[OSGeo-Discuss] CfP for Pre-conference workshop on Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015) - Abstract submission by 2nd March 2015

2015-02-12 Thread Suchith Anand
for presenters: 6 July 2015 27th ICC 2015 Conference23-28 August 2015 Contact If you have any questions, please contact Antony Cooper acoo...@csir.co.za, Serena Coetzee serena.coet...@up.ac.za, Suchith Anand suchithanan...@gmail.com, or Silvana Camboim

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015 - Nominations till 28th Feb 2015

2015-02-16 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015) is an annual opportunity to raise awareness about open education and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our Openness in Geoeducation mission

2015-01-26 Thread Suchith Anand
...@faunalia.it] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 8:51 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our Openness in Geoeducation mission Il 24/01/2015 11:54, Suchith Anand ha scritto: OSGeo colleagues, It is a great pleasure to inform you all that we now have over 2000

[OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our Openness in Geoeducation mission

2015-01-24 Thread Suchith Anand
OSGeo colleagues, It is a great pleasure to inform you all that we now have over 2000 students registered for the free MOOC course on Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS which is excellent momentum for our Openness in GeoEducation mission. Details at

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to NASA Worldwind Europa challenge 2015

2015-02-01 Thread Suchith Anand
On behalf of Geo for All http://www.geoforall.org, we would like to welcome strong global participation for the third edition of the NASA Worldwind Europa challenge. The aim of this challenge is to inspire ideas for building great applications that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2015 Europe

2015-01-08 Thread Suchith Anand
FOSS4G 2015 Europe Call below. There will be meeting of labs involved in Geo for All initiative (and those interested to join) at FOSS4G -Europe, so it will be great to have your participation. Also encourage your students to participate in the NASA World Wind Europe Challenge 2015. We will

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAcademy

2015-01-14 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, Please pass this free course opportunity to your students. Over 1000 students have already registered for the next course starting Feb 23-Mar 29, 2015 on Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS. Register at

[OSGeo-Discuss] Please support the International Map Year

2015-01-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, Please support and participate in the International Map Year (IMY) activities led by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and supported by the United Nations that will be celebrated worldwide with the aim to provide opportunities to demonstrate, follow, and get

[OSGeo-Discuss] Using Collective Knowledge for the Common Good

2015-03-10 Thread Suchith Anand
. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia) Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India) Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil) Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands) Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa) Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA) Anne Ghisla (Germany) Patrick Hogan (USA) Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India) REFERENCES [1] https

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-05 Thread Suchith Anand
for an answer for an Enhancement Request but I'm really concerned about Esri's commitment to (promised OGC) standards. Yours, S. 2015-03-01 22:38 GMT+01:00 Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk: Colleagues, I see these kind of developments also directly

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015

2015-03-09 Thread Suchith Anand
) Anne Ghisla (Germany) Patrick Hogan (USA) Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India) REFERENCES [1] https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view [2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/ [3] http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81 [4] http://catalog.cnm.edu/ 
 [5

[OSGeo-Discuss] Flash survey of public opinion in Europe

2015-03-10 Thread Suchith Anand
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

[OSGeo-Discuss] Big Earth Data - the Documentary

2015-03-30 Thread Suchith Anand
and looking forward to expand these ideas in the future. See you at P6 at Paris (23rd-25th Sep, 2015) with a focus on Research Data for Climate Change. https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting.html Best wishes, Suchith Anand, Peter Baumann, Andrea Perego, Luciene Delzari

[OSGeo-Discuss] Registration now open for SDI-Open 2015

2015-03-31 Thread Suchith Anand
Registration for the pre-conference workshop on Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015) jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Geoinformation Infrastructures and Standards, the Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll logo ideas

2015-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
under development from Greek colleagues (and any others) later this week. Best wishes, Suchith From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015

[OSGeo-Discuss] Next steps for Geo for All expansion

2015-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, On behalf of Geo for All we are pleased to welcome you to FOSS4G India -2015 in Dehradun , India (June 9-10th, 2015). It is great pleasure that colleagues in our first OSGeo lab to be established in India at IIIT Hyderabad have played key role for this. Details at

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll logo ideas

2015-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
of community for the cause. Best wishes, Suchith From: nicolas bozon [nicolas.bo...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 11:36 AM To: Siki Zoltan Cc: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] FW: GeoForAll logo ideas Hi list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo for All logo

