[OSGeo-Discuss] Using Collective Knowledge for the Common Good
Colleagues, Let me also take this opportunity to also thank Charlie and the whole GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 committee for their help and inputs for this initiative which will have long term positive impacts in education efforts globally. I would like to also congratulate Charlie ( i just saw this today!) on his winning the international award honouring the late political economist Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. I am really grateful to Charlie's strong support for all our Open Geo Education efforts from the very start. On behalf of Geo for All' community, we are really proud and happy that Charlie has been recognised as one of the top 50 innovators in education for his cutting-edge use of open-source software in the classroom and as a research tool. Details at http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/open-source Open Education Week is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on the bigger purpose and join forces in using our collective knowledge to help open education opportunities to all to enable a better future for all. Best wishes, Suchith From: Anand Suchith Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 7:27 AM To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 Dear colleagues, On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015 http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , Geo for All community http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all educators worldwide who have made contributions to open education efforts and being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all. We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for us to thank colleagues for their excellent contributions to Openness in Education principles in the Geo domain. Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award In no particular order, the nominees are: INDIVIDUALS - Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1] - Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2] - Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for the course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos orientado a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems for Education using Open Data” [3] - Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central New Mexico Community College [4] - Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for his course on “Open Web Mapping” [5] - Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6] TEAMS - Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for their EduGIS Academy [7] - Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for their Interactive Web Maps course [8] - Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, USA for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing” [9] - Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy Morley (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz (Prodevelop) for their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University of Girona in Spain [10] - Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno - FOSS4G lab, University of Colorado, Denver USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS course materials [11] - Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco, for their gvSIG Educa/Batovi effort in Uruguay [12] - Kurt Menke - Brids Eye View, Nate Jennings Urbandale Spatial, Jon Van Hoesen Green Mtn College, Rick Smith Texas AM, and Phil Davis, Delmar College (all in USA) for their GeoAcademy development efforts [13] All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated for their efforts. Just being nominated is an honour. The award committee now has the very difficult task of selecting the GeoForAll Educator of the Year [14] out of this well deserving list of nominees. This year’s selections (possibly an individual and a team award) will be announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe Open Innovation for Europe conference at Como, Italy in July . Details at http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage you to list this nomination honour in your CVs. Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone. Sincerely, Prof. Charlie Schweik, on behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection Committee: Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA) Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo) Chen Jun
[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll/OSGeo at the International Society of the Study of the Commons global conference (Edmonton, Canada, late May, 2015)?
Also... It may be too late, but it occurred to me that it might be valuable to try and expand the footprint of GeoForAll/OSGeo users through a connection to the International Association of the Study of the Commons, and its global conference (May 25, 2015, Edmonton, Alberta) [1]. 1) I wonder if it would be worth investigating a proposal of a 1-day workshop on one of OSGeo's desktop GIS packages (e.g., and Introduction to GIS) or going through the LiveDVD, or the use of NASA WorldWind to support landcover change research (brainstorming here...)? 2) Would anyone on this list be able to go to Edmonton and want to propose a workshop -- maybe that would require participants to bring laptops? (I can help make that connection to the conference organizers). Again, it might be too late, but this is an important global scholarly and practitioner association who would have users and appreciation of OSGeo technology and GeoForAll open access educational efforts. Contact me if you think you might be interested in going and flying the GeoForAll flag there, maybe by offering a workshop. Cheers Charlie [1] http://www.iasc2015.org/ On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Colleagues, Let me also take this opportunity to also thank Charlie and the whole GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 committee for their help and inputs for this initiative which will have long term positive impacts in education efforts globally. I would like to also congratulate Charlie ( i just saw this today!) on his winning the international award honouring the late political economist Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. I am really grateful to Charlie's strong support for all our Open Geo Education efforts from the very start. On behalf of Geo for All' community, we are really proud and happy that Charlie has been recognised as one of the top 50 innovators in education for his cutting-edge use of open-source software in the classroom and as a research tool. Details at http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/open-source Open Education Week is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on the bigger purpose and join forces in using our collective knowledge to help open education opportunities to all to enable a better future for all. Best wishes, Suchith From: Anand Suchith Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 7:27 AM To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 Dear colleagues, On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015 http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , Geo for All community http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all educators worldwide who have made contributions to open education efforts and being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all. We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for us to thank colleagues for their excellent contributions to Openness in Education principles in the Geo domain. Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award In no particular order, the nominees are: INDIVIDUALS - Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1] - Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2] - Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for the course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos orientado a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems for Education using Open Data” [3] - Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central New Mexico Community College [4] - Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for his course on “Open Web Mapping” [5] - Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6] TEAMS - Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for their EduGIS Academy [7] - Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for their Interactive Web Maps course [8] - Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, USA for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing” [9] - Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy Morley (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz (Prodevelop) for their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University of Girona in Spain [10] - Ricardo
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] New incubation procedure
We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation Procedure'. It causes considerable angst and disruption to both mentors and to the relevant communities going through incubation when we keep trying to change to rules. From my opinion as a mentor, the current process while subjective in some cases is still valid and effective in guiding a project to the ideals that we as a community aspire to. When a project graduates from incubation, it gains considerable credibility as a viable open source spatial project. It is a badge of honour for the project and something to aspire too. So why are we trying to dilute this? While there are aspects that could improve, what is the rationale for wanting to change the process (together with the inevitable disruption that follows)? If we are serious about changing the incubation rules, then a more formal methodology such as those referred to by Cameron at [1] may be more appropriate. Now, who has the spare time to investigate and drive this forward, **if we deem it appropriate**.? Are there any volunteers? Bruce [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-March/002644.html === I recently came across a number of Open Source Maturity Methodologies, which is worth being aware of, and possibly incorporating and/or referencing from OSGeo Incubation processes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_assessment_methodologies ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Flash survey of public opinion in Europe
May i request you to take part in this survey done by colleagues at JRC and the University of Siena. Details and survey link below. Many thanks. Best wishes, Suchith From: Sven Schade [sven.sch...@jrc.ec.europa.eu] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 8:45 AM To: 'Suchith Anand' Cc: 'Massimo Craglia' Subject: Flash survey of public opinion in Europe - PLEASE DISTRIBUTE Dear Suchith, The University of Siena and the JRC have launched this flash survey of public opinion in Europe on four key topics: environment, inequalities, privacy, and work. Please help us disseminate the survey at http://tinyurl.com/pu9nrrl http://t.co/4e0Zaopitz For more info see https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/4-opinions-4-key-topics-future-europe Thanks and best wishes, Sven -- Sven SCHADE Scientific Project Officer [cid:image001.gif@01D05B16.68DC98C0] European Commission DG Joint Research Centre Unit H06-Digital Earth and Reference Data Via Enrico Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) Italy Tel: +39 0332 78 5723 Fax: +39 0332 78 6325 https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/sven-schade DON’T MISS: FOSS4G-Europe, 14-17 July 2015, Como, Italy: http://europe.foss4g.org/2015http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ DON’T FORGET - International Jounral of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research (IJSDIR): http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] New incubation procedure
I will volunteer after foss4gna to look at this. I am still interested in keeping our current procedure (as I think it is producing good results) and relaxing the requirement for a mentor (which is an embarrassing bottleneck). Rather than a star system I think we can highlight how far along in the checklist each project is. -- Jody Garnett On 10 March 2015 at 16:12, Bruce Bannerman bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com wrote: We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation Procedure'. It causes considerable angst and disruption to both mentors and to the relevant communities going through incubation when we keep trying to change to rules. From my opinion as a mentor, the current process while subjective in some cases is still valid and effective in guiding a project to the ideals that we as a community aspire to. When a project graduates from incubation, it gains considerable credibility as a viable open source spatial project. It is a badge of honour for the project and something to aspire too. So why are we trying to dilute this? While there are aspects that could improve, what is the rationale for wanting to change the process (together with the inevitable disruption that follows)? If we are serious about changing the incubation rules, then a more formal methodology such as those referred to by Cameron at [1] may be more appropriate. Now, who has the spare time to investigate and drive this forward, **if we deem it appropriate**.? Are there any volunteers? Bruce [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-March/002644.html === I recently came across a number of Open Source Maturity Methodologies, which is worth being aware of, and possibly incorporating and/or referencing from OSGeo Incubation processes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_assessment_methodologies ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
