[OSGeo-Discuss] Deadlines approaching

2018-01-31 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli 
Hi everybody!
Two important deadlines are approaching:
1) Academic Track abstract submission to FOSS4G NA 
(https://2018.foss4g-na.org): 8 February 2018
2) Academic Track abstract submission to International FOSS4G  
(http://2018.foss4g.org): 15 February 2018.
Don't miss these occasions of presenting your valuable work to the community.
Best!
Maria


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community

2018-01-31 Thread Suchith Anand 
Great work everyone. I will request Nikos to promote this  in next month's 
GeoForAll newsletter


Best wishes,


Suchith



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to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community


Dear Margherita and all wonderful team of mentors

Thanks a lot. In my opinion, this is one of the most valuable activity of 2017. 
As educator, I can say that behind this numbers there is a great commitment, 
work and also enthusiasm and generosity. And there are probably fantastic 
stories and facts that, I hope, you will be able to tell us at some conferences 
or when we will have the occasion of meeting each other.

Proud of having people like you among us!

Congratulations also to the students and welcome to our community.

Cheers

Maria




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

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




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


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


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


Sol Katz Award 2015



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Da: Discuss  per conto di Margherita Di Leo 

Inviato: mercoledì 31 gennaio 2018 18:23
A: news_i...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-SoC
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to 
introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community


OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into 
the geospatial Open Source community


After participating many years in the Google Summer of Code, OSGeo recently 
participated for the first time in the Google Code-in. Google Code-in is a 
contest held each year to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to 
Open Source software development. Since 2010, over 4500 students in 99 
countries have completed work in the contest. Students compete to win prizes of 
certificates, t-shirts, hoodies, and a possible free trip to Google 
headquarters in California, U.S.


Because Google Code-in is often the first experience many students have with 
Open Source, the contest is designed to make it easy for students to jump right 
in. Open Source organizations chosen by Google provide a list of tasks for 
students to work on during the seven week contest period; each task should take 
only 3 to 5 hours to complete, and can involve not only coding but also 
important community work such as documentation, outreach, communication, 
quality assurance/testing, and user interface design. A unique part of the 
contest is that each task has mentors from the organization assigned, should 
students have questions or need help along the way.


OSGeo administrators began working on OSGeo’s first application to Google back 
in early November.  It was a huge undertaking, as mentor organizations create 
hundreds of tasks for the potentially thousands of students to work on during 
the contest period and are responsible for assigning mentors to help students 
with questions and to review students’ work on the tasks.


OSGeo mentors and admins prepared 176 tasks related to its geospatial projects 
like GeoForAll, GeoServer, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, 
pgRouting, and QGIS.


This year’s contest was held from 28 November 2017 until 17 January 2018, and 
had almost triple the number of students of the previous year.  A total of 279 
young students completed 649 tasks for OSGeo (530 students in total examined 
OSGeo tasks). OSGeo students were from many countries including: India, Poland, 
Pakistan, Thailand, United States, Russia, Germany, Cameroon, Singapore, Spain, 
Romania, UK, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, 
Canada, and others.  The students were guided and supported by a great team of 
OSGeo mentors.


OSGeo’s GCI mentors and admins evaluated the results of the students according 
to the following factors: creativity, thoroughness, and quality of work. An 
additional criterium was the contribution to the community by interacting with 
and helping others.


OSGeo is pleased to announce the Google Code-in Grand Prize winners (who each 
receive a free trip to Google headquarters, along with a parent/guardian) are 
student

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community

2018-01-31 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli 
Dear Margherita and all wonderful team of mentors

Thanks a lot. In my opinion, this is one of the most valuable activity of 2017. 
As educator, I can say that behind this numbers there is a great commitment, 
work and also enthusiasm and generosity. And there are probably fantastic 
stories and facts that, I hope, you will be able to tell us at some conferences 
or when we will have the occasion of meeting each other.

Proud of having people like you among us!

Congratulations also to the students and welcome to our community.

Cheers

Maria




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

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




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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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








Da: Discuss  per conto di Margherita Di Leo 

Inviato: mercoledì 31 gennaio 2018 18:23
A: news_i...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-SoC
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to 
introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community


OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into 
the geospatial Open Source community


After participating many years in the Google Summer of Code, OSGeo recently 
participated for the first time in the Google Code-in. Google Code-in is a 
contest held each year to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to 
Open Source software development. Since 2010, over 4500 students in 99 
countries have completed work in the contest. Students compete to win prizes of 
certificates, t-shirts, hoodies, and a possible free trip to Google 
headquarters in California, U.S.


Because Google Code-in is often the first experience many students have with 
Open Source, the contest is designed to make it easy for students to jump right 
in. Open Source organizations chosen by Google provide a list of tasks for 
students to work on during the seven week contest period; each task should take 
only 3 to 5 hours to complete, and can involve not only coding but also 
important community work such as documentation, outreach, communication, 
quality assurance/testing, and user interface design. A unique part of the 
contest is that each task has mentors from the organization assigned, should 
students have questions or need help along the way.