2015-03-23 Thread Suchith Anand
for this please? Suchith From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA [sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:24 PM To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: Geo for All logo Hi. I think having a logo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Vaclav, Please accept my sincere apologies as it was my mistake that i did not think on this when we started the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative (so many things were going on at that time!). In universities, we generally use the Labs term to refer to infrastructure/people/facilities for a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Help needed for setting up 9 new mail lists to support our new regional groups/subject thematics

2015-02-26 Thread Suchith Anand
[xurxos...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz [js...@osgeo.org] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:47 PM To: Suchith Anand Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; Anne Ghisla; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Help needed for setting up 9 new mail lists to support

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-02-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Patrick, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I believe the OSGeo Board need to look into this and prepare a position paper with inputs from the community as this has wider implications. This also need to be discussed with like minded organisations. We all can provide the needed

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo for All logo

2015-03-03 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi All, I have been getting lot of queries on if there is a logo for Geo for All and i think it is now time for us to have logo. As Geo for All started with FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham and i saw we did have a logo but i don't remember who/when it was created other than the info given at the website

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo for All logo

2015-03-03 Thread Suchith Anand
)  -Original Message- From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 10:11 AM To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org;discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo for All logo Hi All, I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-03 Thread Suchith Anand
like Community Projects. [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2013-June/000134.html -jeff On 2015-03-03 3:42 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: Vaclav, Please accept my sincere apologies as it was my mistake that i did not think on this when we started the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Yes, i think Incubator Projects is an appropriate name for this. Vaclav - Is this ok for you? Suchith From: Bart van den Eijnden [bart...@osgis.nl] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:34 AM To: Vaclav Petras Cc: Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2016 host city Planning to make use of our FOSS4G conferences to launch new Educational initiatives every year

2015-03-04 Thread Suchith Anand
Congrats to Bonn Team and great work by Dublin Team. I hope the Dublin Team will apply for FOSS4G 2017 Europe and build up your excellent efforts. Also my humble suggestion for all LOCs (present and future) and to our wider community (hence ccing in) is that we see and make use of the global

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Shorter; P Kishor; Suchith Anand; Scott Simmons; OSGeo Discussions; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo-Board; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI Carl, No, it doesn't really clarify it. I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-01 Thread Suchith Anand
repeating these inappropriate actions in the future. Best wishes, Suchith From: Cameron Shorter [cameron.shor...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 10:47 AM To: P Kishor; Suchith Anand Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); bo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo for All Regional and subject thematic groups now established

2015-03-01 Thread Suchith Anand
OSGeo Colleagues, Thanks to Jorge and Anne's efforts and help for us, we now have the mail lists setup for our regional and subject thematic groups. The chairs of these will also be the administrators of these groups. Their details are at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geo_for_All Chairs :

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Help needed for setting up 9 new mail lists to support our new regional groups/subject thematics

2015-02-26 Thread Suchith Anand
+ Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: OSGeo Community, This is a call for help from those who have expertise in OSGeo mail lists to help us setup the following new mail list for our regional groups as part of our expansion. We have also now appointed new chairs for all 5

[OSGeo-Discuss] Help needed for setting up 9 new mail lists to support our new regional groups/subject thematics

2015-02-26 Thread Suchith Anand
OSGeo Community, This is a call for help from those who have expertise in OSGeo mail lists to help us setup the following new mail list for our regional groups as part of our expansion. We have also now appointed new chairs for all 5 regions (North America, South America, Europe, Africa and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-India 2015

2015-03-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Jeff, Ravi for this info. Good to see a session dedicated to Case Studies of FOSS4G in Education, Research and Soceity/ Roundtable on role of FOSS4G in SDIs in the program at http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4g2015/ OSGeo India - Please do arrange a presentation for Geo for All to spread the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our Openness in Geoeducation mission

2015-01-30 Thread Suchith Anand
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 2:42 PM To: Jorge Sanz Cc: Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our Openness in Geoeducation mission Hello All, I'm one of the organizers working on the MOOC. We agree with the above comments about giving back

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [UTSG] FW: Geo for All logo

2015-03-23 Thread Suchith Anand
on this. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith PS: All - so no need for any more volunteers for this. Thanks for your help. From: Evangelos Mitsakis [e...@certh.gr] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 8:00 AM To: 'Suchith Anand' Cc: apostoliademer...@gmail.com Subject: RE: [UTSG] FW

