and GeoForAll at the IASC international
conference in The Netherlands.

I'd like to draw everyone's attention to what may be a first-time ever done
event: *24 hours of noon-time webinars as the world turns, on October 12.*

*Our very own Cameron Shorter is giving one of the talks, at 12:00 noon,
UTC +11.  *
*See https://www.worldcommonsweek.org/cameron-shorter
<https://www.worldcommonsweek.org/cameron-shorter>*

Use this link
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20181012T01=3913=240=43>
to figure out what time it will be in your timezone, and there is
information on how to join his webinar on his webpage
<https://www.worldcommonsweek.org/cameron-shorter>. Hope to see some of you
there. I'll be moderating.

If this 24-hours of talks works -- which I'm certain it will -- we might
think about doing something similar with GeoForAll\OSGeo down the road.

Cheers,

Charlie Schweik

On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 7:19 AM Suchith Anand 
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> Greetings to all colleagues on the World Commons Week. During the entire
> week, there will be also a multitude of local events organized in different
> parts of the world, and particularly in Europe, all dedicated to raising
> awareness about the scholarship and practice of the Commons in many
> thematic areas, including water, forests, fisheries and marine settings;
> the global atmosphere; infrastructure, urban and rural areas; technology
> and software; and knowledge sharing and co-production.
>
>
> Please see details at
>
>
>
> https://www.iasc-commons.org/world-commons-week-kicks-starts-today-on-october-4-2018-possibilities-to-join/
>
>
> It is very good that OGRS Community is also meeting next week  to focus
> the discussion on this topic to promote, discuss and find pathways to put
> Open Science in Action. Details at http://2018.ogrs-community.org
>
>
> It is important that we think of protecting global commons for the benefit
> of everyone and our future generations. Service for the benefit and
> betterment of humanity is a key fundamental principle of “Geo for All”
> movement. I would to like to thank all colleagues worldwide who have made
> contributions to open education efforts and being good global citizens by
> helping spread the benefits of education to all.
>
> I want to join all our colleagues in wishing everyone a very productive
> week of celebrating the commons scholarship and practice.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] osgeo board request world wind consider joining the foundation

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Patrick,

Just want to publicly say thanks for all you have done and the energy and
the direction you have brought to the GeoForAll community.

I'm sure I speak for many others when I say that I have always appreciated
your insights and encouragement. What I've taken as a core message from
you, over time, is that we are one world, and we should be working on
shared "commons" to work to improve this world. You've certainly done that
here in tangible and intangible ways. You exemplify what global public
service is all about.

I am also inspired knowing you now are turning your attention to littler
ones who also need to learn your teachings.

All the best, stay in touch, and a sincere thank you.

Charlie Schweik




On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 1:06 PM Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
patrick.ho...@nasa.gov> wrote:

> Luis,
>
>
>
> Dearly appreciate your concern and support!
>
>
>
> If WorldWind is not sufficient to be part of the OSGeo family as is,
>
> maybe being grand-mothered in, given its age,
>
> a good five years older than OSGeo,
>
> then I guess we’ll just have to carry on without.
>
>
>
> We simply have not the time to navigate the obstacle course,
>
> despite being as Open Source Geospatial as it gets,
>
> both in principle and in action, for quite some time.
>
>
>
> I have always considered ESA-NASA WorldWind as part of OSGeo by default.
>
> Now my tenure is about up, so into the sunset I go, wishing more for the
> world.
>
>
>
> -phoga...@yahoo.com
>
>
>
> *From:* Luí­s Moreira de Sousa [mailto:luis.de.so...@protonmail.ch]
> *Sent:* Monday, June 11, 2018 8:46 AM
> *To:* Suchith Anand
> *Cc:* Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo-incubator; ML osgeo discuss;
> geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo board request world wind
> consider joining the foundation
>
>
>
> Dear Patrick,
>
>
>
> I am a member of the PyWPS PSC, a project that graduated just recently.
> PyWPS was in active incubation for 3 years; it was indeed a long process,
> but along the way it was generally clear what we were missing to reach the
> finish line.
>
>
>
> I would suggest the Worldwind PSC to share the project incubation check
> list and publicly seek help to complete the most difficult items.
>
>
>
> Best wishes for Worldwind. Regards.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Luís Moreira de Sousa
>
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>
> 6701 DN Wageningen
>
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>
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> ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
>
> On June 11, 2018 1:58 AM, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
>
>
> Thanks for your email and your contributions to OSGeo Principles over the
> years . Though I do not have background knowledge of the incubation
>  discussions that you went through in OSGeo , I do hope that Worldwind
> becomes part of the OSGeo family in the near future. We will keep trying.
>
>
>
> GeoForAll have always welcomed Worldwind and other  like minded
> initiatives  as part of our outreach efforts in education  and we are
> hoping that this will lead in the future for building more  synergies .
> The Europa challenge has been a great boost for GeoForAll education efforts
> and we are grateful for your tireless work over the years for making this
> possible.
>
>
>
> I want to wish you the very best for the next chapter of your life. Great
> idea to go back to school teaching after your retirement. That will also
> help the GeoForAll School Education efforts ... Thanks again for your
> contributions to Open Principles in education.
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> *From:* Discuss  on behalf of Hogan,
> Patrick (ARC-PX) 
> *Sent:* 09 June 2018 23:31
> *To:* Jody Garnett; OSGeo-incubator
> *Cc:* ML osgeo discuss; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo board request world wind consider
> joining the foundation
>
>
>
> Jody, Howdy!
>
>
>
> Despite every attempt to support OSGeo and the principles therein,
> WorldWind seems to always be met with something missing. I am not
> WorldWind. WorldWind is an open source platform that has been dedicated to
> delivering geospatial data for 15 years now.
>
>
>
> I’m sure WorldWind would like to be embraced by OSGeo, but somehow it
> seems WorldWind has never learned the special handshake. I am old now a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and OSGeo

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er consequently to such an offer.
> Best regards!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AWorldBridge GeoForAll Lab Delivers for FAO in Africa

[Charlie Schweik]

I couldn't resist publicly giving a shout-out to Ron Fortunato and
AWorldBridge and their connection to these other organizations. In my view,
they are leading the globe in this kind of cross organizational
"commons-based peer production" effort and all GeoForAll labs should
consider trying to mimic what they are doing.

Great work Ron and teams!

Charlie Schweik



On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:29 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> I would like to congratulate our GeoForAll lab colleagues -  Ron
> Fortunato’s and his students at AWorldBridge for their exceptional
> determination and efforts in contributing technical excellence and
> substantive achievements to assisting small-holder farmers in Africa in
> managing the Fall Armyworm through the Fall Armyworm Monitoring & Early
> Warning System mobile app .  They built this for FAO that FAO then
> released as their app! Details at  http://www.fao.org/news/
> story/en/item/1106850/icode/
>
>
> The Fall Army Worm is having a devastating impact on Africa. If you want
> to know more about the Fall Army Worm FAW, see this,
>
> http://www.fao.org/food-chain-crisis/how-we-work/plant-
> protection/fallarmyworm/en/
>
>
>
> Ron’s AWorldBridge is one of the GeoForAll Labs (they have two labs - one
> running projects for NASA and UN FAO in Middletown, NY, USA and a second
> one running delivering corresponding data including climate change studies
> for USGS, NOAA and NASA at Barrow, Alaska, USA. Everything they produce is
> open source.
>
>
>
> Please see  FAO thank you certificate
>
> https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/fao/WorldBridgeCertificate.pdf
>
>
>
> Thanks to Patrick for sharing this excellent news.
>
>
> A World Bridge is an international award-winning program for learning 21st
> Century Skills, using advanced teaching methods that incorporate real-
> world projects involving industry and government partners. A World Bridge
> continually advances educational models for international leadership,
> economic development, and educational research. These dynamic projects
> involve the design and implementation of Real-world, Real-time Project-
> Based Learning into the curriculum. Students develop professional skills
> while working on locally-oriented projects that have relevance to the
> larger global community, such as urban management and sustainable
> resources. Details at http://aworldbridge.com
>
>
> I am particularly impressed by their work with students through NASA
> Europa Challenge. Alaska’s A World Bridge program in Kodiak won
> back-to-back NASA Europa - International Grand Challenges the past two
> years, competing against the world’s “Best and the Brightest” to generate
> solutions to societal issues that will benefit both the local and world
> communities.  The students are also working on the NASA OpenCitySmart
> global initiative, which challenges “the world’s best and brightest” to
> find solutions for creating sustainable communities. They are looking for
> renewable energy solutions and the development of shared energy grids
> suitable for Arctic conditions.
>
>
> Please see the amazing work that the students are doing that was
> summarised in our June 2017 Newsletter at https://www.osgeo.org/wp-
> content/uploads/Newsletter-Vol-3_6.pdf
>
>
> We are very grateful to the contributions of these amazing students to
> GeoForAll. It is important that we can share these amazing ideas with all
> so that it keeps building more synergies. We are a global community, and it
> is this global perspective which gives us strength. It is important that we
> highlight and share ideas from colleagues in different parts of our home
> planet.
>
>
> Best wishes,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll teaching and research resources

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi,

Just wanted to say -- these pages in the below email are a really great
start, in my humble opinion. Nice work!

