Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

There is nothing more beautiful than inspiring and challenging our youth to 
deliver solutions that serve their local community, with an eye to be shared 
with the global community.

This has been the Europa Challenge mantra born of a week-long intensive course 
Prof Maria Brovelli put together in 2012 at Politecnico di Milan at Como. We 
gathered to discover a formula to engender applied open source solutions. 
Challenging our youth to build these open source solutions became the key 
element.

The methodology being the old 'standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants' trick. 
OSGeo/FOSS4G are the giants we stand on!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

-Patrick

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:58 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of GeoForAll, I am pleased to see excellent projects taking shape for 
this year's NASA Europa Challenge .  All these students have put lot of efforts 
and even if they don't win the final awards , they all are true winners.


Some of the excellent projects submitted are below


  *   AWARE Algorithmic Wildfire Analysis and pREdiction
   *   Earth Viewer for the World Heritage Sites
  *   EXODUS -Monitoring and Regulating the approaching traffic and 
manipulating the signal time accordingly
  *   Make the Farms Searchable from Satellite Imagery with Crop Based Deep 
learning Models
  *   FarmsNtech
  *  NASA World Weather
  *. 3D OpenStreetMap


Details at  http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com

All projects submitted for years challenge are at 
http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com/projects2017


There is  RCUK SMARTIES Challenge awards (due to the nature of the RCUK 
funding, the SMARTIES awards are specific to all UK and India students who 
participate in the NASA Europa Challenge 2017.). Total awards are for £5000. 
(£2500 for First Place, £1500 for the Second Place and £1000 for the Third 
Place) Details at 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/03/smarties-entrepreneurship-competition-nasa-europa-challenge-2017/

>From the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) , there will 
>be 1000 Euros award for the best student team for Local farming challenge. 
>Details at 
>http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/nasa-godan-local-farming-challenge-2017


Help your city and thereby the cities of the world with capabilities all cities 
need. We are in this world together, let's deliver results 'for the benefit of 
all', the NASA motto.

We are looking forward to welcoming all teams for our final event in Helsinki , 
Finland  in August 2017.

Best wishes,

Suchith

PS: I am also pleased to update that Prof. Stuart Marsh will be from now the 
main contact for all the Open Source Geospatial research at the University of 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [geoforall-ab] New GeoForAll Regional Group for Iberoamerica

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Congratulations Sergio, Silvana, Antoni and All! Very well done! It is time to 
start learning Spanish and Portuguese ;-) Interesting things are happening in 
that part of the world!
I'm looking forward to celebrating with Silvana in September!
Will you come to Curitiba for the 4th Responsible Management Education?
Best!
Maria






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 Original message 
From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
Date: 27/07/2017 19:39 (GMT+01:00)
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, geoforall...@lists.osgeo.org, 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org, geoforall-iberoamer...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [geoforall-ab] New GeoForAll Regional Group for Iberoamerica


(English below)

Nos es muy grato anunciar la creación del Grupo GeoForAll Iberoamérica 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Iberoam%C3%A9rica. El mismo surge de la 
fusión del Grupo Regional para Sudamérica y el Grupo Temático para 
Hispanohablantes de GeoForAll.

Los coordinadores de este nuevo grupo son Silvana Camboim (Brasil), Antoni 
Pérez Navarro (España) y Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay)​ los que son ahora los 
referentes de contacto para cualquier laboratorio de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, 
España y Portugal, que quiera sumarse a la iniciativa.

La lista de correo (geoforall-iberoamer...@lists.osgeo.org; 
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-iberoamerica) será el 
medio de contacto inicial para todo nuevo miembro. Todos los miembros de la 
región iberoamericana pueden usar la lista para colaborar en la construcción de 
propuestas en temas concretos o específicos, así como sugerir ideas a 
desarrollar. Servirá también para difundir posibles oportunidades regionales de 
financiamiento, eventos locales o regionales FOSS4G, etc.

Nuestros objetivos son:

  *   hacer que la educación y las oportunidades geoespaciales sean accesibles 
a todas y todos.

