Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-09-06 Thread Munich Orientation Convention 
 

 

Hi Suchid, 

 

thank you for your first support, Also OGC, ICA etc. have difficulties to
understand the magnitude of my invention: it's a simple idea but it opened
more than 25 different applications, most of them have nothing to do with
maps or software. The reason of this abundance is simple: the actual system
has fundamental weak points www.volksnav.de/fundamental, that means, the
emperor is naked. I'm sure, the number of applications will increase when
students all over the world - other than today - will be motivated to be
creative.  

 

The poster www.volksnav.de/evolution shows the actual "open" situation: the
geoAwareness for locations, directions, distances and angles degenerated to
left/right commands and left/right confusions. OSGeo could easily be the
link to the new homo sapiens.   

 

According to my experience, in this special case "free and open" will have a
complete other meaning as wanted against vendors: it will be understood that
anyone can anytime define a "better" standard. A cartographer from the
Nederland divides the horizon into 10 directions and call this more
"natural" than mine because "we have 10 fingers". Do you agree with this
argument? Are you the opinion that an orientation standard should be free to
be violated?

 

Let's compare my invention with the UN open GIS logo contest: why would UN
pay for a logo? Why don't UN declare also the winner logo as free and open?
Very simple: 

1 a good and not a cost free logo is the priority

2 money is a proven motivation for creativity

3 intellectual work is respected and honored

4 misuse can be combated . 

 

So I take the liberty to express the actual situation with my own words:

"Education and GeoAwareness are important but if the inventor tries to
impede a chaos, then they aren't important"

"We want to help the visually impaired but if the inventor tries to impede a
chaos then we don't want to help them"  

 

Because of the magnitude of the invention, it's a mission impossible to
define EXACTLY my aims. I've suggested to think about a start with a
standardization of the circle "r100" www.volksnav.de/r100 but your free/open
police department impedes any dialog about benefits for the population. r100
is only 0,005% of the invention, should also be a standard for TACTILE and
imaginary maps www.volksnav.de/iphoneApps and would be my basic proposal for
the Geographic Awareness Week. 

 

Let's propose it together or have I to do it alone?

   

Henrique

 

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-09-05 Thread Suchith Anand 
Hi Henrique,

Thank you for your mail. I am finding it difficult to understand your exact 
aims as in your previous mail you mention that there is some license fees for 
your tools [1] and now you mention they are free, open and libre. Will these 
conditions keep changing?   Also if what you are proposing is  a potential 
standard for orientation , then you should be talking to organisations like OGC.

So first please clarify what exactly is your aim ?

Geo4All is fully inclusive and welcome ideas for involving more user groups. So 
any opportunity to engage more with  visually impaired user groups will be 
greatly welcome. In fact, in ICA  there is a Commission on Maps and Graphics 
for Blind and Partially Sighted People?? [1]  which i think will be a really 
good way to proactively engage with the community. I will email the chair of 
this commission and explore how Geo4All can further world-wide co-operation, 
communication and education in the use of maps and graphics by blind and 
visually-impaired people.

For education it is important  that all tools that Geo4All  endorse are fully 
open and free. It is not just software, it is also the open educational 
materials, open data etc that we are interested. We will welcome any 
opportunity to make us more inclusive. You can email the Geo4All Advisory Board 
(cc in) your suggestions/ideas .

Best wishes,

Suchith

btw  Education is about true empowerment of young minds. It should not be aimed 
for getting new consumers!


[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-August/016476.html

[2] http://visualdisabilities.wixsite.com/icahome



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Hi Suchit,

nowhere in the world there are so many visually impaired people as in India.

For more than 100 years, most of them use imaginary clocks for orientation 
purposes and with this get GeoAwareness for directions and angles. Counting 
steps, they get additional GeoAwareness for locations and distances, having an 
alternative to lat/lon. The same tools use boy scouts, soldiers, pilots, 
children, people who can't read maps, illiterate etc.

The mentioned tools are doubtless free, open and libre, so why do OSGeo, 
Geo4all etc. insist on ignoring them?
Because it's not software?
Because digital clocks are trendy?
Because God dictated that the horizon has to be divided into 8 (see UN logo) or 
360 directions?
Because a convention for such imaginary tools could favor the merit principle?