I'd like to circle back to what I was trying to jumpstart when I did my
GeoForAll webinar on Commons-based Peer Production [0]. *What we need to do
is self-identify GeoForAll labs, willing to collaborate on some educational
topic (or research agenda), and start collaborating.*

For example, my colleagues and I at UMass are working on a set of exercises
for an Applications in Unmanned Aerial Systems class for higher education.
As we get initial exercises done, we will plan to make them available,
somehow, under "In your classroom" [1] with Creative Commons licenses that
allow sharing and permit new derivatives. We're in dialog with Michael
Starek and Phil Davis about this with the goal of collaboration between our
two GeoForAll labs.

Version control is still a question.

GeoAcademy uses Github to store their content which is great. I just worry
that for some that might be too technical for some. There are a number of
other options. GitBook [2] is one, Rice U's OpenStax [3], or even something
as simple as shared, read only, Google Drive folders. I'm going to take
this collaboration opportunity to work on this more. What we want, I
believe, is something very simple, with few rules or standards that be a
negative force slowing down collaboration.

In short:

I encourage other Geoforall labs working in education to identify two-lab
collaboration opportunities to develop and share GeoForAll educational
content in some area that *you need for your own teaching*, and let's try
and build a content library moving toward open access to educational
"source" and version control, as a community. Let's see what new stuff we
can have under [1] by the end of summer 2018!

If anyone takes up this challenge -- let us know!

Cheers,

Charlie

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVCDME7cxUA=994s
[1] https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/
[2] https://www.gitbook.com/  <https://www.gitbook.com/>
[3] https://cnx.org/

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:02 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Dear colleague,
>
> We now have a new website for GeoForAll [1] and we are happy to share the
> teaching and research resources we have with everyone. It is work in
> progress and we will be adding more resources over time.
>
> We are also inviting feedbacks to help us improve.
>
> Please check the resources available at
>
> *For your Teaching* https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-
> your-classroom/
>
> *For your Research* https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-
> your-research/
>
> *For your class projects* https://www.osgeo.org/
> initiatives/geo-for-all/for-your-class-project/
>
> We have democratized  GIS so everyone and our future generations are now
> owners of these resources. Every one of you are also the owners of all
> these software and you have full freedom  to use  as you wish for your
> education needs and also donate it to your students as you wish without any
> vendor  permissions!
>
> We thank all colleagues for their selfless efforts over many years which
> has helped us to make this possible. I will always be grateful to every one
> of them.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> [1] https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Educational Content Inventory link needed

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Suchith,

I believe it was running on OSGeo's server (year's ago Tyler Mitchell,
director of OSGeo, set it up). I was assuming the server was periodically
being backed up? Who has maintained the server over the last few years?

Charlie

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Can someone please help provide the details of previous OSGeo educational
> content inventory [1]. Has the files been saved somewhere? If so, please
> let me know details. Thanks.
>
>
> Also we would like to add GeoForAll community news (GeoAmbassodor etc)
> through the new website . How can I do this?
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] An update on the FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic Track Proceedings readership

[Charlie Schweik]

Thanks Jeff.

I should have given a BIG shout-out once again to all the people who
participated in the reviews of the 2017 FOSS4G Academic proceedings as well
as the authors themselves!  (Incidentally, Scholarworks tracks individual
paper downloads as well.)

The curious can see the reviewers here:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2017#Reviewers

I know you'd agree. We have a terrific, supportive (and growing!) community.

Cheers,
Charlie

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
> wrote:

> Thank you Charlie for the nice update.  I am proud to have participated in
> the academic track, by reviewing 3 papers, and I often think of the
> wonderful academic ice breaker at the MIT pavilion (the boat ride was so
> special to me).  Thank you to Mohammed, Andy, Franz-Josef, Erin, Charlie
> and whole team for the great work organizing it all.  And congratulations
> to you Charlie as a GeoAmbassador, well deserved. Family.-jeff
>
>
> --
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> President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
>
>
>
>
> On 2017-12-04 12:09 PM, Charlie Schweik wrote:
>
>> Dear OGGeo and GeoForAll colleagues,
>>
>> *1) An update on FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic proceedings readership*
>>
>> One of the nice things about using the Scholarworks system [1] for
>> managing production and hosting FOSS4G conference open access academic
>> proceedings is that the Scholarworks system provides regular reporting of
>> readership and downloads.
>>
>> FYI, since 9/5/2017, the FOSS4G 2017 full Academic Proceedings has been:
>>
>> - downloaded 135 times;
>> - accessed from 75 different universities;
>> - representing 68 different countries.
>>
>> I can send a map screen shot if anyone is interested.
>>
>> *2) Also, FYI, *
>>
>> - Dr. Franz-Josef Behr, Mohammed Zia, and our Scholarworks support person
>> Erin Jerome at UMass Amherst are working to get the 2016 FOSS4G Bonn
>> proceedings up on this site as Volume 16; and,
>>
>> - Zia and I are in communication with FOSS4G NA academic chair Steve
>> Liang about the possibility of using this system to support the production
>> of their FOSS4G NA conference Academic Proceedings.
>>
>> - If there are any other upcoming FOSS4G regional conferences who would
>> like to use this system for their proceedings, please contact me.
>>
>> *3) The OSGeo Journal page needs updating*
>>
>> Somehow we now need to update the OSGeo Journal webpage [2] updated to
>> reflect these developments. Can anyone help me with that?
>>
>> Thanks to Mohammed Zia, Erin Jerome and Andy Anderson for their ongoing
>> support of this effort, and to my university for providing the Scholarworks
>> system at no cost to our community.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Charlie Schweik
>>
>> [1] http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
>> [2] https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal
>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] An update on the FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic Track Proceedings readership

[Charlie Schweik]

Dear OGGeo and GeoForAll colleagues,

*1) An update on FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic proceedings readership*

One of the nice things about using the Scholarworks system [1] for managing
production and hosting FOSS4G conference open access academic proceedings
is that the Scholarworks system provides regular reporting of readership
and downloads.

FYI, since 9/5/2017, the FOSS4G 2017 full Academic Proceedings has been:

- downloaded 135 times;
- accessed from 75 different universities;
- representing 68 different countries.

I can send a map screen shot if anyone is interested.

*2) Also, FYI, *

- Dr. Franz-Josef Behr, Mohammed Zia, and our Scholarworks support person
Erin Jerome at UMass Amherst are working to get the 2016 FOSS4G Bonn
proceedings up on this site as Volume 16; and,

- Zia and I are in communication with FOSS4G NA academic chair Steve Liang
about the possibility of using this system to support the production of
their FOSS4G NA conference Academic Proceedings.

- If there are any other upcoming FOSS4G regional conferences who would
like to use this system for their proceedings, please contact me.

*3) The OSGeo Journal page needs updating*

Somehow we now need to update the OSGeo Journal webpage [2] updated to
reflect these developments. Can anyone help me with that?

Thanks to Mohammed Zia, Erin Jerome and Andy Anderson for their ongoing
support of this effort, and to my university for providing the Scholarworks
system at no cost to our community.