  *   crear ​oportunidades de investigación y enseñanza en ciencia geoespacial 
abierta

  *   construir una infraestructura global y abierta para la enseñanza y la 
investigación

  *   establecer colaboraciones entre la academia, ​el gobierno y la industria 
en torno a la ciencia y la educación geoespacial abierta

Una de las primeras iniciativas del grupo es la de contar con una serie de 
seminarios en línea (webinars) tanto en español como en portugués, teniendo 
previsto realizar el primero de ellos ("Geomática libre para gestión municipal. 
La suite gvSIG y casos de uso"​) a mediados de setiembre.

Los invitamos a sumarse a esta iniciativa poniéndose en contacto con cualquiera 
de los coordinadores o directamente a través de la lista de correo. Sean todas 
y todos bienvenidos​.


---


We are very pleased to announce the new GeoForAll Regional Group for 
Iberoamerica http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Iberoam%C3%A9rica. This is 
due to the merger of the Regional Group for South America and the GeoForAll 
Spanish-Speaking Group.

The chairs of this new group are Silvana Camboim (Brazil), Antoni Pérez Navarro 
(Spain) and Sergio Acosta and Lara (Uruguay) and are now the contact points for 
any new labs to be established in Latin America & the Caribbean, Spain and 
Portugal.

The list becomes the first point of contact for the new members. All regional 
members in the group can use the list for collaborating on regional funding 
calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc.​

Our goals are:

  *   to make education and geospatial opportunities accessible to all.

  *   to create research and teaching opportunities in open geospatial science

  *   to build global open access teaching and research infrastructure

  *   to establish collaborations between academia, government and industry 
around open geospatial science and education

One of the first activities of the group will be to start a series of webinars 
in both Spanish and Portuguese, the first of them ("Free Geomatics for 
Municipal Management; the gvSIG suite, use cases ") to be hold by mid-September.

We invite you to join this initiative by contacting any of the chairs or 
directly through the mailing list. You are all welcome.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] New GeoForAll Regional Group for Iberoamerica

[SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA]

(English below)

Nos es muy grato anunciar la creación del Grupo GeoForAll Iberoamérica 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Iberoam%C3%A9rica. El mismo surge de la 
fusión del Grupo Regional para Sudamérica y el Grupo Temático para 
Hispanohablantes de GeoForAll.

Los coordinadores de este nuevo grupo son Silvana Camboim (Brasil), Antoni 
Pérez Navarro (España) y Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay)? los que son ahora los 
referentes de contacto para cualquier laboratorio de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, 
España y Portugal, que quiera sumarse a la iniciativa.

La lista de correo (geoforall-iberoamer...@lists.osgeo.org; 
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-iberoamerica) será el 
medio de contacto inicial para todo nuevo miembro. Todos los miembros de la 
región iberoamericana pueden usar la lista para colaborar en la construcción de 
propuestas en temas concretos o específicos, así como sugerir ideas a 
desarrollar. Servirá también para difundir posibles oportunidades regionales de 
financiamiento, eventos locales o regionales FOSS4G, etc.

Nuestros objetivos son:

  *   hacer que la educación y las oportunidades geoespaciales sean accesibles 
a todas y todos.

  *   crear ?oportunidades de investigación y enseñanza en ciencia geoespacial 
abierta

  *   construir una infraestructura global y abierta para la enseñanza y la 
investigación

  *   establecer colaboraciones entre la academia, ?el gobierno y la industria 
en torno a la ciencia y la educación geoespacial abierta

Una de las primeras iniciativas del grupo es la de contar con una serie de 
seminarios en línea (webinars) tanto en español como en portugués, teniendo 
previsto realizar el primero de ellos ("Geomática libre para gestión municipal. 
La suite gvSIG y casos de uso"?) a mediados de setiembre.

Los invitamos a sumarse a esta iniciativa poniéndose en contacto con cualquiera 
de los coordinadores o directamente a través de la lista de correo. Sean todas 
y todos bienvenidos?.


---


We are very pleased to announce the new GeoForAll Regional Group for 
Iberoamerica http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Iberoam%C3%A9rica. This is 
due to the merger of the Regional Group for South America and the GeoForAll 
Spanish-Speaking Group.

The chairs of this new group are Silvana Camboim (Brazil), Antoni Pérez Navarro 
(Spain) and Sergio Acosta and Lara (Uruguay) and are now the contact points for 
any new labs to be established in Latin America & the Caribbean, Spain and 
Portugal.

The list becomes the first point of contact for the new members. All regional 
members in the group can use the list for collaborating on regional funding 
calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc.?