OSGeo administrators began working on OSGeo’s first application to Google back 
in early November.  It was a huge undertaking, as mentor organizations create 
hundreds of tasks for the potentially thousands of students to work on during 
the contest period and are responsible for assigning mentors to help students 
with questions and to review students’ work on the tasks.


OSGeo mentors and admins prepared 176 tasks related to its geospatial projects 
like GeoForAll, GeoServer, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, 
pgRouting, and QGIS.


This year’s contest was held from 28 November 2017 until 17 January 2018, and 
had almost triple the number of students of the previous year.  A total of 279 
young students completed 649 tasks for OSGeo (530 students in total examined 
OSGeo tasks). OSGeo students were from many countries including: India, Poland, 
Pakistan, Thailand, United States, Russia, Germany, Cameroon, Singapore, Spain, 
Romania, UK, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, 
Canada, and others.  The students were guided and supported by a great team of 
OSGeo mentors.


OSGeo’s GCI mentors and admins evaluated the results of the students according 
to the following factors: creativity, thoroughness, and quality of work. An 
additional criterium was the contribution to the community by interacting with 
and helping others.


OSGeo is pleased to announce the Google Code-in Grand Prize winners (who each 
receive a free trip to Google headquarters, along with a parent/guardian) are 
students:


  *   Sunveer Singh (India)

  *   Jerry Huang (United States)


OSGeo’s Google Code-in finalists (who receive Google hoodies) are:


  *   Ethan Zhao (United States)

  *   Neev Mistry (United States)

  *   Shailesh Kadam (India)


See here: https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners the winners from all 
organizations.


OSGeo wholeheartedly congratulates the winners and finalists. We also thank all 
students working on OSGeo’s tasks for their grea

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] identifying sponsorship opportunities for 2018

2018-01-31 Thread Jody Garnett 
Asking our community what activities are available for sponsorship has been
... mediocre at best.

We have our first sponsorship renewals starting in February - and several
key activities are late to the party:

- FOSS4G - while esri, google and world bank are listed there is no
invitation to sponsor or transparency on sponsorship opportunity and
benefits
- UN Committee - capacity building exercises
- Conference Committee - travel grant program

In each case I am looking for a link describing indicating that sponsorship
is desired, what sponsorship will be used for, and that sponsorship will be
acknowledged. For a gold standard please see
http://zoo-project.org/new/Get%20involved/Sponsorship that covers
sponsorship "goals", "uses" and "benefits", along with sponsorship plans.

Sponsorship is a great opportunity to share event costs/risk, provide
operational cost to our projects, and support our academic and open data
initiatives .. but to make it work your participation is needed.

Thanks to Sergio and others that have responded to my initial request.

--
Jody Garnett

On 5 January 2018 at 00:03, Jody Garnett  wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who provided estimates for the 2018 budget
> , the vast majority of
> requests were met - but there is still some work to do for planning 2018!
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Sponsorship_Opportunities_2018
>
> The above page is a draft, based on what I could quickly find. Please help
> identify sponsorship opportunities for 2018 for:
>
> * committee initiatives - such as the conference committee travel grant
> program, or the UN committee capacity building exercises
> * events including code sprints and foss4g events
> * local chapters
> * osgeo projects and community projects
>
> To be listed please update that wiki page with a link to the sponsorship
> page of the respective initiative, event, local chapter or osgeo project.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community