Cheers,

Charlie Schweik

[1] http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
[2] https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Call for Volunteers for Geodata Committee

[Charlie Schweik]

ttp://eval.whs.aworldbridgelabs.com/aworldbridge_whs.html
>
>
> And urban infrastructure management tool:
> http://eval.cs.aworldbridgelabs.com/CS_MainPage_aworldbridge.com.html
>
>
> And he is also working with the UN/FAO on a web app to monitor a major
> North African infestation of the Armyworm, https://en.
> wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_armyworm
>
>
> Everything Ron does is all OpenData, OpenSource and OpenEducation.
>
> -Patrick
> (650) 604-5656 (o)
> (650) 269-2788 (c)
>
> From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
> <geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 7:34 AM
> To: Jeff McKenna; osgeo; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Volunteers for Geodata
> Committee
>
> 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<mailto:discuss-bounces@
> lists.osgeo.org <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>>> on behalf of Jeff
> McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com<mailto:jmckenna@
> gatewaygeomatics.com <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
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] R: Participatory webinar Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT Collaborative education research across GeoForAll labs?

[Charlie Schweik]

Fixed. Try again! Sorry about that! Thank you!
Charlie

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:49 AM, Marco Minghini <marco.minghin...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Charlie, all,
> I get the same error - we need access permission for the form.
> Best,
>
> Marco
>
> Marco Minghini, Ph.D.
> GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA
> Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy)
> +39 02 23996409 <+39%2002%202399%206409>
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>
> 2017-11-10 8:10 GMT+01:00 Peter Mooney <petermoone...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear Charlie, colleagues,
>>
>> Do we need access permission for the form? I am signed into my Google
>> Account(s) but I get the error below?
>>
>> I won't be able to join tonight - 7PM on Friday is not a suitable time
>> for me. I am sorry. But I will fill in the survey and contribute to
>> anything that emerges from the webinar.
>>
>> Thank you for the initiative.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 5:28 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
>> maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Charlie
>>> Thanks for organising the event. I'm not able to attend and, as I'm
>>> currently in China, I can't reach Google applications and fill the form.
>>> Marco, who is the point of contact for GEOLab can fill it (probably he
>>> already did).
>>> Have a good meeting!
>>> Maria
>>>
>>>
>>> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
>>>
>>>
>>>  Messaggio originale 
>>> Da: Charlie Schweik <cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu>
>>> Data: 10/11/17 08:42 (GMT+08:00)
>>> A: "Moreno-sanchez, Rafael" <rafael.mor...@ucdenver.edu>
>>> Cc: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, discuss@lists.osgeo.org
>>> Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Participatory webinar Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT
>>> Collaborative education research across GeoForAll labs?
>>>
>>> Dear GeoForAll community,
>>>
>>> I appreciate the opportunity to speak to some of you tomorrow at 7:00 PM
>>> GMT in the GeoForAll webinar [1]. The goal is to discuss how we can create
>>> some real substantive collaborations across GeoForAll labs.
>>>
>>> *One favor (even if you can't attend). Could you take this brief survey
>>> about GeoForAll lab collaboration by 5:00 PM GMT tomorrow?*
>>>
>>> *https://goo.gl/forms/qP1eDxtsz2Cf444o1
>>> <https://goo.gl/forms/qP1eDxtsz2Cf444o1>*
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Charlie Schweik
>>> University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> [1] T*o join participatory webinar: *
>>> *https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/563231430*
>>> <https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/563231430>
>>>
>>> *7:00 PM GMT, Friday November 10th*
>>>
>>>
>>> "Can we initiate GeoForAll lab collaborative education and/or research?"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We undoubtedly agree: The GeoForAll network is terrific. We have ~120
>>> labs scattered throughout the world, we’ve identified some collaborative
>>> research and education areas (e.g., OpenCitySmart, GeoAgriculture), and
>>> there are some significant collaboration going on across nodes, such as the
>>> NASA Europa Challenge. But we may have only scratched the surface on what
>>> we can, collectively, accomplish. Can we do even better?
>>>
>>> In this participatory webinar, Charlie Schweik of the University of
>>> Massachusetts, Amherst, will be posing the question to the GeoForAll
>>> community: Can we initiate and “incubate” some GeoForAll collaborative
>>> research or educational projects? After presenting this idea in more
>>> detail, we will open the webinar to community discussion and how to
>>> possibly move, collectively, forward.
>>>
>>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Participatory webinar Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT Collaborative education research across GeoForAll labs?

[Charlie Schweik]

Dear GeoForAll community,

I appreciate the opportunity to speak to some of you tomorrow at 7:00 PM
GMT in the GeoForAll webinar [1]. The goal is to discuss how we can create
some real substantive collaborations across GeoForAll labs.

*One favor (even if you can't attend). Could you take this brief survey
about GeoForAll lab collaboration by 5:00 PM GMT tomorrow?*

*https://goo.gl/forms/qP1eDxtsz2Cf444o1
<https://goo.gl/forms/qP1eDxtsz2Cf444o1>*

Thank you!

Charlie Schweik
University of Massachusetts, Amherst



[1] T*o join participatory webinar: **https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/563231430*
<https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/563231430>

*7:00 PM GMT, Friday November 10th*


"Can we initiate GeoForAll lab collaborative education and/or research?"



We undoubtedly agree: The GeoForAll network is terrific. We have ~120 labs
scattered throughout the world, we’ve identified some collaborative
research and education areas (e.g., OpenCitySmart, GeoAgriculture), and
there are some significant collaboration going on across nodes, such as the
NASA Europa Challenge. But we may have only scratched the surface on what
we can, collectively, accomplish. Can we do even better?

In this participatory webinar, Charlie Schweik of the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, will be posing the question to the GeoForAll
community: Can we initiate and “incubate” some GeoForAll collaborative
research or educational projects? After presenting this idea in more
detail, we will open the webinar to community discussion and how to
possibly move, collectively, forward.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Participatory webinar Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT Collaborative education research?

[Charlie Schweik]

Thanks everyone! I'm looking forward to Friday's presentation and community
discussion!
Stay tuned. I plan to send out some pre-webinar "contemplation questions"
for the GeoForAll community to consider prior to Friday. Probably on
Thursday.

Cheers

Charlie


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 8:08 AM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <
sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> wrote:

> Thank you Rafael for your terrific work managing all these webinars. And
> congratulations Charlie for a wonderful idea for this upcoming webinar.
>
> Best,
>
>
> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> Departamento de Geomática
> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> URUGUAY
> (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
> --
> *De:* GeoForAll <geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de
> Moreno-sanchez, Rafael <rafael.mor...@ucdenver.edu>
> *Enviado:* viernes, 03 de noviembre de 2017 17:22
> *Para:* Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
> *Asunto:* [Geo4All] Participatory webinar Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT
> Collaborative education research?
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Last Monday we had a fantastic presentation by Carolina Arias and Carlos
> Castro through the GeoForAll Iberoamérica  webinar series on preparing
> educational materials for geomatics courses. An interesting approach on how
> to create effective hands-on exercises and materials for supporting
> geomatics courses using FOSS4G.
>
>
>
> Kind reminder a week from today, Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT we have the
> following participatory webinar: *Can we initiate some GeoForAll
> collaborative education_research?*
>
>
>
> To join participatory webinar:
>
> https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/563231430
>
>
>
> *Can we initiate some GeoForAll collaborative education_research?*
>
>
>
> We undoubtedly agree: The GeoForAll network is terrific. We have ~120 labs
> scattered throughout the world, we’ve identified some collaborative
> research and education areas (e.g., OpenCitySmart, GeoAgriculture), and
> there are some significant collaboration going on across nodes, such as the
> NASA Europa Challenge. But we may have only scratched the surface on what
> we can, collectively, accomplish. Can we do even better?
>
> In this participatory webinar, Charlie Schweik of the University of
> Massachusetts, Amherst, will be posing the question to the GeoForAll
> community: Can we initiate and “incubate” some GeoForAll collaborative
> research or educational projects? After presenting this idea in more
> detail, we will open the webinar to community discussion and how to
> possibly move, collectively, forward
>
>
>
> __
>
> Rafael Moreno, Ph.D.
>
> Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences
>
> University of Colorado Denver
>
> Office: North Classroom 3524, Auraria Campus
>
> Campus Box 172
>
> 1200 Larimer Street NC 3524
>
> Denver, CO 80204
>
> Phone: 303-315-7556 <(303)%20315-7556>
>
> Fax 303-556-6197 <(303)%20556-6197>
>
> Website: https://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno
>
>
>
> *From:* GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Suchith Anand
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 2, 2017 1:49 PM
> *To:* discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [Geo4All] Please share the Philosophy of Openness in
> Geospatial Science  and Education on GIS Day and other Geo events
>
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> It  is over a decade now since we started working on the philosophy of
> Openness in Geospatial Science  and Education. The pace of change in the
> GIS in the last decade towards Openness has been beyond even my
> expectations.
>
> May i request all who are taking part in various Geo events (Geography
> Awareness Week, OSM Geo Week, GIS day etc ) to  make use of the opportunity
> to promote Open Principles in GeoEducation by sharing information on
> GeoForAll and welcoming those interested to be part of Open Principles in
> Science and Education. Please share the  pledge for  supporting Open
> Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for
> everyone.
>
> The ideas are summarized at https://www.slideshare.net/
> SuchithAnand/the-future-of-geo-is-open
>
> We welcome everyone to support Open Principles for Science and Education
> for building a better world for everyone.
>
> *The Future of Geo is For Everyone...*
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee
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[OSGeo-Discuss] The final FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic Proceedings are now available online; Future FOSS4G academic track committees -- consider using this system