Our goals are:

  *   to make education and geospatial opportunities accessible to all.

  *   to create research and teaching opportunities in open geospatial science

  *   to build global open access teaching and research infrastructure

  *   to establish collaborations between academia, government and industry 
around open geospatial science and education

One of the first activities of the group will be to start a series of webinars 
in both Spanish and Portuguese, the first of them ("Free Geomatics for 
Municipal Management; the gvSIG suite, use cases ") to be hold by mid-September.

We invite you to join this initiative by contacting any of the chairs or 
directly through the mailing list. You are all welcome.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thanks Andrea. Excellent suggestions and good to see that this topic is of 
interest in the mailing list discussion!

Have a lovely day,

Maria


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

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




Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
Politecnico di Milano

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,   
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Da: Andrea Giacomelli 
Inviato: giovedì 27 luglio 2017 11:08
A: OSGeo Discussions
Cc: Massimiliano Cannata; Dirk Frigne; e...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Board; Maria 
Antonia Brovelli
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest 
forming a European Chapter

Hi - in the midst of end-of-month deadlines I missed the first part of this 
threadplease feel free to relay to the "eu" or "board" lists.

a) One comment/recommendation, reproposing the one I made in Jan 2007 during 
the founding meeting of GFOSS.it aka Italian Chapter.
This concerning the composition of the board / steering committee: it would 
greatly help if there were a mechanism to insure an equal presence from 
different stakeholder groups...namely: academics, (small-medium) enterprises, 
public-sector users, and possibly even "just citizens" with some level of 
geomatic maturity***.

b) With such a composition, and a minimal level of resources to insure that the 
chapter can run a minimal set of activities, there is a starting point for an 
action of the chapter which will balance and harmonize different agendas.

Without these conditions, there is a possibility that different scenarios may 
happen (i.e. the chapter may become a marketing office, or a "pure research 
lab", a "mapping party shop", etc...depending on the prevailing resources).
Such evolutions may also be fine, as long as the community is aware of 
"paradigm shifts" in the expectations of what a  volunteer-based venture should 
produce (...this related to the importance of defining a roadmap, as indicated 
by Jachim).

c) Having followed for 20 years now the development of geomatics in relation to 
"EU stuff", having consistently advocated FOSS4G principles in EU-level 
activities in which I have been involved, and currently being engaged in 
EU-centered actitivities, I will be very interested  to see the development of 
an OSGEU-EU Chapter.

Ciao -

Andrea Giacomelli
http://www.pibinko.org
i...@pibinko.org
+39 331 7539228
P. IVA: 01582480537


2017-07-26 9:03 GMT+02:00 Maria Antonia Brovelli 
>:
Dear Maxi
Well noted. We'll discuss about that as well. This is a relevant point. Thank 
you for suggesting solutions.
Are there other comments by other members?
Best regards
Maria




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 Original message 
From: Massimiliano Cannata 
>
Date: 25/07/2017 14:13 (GMT+01:00)
To: Dirk Frigne >, 
OSGeo Discussions >, 
e...@lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo Board 
>
Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European 
Chapter

Dear European charter members and OSGeo board,
I would like to express my support for an OSGeo continental chapter and provide 
my point of view, that even if often considered uncomfortable, hope will bring 
discussion to improve.

I hope that before starting the chapter:

* there is a clear and equitable rule for using the OSGeo name in European bids 
(see h2020 for example) since this may be a competitive advantage.
It is totally unclear to me how OSGeo-EU would relate to H2020 projects for 
example:
- Will it participate as a partner in any calls?
- How the selection of supported project will be done?
- How, in case of funding, allocated money will be distributed to members?

* there is a defined and focused coordination with local chapters
- synergies are needed to avoid duplication of efforts and adoption of a common 
action line.
- ideally I'd like to see a hierarchical structure from international to 
continental and national level "chapters" but this is a matter for the board..

Here some proposed 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thanks Cameron. Really relevant points to consider.

Best!

Maria


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

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




Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
Politecnico di Milano

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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








Da: Board  per conto di Cameron Shorter 

Inviato: giovedì 27 luglio 2017 10:39
A: bo...@lists.osgeo.org; e...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: Re: [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European 
Chapter


All,

I think OSGeo and OSGeo-EU should be very careful not to compete commercially 
or provide commercial favour for one organisation or individual over another. 
Doing so is fraught with potential for bias, corruption, having vendors buy 
influence, and accusations of foul play. OSGeo is by design a Not-For-Profit 
organisation.

