Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward on geoeducation

2019-08-23 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
​Sorry I won't be there -physically-; but I'll be there spiritually!


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
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Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
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De: Discuss  en nombre de Charlie Schweik 

Enviado: jueves, 22 de agosto de 2019 10:27
Para: Suchith Anand
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; GeoForAll
Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to 
move us forward on geoeducation

Thanks Suchith for your volunteering to moderate the GeoForAll lab 
mini-conference (or whatever we call it).

I added some thoughts to your document (under Attachment 1 at the bottom) for 
the Bucharest BOF since I won't be there. I hope perhaps one of the people who 
volunteered to participate (thanks!) might be there to help try and organize 
the online mini-conference.

Cheers all,
Charlie Schweik

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:19 AM Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Charlie,


Thank you for the excellent ideas and inputs. This is very helpful for moving 
our community forward. This now added to the agenda at  
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTgLetei863hY2a-oz0PMy9ejcT6HkEq5IqZG1k8Wn4/edit?usp=sharing



I volunteer to  help you and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this 
GeoForAll community miniconference for the World Commons Week. Please let me 
know the exact day/time and I will coordinate this with Rafael. I thank all 
colleagues who volunteered to present for this webinar mini conference.  Your 
help and support is greatly appreciated.


I would also like to add one more agenda item on GeoForAll support for STEM 
education in schools especially for economically poor students globally. I came 
across an excellent initiative for widening STEM education opportunities for 
female students that GEO is involved in Ghana at 
http://earthobservations.org/geo_blog_obs.php?id=368



GeoForAll is committed to support STEM education opportunities for women. As 
many  GEO colleagues will be at FOSS4G, I suggest that we reach out to GEO and 
explore ways for working together for expanding STEM education opportunities 
for students globally.


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Charlie Schweik 
mailto:cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu>>
Sent: 21 August 2019 16:00
To: Suchith Anand 
mailto:eza...@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk>>
Cc: GeoForAll mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>>; 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org 
mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward 
on geoeducation

Hi Andreea, Suchith and other GeoForAll/OSGeo colleagues,

(Sorry I won't be there next week).

Again, one tangible GeoForAll community building effort we can do is to start 
an annual GeoForAll community webinar mini-conference, as part of this World 
Commons Week (October 6-12) I 
am organizing. Open Source Geospatial projects are an important subset of 
"world commons" digital projects. I hope in the GeoForAll BOF meeting this idea 
of a mini-conference as part of this global event can be discussed and refined. 
It will also help draw attention to OSGeo/GeoForAll by others who need 
geospatial technologies to study natural resource commons who don't know about 
them.

But from my previous posts on this idea, here are the colleagues who responded 
and signaled their interest to do this (thanks to those below!). I'm not sure 
each wanted to present something or not?

  *   Victor N.Sunday, Team Coordinator, UniqueMappersTeam, Port Harcourt 
Nigeria. -- Open Source and Open Data for All
  *   Suchith Anand Dr. Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition By 
webinar United Kingdom  -- Open Principles in Science and Education
  *   Sergio Acosta y Lara, Architect Comunidad gvSIG, Uruguay, Montevideo 
Uruguay -- Experiences from the 3rd edition of the course-contest Projects with 
students and gvSIG Batoví
  *   Victoria Rautenbach, Dr University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa.  
GeoNode for data management and sharing
  *   Paulo Cesar Coronado, Engineer, Universidad Distrital Francsico José de 
Caldas, Bogota Colombia. SIG con herramientas OSGeo (GIS with OSGeo tools)

But this is a nice cross-section of some of the GeoForAll labs. Raphael Moreno 
has nicely agreed to use his webinar platform.