[Charlie Schweik]

Dear FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic Proceedings authors, Academic Committee
[1], and OSGeo and GeoForAll community,

The final peer-reviewed, published academic proceedings for FOSS4G 2017
Boston is now available at:

*http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/
<http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/>*

You can download either the full proceedings pdf (including posters), or
individual papers. Each has a listed recommended citation. Relevant library
search databases are getting fed the metadata through BePress' [3]
Scholarworks publishing platform.  Following past practices, we also intend
to make the proceedings available on the OSGeo journal website and we are
working on getting the new OSGeo logo on the banner.

I want to thank everyone who contributed to these proceedings: the authors,
the terrific academic review committee [1], UMass Amherst librarian Erin
Jerome, Aurora Alder at BEPress [3], and especially to my co-editors Andy
Anderson and Mohammed Zia. Zia deserves special thanks for his efforts.
He's an exceptionally talented and capable individual.

Finally, we'd like to emphasize that this Scholarworks paper review
management and publishing system, supported by BEPress [3] is now available
for future FOSS4G conference academic proceedings, at no cost to
OSGeo\GeoForAll. We implemented this system with the hope that it will be
used for future FOSS4G conferences (such as FOSS4G NA 2018 or other
upcoming FOSS4G conferences). We stand ready to teach this system works to
future academic committee chair(s). Just contact me (
cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu).

Cheers,

Charlie Schweik
(on behalf of our team: Mohammed Zia, Andy Anderson and Erin Jerome)

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2017#Academic_Committee
[2] http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/2/
[3] https://www.bepress.com/
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Professor
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School of Public Policy
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Re: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Mohammed Zia

[Charlie Schweik]

+1 on the nomination of Mohammed Zia.

I second everything Andy Anderson said. Among other things, Zia was an
incredible help as co-editor of the FOSS4G 2017 academic proceedings that
we are about to publish and will be put on the OSGeo Journal site. He's a
proven asset and collaborator to the OSGeo community.

Charlie Schweik

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org>
wrote:

> Forwarding Mohammed Zia nomination by Andy Anderson. The 2017 member
> nominations list was updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Re: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Ben Lewis
> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:56:53 +
> From: Andy Anderson <aander...@amherst.edu>
> To: c...@osgeo.org <c...@osgeo.org>
> CC: Mohammed Zia <mohammed.zi...@gmail.com>
>
> [Still 11:56 PM, Thursday, September 7, 2017, Samoa Standard Time (SST)
> -1100 UTC  in American Samoa in the central Pacific! :-)]
>
> I would like to nominate Mohammed Zia for charter membership.
>
> Zia is a GeoSpatial Developer at the National Innovation & Research Center
> for Geographical Information Technologies in Turkey. As part of his PhD
> research in Geomatics Engineering, he is making extensive use of FOSS4G
> technologies in the study of vehicle routing, including the use of
> OpenStreetMap data and Mapbox for visualization, and published his
> algorithms as open-source [1]. He presented his results at the
> International FOSS4G 2017 conference this August. Zia also served as the
> co-chair of the FOSS4G Academic Program Subcommittee and co-editor of the
> Conference Proceedings, and was essential to organizing the review of and
> the selection of the submitted academic papers. He also participated in
> moderating the presentations there and was an important part of making the
> conference a success.
>
> [1] https://github.com/Zia-
>
> — Andy Anderson
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo is the host of FOSS4G not a guest

[Charlie Schweik]

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Marc VLOEMANS <marcvloema...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Let's keep the momentum, the mojo, the vibe and focus on the future!
>

Thanks Marc,

As an OSGeo Charter Member, a co-leader of GeoForAll, and OSGeo's education
efforts, and someone in Massachusetts (but not really active with the
BLOC), I couldn't help but say that I am seeing first-hand the efforts of
the Boston LOC. FOSS4G 2017 Boston is going to be GREAT and the BLOC has
been working like crazy to pull off a really terrific conference.

Turning to Marc's point of focusing on the future and his references to
FOSS4G-NA-2018 and FOSS4G-2018...

I also wanted to let the community know about infrastructure we've built
for FOSS4G 2017 that can be used by future FOSS4G conferences. I (along
with two terrific and hardworking people -- Mohammed Zia and Andy Anderson)
have been managing the FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic Track and the
peer-review review process for the papers and posters as we build the
conference proceedings. We've set up a proceedings review and publishing
system based on BePress Scholarworks that is paid for under my university's
subscription (thanks to all reviewers!). It will cost OSGeo and future
FOSS4G conference organizers nothing, and it has a very nice paper review
system (like EasyChair, but again, no cost). Once the proceedings are
published, the open access papers' metadata will be fed into many library
databases for easy discovery. The proceedings will be stored at [1] but we
will also create a full pdf version that will be published on the OSGeo
Journal [2]. The OSgeo banner on [1] will be replaced with any new branding
that might be coming. (I've kept Venka and Helena informed on this
activity.)

The key point about the future:

If anyone who will be at FOSS4G Boston will be part of an organizing team
for future FOSS4G regional or global conferences, *please contact me* so I
can show the backend of the conference review and publishing system. It's a
great resource that is now available for any future FOSS4G conference, at
no cost.

Cheers,

Charlie Schweik

[1] http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/journal
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Vision for an OSGeo education program

[Charlie Schweik]

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Reminder - Call for abstracts XVI Biennial IASC-Conference (Utrecht, July 2017) - deadline abstracts 15 October 2016

[Charlie Schweik]

GeoForAll and OSGeo colleagues (especially European colleagues),

See the below for an announcement of a "call for abstracts" for July 2017's
International Association for the Study of the Commons conference to be
held in Utrecht, The Netherlands. I've mentioned this before, but I thought
I'd raise it again because abstract submissions are due on October 15th. My
hope via this email is that we can build a "track" of papers for this
conference around open source Geospatial software and education.

I'd like to remind you that what we are doing in OSGeo and GeoForAll are
building software and education "commons." Free/Libre and Open Source
software are a form of internet-based "Common Property Regimes" [1].

The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), is a
well-established scholarly association where most (but not all) people
focus on natural resource commons (fisheries, water resources, forests, the
atmosphere). But may in this conference (1) would be quite interested in
learning about open source GIS for possible use in their natural
resource-related studies (and many participants come from developing world
contexts where open source may be readily adopted). But I and others are
trying to build a "track" in IASC about software and other digital
"commons" such as databases in a general area we call "Knowledge Commons"
(see the video we created here for more on that [2]).

If anyone thinks they might be interested in trying to join in and submit
something coordinated for this conference, let me know, and tell me what
your topic might be. It would be nice to at least have a panel session of
OSGeo-GeoForAll topics and I'd be happy to coordinate this. I'm also hoping
we can have at least one pre-conference workshop on some OSGeo software
product. Probably something for more "beginner" GIS people, but not
necessarily. Again, contact me if you have ideas and interest in doing
something.