The topic is Geo Awareness Week, that means, education for young consumers. 
Would you really recommend "here" 
www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere, Open Location 
Code www.openlocationcode.com and others just 
because they are free and open? Do they improve awareness for 1) locations, 2) 
directions, 3) distances and 4) angles? What about quality and excellence?

Now that you're spiritually recharged, I'm sure that we could find an open 
minded win/win/win level and show that OSGeo/Geo4all  aren't closed user groups 
but open user groups which e. g. also consider visually impaired people.

I affirm that the actual black/white criteria concerning openness can cause the 
following collateral damages:
- generate many win/lose products.   After 5 years, Munich thinks about 
abandoning the expensive Linux/Limux.
- demotivate to be creative A lose/lose situation.

Henrique






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[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-09-05 Thread Munich Orientation Convention 
 

Hi Suchit,

 

nowhere in the world there are so many visually impaired people as in India.


 

For more than 100 years, most of them use imaginary clocks for orientation
purposes and with this get GeoAwareness for directions and angles. Counting
steps, they get additional GeoAwareness for locations and distances, having
an alternative to lat/lon. The same tools use boy scouts, soldiers, pilots,
children, people who can't read maps, illiterate etc.  

 

The mentioned tools are doubtless free, open and libre, so why do OSGeo,
Geo4all etc. insist on ignoring them? 

Because it's not software? 

Because digital clocks are trendy?

Because God dictated that the horizon has to be divided into 8 (see UN logo)
or 360 directions? 

Because a convention for such imaginary tools could favor the merit
principle?

 

The topic is Geo Awareness Week, that means, education for young consumers.
Would you really recommend "here" www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere, Open Location
Code www.openlocationcode.com and others just because they are free and
open? Do they improve awareness for 1) locations, 2) directions, 3)
distances and 4) angles? What about quality and excellence?

 

Now that you're spiritually recharged, I'm sure that we could find an open
minded win/win/win level and show that OSGeo/Geo4all  aren't closed user
groups but open user groups which e. g. also consider visually impaired
people. 

 

I affirm that the actual black/white criteria concerning openness can cause
the following collateral damages: 

- generate many win/lose products.   After 5 years, Munich thinks about
abandoning the expensive Linux/Limux. 

- demotivate to be creative A lose/lose situation. 

 

Henrique   

 

 

   

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-09-03 Thread Suchith Anand 
Apologies for the delay in reply as i had been travelling in India the last few 
weeks. I am now back spiritually recharged to take our mission to the next 
level :-)

I agree with Barend. For education is important that all software and tools 
that Geo4All endorse should be fully free and open. I have requested the 
Geo4All Advisory Board to discuss this and come forward with a guideline , so 
we can ensure that we have a clear policy of openness in education. 

Best wishes,

Suchith




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Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- "

This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also means IMHO 
that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition and is 
therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with...

Yours,

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PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
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@barendkobben
+31-(0)53 4874 253

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-18 Thread Munich Orientation Convention 
 

 

Hi Jonathan,

 

the mentioned definitions concern software. The invention is NOT a software: 
logical location codes consist of hours, minutes and radius. This simple method 
allows to improve geoAwareness concerning the following elements:

 

Locations   answer to the question “where?” instead of “here”, 
what3words, OpenLocationCode etc.

Directions  answers to the question “whereto?” instead of just “there” 

Distances   the radius is the distance to the pole, minutes are the 
distance to the hour (the greater, the later)

Angles   more than 50% of the population don’t know the meaning of 
“90 degrees” but 90% can read a clock 

 

This also allows a self-guiding WITHOUT MAPS like today’s self-guiding with 
house numbers. 

 

Does anybody see any software? The invention concerns IMAGINARY tools using the 
division of the horizon into 12 directions. Of course, these tools can only be 
free, open and libre.

 

Besides: the definition deciders have forgotten that symbolical fees are best 
practice. Even the unleashing of the entire invention could be a possibility, 
but why should I invest time on that if nobody lets me know that she/he cares 
about the benefits for the consumers and students? 

