ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02

This meeting is scheduled for the 2nd of May 2013 at 14.00 UTC

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Agenda

 * Decide on who will take meeting minutes to post on wiki
 * Introductions with 2min overviews from each participant (All)
 * Website update (Manuel)
 * Updates on relevant training opportunities, bid opportunities (All)
 * FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update (Suchith)
 * ICC 2013 Dresden update (Suchith)
 * Date and time for next meeting (All)

Minutes

 * audio log


 * Presiding: Suchith
 * Scribing: Jeff & Arlete

* Arlete Meneguette, from Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil * Silvana Camboim, from Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Brazil * Charlie Schweik, from University of Massachusetts, Amherst * Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska, from UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre, Poland * Helena Mitasova, from North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC, USA * Jason Sadler, from U of Southampton, England * Jeff McKenna, President of OSGeo, lives in Nova Scotia, Canada * Luis Bermudez, from the OGC * Manuel Haro, from Laboratorio de Software Libre, Mexico * Marco Negretti, Maria Brovelli, and Ludovico Biagi from Politecnico di Milan, Italy * Nataliya Tkachenko, from the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK * Phillip Davis, from Corpus Christi Texas USA. * Serena Coetzee, from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. * Sergio Acosta y Lara, from Sección Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Dirección Nacional de Topografía, Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas (MTOP), Uruguay * Thuy Vu, from the University of Nottingham, UK * Suchith Anand, from the University of Nottingham, UK
 * Attendance:


 * Website update (Manuel)
 * demo site available later this week (www.conlibre.org/osgeolabs)
 * everyone should try and provide feedback through the mailing list
 * Manuel's plan is to provide accounts to network members, to add content ourselves
 * tech architecture is WordPress/Drupal CMS


 * Updates on training/bid opportunities
 * MundoGEO#connect event
 * (Arlete & Silvana) planning a Brazilian ICA-OSGeo Labs meeting during this event
 * on June 18th
 * Luis will also be there
 * SAVI program (Charlie)
 * http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13073/nsf13073.jsp
 * (Phillip) SAVI award is expected to vary from $50,000 to $400,000 per year for up to five years. NSF funds will support only the U.S. participants. That's upto $2M over 5 years.
 * should plan to draft a proposal by this network
 * COST program (Maria)
 * http://www.cost.eu/
 * application deadline Sept 27th


 * FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham update (Suchith)
 * program to be announced shortly


 * FOSS4G-NA (Minnesota) this month
 * Charlie may speak about network


 * FOSS4G-CEE (Romania) in June
 * Jeff will speak about network


 * ICC 2013 Dresden update (Suchith)
 * Serena will likely attend
 * good opportunity to spread the network, as this event is very international (happens only once every 2 years)


 * Next meeting
 * same time of day is good for everyone
 * Phillip will host again
 * date to be determined