I think connecting to IASC could help us in our continued expansion of both
OSGeo and GeoForAll.

Thanks,

Charlie Schweik


[1] I am *honestly* not trying to self-promote here, but I've written about
this connection in papers like this one:
https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.397/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3N9Gb3bKzQ

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Date: Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:35 PM
Subject: Reminder - Call for abstracts XVI Biennial IASC-Conference
(Utrecht, July 2017) - deadline abstracts 15 October 2016
To: cschw...@gmail.com


*Reminder - Only ten more days to submit abstracts for XVI Biennial
IASC-Conference 'Practicing the Commons' (Utrecht, 10-14 July 2017) -
deadline for abstracts 15 October 2016*

The IASC and the local organizers of the XVI Biennial Conference
welcome *abstracts
(500 words max.)* for papers, panels, and posters to be presented at this
global conference, to be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 10 to 14
July 2017. Abstracts with a *maximum of 500 words* for paper, panel, or
poster, can be submitted *until 15 October 2016*; notification of review
results will be available in December 2016/January 2017.

With the theme of the conference, * “Practicing the Commons:
Self-Governance, Cooperation, and Institutional Change”*, we intend to
bring together the fast growing body of scientific knowledge on the commons
as an alternative governance model from all over the world. The increasing
popularity of commons as a governance model is visible across the
Netherlands, as well as elsewhere around the world. Citizens increasingly
form new collectives to provide energy, care, food, et cetera, and work
together on the basis of self-governance and reciprocity. An overview of
the main themes to be addressed, including a list of potential research
questions that might be the topic of paper presentation, can be found via
the conference website at *http://www.iasc2017.org/calls/call-for-papers/
<http://www.iasc2017.org/calls/call-for-papers/>*. Soon, a call for
contributions to practitioners’ labs will also be issued.

*Website, call, and submitting abstracts (500 words max.)*

Conference website - http://www.iasc2017.org

Call for abstracts - http://www.iasc2017.org/calls/call-for-papers/

Submit your abstract - http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/
IASC2017/author/submit

*Submit your abstract before 15 October via
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Andy Anderson as OSGeo Charter Member

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi,

I'd like to nominate Dr. Andy Anderson of Amherst College, Amherst USA for
OSGeo Charter Member.

I have asked him about being nominated, and he confirmed he was interested.

I've worked with Andy for 15 years, and he has become an open source
geospatial technology evangelist here in Western Massachusetts over the
last decade. Moreover, he is a knowledge-base technically, and supports
many students in our "5 college" area in open source geospatial
technologies. Together, we offered a WebGIS course to "five college"
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Smith College, Mt Holyoke
College and Hampshire College) network students last spring. He's an active
member of the FOSS4G 2017 Boston LOC, and is active on our GeoForAll node
in Western Massachusetts, USA [1].

FYI, below is the information Andy provides on his OSGeo Wiki entry [2]:

"I have been using open-source software since the early 1980s, and
specifically FOSS4G since 2007. I currently teach occasional classes with
FOSS4G and write documentation for using FOSS4G in my position as Academic
Technology Specialist for Mathematical and Spatial Data Analysis at Amherst
College, and my role as Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental
Conservation at the University of Massachusetts. I am also serving on the
Boston Local Organizing Committee for FOSS4G 2017. I have been programming
since the mid-1970s, primarily for scientific applications but also
including open-source software, beginning with Fortran and C and continuing
most recently with JavaScript, Python, R, and SQL."

In short, Andy is the ultimate professional. He puts his heart and soul
into projects he takes on, and is technically brilliant. He's a passionate
contributor who does high-quality and thorough work. He is already -- and
will be -- a real contributor to OSGeo as a Charter Member.

Cheers,

Charlie Schweik

[1] http://www.umass.edu/opensource/
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Andy_Anderson


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN training material

[Charlie Schweik]

Once this page is made an entry should be made in our educational inventory
[1]

Cheers,
Charlie

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/education

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, I have added in a few links. We will need to watch this page as
> content is added - as new content is being added based on sometimes
> incomplete earlier examples. Thus far nobody has provided data references
> for example as requested.
>
> Maria is a point-of-contact needed? In what circumstances would contact be
> made?
>
> Bob - can I ask you to link to training material for GeoMOOSE? This wiki
> is gathering up training material for use in an open education context (so
> something that is free to be re-mixed into an academic course).
>
> Jeff - GeoNode has been added as a project - but also lacks education
> material, and a point of contact?
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 11 April 2016 at 08:51, Maria Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that could be repurposed...
>> Maria
>>
>>
>> Il 11/04/2016 17:26, Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>>
>> Any restrictions on license Maria? I understood this initiative was
>> trying to gather material that could be repurposed for open education use.
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 11 April 2016 at 03:36, Maria Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All
>>> as many of you know, OSGeo and G4A started a volunteer initiative for
>>> evaluating a possible migration of UN geospatial applications from
>>> proprietary to FOS S.
>>> I'm there the representative of G4A and I'm in charge of leading,
>>> together with Prof. Ki-Joune Li, the capacity building program of this UN
>>> OpenGIS Initiative.
>>> I'm kindly asking all of you, if you have short courses or workshops
>>> (for instance those held at FOSS4G Conferences) about
>>>
>>> QGIS, PostreSQL, PostGIS, Geoserver, OpenLayers, Geonode
>>>
>>> of referencing them at this wiki page
>>>
>>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining>*https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining
>>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining>*
>>> If you have any doubt please contact directly me or Ki-Joune.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> Best regards.
>>>
>>> Maria
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>>> Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
>>> Politecnico di Milano
>>>
>>> ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; 
>>> OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
>>> Sol Katz Award 2015
>>>
>>> Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
>>> Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
>>> e-mail1: maria.brove...@polimi.it
>>> e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it
>>>
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>> Politecnico di Milano
>>
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Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
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Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012)
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Paper of interest: Evaluating Open Source GIS for Libraries

[Charlie Schweik]

I stumbled across this article today and thought others might be 
interested to know it exists. The citation is:


Francis P. Donnelly, (2010) Evaluating open source GIS for libraries, 
Library Hi Tech, Vol. 28 Iss: 1, pp.131 - 151


(Sorry I can't forward the pdf).

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

[Charlie Schweik]

 as a new board member I’d like to 
understand the existing strategic vision of OSGeo and, if needed, 
encourage new dialog on where OSGeo is headed and what activities it 
should undertake to promote and advance OSGeo-related projects.


I also think the board should have some people on the board who can help 
raise some funding for OSGeo that would help achieve some of their 
goals. My area of expertise would be in grant-funding efforts, and 
perhaps with a few other board members we could collectively go after 
grant funds to help move some of OSGeo forward (for example in the 
educational content area).


Finally, I think the board needs to be made up of people from different 
perspectives and skills. I may have missed it, but it might be useful 
for people voting to see a list of the current board make-up (background 
and summary of what they bring to the table) and then look at the 
current nominees to see how they might complement or add to the current 
board composition.


TYLER’S QUESTION: Have you had to deal with similar challenges before?

My experience tends to be around the teaching of some of the 
OSGeo-related technologies. So I’ve dealt with some of the challenges of 
promoting OSGeo-technologies in an academic setting. I’ve also been 
involved in trying to encourage collaboration in the OSGeo education 
group. So I’ve got some experience in the challenge of getting 
volunteers to work with one another.


Thanks, all, for your time and ear. Cheers.

Charlie Schweik
UMass Amherst
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[OSGeo-Discuss] South Korean Open Source Software Competition

[Charlie Schweik]

This may be of interest to someone on this list... Cheers, Charlie Schweik

**

An International Open Source Software Competition with $25,000 in
total prizes and a free trip to Seoul is announced by the South Korean
Government!

For more information, visit the web site www.ossaward.org.

International participants are allowed to submit any open source
software project developed within one year, even if you received a
prize from another competition for it.