QUESTIONS, maybe for the BOF meeting:

1) What is the goal of such a online "mini-conference"? I would argue it would 
be to learn what other labs are doing and to build a richer dialog across labs.
2) Would each of these people listed want to present, say, for 15-30 minutes 
about their topics or lab activities? Anyone else want to participate?
3) What day/time range during the week of October 6-12 would we want to run 
this GeoForAll community online miniconference?
4) Is there someone in the GeoForAll community

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward on geoeducation

2019-08-22 Thread Suchith Anand 
Thanks. I have added some additional information/ideas (under Attachment B) for 
expanding GeoForAll STEM education for Schools . I also won’t be able to attend 
FOSS4G Bucharest  as my wife has some important work meetings scheduled next 
week and this also coinciding with school holidays means that I have to be at 
home to look after our son.


I will do my best to support you all remotely.  I wish you all  productive 
meeting and outcomes.


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Charlie Schweik 
Sent: 22 August 2019 14:27
To: Suchith Anand 
Cc: GeoForAll ; discuss@lists.osgeo.org 

Subject: Re: [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward 
on geoeducation

Thanks Suchith for your volunteering to moderate the GeoForAll lab 
mini-conference (or whatever we call it).

I added some thoughts to your document (under Attachment 1 at the bottom) for 
the Bucharest BOF since I won't be there. I hope perhaps one of the people who 
volunteered to participate (thanks!) might be there to help try and organize 
the online mini-conference.

Cheers all,
Charlie Schweik

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:19 AM Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Charlie,


Thank you for the excellent ideas and inputs. This is very helpful for moving 
our community forward. This now added to the agenda at  
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTgLetei863hY2a-oz0PMy9ejcT6HkEq5IqZG1k8Wn4/edit?usp=sharing



I volunteer to  help you and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this 
GeoForAll community miniconference for the World Commons Week. Please let me 
know the exact day/time and I will coordinate this with Rafael. I thank all 
colleagues who volunteered to present for this webinar mini conference.  Your 
help and support is greatly appreciated.


I would also like to add one more agenda item on GeoForAll support for STEM 
education in schools especially for economically poor students globally. I came 
across an excellent initiative for widening STEM education opportunities for 
female students that GEO is involved in Ghana at 
http://earthobservations.org/geo_blog_obs.php?id=368



GeoForAll is committed to support STEM education opportunities for women. As 
many  GEO colleagues will be at FOSS4G, I suggest that we reach out to GEO and 
explore ways for working together for expanding STEM education opportunities 
for students globally.


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Charlie Schweik 
mailto:cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu>>
Sent: 21 August 2019 16:00
To: Suchith Anand 
mailto:eza...@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk>>
Cc: GeoForAll mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>>; 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org 
mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward 
on geoeducation

Hi Andreea, Suchith and other GeoForAll/OSGeo colleagues,

(Sorry I won't be there next week).

Again, one tangible GeoForAll community building effort we can do is to start 
an annual GeoForAll community webinar mini-conference, as part of this World 
Commons Week (October 6-12) I 
am organizing. Open Source Geospatial projects are an important subset of 
"world commons" digital projects. I hope in the GeoForAll BOF meeting this idea 
of a mini-conference as part of this global event can be discussed and refined. 
It will also help draw attention to OSGeo/GeoForAll by others who need 
geospatial technologies to study natural resource commons who don't know about 
them.

But from my previous posts on this idea, here are the colleagues who responded 
and signaled their interest to do this (thanks to those below!). I'm not sure 
each wanted to present something or not?

  *   Victor N.Sunday, Team Coordinator, UniqueMappersTeam, Port Harcourt 
Nigeria. -- Open Source and Open Data for All
  *   Suchith Anand Dr. Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition By 
webinar United Kingdom  -- Open Principles in Science and Education
  *   Sergio Acosta y Lara, Architect Comunidad gvSIG, Uruguay, Montevideo 
Uruguay -- Experiences from the 3rd edition of the course-contest Projects with 
students and gvSIG Batoví
  *   Victoria Rautenbach, Dr University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa.  
GeoNode for data management and sharing
  *   Paulo Cesar Coronado, Engineer, Universidad Distrital Francsico José de 
Caldas, Bogota Colombia. SIG con herramientas OSGeo (GIS with OSGeo tools)

But this is a nice cross-section of some of the GeoForAll labs. Raphael Moreno 
has nicely agreed to use his webinar platform.