We should certainly be promoting Open Source Software, and teaching agencies 
how to evaluate the value of established and mature projects (as proven by 
OSGeo incubation process).

We should be helping show agencies how to engage most effectively with Open 
Source communities, showing the business value that can be gained by giving 
back, rather than just taking from Open Source communities.

Warm regards, Cameron

On 27/7/17 5:01 pm, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
Thanks Dirk, this gives more information to the board.  Please can you tell us 
what happens if and when two different teams of people within OSGeo want to 
answer the same call for an EU project? As we are more or less working on the 
same topics it will happen (is very probable) that we have 2 proposals which 
are in competition. Who decide proposal A and not B or proposal A and B?
For sure you already discussed because this can create problems in the 
community. Do you reach a consensus about that?
Have a good day!
Maria



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 Original message 
From: Dirk Frigne 
Date: 26/07/2017 17:26 (GMT+01:00)
To: bo...@lists.osgeo.org, 
e...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European 
Chapter

Steven,

Thank you for your reply.
I forwarded the discussion to the eu-list, as I think more people will
read this than the board list. So more people could be involved in the
discussion.

I think you made a good summary of an answer. If OSGeo is involved in a
H2020 project, it could ask for funding to promote open source for Geo
on the different dissimination actions of the project. It also could
provide money to support code sprints and the travel costs involved.

I think the most important element to involve OSGeo in such projects is
to promote the organisation in the European projects, making it visible
and giving it a platform to speak up.

To be the prime contractor is another level I think. And to obtain this
we should have a good team that could run such a project. In this case I
think we should the right people to do this, and of course the money
could come from the project to support this.

But to start with, I proposr to just focus on bringing our name on the
European agenda.

I also think it is more important to act and go forward in stead of
discuss and stand still. If problems arise, they will be discussed, as
we do already more than 10 years.

And by the way, for the H2020 project we are involved in right now is
the prime contractor the Flemish region. So not only businesses,
universities, but also NGO's and public authorities can be part of it.
This is i.m.h.o. a very interesting platform for OSGeo to get involved
in new software projects, and promote the use and creation of (Geo) open
source software.

my2c
Dirk

On 2017-07-26 16:08, Steven Feldman wrote:
> I’m not involved in the thinking on applying for H2020 or any other EU
> opportunities so I am not going to try to answer Maxi’s questions on
> behalf of the prospective chapter.
>
> My thoughts:
>
> I think that we need to be flexible in considering how we would organise
> to respond to an opportunity, it may be a consortium of European OSGeo
> businesses (and universities)  or it may be that there is a case for
> OSGeo Europe actually being the prime 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter

[Andrea Giacomelli]

Hi - in the midst of end-of-month deadlines I missed the first part of this
threadplease feel free to relay to the "eu" or "board" lists.

a) One comment/recommendation, reproposing the one I made in Jan 2007
during the founding meeting of GFOSS.it aka Italian Chapter.
This concerning the composition of the board / steering committee: it would
greatly help if there were a mechanism to insure an equal presence from
different stakeholder groups...namely: academics, (small-medium)
enterprises, public-sector users, and possibly even "just citizens" with
some level of geomatic maturity***.

b) With such a composition, and a minimal level of resources to insure that
the chapter can run a minimal set of activities, there is a starting point
for an action of the chapter which will balance and harmonize different
agendas.

Without these conditions, there is a possibility that different scenarios
may happen (i.e. the chapter may become a marketing office, or a "pure
research lab", a "mapping party shop", etc...depending on the prevailing
resources).
Such evolutions may also be fine, as long as the community is aware of
"paradigm shifts" in the expectations of what a  volunteer-based venture
should produce (...this related to the importance of defining a roadmap, as
indicated by Jachim).

c) Having followed for 20 years now the development of geomatics in
relation to "EU stuff", having consistently advocated FOSS4G principles in
EU-level activities in which I have been involved, and currently being
engaged in EU-centered actitivities, I will be very interested  to see the
development of an OSGEU-EU Chapter.