Flora Kang
ossawa...@gmail.com


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Impacts of OSGeo-Live document license selection on OSGeo

[Charlie Schweik]

On 6/18/2011 7:00 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Are education institutions allowed to license material they create 
under CC BY-SA?
I don't know if there is a yes or no answer to this or to what 
degree this has been addressed in academic institutions. We have one 
colleague, Puneet Kishor, who is closely connected to Creative Commons. 
Puneet, do you have any idea about this?


I did take a look at MIT's Open Courseware site and the homepage says 
everything is CC BY licensed. But there are some courses that are CC 
BY-SA that I found.
Also, Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative appears to be using CC 
BY-SA. See http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/index.php.


So I think some educational institutions are allowed to -- but I don't 
know how prevalent it is. I think for most campuses this is still a very 
new space.


Cheers
Charlie Schweik
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

[Charlie Schweik]

I'm not going to weigh in on the certification question -- I don't 
understand the companies out there doing training and the issues raised 
by Cameron and others. Apologies in advance for a long posting.


But I find myself puzzling about how this is linked to universities (our 
edu group) and the discussions about more formal relationships with 
universities. I teach in an Environmental Conservation department and 
also in a Public Policy and Administration program. I sometimes have 
undergrad and grad students interested in going beyond the traditional 
Intro to GIS course, and would love to be able to somehow offer a more 
advanced course that would utilize open source technologies and 
especially training on web-based GIS (currently we have none in our 
curriculum). Or enterprise-level desktop GIS that might be utilized in 
small local government settings (that often do not have GIS because of a 
lack of staffing) -- like small hilltowns in Western Massachusetts, or 
local governments in developing world contexts. Right now we offer both 
Intro to GIS courses using ArcGIS and also desktop open source, but we 
don't have the ability to teach the next level -- an enterprise GIS or 
web-based GIS.


The other thing I am seeing is a movement away from standard lecture 
format to one where the prof might use YouTube videos or other open 
access content outside of class and then use class time to be more 
hands-on. Also there is a push at our university to try and use more 
open access educational material to help reduce the costs of textbooks 
and coursepacks on students.


This leads me to my questions regarding training and this discussion.

1) How can we collectively act and utilize the expertise within OSGeo 
software groups and other affiliates to develop a set of training 
material that could be connected to university classes? Could people on 
this list with expertise develop modules? Could we develop, 
collectively, workbooks along with data and exercises that we 
instructors could use? If there are people out there willing to 
contribute to this idea, who are you and what kind of material would you 
be willing to contribute? For example, I would love to get some students 
learning how to use technology like OpenLayers or other web-based GIS 
technologies, but I don't have those skills so would want to offer a 
group independent study under my direction, where students could try 
and learn these kinds of technologies on their own and together, under 
my direction and with the support of this OSGeo network.


2) Would it be possible to develop a network of classes in affiliated 
institutions that are all teaching the same content in parallel, and 
perhaps all using one Moodle course hosted by OSGeo?  In other words, 
have face-to-face classes running in parallel on several universities 
during the same time frame (e.g., Sept-December or January-May) where 
these classes are meeting face-to-face but then we have the ability to 
tie expertise and he classes together via Moodle or maybe hold some 
webinars by technical experts that all classes in all universities 
(timezones will be an issue here)?


This would at least work for universities in locations where they have 
decent Internet connection. But the idea might be the start of the 
content for a proposal to educational funding agencies or 
foundations and I greatly appreciate the approach Cameron has done 
for the Free DVD in terms of having an editor who coordinates these 
things. Some proposal for funding would need to put forth that model.


I hope these ideas are helpful and not noise

Cheers
Charlie Schweik
UMass Amherst





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G education curriculum or syllabus?

[Charlie Schweik]

On 3/23/2011 4:18 AM, Shin, Sanghee wrote:

Dear All,

Our Korean chapter is planning to hold full 5 days FOSS4G education program for 
the FOSS4G novice in this summer. So I'm wondering whether there is any 
existing FOSS4G education curriculum or syllabus for our reference. If any, 
please let me know. Your help will be appreciated.

Sangee,

Great to hear that you are doing this! We haven't been able to get to a 
full curriculum but I am surprised that you are not aware of our 
educational inventory system at [1]. One of our goals is to establish a 
system for new derivative work. So, for example, if there is material 
on our system that you might want to convert to Korean, I'd be 
interested in seeing that happen (assuming the author of the content 
allows new derivatives).


Also, if from this event you produce new educational materials that you 
are willing to share, I encourage you (and others on this list) to post 
metadata entries to the material at [2].


Please note that we are trying to develop a FOSS4G educational 
curriculum but it is a difficult collective action challenge. See [3] 
for a list of what is on our agenda. We'd welcome anyone to join us to 
try and assist in achieving some of these goals.


Finally, I'm hoping there will be an educational content sprint at the 
Denver conference. I still need to work on the coordination of that.


Cheers
Charlie Schweik
OSGeo education chair

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
[2] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_goals_and_to_dos
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Open source for local government resources

[Charlie Schweik]

OSGeo colleagues,

A colleague of mine is publishing an article in Government Technology 
Magazine. At the end of the article he wants to list some good resources 
that local governments might turn to if they were considering open 
source. I'd like to build such a list. This doesn't have to be OS Geo in 
particular. It could be just on open source in general.


If anyone has links to good content that would inform local gov 
decision-makers, can you send to me? I'll compile and send out what I 
learn or perhaps will make a wiki page for us with that content.


Thanks in advance!

Charlie Schweik
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Archive of OSGeo / FOSS GIS presentations

[Charlie Schweik]

On 12/10/2010 2:48 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:


Some of us have been using for a while the OSGeo SVN[1]. And you can
search on popular slides services[2][3].

Best

[1] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/community/presentations/
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/tag/osgeo
[3]
http://www.scribd.com/search?cat=redesignfiletype=pptlanguage=0q=osgeo

Terrific Jorge! Three reactions:

1) I think these should be connected to the OSGeo Educational Inventory 
[1]. Unless anyone objects, I'm going to somehow add links to this there.


2) I encourage people who post new material to attach their material 
with a Creative Commons license.


3) I think it would be helpful somehow to tag material that might be 
appropriate for educational use, and perhaps license it with a 
derivatives permitted license and store it on the OSGeo subversion 
library, so other educators can use it and derive revised versions from it.


I encourage people to keep this in mind as they work on presentations 
that might be relevant for educators.


Cheers
Charlie Schweik



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Drupal 6.x translations..

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Tyler,
Want to try a call this coming Friday?
Charlie

On 12/6/2010 4:39 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

I'm looking at upgrading osgeo.org but it's Drupal 5.x site with lots of
translated pages (using localization module), but in 6.x language handling is
a core feature.  Anyone know off hand if this is going to get messy quickly? :)

Tyler
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Volunteer to help with Volume 8 of the OSGeo Journal.

[Charlie Schweik]

Landon,

I'm wondering about a short regular article on education news. This 
might be a way for me to survey what people have done and try and 
summarize? What do you think?


Charlie

On 11/4/2010 8:21 PM, Landon Blake wrote:


We are getting started with the publication process for Volume 8 of 
the OSGeo Journal, which we hope to publish before the year's end. We 
would love to have additional volunteers to lighten the load on the 
existing Journal editing and publication team. If you have been 
looking for a way to get involved with OSGeo, this is a good 
opportunity. Please let me know if you would be willing to help with 
any of the following tasks on Volume 8:


-Document to LaTex conversion and publishing.

-Document to XHTML conversion, CSS styling, and EPUB publishing.

-Editorial Review

-News Gathering

You can shoot an e-mail to sunburned.surve...@gmail.com 
mailto:sunburned.surve...@gmail.com or lbl...@ksninc.com 
mailto:lbl...@ksninc.com if you are interested in giving us a hand.


Thanks!

Landon and the OSGeo Journal Editing and Publishing Team



*Warning:
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defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader 
is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any 
dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is 
strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Japan chapter re ceives “Japanese OSS Encouragement Award” by IPA - ALSO a note on OSGe o Educational efforts

[Charlie Schweik]

 Congratulations, Toru, on receiving this award! Wonderful news!

Just a friendly reminder to you and other local groups from the OSGeo
education group... if you have generated any educational materials as
part of your efforts, I urge you to consider sharing them through our
educational resources system [1].