 

In my opinion, the core of OSGeo is neither software nor maps but GeoAwareness. 
I propose to think about a branch called OpenImaginaryMaps (with a logo 
www.volksnav.de/OSGeoNewLogo ?) where OSGeo would - for the first time and 
without any software –have the possibility to contribute with a free and open 
search grid, free and open location codes, free and open forgotten navigation 
methods with compasses etc. etc.

 

The contrary of nonsense is BonnSense. A matter for Bonn? 

 

Henrique

 

 

 

Von: Jonathan Moules [mailto:jonathan-li...@lightpear.com] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. August 2016 11:42
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globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness 
Week

 

Hi Henrique,
> "Therefore:  OSGeo decisions actually are taken in absence of 
representatives of the inventor and the consumer, consequently can change when 
the wind changes."
   
I'm not sure that's a good take-home from the conversation so far.
The OSGeo appears to already have a pretty clear definition of what it 
considers free and open (from  
 
http://www.osgeo.org/content/faq/foundation_faq.html#Open_Source ) :

"Open source software is software where the source code is made available 
under a license that allows the modification, and re-distribution of the 
software at will."
   
So while there are multiple interpretations and variations for "free" and 
"open", as far as I can see, if software isn't distributed under an OSI 
approved license (  
https://opensource.org/licenses ), it's not "free and open" for the purposes of 
the current definition as used by the OSGeo.
Whether the OSGeo definition (or by extension the OSI one) is correct is a 
question that's beyond the scope of my reply. :-)

Cheers,
Jonathan



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 volks...@volksnav.de> wrote  

 

Hello Brian,

 

thank you for the confirmation that MOC isn’t (and shouldn’t be) free and open. 
Therefore:  OSGeo decisions actually are taken in absence of representatives of 
the inventor and the consumer, consequently can change when the wind changes. 

 

My last approach concerned ideas to the Geo Awareness Week, that means, for 
young consumers. A similar situation: adults decide about writing, publishing 
and buying books for children.

 

In Bonn there will a speech about free, open and libre. This shows that in some 
cases openmania could be the wrong way. 

 

The site “free the post code” www.freeThePostCode.org proves that even 
enigmatic post codes aren’t free, therefore universities etc. promote it (by 
unreflected use?). According to my surveys, nobody knows where is the N/S/E/W 
transition point ( the pole ! ) in London. 

 

I also wrote to the National Geographic and I’m sure that Geo Awareness and 
open mind will overcome. 

One possibility could be to amputate the invention to a free and open torso for 
those who insist on saving EUR 1,- . Would this be of interest for OSGeo?

 

Henrique

 

 

 

Von: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Brian M 
Hamlin
Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. August 2016 21:29
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Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators 
globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness 
Week

 

Dear Colleagues -

 

  I strongly object to this statement.. 

" ... t this system can NOT be considered OPEN in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-17 Thread Munich Orientation Convention 
 

Hello Brian,

 

thank you for the confirmation that MOC isn’t (and shouldn’t be) free and open. 
Therefore:  OSGeo decisions actually are taken in absence of representatives of 
the inventor and the consumer, consequently can change when the wind changes. 

 

My last approach concerned ideas to the Geo Awareness Week, that means, for 
young consumers. A similar situation: adults decide about writing, publishing 
and buying books for children.

 

In Bonn there will a speech about free, open and libre. This shows that in some 
cases openmania could be the wrong way. 

 

The site “free the post code” www.freeThePostCode.org proves that even 
enigmatic post codes aren’t free, therefore universities etc. promote it (by 
unreflected use?). According to my surveys, nobody knows where is the N/S/E/W 
transition point ( the pole ! ) in London. 

 

I also wrote to the National Geographic and I’m sure that Geo Awareness and 
open mind will overcome. 

One possibility could be to amputate the invention to a free and open torso for 
those who insist on saving EUR 1,- . Would this be of interest for OSGeo?