QUESTIONS, maybe for the BOF meeting:

1) What is the goal of such a online "mini-conference"? I would argue it would 
be to learn what other labs are doing and to build a richer dialog across labs.
2) Would each of these people listed want to present, say, for 15-30 minutes 
about their topics or lab activities? Anyone else want to participate?
3) What

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward on geoeducation

2019-08-22 Thread Charlie Schweik 
Thanks Suchith for your volunteering to moderate the GeoForAll lab
mini-conference (or whatever we call it).

I added some thoughts to your document (under Attachment 1 at the bottom)
for the Bucharest BOF since I won't be there. I hope perhaps one of the
people who volunteered to participate (thanks!) might be there to help try
and organize the online mini-conference.

Cheers all,
Charlie Schweik

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:19 AM Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
>
>
> Thank you for the excellent ideas and inputs. This is very helpful for
> moving our community forward. This now added to the agenda at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTgLetei863hY2a-oz0PMy9ejcT6HkEq5IqZG1k8Wn4/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> I volunteer to  help you and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this
> GeoForAll community miniconference for the World Commons Week. Please let
> me know the exact day/time and I will coordinate this with Rafael. I thank
> all colleagues who volunteered to present for this webinar mini conference.  
> Your
> help and support is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> I would also like to add one more agenda item on GeoForAll support for
> STEM education in schools especially for economically poor students
> globally. I came across an excellent initiative for widening STEM education
> opportunities for female students that GEO is involved in Ghana at
> http://earthobservations.org/geo_blog_obs.php?id=368
>
>
> GeoForAll is committed to support STEM education opportunities for
> women. As many  GEO colleagues will be at FOSS4G, I suggest that we reach
> out to GEO and explore ways for working together for expanding STEM
> education opportunities for students globally.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
> --
> *From:* Charlie Schweik 
> *Sent:* 21 August 2019 16:00
> *To:* Suchith Anand 
> *Cc:* GeoForAll ; discuss@lists.osgeo.org <
> discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us
> forward on geoeducation
>
> Hi Andreea, Suchith and other GeoForAll/OSGeo colleagues,
>
> (Sorry I won't be there next week).
>
> Again, one tangible GeoForAll community building effort we can do is to
> start an annual GeoForAll community webinar mini-conference, as part of
> this World Commons Week (October 6-12)
>  I am organizing. Open
> Source Geospatial projects are an important subset of "world commons"
> digital projects. I hope in the GeoForAll BOF meeting this idea of a
> mini-conference as part of this global event can be discussed and refined.
> It will also help draw attention to OSGeo/GeoForAll by others who need
> geospatial technologies to study natural resource commons who don't know
> about them.
>
> But from my previous posts on this idea, here are the colleagues who
> responded and signaled their interest to do this (thanks to those below!).
> I'm not sure each wanted to present something or not?
>
>- Victor N.Sunday, Team Coordinator, UniqueMappersTeam, Port Harcourt
>Nigeria. -- Open Source and Open Data for All
>- Suchith Anand Dr. Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition By
>webinar United Kingdom  -- Open Principles in Science and Education
>- Sergio Acosta y Lara, Architect Comunidad gvSIG, Uruguay, Montevideo
>Uruguay -- Experiences from the 3rd edition of the course-contest Projects
>with students and gvSIG Batoví
>- Victoria Rautenbach, Dr University of Pretoria Pretoria South
>Africa.  GeoNode for data management and sharing
>- Paulo Cesar Coronado, Engineer, Universidad Distrital Francsico José
>de Caldas, Bogota Colombia. SIG con herramientas OSGeo (GIS with OSGeo
>tools)
>
> But this is a nice cross-section of some of the GeoForAll labs. Raphael
> Moreno has nicely agreed to use his webinar platform.
>
> *QUESTIONS, maybe for the BOF meeting:*
>
> *1) What is the goal of such a online "mini-conference"? I would argue it
> would be to learn what other labs are doing and to build a richer dialog
> across labs. *
> *2) Would each of these people listed want to present, say, for 15-30
> minutes about their topics or lab activities? Anyone else want to
> participate?*
> *3) What day/time range during the week of October 6-12 would we want to
> run this GeoForAll community online miniconference?*
> *4) Is there someone in the GeoForAll community who would be willing to
> help me and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this GeoForAll community
> miniconference? With me running the broader event I don't think I can do
> this. *
>
> I hope this is helpful and moves the community forward in a small way.
>
> Charlie Schweik
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 4:28 AM Suchith Anand <
> suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> Thanks to Andreea, Victoria and all colleagues working for GeoForAll
> meeting next week. Andreea will be sending the draft agenda for you all to
>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward on geoeducation