Ciao -

Andrea Giacomelli
http://www.pibinko.org
i...@pibinko.org
+39 331 7539228
P. IVA: 01582480537


2017-07-26 9:03 GMT+02:00 Maria Antonia Brovelli :

> Dear Maxi
> Well noted. We'll discuss about that as well. This is a relevant point.
> Thank you for suggesting solutions.
> Are there other comments by other members?
> Best regards
> Maria
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung device
>
>
>  Original message 
> From: Massimiliano Cannata 
> Date: 25/07/2017 14:13 (GMT+01:00)
> To: Dirk Frigne , OSGeo Discussions <
> discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, e...@lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo Board <
> bo...@lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a
> European Chapter
>
> Dear European charter members and OSGeo board,
> I would like to express my support for an OSGeo continental chapter and
> provide my point of view, that even if often considered uncomfortable, hope
> will bring discussion to improve.
>
> I hope that before starting the chapter:
>
> * there is a clear and equitable rule for using the OSGeo name in European
> bids (see h2020 for example) since this may be a competitive advantage.
> It is totally unclear to me how OSGeo-EU would relate to H2020 projects
> for example:
> - Will it participate as a partner in any calls?
> - How the selection of supported project will be done?
> - How, in case of funding, allocated money will be distributed to members?
>
> * there is a defined and focused coordination with local chapters
> - synergies are needed to avoid duplication of efforts and adoption of a
> common action line.
> - ideally I'd like to see a hierarchical structure from international to
> continental and national level "chapters" but this is a matter for the
> board..
>
> Here some proposed actions,
> that in my opinion would demonstrate the open principle of the OSGeo
> European Chapter  community:
>
> * run a democratic election of the board representatives within 6 months
> from the inception
>
> * include all the OSGeo charter member that express their willing as
> "full" member (was charter member in OSGeo not sure how "full member" is in
> OSGeo-EU)
>
>
> Regards,
> Maxi
>
>
>
> Il 24 lug 2017 2:56 PM, "Dirk Frigne"  ha
> scritto:
>
>> Maria
>>
>> "is a member of a local chapter also a charter
>> > member of Eu Chapter? Or we will have a complex structure where local
>> > chapter members can be not Eu charter members but charter members of
>> > OSGeo as a whole?"
>>
>> No, as Jody and Lucca already mentioned, this is an organisation of
>> volunteers. Everybody who wants to volunteer can become a member, but
>> volunteers can also be 'only' OSGeo members.
>>
>> The "official" OSGeo-Europe members are responsible to guard the correct
>> working of the organisation, as a legal structure. 22 volunteers
>> expressed there interest to become a founding member and have signed the
>> bylaws that we discussed last year as a google drive document, and
>> during the BOF of July 19 2017.
>>
>> As a community we appreciate the help of everybody who wants to promote
>> Geo free and open source software. Everybody who want's to support the
>> local chapter can add his name on the wiki [1]. As of today there are
>> already 27 names on the list. The bylaws have 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of GeoForAll, I am pleased to see excellent projects taking shape for 
this year's NASA Europa Challenge .  All these students have put lot of efforts 
and even if they don’t win the final awards , they all are true winners.


Some of the excellent projects submitted are below


  *   AWARE Algorithmic Wildfire Analysis and pREdiction
   *   Earth Viewer for the World Heritage Sites
  *   EXODUS -Monitoring and Regulating the approaching traffic and 
manipulating the signal time accordingly
  *   Make the Farms Searchable from Satellite Imagery with Crop Based Deep 
learning Models
  *   FarmsNtech
  *  NASA World Weather
  *. 3D OpenStreetMap


Details at  http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com

All projects submitted for years challenge are at 
http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com/projects2017


There is  RCUK SMARTIES Challenge awards (due to the nature of the RCUK 
funding, the SMARTIES awards are specific to all UK and India students who 
participate in the NASA Europa Challenge 2017.). Total awards are for £5000. 
(£2500 for First Place, £1500 for the Second Place and £1000 for the Third 
Place) Details at 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/03/smarties-entrepreneurship-competition-nasa-europa-challenge-2017/

>From the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) , there will 
>be 1000 Euros award for the best student team for Local farming challenge. 
>Details at 
>http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/nasa-godan-local-farming-challenge-2017


Help your city and thereby the cities of the world with capabilities all cities 
need. We are in this world together, let’s deliver results ‘for the benefit of 
all’, the NASA motto.