More broadly, there should be a much stronger link between OSGeo local
group activity and the OSGeo education group than there currently is. I
urge leaders of local groups to keep the educational group in mind
whenever their groups do anything related to educational outreach. I
imagine there is a lot that can be shared in this way between local
groups that would really move our educational efforts forward.

To post new educational metadata entries, go to [2]

Finally, FYI, the OSGeo education group has been discussing the idea of
creating two workbooks -- one covering desktop GIS and the other for web
GIS. See [3,4]. The idea is to create a series of tutorials that are the
same content but use different OSGeo-associated technologies (e.g.,
gvSIG, MapWindow, QGIS, etc.). If anyone has tutorials to share or
something they are currently working on, please consider adding an entry
to these wiki pages.

Cheers
Charlie Schweik
OSGeo Edu committee chair

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content (edu inventory material
search page)
[2] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content (content submission page)
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Desktop_GIS_exercises
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Web_GIS_lab_exercises






On 10/15/2010 11:09 AM, Toru Mori（森亮） wrote:
 Hi OSGeo community,

 Today IPA (IT promotion agency Japan), a government agency, announced that 
 OSGeo Japan Chapter will be awarded “Japanese OSS Encouragement Award” prize 
 on 28th October 2010.
 I , as representative of the chapter, am very pleased and honored to receive 
 the prize!

 The Japan chapter was established in late 2006 and the local community has 
 been growing steadily and dedicating effort to promoting FOSS4G.
 Please join our local conference, FOSS4G 2010 Tokyo/Osaka, held in this 
 November to celebrate it with us over bottles of beer!
 http://www.osgeo.jp/


 -- Press release by IPA (in Japanese) --
 http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html

 -- About the award --
 IPA grants “Japanese OSS Contributor Award” to a developer who has 
 established and has been managing the development project which has the 
 influence, to a superior developer who takes an active role in the global 
 projects and to a contributor to spread the OSS. Also IPA grants “Japanese 
 OSS Encouragement Award” to the individual or the group which has a 
 remarkable activity to develop and/or spread OSS.

 -- About IPA --
 http://www.ipa.go.jp/english/about/index.html

 Toru Mori
 Yokohama Japan

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Local chapter update

[Charlie Schweik]

 On 9/15/2010 8:06 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:

Hi all,
One common question I heard while at FOSS4G was:
  where can our local chapter tell the world what we are doing?

One is in the annual report, but another is by posting to this 
discuss list - it is also a great way to reach many people.  It is 
always inspiring for others to hear/see what you are doing in your 
region/language.  I encourage you to share your stories, ideas and 
projects on this list for those chapters who would like to.
A third way, if it is at all education-related, please consider 
contributing local chapter education material through the educational 
inventory system so other local groups can find it [1].


Cheers
Charlie Schweik

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content








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[OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

[Charlie Schweik]

OSGeo colleagues,

I was recently contacted by Ann Deakin, a Geosciences faculty at the 
State University of New York - Fredonia campus. She is also on the board 
of directors of the NYS GIS Association and the chair of their education 
committee. She was asking me about the possibility of offering a webinar 
to their members (and anyone considering getting into GIS) on open 
source GIS.


This sounded like a really good idea to me, as a possible new (?) way of 
promoting OSGeo technologies.


I'm wondering if anyone has already done this kind of thing?
Would any of our knowledge experts out there be willing to do such a 
webinar? (If so, let me know in what area)
If we can get something like this designed, we could either do it first 
working with Ann and the NYS GIS Association, or perhaps try and scale 
the webinar up to a larger and more international crowd.


Reactions welcome!

Charlie Schweik
OSGeo education chair

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

[Charlie Schweik]

Dimitris Kotzinos wrote:

Dear Charlie,

the idea sounds intriguing but we should bear in mind the different 
requirements of the three actors you mentioned in your e-mail, so it 
would be difficult to find the one size that fits all.
Good point, Dimitris. As someone who teaches but also studies the public 
sector I agree wholeheartedly. If there was sufficient interest, perhaps 
we could have a series of these, e.g.:


OS Geo technologies for high-school teachers
- sub topics here
OS Geo technologies for local governments
- sub topics here

At the same time, seminars on various technologies could, potentially, 
be somewhat generic.


Moreover we need to know a bit more an the needs we will try to cover 
and finally we need the people who would do the job. As I said the 
idea is interesting so I would interested in participating.
I've had two responses so far from people possibly interested in 
participating in this. If there are others who might be interested in 
presenting a topic, let me know.
If I get a few more I'll start a wiki page to try and start organizing 
topics and potential presenters. This may lead then to a conference call 
for further discussion.


Cheers
Charlie

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Dan,

Daniel Ames wrote:

Webinars are a great idea but need someone to host the webinar
software... any thoughts on how to do that? We could potentially help
out here at ISU with the desktop sharing side of things, but the
problem is the audio... - Dan
   
Good question, Dan! Webinar technology is not something I know that much 
about. But I imagine it is solvable (or is that naiive?)
If my assumption is correct, let's see if we can get a list of a few 
webinar topics and people willing to present them, and then if that 
looks promising we can turn to this question.


Can I put you down as a possible person to keep in the loop Dan?

Cheers
Charlie

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Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi all,

Helena Mitasova wrote:
I have been promising Charlie to put this under OSGeo Edu svn for a 
long time, but I keep updating
and improving it so it is never finished - I guess it will never be so 
I may as well upload it. I have created
NCSU directory there and we started a coastal lidar data analysis 
tutorial -

http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/education/UnderDevelopment/
(see more about the edu svn here 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Subversion_edu_instructions)


Great discussion thread and let's indeed pick it up in the edu group. 
Helena, your side by side set of assignments and solutions looks great 
and thanks for your efforts on the subversion front.
Regarding the comparison idea --here's a link [1] of this type of  
comparison in proprietary statistics packages created at UCLA (not open 
source). It provides another example of the kind of thing we might be 
working toward.


FYI - I've contacted the lead editor of the University Consortium for 
Geographic Information Science (David DiBase, at Penn State -- Ian 
Turton's colleague I imagine) about the possible use of their
Geographic Information Science  Technology Body of Knowledge [2] as an 
organizational framework for educational material as a group we continue 
to develop and share. I'm awaiting his response. Using this I think
we should try and collect and build material like what Helena has done 
and link it to appropriate places in this BoK framework.


I'd like to create a subcommittee to help build this OSGeo edu 
organizational scaffolding and hold a meeting of this subcommittee 
over Skype in January. *Please email me if you'd like to be on this 
subcommittee*.


Thanks and enjoy whatever holiday you might be celebrating, and I look 
forward to making 2010 a watershed year for the OSGeo edu effort.


Cheers
Charlie

[1] http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/mult_pkg/whatstat/default.htm.
[2] http://www.ucgis.org/priorities/education/modelcurriculaproject.asp
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for papers: The Politics of Open Source conference

[Charlie Schweik]

OSGeo colleagues,

In case people on this list are interested, see the below call for 
papers for a conference we are holding at the University of 
Massachusetts, Amherst this May [1]. Not specifically on OS Geo, but 
some discussion topics in this list certainly address issues this 
conference is about. Also, one of the groups that will be presenting who 
aren't listed are from the Open Source Software Institute [2] - an 
organization that might be of interest to some. 

Google's a sponsor but we're seeking others -- If anyone has ideas on 
that I'd appreciate hearing them...


Cheers

Charlie Schweik
OSGeo education chair

[1] http://www.umass.edu/jitp/files/2010_cfp.pdf
[2] http://www.oss-institute.org/


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Daniele,
 It would be great if some of the business leaders in the OSGeo community
 could
 provide me with inputs for the report. Your input will not only
 help me convince them that FOSS4G is worth it
 (I am already convinced, but need some data to support my
 claim) but also help me to understand the business models better.
 
I'm not a business person; I'm an academic. I'm in the process of
finishing up a book about open source collaboration. I have a *draft*
chapter
where I have attempted to summarize the literature on the open source
ecosystem. Starting on page 14, I have tried to summarize various
business strategies I have found (I also try and summarize government
and nonprofit interests as well).