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR

2015-04-13 Thread Suchith Anand
and invite them to join this effort to support open LIDAR formats. I thank you all again for your attention and support for this important matter. Best wishes, Suchith Anand Founder, GeoForAll http://www.geoforall.orghttp://www.geoforall.org/ Forwarded Message Subject

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Cristiano, thank you for this info. Will pass the info to colleagues to contact you directly. Suchith From: Cristiano Giovando [cristiano.giova...@hotosm.org] Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 10:42 PM To: Suchith Anand Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Our thoughts and prayers to all those affected by the terrible earthquake in Nepal. Hope our colleagues and families at Kathmandu University are fine. Not sure if they have internet access etc now. Shashish and colleagues in Nepal - if you are reading this, please update and if you need to

[OSGeo-Discuss] “Open Standards for ICT Procurement: Saving while reducing ICT lock-in” workshop at DG CONNECT, Brussels

2015-04-22 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, Under Digital Agenda, the European Commission commits itself through Action 23 to provide guidance on the link between ICT Standardisation and Public Procurement in order to help public authorities use standards to promote efficiency and reduce lock-in. As a matter of fact, using

[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: Disaster OpenRouteService for Nepal available

2015-04-28 Thread Suchith Anand
From: Alexander Zipf (HD) [z...@uni-heidelberg.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 12:26 PM Subject: Disaster OpenRouteService for Nepal available Facing the most severe earthquake for the past decades, Nepal and especially the Kathmandu area show

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [TC-Discuss] Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR

2015-04-27 Thread Suchith Anand
how Esri proposes to reverse the current Lidar format fragmentation that is unfolding. Please include actions and timeframes. Best wishes, Suchith Anand Founder, GeoForAll http://www.geoforall.org [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter [2] http://cameronshorter.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04

[OSGeo-Discuss] Helping Nepal with mapping action

2015-04-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, On behalf of Geo for All http://www.geoforall.org/ ,i request you all to inform your colleagues and students to contribute in the crisis mapping action launched by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. This will also help teach the students also the real essence of education and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Helping Nepal with mapping action

2015-05-03 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, Thank you for all of you who helped with the mapping efforts for Nepal. From the tweets in Twitter, i understand that Shashish Maharjan (our colleague in Kathmandu University) is safe by God's grace and he and his colleagues are actively involved in the relief efforts.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo welcomes 13 students for Google Summer of Code 2015

2015-04-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Great to see these excellent student projects and thanks to Madi, Anne and all the mentors who make this possible. Suchith From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Margherita Di Leo [direg...@gmail.com] Sent:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Letter to ASPRS, Esri and OGC related to fragmentation of the LiDAR Open Format

2015-05-06 Thread Suchith Anand
received this email and that you will look into it. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Kind regards, Suchith Anand Founder, GeoForAll http://www.geoforall.org [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter This message and any attachment are intended solely

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Letter to ASPRS, Esri and OGC related to fragmentation of the LiDAR Open Format

2015-05-06 Thread Suchith Anand
received this email and that you will look into it. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Kind regards, Suchith Anand Founder, GeoForAll http://www.geoforall.org [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter This message and any attachment are intended solely

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Student Awards - please join the maillist and contribute your ideas

2015-05-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi All, Thanks to the OSGeo Board for support for the Student Awards [1] at FOSS4G conferences. So it is now time for us to take actions for the next steps to get this started . It is important that we build strong foundations for this for expanding this for the future. 1. It is important

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nepal earthquakes - wake up call for action to support building geocapacity globally

2015-05-14 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, It is really sad to see two earthquakes (in less than a fortnight) hitting Nepal . I thank all colleagues who have been contributing to the Humanitarian Open Street Map's http://hotosm.org/ relief efforts for this. The Humanitarian Open Street Map Team applies the principles of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Nepal earthquakes - wake up call for action to support building geocapacity globally

2015-05-16 Thread Suchith Anand
:59 AM To: Suchith Anand Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Nepal earthquakes - wake up call for action to support building geocapacity globally Dear Suchith Thanks a lot for your email. Your words have motivated us to work in this harsh condition. Our university is partially damaged and due to risks

[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: Nepal Earthquake Mapathon TODAY

2015-05-12 Thread Suchith Anand
Sad to hear the news of another terrible earthquake hitting Nepal. Please help contribute your expertise and time to the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team's efforts for this. This is a request for all those who would like to contribute to the mapping response to be in contact with the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [TC-Discuss] Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR

2015-04-16 Thread Suchith Anand
Software Development From: TC-Discuss [mailto:tc-discuss-bounces+kryden=esri@lists.opengeospatial.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 10:30 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; tc-disc...@lists.opengeospatial.org Subject: [TC-Discuss] Open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] [TC-Discuss] Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR

2015-04-17 Thread Suchith Anand
users. Regards, Keith Ryden ESRI Software Development From: TC-Discuss [mailto:tc-discuss-bounces+kryden=esri@lists.opengeospatial.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 10:30 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; tc-disc

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015

2015-04-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, For those of you planning to be at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, please make sure you attend OSGeo: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Geosciences session. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/session/19197 The annual EGU General Assembly

[OSGeo-Discuss] Survey on Open Source Geospatial Certification-Academic and Professionals

2015-05-19 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Franz-Josef for this. I will send this survey to key lists to get wider inputs so we can get more ideas for this. All please take time to complete this short survery on OS Certification Model at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Phillip for the prompt response. I am hoping to get as many volunteers for this as possible, so we can spread the efforts. Best wishes, Suchith From: Phillip Davis [pda...@delmar.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:34 AM To: Suchith Anand

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:43 AM To: Phillip Davis Cc: Suchith Anand; Steven Feldman; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure Hi, This probably

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please vote and select Geo for All logo

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
, Suchith From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA [sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:59 PM To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: Please vote and select Geo for All logo Hi all. Do we finally

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Co-editors needed for Geo for All Newsletters

2015-06-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Reminder to get 2 more co-editors to support Nikos for this. We have got one volunteer co-editor from Asia region . To make sure there is global distribution, it will be good to get co-editors from other continients (Africa and Americas) . So please email Nikos (Email: labri...@eled.auth.gr )

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nigeria OSGeo Local Chapter

2015-06-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Jeff. Welcome Ayo and please join also the Africa focussed maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa and also inform other universities in Nigeria to join and share ideas on our Education initiative. You can also contact our chairs for Africa: Serena

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-04 Thread Suchith Anand
!) From: Margherita Di Leo [direg...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 4:26 PM To: Suchith Anand Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All Newsletter

2015-06-05 Thread Suchith Anand
for students and staff in our network. * Any other ideas/proposals Best wishes, Suchith From: labri...@eled.auth.gr [labri...@eled.auth.gr] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 8:11 AM To: 'Suchith Anand'; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] Our first Lab of the month to be Open Source Geospatial Lab at Kathmandu University, Nepal

2015-06-05 Thread Suchith Anand
Of Suchith Anand [suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 9:12 AM To: labri...@eled.auth.gr; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo4All Newsletter Nikos, Many thanks to you for this great idea of the Newsletter and coming forward

[OSGeo-Discuss] Humble request to AAG to include Open Education principles and FOSS4G tools firmly in the ConnnectED concept to support the new Advanced Placement course in Geographic Information Scie

2015-06-06 Thread Suchith Anand
, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-June/014310.html 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

[OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-25 Thread Suchith Anand
support on this important matter. Together we can help enable good quality education opportunities of all our future generations. Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-June/014310.html [2] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015

[OSGeo-Discuss] “Open Source GIS in United Nations and Developing Countries” at FOSS4G 2015 Seoul

2015-06-19 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, Organising a large event like global FOSS4G is thanks to the efforts of lot of dedicated people ( including all LOC members) working for many years for the bigger aim to make OSGeo stronger. I know this very well from our Nottingham FOSS4G experiences, so it is important that we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-27 Thread Suchith Anand
- i.e. Poor) would be huge - much larger than any free software gift from a vendor. Just a thought. Randy On 06/25/2015 06:09 PM, Suchith Anand wrote: Colleagues, It was just by coincidence while i was working on getting data for a research paper on How to quantify the economic impact of Open

[OSGeo-Discuss] “Open Source Geospatial Tools in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource Management” and ISPRS Summer Schools

2015-06-12 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, The Second National Conference on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G-India 2015) with focus on “Open Source Geospatial Tools in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource Management” was held earlier this week at June 9-10, 2015 at Indian Institute of

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS Academics and educators please apply to AAG call before June 15th, 2015

2015-06-10 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, Last week , i send an open request to Dr. Michael Solem (AAG Director of Educational Research and Programs) to humbly request AAG to specifically include Open Education principles and FOSS4G tools firmly in the ConnnectED concept to support the new Advanced Placement course in

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Standards - Good Practice guidelines