 

Henrique

 

 

 

Von: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Brian M 
Hamlin
Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. August 2016 21:29
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Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators 
globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness 
Week

 

Dear Colleagues -

 

  I strongly object to this statement.. 

" ... t this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition and is 
therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with... "

 

  There are numerous references to cite here..  details on request

 

 

best regards from Berkeley, California

  --Brian M Hamlin   PSC OSGeo-Live, California Chapter

 

 

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, 
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Geography Awareness Week
Message-ID: 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- "

This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also means IMHO 
that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition and is 
therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with...

Yours,

--
Barend Köbben
Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
ITC Building (room 1-065)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-17 Thread Christian Willmes 

Brian,


I would second Barends claim, that this can not be considered as open.


For me this looks like the following:


1. Someone claims intellectual property rights on some formalized idea.


2. This someone now promotes and sells this idea for a fee.


Please help me on how this approach can be considered as open? Hint [1], 
[2].



Thanks,

Christian


[1] http://opendefinition.org/

[2] 
https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt



Am 16.08.2016 um 21:29 schrieb Brian M Hamlin:


Dear Colleagues -

  I strongly object to this statement..

" ... t this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition 
and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with... "


  There are numerous references to cite here..  details on request

best regards from Berkeley, California

  --Brian M Hamlin   PSC OSGeo-Live, California Chapter

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Message-ID: 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 
1,- "


This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also 
means IMHO that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual 
definition and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with...


Yours,

--
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Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
ITC Building (room 1-065)
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2016-08-16 Thread Brian M Hamlin 

Dear Colleagues -
 
  I strongly object to this statement.. 
" ... t this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition
and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with... "
 
  There are numerous references to cite here..  details on request
 
 
best regards from Berkeley, California
  --Brian M Hamlin   PSC OSGeo-Live, California Chapter
 
 
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:46:38 +
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Geography Awareness Week
Message-ID:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- "

This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also
means IMHO that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual
definition and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved
with...

Yours,

--
Barend Köbben
Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente
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2016-08-16 Thread b.j.kobben 
Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- "

This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also means IMHO 
that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition and is 
therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with...

Yours,

--
Barend Köbben
Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
ITC Building (room 1-065)
@barendkobben
+31-(0)53 4874 253

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2016-08-16 Thread Munich Orientation Convention 
 

 

Hi Suchith,

 

concerning your call for ideas: why only software? 

 

For the first time, a geography teacher in Brazil got last week a diploma
using imaginary clocks as final year project. 

The test school was the Joao XXIII www.volksnav.de/JoaoXXIII and the project
also called the attention to actual week points e. g. division of the
horizon into 360 directions or none, the sunside trap
www.volksnav.de/sunside (test your students ! ) etc. 

Exercises like the finding of Easter eggs, finding rooms with the help of
children-proper and clickable room numbers etc. have been performed. 

Remark: no bits nor bytes have been needed, only synapses. 

 

The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- and in my
opinion this "iron curtain" isn't hindrance enough to cause an harem guard
or garden dog behavior: ignore the fruits but don't let others take the
benefit.  

 

I herewith offer my invention for use during the Geography Awareness Week to
the named fee. 

 

Henrique

 

 

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Awareness Week

 

Dear colleague,

 

20 years back academics and educators (esp. in  developing countries)
struggled to start GIS courses for thier students and had to beg to vendors
for some "free" licences .Now they dont need any "charity" from any vendors,
as they are fully empowered and can start courses as they wish without any
permissions from any vendor owners . We want academics globally to be fully
empowered  from now and   give software as they wish to thier students
education. By  making free and open software and educational resources
available for all has empowered academics and educators globally and brought
down the "Iron Curtains" that  some  vendors have tried to create in
education. Now no vendors  can dictate terms to any academic or educator or
student. We want academics to be in full control of education from now not
any vendors. 

 

I would like to thank the OSGeo Live community for making available Version
10.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection that has been released, ready
for the FOSS4G conference in Bonn, Germany - the annual global event of the
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). 