See
http://www.umass.edu/opensource/schweik/Chapter_2_schweik_final_draft.pdf

This book still is being finalized and not yet published. If anyone on
this list reads this chapter, I'd appreciate any comments you may have.
If you Daniele, or anyone else uses content from this in some capacity,
I'd appreciate you contacting me so I can give you information on how to
cite it.

I hope this helps a little.

Cheers

Charlie Schweik
Associate Professor
UMass Amherst


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

[Charlie Schweik]

G. Allegri wrote:

I've added myself to
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee#Membership
Hope to be able to give a help.

giovanni
  
Terrific! Thanks Giovanni. I hope others on this list who have an 
interest in collaborating on educational curriculum and material and who 
are not on the education group list will do the same. The recent 
postings of links to material are examples of the knowledge out there 
that needs to be collected in some more organized way. I also encourage 
each local OSGeo group to have a representative on this list, as well as 
each software team.


Finally, in another effort to try and enhance communication on 
educational issues, we have started an OSGeo educational blog page [1]. 
I'm acting as the editor of that blog -- but if anyone has OSGeo 
educational-related content you'd like me to put on the blog, send them 
to me with a subject line For OSGeo edu blog.


Charlie Schweik
(OSGeo education group chair)

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/blog/510
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

[Charlie Schweik]

Giovanni,

G. Allegri wrote:

Thnaks Ian. That's a really interesting material, but it's out of our
course scope. I need something about basic geodesy, coordinates
systems, etc.
  

Giovanni,
I'm going to send you something separate that I have but I haven't 
checked the content fully to make sure I can publish it on the OSGeo edu 
inventory page.



ps: wouldn't it be useful to gather such introductory resources under
the Education and Curriculum pages of the OSGeo wiki [1]?

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee
  
Yes, it would. This relates to our discussion about developing some 
OSGeo curriculum material. This next week, I'm going to send out a call 
on the OSGeo edu list to see if we can hold one or more online 
discussions about how to move in this direction. I'm also going to try 
and get some funding to hold, sometime in the next year, a face-to-face 
workshop for some of us to meet and work on a curriculum. Anyone 
interested in joining this please subscribe to the OSGeo education and 
curriculum list.


Cheers
Charlie Schweik

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Charlie Schweik]

Ian Turton wrote:

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Charlie Schweik
cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu wrote:
  

I'm also wondering if we could get some funding somewhere to hold an invited
workshop (that pays for people to attend) to really dig into this.

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/nsf04_23/2.jsp#IID7 - I'm game to aid in
the request but I don't have any time to lead until December.

Good idea... I've just emailed an NSF officer I know to investigate this 
idea.

Charlie
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Charlie Schweik]

Ravi wrote:

'Universities should teach only with FOSS'

Wish academia think like that. 
Part of the issue is getting faculty to learn themselves and make the 
shift. This underlies what I am getting at. I need to learn it. Busy 
faculty teach what they have learned in the past. I'm currently involved 
in trying to get faculty at my campus to shift to R stats, for example. 
But it requires that they revise their material. Asst profs working 
toward tenure don't have the incentive to do this. So one of the key 
things is how can we help faculty retool?


This will be a long process. WHat might be easier is focusing on the 
next crop of Assistant Professors...


So one idea might be to start a wikipage (maybe with Digg-it like 
voting) listing  some key new FOSS geo research/development needs that 
grad students might take on as a thesis project


I'm puzzling if we should move this conversation over to the Edu 
listserv, but then it is great to have these people not subscribed there 
with ideas and input. I'd like to organize a BOF and possibly a virtual 
conference or workshop to really dig into this issue and come up with 
some concrete steps forward.


I'm also wondering if we could get some funding somewhere to hold an 
invited workshop (that pays for people to attend) to really dig into this.


Charlie

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Charlie Schweik]

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

I'm proposing the education group help match up existing FOSS teaching
material with a recognised curriculum.  e.g. the curriculum might say that a
student needs to learn about geographic coordinate systems - so we match up
a module that provides sample data and shows how to witness the effects of
transformations, projections, etc. using Proj.4 commands, then visualising
it in a desktop app, etc. that they may choose.  
  
I'm in agreement with this, vision Tyler -- we just have a collective 
action problem... how to get this done...  or move it forward, in a 
virtual environment.

p.s. In many universities I think we have been witnessing a move toward
'training' for careers as opposed to foundational concepts for critical
thinking.  
This may be true, but in my circumstance, I don't see where both can't 
happen at the same time. One of the best things about my job
is teaching a young undergrad about these concepts, and then providing 
them with the tools to do things like go out and inventory and map the 
salamanders
in the river near your house and analyze the patterns you find (or lots 
of other self-defined ideas) and get them excited and engaged. Having 
access to and knowledge about how
to use open tools that they can continue to use is a great way to get 
these kids excited and motivated! That's the perspective I'm coming from.


Charlie



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Charlie Schweik]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:


I would instead express this as OSGeo needs end users (including their
managers), and those interested in it's marketting (which I would prefer
to call promotion) to get more actively involved and contribute.
Education activities are, of course, one form of promotion. There is 
some discussion in the Education group to try and develop a core 
curriculum around OS Geospatial technologies. For example, what 
knowledge/skills are needed for future OS Geo developers? What are 
needed for end users of OS Geo technologies? I don't think we should be 
competing with general GIS or GIScience curriculum, but rather focus 
specifically on OS Geo related knowledge and skills.


I can imagine the software developers are working flat-out. But is it 
possible that over the next 6-12 months there can be an effort between 
the OSGeo edu group, along with the software groups and the local groups 
together to try and establish some kind of specification of what we 
think a core curriculum or core competencies in OS Geo might be and 
then work toward developing open educational content that teaches these 
concepts?


If this resonates with others email me and I'll build an interest list.

-- Charlie Schweik


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election: Charlie Schweik

[Charlie Schweik]

I've been involved with OSGeo for several years now, trying to help move 
our educational committee forward.


Recently, in the U.S., I attended the Gov 2.0 summit in Washington D.C. 
put on by Tim O'Reilly and others (www.gov2summit.com) which had a 
number of discussions/presentations with some of the major U.S. Federal 
CIO people, among others.  (I'm planning on writing an OSGeo edu blog 
entry on some of the things I saw there...). But what was an overarching 
theme that was resonating throughout that conference was openness as 
innovation. An example used multiple times was the innovation that has 
emerged (private sector) as a consequence of the GPS system as a 
platform for innovating at the endpoints. The importance of geocoding 
and geospatial was another theme, as was openness of data. People on 
this list, of course, know this, and many countries are farther ahead in 
this than the U.S.


The reason I raise this is because OSGeo and the federation of projects 
it represents is a global leader in this area and I see the next 5 years 
as a critical era for the organization.


To me, education around open technologies is key toward this future 
growth.  Over the last 2-years, I've been learning a little about the 
challenges of leading a community of volunteers interested in OSGeo 
education. I don't know how successful I've been -- lots of demands on 
my time like everyone else -- but I've tried. We do have a searchable 
database of educational content that I think many of us should be proud 
of as an example of what we can do as a community.


But one of the things I think we need to do better as a community is 
somehow working with the various software projects on education 
initiatives. Education efforts will promote the software developed by 
OSGeo affiliated projects. In addition, we've started recently a 
conversation about trying to define an educational curriculum around OS 
Geospatial. In my view, we need to be trying to identify core 
competencies for OSGeo developers as well as users of the various 
software packages and move, as a community toward developing some system 
of developing these materials together, and sharing and deriving new 
material based on other material.


Empirical work I have not yet published in my forthcoming book on Open 
Source collaboration with statistical analysis of 107,000 Sourceforge 
projects is showing me that projects that are successful -- meaning 
they continue to worked on and are not abandoned -- are very often made 
up of small teams of developers. But what we have found to be 
statistically significant is the successful projects have at least 1 
more developer compared to abandoned projects. This tells me that you 
don't need large teams to be productive. But you do need to be able to 
link or connect two or three people globally who have a passion for 
a project or an idea and also have some of the skills to tackle that 
problem. OSGeo has the platform and the global reach to make such 
connections in my view, whether it be in developing software, or 
developing educational material.


My goal, whether it be on the board or in my role trying to move the 
education group forward, is to see if we can harness this productive energy.


Cheers
Charlie Schweik


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