2015-05-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, These good practice guidelines shared by various European governments will be of interest https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/open_standards_ict/og_page/best-practices-library Esp. the action plan for the use of Open Standards and Open Source Software in the public and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Co-editors needed for Geo for All Newsletters

2015-05-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi all, As we are growing rapidly with lot of activities, it has become difficult to keep track of all developments, so Dr. Nikos Lambrinos (Associate Professor, Dept. of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) has put forward an excellent idea for starting a Geo for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Standards - Good Practice guidelines

2015-05-29 Thread Suchith Anand
chapter OSGeo.nl -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Suchith Anand Verzonden: vrijdag 29 mei 2015 10:23 Aan: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Onderwerp: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Standards - Good

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inputs needed from Open Geo community for AAG New AP Course in GIST

2015-05-31 Thread Suchith Anand
] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2015 9:31 AM To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inputs needed from Open Geo community for AAG New AP Course in GIST Hi all, AAG is seeking proposals

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo live - osm2x3d

2015-05-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Guerini [silvia.guer...@polimi.it] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 8:37 AM To: Cameron Shorter; Suchith Anand; clem...@igonet.fr Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: OSGeo live - osm2x3d Good morning sorry for the delay I was out of the office in these days

[OSGeo-Discuss] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi all, Few years ago, myself and colleagues here did a study to help us understand the social history of collaborative activities within the OSGeo ecosystem. The results were published as a research paper on Mapping Collaboration in Open Source Geospatial Ecosystem in Transactions in GIS

[OSGeo-Discuss] We welcome AAG's ideas and inputs for empowering School teachers and expanding Geoeducation in Schools globally

2015-07-04 Thread Suchith Anand
for everyone has been key for making these developments possible. An idea whose time has come is the most powerful force in the universe and the time for Access to quality education opportunities for everyone has arrived. Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org [1] http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-22 Thread Suchith Anand
List; Suchith Anand Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure Hello, This is my personal view that do not reflect the opinion of the board, but only of a single member. If Geo4All is an extension of the edu

[OSGeo-Discuss] New Geo for All logo launch at FOSS4G- Europe 2015 in Como

2015-05-22 Thread Suchith Anand
Guerini [silvia.guer...@polimi.it] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 7:33 AM To: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; Suchith Anand Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; Moreno-sanchez, Rafael Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] Please vote and select Geo for All logo Thank you very

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-22 Thread Suchith Anand
, Suchith From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 5:59 PM To: Mueller, Thomas Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Please vote and select Geo for All logo

2015-05-22 Thread Suchith Anand
From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA [sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:49 PM To: Silvia Guerini; Suchith Anand Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; Moreno-sanchez, Rafael Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] Please vote and select

[OSGeo-Discuss] Short course series on 'Open Science goes Geo'

2015-05-19 Thread Suchith Anand
These recordings and slides from Open Science goes Geo' short courses at European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna http://www.egu2015.eu/ might be of wider interest. Thanks for Martin for sharing this. Especially the Winning Horizon 2020 with Open Science session is really good as it

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please vote and select Geo for All logo

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
: Marco Minghini [marco.minghin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:33 PM To: Suchith Anand Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Silvia Guerini Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please vote and select Geo for All logo Dear Suchith and all, the author of logo 3 was Silvia

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure

2015-05-21 Thread Suchith Anand
To: Suchith Anand Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open call for volunteers to help with building and hosting GeoforAll website in OSGeo infrastructure Can those of us make a donation to help? Sorry I will not be able to make it Tom Sent

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial ...

2015-08-16 Thread Suchith Anand
Kurt, This is great work that you are doing and thank you for sharing this . I am sure there are thousands of excellent examples like these in our OSGeo community which we need to highlight to the wider world to build more ideas and collaborations. Our Geo for All newsletters will reach

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial ...

2015-08-16 Thread Suchith Anand
://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html [2] http://www.osgeo.org/node/1611 From: Charles Schweik [cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu] Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 1:44 PM To: Suchith Anand Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Nomination for Lene Fischer

2015-08-19 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Anita  for this excellent nomination. Lene Fischer's has made excellent contributions to OSGeo education over many years . I am surprised she is not a charter member till now. So let us make sure she becomes a charter member and be strong voice for education and expanding OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Marco Minghini

2015-08-24 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Maxi, Maria. I also strongly support Mingo for OSGeo Charter Member. Suchith From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Massimiliano Cannata [massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 11:38 AM

