[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo welcomes 13 GSoC students in 2018!

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Dear OSGeo community,

we are proud to announce that 13 students were selected to work on GSoC [1] at 
OSGeo this year!

Browse the projects at:

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5051492877205504/?sp-page=2

We thank all the students that weren’t selected and encourage them to apply 
next year. 

Congratulations to all selected students and welcome!

Under

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2018_Accepted

you’ll find links to their upcoming progress reports. 

Kind regards
OSGeo GSoC admins

[1] 
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/04/rolling-out-red-carpet-for-gsoc-2018.html
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is GIS special?

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Ravi Kumar,


Thank you for sharing this excellent updates. This is a great start for school 
level geoeducation in India and good to see OpenGIS mentioned in the syllabus 😊


I am confident that geoeducation opportunities for all will keep expanding ...


Best wishes,


Suchith




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FYI In India CBSE Syllabus has included an 'Optional Paper', Class XII (16 year 
olds) of GIS.
https://www.cbsesyllabus.in/vocational-syllabus/geospatial-technology-740-class-xii-syllabus


On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:


Dear colleagues,


Some years ago one of the Nottingham University staff asked me a question when 
we were talking that I still remember “Is GIS special if everyone becomes GIS 
Professional? “ I was bit taken back by the question esp. as it came from an 
educator and I replied “There is nothing special about GIS if it is for few 
rich people only but if it the learning opportunities for GIS are made 
available for everyone it is truly special ... “.


I was very lucky to get the opportunity to learn GIS. I still remember the 
struggles  I faced to just get access to learning GIS  (over two decades back!) 
 as very few universities had GIS that time in India. I spend nearly two years 
going around different universities and places knocking so many doors to just 
to get access to GIS . My dream that time was to get opportunity to do my final 
year undergraduate project using GIS. Unfortunately in spite of all my best 
efforts I failed that time . But that experiences made me realise years later 
when I did get opportunity to learn GIS that now I need to everything in my 
abilities to keep the doors of GIS education open to all and no student 
anywhere should go through what I went through.


When GeoForAll was started , I faced lot of ridicule and opposition from some 
but I also got lot and lot of amazing support and help from so many amazing 
colleagues at Nottingham and globally. Thanks to all our amazing colleagues, we 
have truly made GIS education opportunities open to all. Please share our 
resources with all 

 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/


I am requesting all colleagues to keep the doors of education opportunities  
open for all. For me, Openness is not just about open source or open data … It 
is about the Open mindsets  to help make education opportunities inclusive to 
students from  all economic and social backgrounds. So  “Is GIS special? “  I 
leave it to you to decide…


Best wishes,


Suchith




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is GIS special?

[Ravi Kumar]

FYI In India CBSE Syllabus has included an 'Optional Paper', Class XII (16
year olds) of GIS.
https://www.cbsesyllabus.in/vocational-syllabus/geospatial-technology-740-class-xii-syllabus

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> Some years ago one of the Nottingham University staff asked me a question
> when we were talking that I still remember “Is GIS special if everyone
> becomes GIS Professional? “ I was bit taken back by the question esp. as it
> came from an educator and I replied “There is nothing special about GIS if
> it is for few rich people only but if it the learning opportunities for GIS
> are made available for everyone it is truly special ... “.
>
>
> I was very lucky to get the opportunity to learn GIS. I still remember the
> struggles  I faced to just get access to learning GIS  (over two decades
> back!)  as very few universities had GIS that time in India. I spend
> nearly two years going around different universities and places knocking so
> many doors to just to get access to GIS . My dream that time was to get
> opportunity to do my final year undergraduate project using GIS.
> Unfortunately in spite of all my best efforts I failed that time . But
> that experiences made me realise years later when I did get opportunity
> to learn GIS that now I need to everything in my abilities to keep the
> doors of GIS education open to all and no student anywhere should go
> through what I went through.
>
>
> When GeoForAll was started , I faced lot of ridicule and opposition from
> some but I also got lot and lot of amazing support and help from so many
> amazing colleagues at Nottingham and globally. Thanks to all our amazing
> colleagues, we have truly made GIS education opportunities open to all.
> Please share our resources with all
> 
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-
> geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/
>
>
> I am requesting all colleagues to keep the doors of education opportunities
> open for all. For me, Openness is not just about open source or open data
> … It is about the Open mindsets  to help make education opportunities
> inclusive to students from  all economic and social backgrounds. So  *“Is
> GIS special? “*  I leave it to you to decide…
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
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