OSGeo Live  is an excellent resource for academics and educators around the
world to teach geospatial science and give away the software for free to
thier students thereby empowering them in the true sense. This  excellent
resource is made  available to the global community thanks to the hardwork
and selfless dedication of hundreds of  volunteers (Developers, packagers,
documenters and translators) in addition to thousands who have been involved
in building the packaged software. Thank you all for making this possible.

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual
Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which
can be trialled without installing anything. 


OSGeo Live  includes:

*   Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed
and pre-configured
*   Free world maps and sample datasets
*   Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each
application
*   Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's
script
*   Translations to multiple languages

 

Details at  http://live.osgeo.org 

 

Download details at  http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html 

 

Contents overview at https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html 

 

I request all colleagues globally to make use of opportunities like
Geography Awareness Week (November 13 - 19, 2016) and other important
Geography events  like OSM Week 2016, GIS Day 2016etc to spread Geo4All
ideas and give away OSGeo Live DVD, USB   to your colleagues and  students
so they dont have to buy any properitery GIS software and truly empowering
them. By doing so, you are  gifting millions of dollars of software to your
students (if i may borrow some ideas from our properitery friends!  :-) So
go ahead and gift software for free from now at all  Geography Awareness
Week and all other key GIS events... We want all academics from now be the
owners of the software and tools . You dont have to get permission from any
properitery GIS vendor owners to start your courses or gift software to your
students!

 

Geo4All is and will be always open to all projects and initiatives that
support Open Principles in Education. We have a duty and long term view on
Open Principles in education to ensure that free and open geospatial
education opportunities  are available not just to current generation but
also to our future generations...


Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand

http://www.geoforall.org/ 


Geo for All -

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-15 Thread Suchith Anand 
Dear colleague,


20 years back academics and educators (esp. in  developing countries) struggled 
to start GIS courses for thier students and had to beg to vendors for some 
"free" licences .Now they dont need any "charity" from any vendors, as they are 
fully empowered and can start courses as they wish without any permissions from 
any vendor owners . We want academics globally to be fully empowered  from now 
and   give software as they wish to thier students education. By  making free 
and open software and educational resources available for all has empowered 
academics and educators globally and brought down the "Iron Curtains" that  
some  vendors have tried to create in education. Now no vendors  can dictate 
terms to any academic or educator or student. We want academics to be in full 
control of education from now not any vendors.


I would like to thank the OSGeo Live community for making available Version 
10.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection that has been released, ready 
for the FOSS4G conference in Bonn, Germany - the annual global event of the 
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

OSGeo Live  is an excellent resource for academics and educators around the 
world to teach geospatial science and give away the software for free to thier 
students thereby empowering them in the true sense. This  excellent resource is 
made  available to the global community thanks to the hardwork and selfless 
dedication of hundreds of  volunteers (Developers, packagers, documenters and 
translators) in addition to thousands who have been involved in building the 
packaged software. Thank you all for making this possible.

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual 
Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can 
be trialled without installing anything.


OSGeo Live  includes:


  *   Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and 
pre-configured
  *   Free world maps and sample datasets
  *   Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
  *   Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's 
script
  *   Translations to multiple languages



Details at  http://live.osgeo.org


Download details at  http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html


Contents overview at https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html



I request all colleagues globally to make use of opportunities like Geography 
Awareness Week (November 13 - 19, 2016) and other important Geography events  
like OSM Week 2016, GIS Day 2016etc to spread Geo4All ideas and give away 
OSGeo Live DVD, USB   to your colleagues and  students so they dont have to buy 
any properitery GIS software and truly empowering them. By doing so, you are  
gifting millions of dollars of software to your students (if i may borrow some 
ideas from our properitery friends!  :-) So go ahead and gift software for free 
from now at all  Geography Awareness Week and all other key GIS events... We 
want all academics from now be the owners of the software and tools . You dont 
have to get permission from any properitery GIS vendor owners to start your 
courses or gift software to your students!


Geo4All is and will be always open to all projects and initiatives that support 
Open Principles in Education. We have a duty and long term view on Open 
Principles in education to ensure that free and open geospatial education 
opportunities  are available not just to current generation but also to our 
future generations...

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand

http://www.geoforall.org/

Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science




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