2019-08-21 Thread Charlie Schweik 
Hi Andreea, Suchith and other GeoForAll/OSGeo colleagues,

(Sorry I won't be there next week).

Again, one tangible GeoForAll community building effort we can do is to
start an annual GeoForAll community webinar mini-conference, as part of
this World Commons Week (October 6-12)
 I am organizing. Open
Source Geospatial projects are an important subset of "world commons"
digital projects. I hope in the GeoForAll BOF meeting this idea of a
mini-conference as part of this global event can be discussed and refined.
It will also help draw attention to OSGeo/GeoForAll by others who need
geospatial technologies to study natural resource commons who don't know
about them.

But from my previous posts on this idea, here are the colleagues who
responded and signaled their interest to do this (thanks to those below!).
I'm not sure each wanted to present something or not?

   - Victor N.Sunday, Team Coordinator, UniqueMappersTeam, Port Harcourt
   Nigeria. -- Open Source and Open Data for All
   - Suchith Anand Dr. Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition By
   webinar United Kingdom  -- Open Principles in Science and Education
   - Sergio Acosta y Lara, Architect Comunidad gvSIG, Uruguay, Montevideo
   Uruguay -- Experiences from the 3rd edition of the course-contest Projects
   with students and gvSIG Batoví
   - Victoria Rautenbach, Dr University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa.
   GeoNode for data management and sharing
   - Paulo Cesar Coronado, Engineer, Universidad Distrital Francsico José
   de Caldas, Bogota Colombia. SIG con herramientas OSGeo (GIS with OSGeo
   tools)

But this is a nice cross-section of some of the GeoForAll labs. Raphael
Moreno has nicely agreed to use his webinar platform.

*QUESTIONS, maybe for the BOF meeting:*

*1) What is the goal of such a online "mini-conference"? I would argue it
would be to learn what other labs are doing and to build a richer dialog
across labs. *
*2) Would each of these people listed want to present, say, for 15-30
minutes about their topics or lab activities? Anyone else want to
participate?*
*3) What day/time range during the week of October 6-12 would we want to
run this GeoForAll community online miniconference?*
*4) Is there someone in the GeoForAll community who would be willing to
help me and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this GeoForAll community
miniconference? With me running the broader event I don't think I can do
this. *

I hope this is helpful and moves the community forward in a small way.

Charlie Schweik


On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 4:28 AM Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> Thanks to Andreea, Victoria and all colleagues working for GeoForAll
> meeting next week. Andreea will be sending the draft agenda for you all to
> provide inputs. Even if you are not able to attend FOSS4G 2019 GeoForAll
> meeting, I request you to share your inputs/ideas on how we can move
> forward on our education aims.
>
>
> For the GeoForAll Como meeting in 2015 , Charlie had created the following
> 4 key questions[1] for discussing  . I think  it is an excellent idea
> that we need to use for our community meetings  to get everyone's inputs.
>
>
> * Geo4All - What would you like to see Geo4All in 5 years -- 2020  -- in
> the context of educational collaboration?
>
> * Geo4All  - What we need to do together to achieve this vision?
>
> * Geo4All  - What can we do THIS YEAR to move forward?
>
> * Geo4All - What can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision?
>
>
>
> May i request all to reflect and share your ideas. Esp. we are interested
> to hear on "what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision?".
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_BOF1
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