[OSGeo-Discuss] Be our “Geo for All” Ambassador

2015-08-24 Thread Suchith Anand
Last week, Karl Donert (President, EUROGEO and Director of European Centre of Excellence digital-earth.eu) , gave an excellent presentation on Leadership in Geography education at the International Geographical Union (IGU) 2015 Regional Congress http://www.igu2015.ruhttp://www.igu2015.ru/

[OSGeo-Discuss] ICA-OSGeo MoU renewal for expanding Geo for All

2015-08-20 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, On behalf of Geo for All , we are happy to inform the renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) by Professor Georg Gartner (President ICA) and Jeff McKenna ( President OSGeo) on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-29 Thread Suchith Anand
AM To: Suchith Anand Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; mso...@aag.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations The developing world including India battles a scourge 'P I R A C Y'. http

[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to Business meeting of ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies -27th August 2015 (Thursday)@ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2015-08-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, We now have confirmation of the exact time and venue details for the next Business meeting of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies during the 27th International Cartographic Conference (16th General Assembly ) at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Date - 27th August

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoforAll Newsletter and First “GeoForAll” lab of the month - Open Source Geospatial Lab , Kathmandu University, Nepal

2015-07-31 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear Colleagues, We are very happy to inform that the first Geo4All newsletter is now ready at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Newsletter-vol.-1-no.-1.pdf Our sincere thanks to Dr. Nikos Lambrinos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) for taking the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Birds of a feather rooms: Seoul FOSS4G

2015-08-07 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks Jeff for this reminder. For those of you who are attending FOSS4G Seoul, you are welcome to attend the Geo4All BOF meetings. Thanks to Venka for organising this for Geo4All. Suchith From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data in empowering people and organisations and creating new opportunities

2015-08-15 Thread Suchith Anand
We would like invite articles from Industry , Universities/Education, Startups, NGOs, Governments on examples of how Open Geospatial Software and Open Data is empowering them and created many new opportunities for Geo for All http://www.geoforall.org/ newsletters. Even proprietary GIS

[OSGeo-Discuss] We need your help for helping spread Geo4All ideas worldwide

2015-08-12 Thread Suchith Anand
-ottawa-social.htm [3] http://www.geoforall.org/resources/downloads/GeoforAllslides.ppt [4] http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk [5] http://www.geoforall.org/ From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith

[OSGeo-Discuss] ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Awards for NASA Europa Challenge 2015

2015-07-26 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, Though the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Awards are for the Student teams, the Europa Challenge is also open for the Professionals/SMEs/Industry etc. Apologies, i forgot to list the winners from the Professional track. It is great to see the amazing entries for the Professional track.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All welcomes ideas for building global synergies and collaborations for Access to quality education and opportunities for all

2015-07-24 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, In spite of all the economic technological developments, it is a sad fact that thousands of schools globally (esp. in developing countries) even today do not have access to even a single computer. Many of these poor schools do not even have a proper library. But thanks to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] American Geographical Society Announces Endorsement of the “Geo for All” Initiative

2015-07-17 Thread Suchith Anand
...@lists.osgeo.org en nombre de Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk Enviado: miércoles, 15 de julio de 2015 6:22 Para: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org Asunto: [Ica-osgeo-labs] American Geographical Society Announces Endorsement of the “Geo for All” Initiative Colleagues

[OSGeo-Discuss] Direct inputs to national policy and Intergovernmental agreements for expanding Geo for All

2015-07-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, I have been contacted by Prof. Silvana Comboim (Universidade Federal de Paraná ,Brazil) who is also the new chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies on the arrangements for the next ICA Commission meeting on August 27th, 2015 (exact time, room etc will

[OSGeo-Discuss] NASA World Wind Europa Challenge Winners 2015

2015-07-19 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Geo for All community , we would like to thank Patrick Hogan and Maria Brovelli for their hardwork and dedication in organising another successful year of NASA World Wind Europa Challenge http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ We thank all the excellent teams

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Seoul report on Directions Magazine

2015-10-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Excellent report and thanks Maria, Venka for this. Suchith PS: It will be good to have more media partners for the main FOSS4G conferences From: Discuss [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Massimiliano Cannata [massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch] Sent:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Power of Open Principles

2015-11-08 Thread Suchith Anand
ation opportunities for everyone" has arrived. Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org PS: Sergio Acosta y Lara shared this excellent video on the Power of Openness which might be of wider interest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mvgkRWP34 See our latest monthly newslett

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