We are looking forward to welcoming all teams for our final event in Helsinki , 
Finland  in August 2017.

Best wishes,

Suchith

PS: I am also pleased to update that Prof. Stuart Marsh will be from now the 
main contact for all the Open Source Geospatial research at the University of 
Nottingham.





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter

[Cameron Shorter]

All,

I think OSGeo and OSGeo-EU should be very careful not to compete 
commercially or provide commercial favour for one organisation or 
individual over another. Doing so is fraught with potential for bias, 
corruption, having vendors buy influence, and accusations of foul play. 
OSGeo is by design a Not-For-Profit organisation.


We should certainly be promoting Open Source Software, and teaching 
agencies how to evaluate the value of established and mature projects 
(as proven by OSGeo incubation process).


We should be helping show agencies how to engage most effectively with 
Open Source communities, showing the business value that can be gained 
by giving back, rather than just taking from Open Source communities.


Warm regards, Cameron


On 27/7/17 5:01 pm, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
Thanks Dirk, this gives more information to the board.  Please can you 
tell us what happens if and when two different teams of people within 
OSGeo want to answer the same call for an EU project? As we are more 
or less working on the same topics it will happen (is very probable) 
that we have 2 proposals which are in competition. Who decide proposal 
A and not B or proposal A and B?
For sure you already discussed because this can create problems in the 
community. Do you reach a consensus about that?

Have a good day!
Maria



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 Original message 
From: Dirk Frigne 
Date: 26/07/2017 17:26 (GMT+01:00)
To: bo...@lists.osgeo.org, e...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a 
European Chapter


Steven,

Thank you for your reply.
I forwarded the discussion to the eu-list, as I think more people will
read this than the board list. So more people could be involved in the
discussion.

I think you made a good summary of an answer. If OSGeo is involved in a
H2020 project, it could ask for funding to promote open source for Geo
on the different dissimination actions of the project. It also could
provide money to support code sprints and the travel costs involved.

I think the most important element to involve OSGeo in such projects is
to promote the organisation in the European projects, making it visible
and giving it a platform to speak up.

To be the prime contractor is another level I think. And to obtain this
we should have a good team that could run such a project. In this case I
think we should the right people to do this, and of course the money
could come from the project to support this.

But to start with, I proposr to just focus on bringing our name on the
European agenda.

I also think it is more important to act and go forward in stead of
discuss and stand still. If problems arise, they will be discussed, as
we do already more than 10 years.

And by the way, for the H2020 project we are involved in right now is
the prime contractor the Flemish region. So not only businesses,
universities, but also NGO's and public authorities can be part of it.
This is i.m.h.o. a very interesting platform for OSGeo to get involved
in new software projects, and promote the use and creation of (Geo) open
source software.

my2c
Dirk

On 2017-07-26 16:08, Steven Feldman wrote:
> I’m not involved in the thinking on applying for H2020 or any other EU
> opportunities so I am not going to try to answer Maxi’s questions on
> behalf of the prospective chapter.
>
> My thoughts:
>
> I think that we need to be flexible in considering how we would organise
> to respond to an opportunity, it may be a consortium of European OSGeo
> businesses (and universities)  or it may be that there is a case for
> OSGeo Europe actually being the prime contractor. I would expect each
> opportunity to require a different approach.
>
> I don’t see why membership of the European Chapter should be restricted
> to charter members, AFAIK we don’t apply that rule in any of our local
> chapters (we certainly don’t in UK)
>
> We don’t need to have hard and fast rules or to answer every question
> before we get started.
> __
> Steven
>
>
>> On 26 Jul 2017, at 14:44, Maria Antonia Brovelli
>> > wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Steven for your input. Please, can you help also in answering
>> the items pointed out by Maxi?
>> One of the reasons of creating the Eu Chaper is also to apply for Eu
>> calls and therefore the questions seem to me of interest. Maxi is also
>> an enthusiastic chapter member and also his opinion deserves 
attention.

>> Thanks a lot for helping the Board in considering all the facets and
>> the different points of view.
>> Best regards
>> Maria
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung device
>>
>>
>>  Original message 
>> From: Steven Feldman >
>> Date: 26/07/2017 11:36 (GMT+01:00)
>> To: OSGeo Board >
>> Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a