2018-01-31 Thread Margherita Di Leo 
*OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students
into the geospatial Open Source communityAfter participating many years in
the Google Summer of Code, OSGeo recently participated for the first time
in the Google Code-in. Google Code-in is a contest held each year to
introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to Open Source software
development. Since 2010, over 4500 students in 99 countries have completed
work in the contest. Students compete to win prizes of certificates,
t-shirts, hoodies, and a possible free trip to Google headquarters in
California, U.S.Because Google Code-in is often the first experience many
students have with Open Source, the contest is designed to make it easy for
students to jump right in. Open Source organizations chosen by Google
provide a list of tasks for students to work on during the seven week
contest period; each task should take only 3 to 5 hours to complete, and
can involve not only coding but also important community work such as
documentation, outreach, communication, quality assurance/testing, and user
interface design. A unique part of the contest is that each task has
mentors from the organization assigned, should students have questions or
need help along the way.OSGeo administrators began working on OSGeo’s first
application to Google back in early November.  It was a huge undertaking,
as mentor organizations create hundreds of tasks for the potentially
thousands of students to work on during the contest period and are
responsible for assigning mentors to help students with questions and to
review students’ work on the tasks.OSGeo mentors and admins prepared 176
tasks related to its geospatial projects like GeoForAll, GeoServer, GRASS
GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, pgRouting, and QGIS.This
year’s contest was held from 28 November 2017 until 17 January 2018, and
had almost triple the number of students of the previous year.  A total of
279 young students completed 649 tasks for OSGeo (530 students in total
examined OSGeo tasks). OSGeo students were from many countries including:
India, Poland, Pakistan, Thailand, United States, Russia, Germany,
Cameroon, Singapore, Spain, Romania, UK, Vietnam, Dominican Republic,
Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Canada, and others.  The students were
guided and supported by a great team of OSGeo mentors. OSGeo’s GCI mentors
and admins evaluated the results of the students according to the following
factors: creativity, thoroughness, and quality of work. An additional
criterium was the contribution to the community by interacting with and
helping others.OSGeo is pleased to announce the Google Code-in Grand Prize
winners (who each receive a free trip to Google headquarters, along with a
parent/guardian) are students: - Sunveer Singh (India)- Jerry Huang (United
States)OSGeo’s Google Code-in finalists (who receive Google hoodies) are: -
Ethan Zhao (United States)- Neev Mistry (United States)- Shailesh Kadam
(India)See here: https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners
 the winners from all
organizations.OSGeo wholeheartedly congratulates the winners and finalists.
We also thank all students working on OSGeo’s tasks for their great
contributions to the OSGeo community.All this wouldn’t be possible without
the guidance by our mentors. OSGeo is deeply grateful for their hard work
over 2 months of the contest.  We are also grateful to Google for welcoming
OSGeo into the contest as a GCI mentoring organization for the first
time.This has been a magical and fun experience, seeing the enthusiasm of
the students for OSGeo, and how that fun trickles through the entire
community. Thank you to everyone involved.--OSGeo GCI admins
2017/2018Links:https://codein.withgoogle.com/
https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-search=OSGeo
*


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Can anyone please update on OSGeo interactions with GEO?

2018-01-31 Thread Suchith Anand 
Gilberto, I also understand that GEO is working on Identifying WP [1] 
opportunities for Commercial Sector [2] . I think this will be a good 
opportunity for the commercial sector in the OSGeo ecosystem [3] to proactively 
engage with GEO.

I didn’t see any presence of commercial sector in the OSGeo ecosystem  at 
GEOWeek in Washington. This might be good opportunity for the  commercial 
sector in the OSGeo ecosystem to look at the various work [1] happening in GEO 
and engage with GEO to build more synergies. So this might be a opportunity for 
them to engage more proactively with GEO in the future.

I see many areas of engagement and synergies for OSGeo community with GEO in 
the future.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] https://www.earthobservations.org/geoss_wp.php
[2] 
https://www.earthobservations.org/documents/pb/me_201801/04-Draft%20Report%20of%20the%2042nd%20Executive%20Committee%20Meeting.pdf
[3] https://www.osgeo.org/service-providers/





From: GeoForAll  on behalf of Suchith Anand 

Sent: 23 January 2018 13:14
To: Gilberto Camara
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Can anyone please update on OSGeo interactions with GEO?


Dear Gilberto,

Thank you for the information. I also think it will be good to have formal 
relationship between OSGeo and GEO. I will email the OSGeo Board and discuss 
ideas on how we can plan to move forward on this.

I fully agree with your assessment on data access problems . Within OSGeo, I am 
trying to reactivate the Public Geospatial Data Committee [1]to bring key like 
minded colleagues to start planning actions forward for this. In fact, this is 
the reason we need  to work synergies with wider initiatives for maximum global 
impact.

I am looking forward with working with you on expanding ideas and actions.

Best wishes,

Suchith


[1]  https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/public-geospatial-data-committee/



From: Gilberto Camara 
Sent: 23 January 2018 12:17
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Can anyone please update on OSGeo interactions with GEO?


Dear Suchith

I have no information about the relationship of OSGEO and GEO, which would be a 
good thing to happen. On the positive side, the use of open source tools such 
as QGIS, R, and PostGIS is now spread worldwide, and OSGEO already does a 
strong jog of advocating   for  FOSS4GIS. Despite important advances in policy, 
the main problem of GEO continues to be data access. Although the open data 
policies are now being adopted worldwide, access to the data continues to be a 
painful process. With a few exceptions (such as   NASA's MODIS), the access to 
analysis-ready data continues to be a problem.


Best
Gilberto



On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 at 12:34 Suchith Anand  
wrote:


Hi all,

I vaguely remember some discussions in one of the OSGeo mailing lists some time 
back  planning to apply for Participating Organisation (PO) in Group on Earth 
Observations (GEO) [1] . Can someone who knows on this please  update on this. 
Did OSGeo apply or was  it just a discussion ideas. Who was the main contact 
leading this?

I will appreciate info on this as I am new to GEO. I have been nominated to 
Program Board of GEO and I will be attending the PB meeting in Geneva later 
this month, so I am trying to learn as much info. Thanks in advance.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] https://www.earthobservations.org/

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