OpenGeoscience Meetings

Channel

Meetings will be held on the Slack channel: #opengeoscience

Access

Please contact Jeff McKenna to receive an invite to the open geoscience committee slack channel

Minutes

https://osgeo.slack.com/archives/opengeoscience

Meeting 2015-10-30 18:00 hours

Topics

1. EGU GA 2016:
   1. OSGeo-related sessions
   2. Townhall preparation: Timeline / Volunteers
   3. Short courses: OSGeo-Scope / Format / Timeline / Volunteers
2. Promoting the new OSGeo Opengeoscience Committee
3. Various

Participants

• Epifanio
• Madi
• Jeff
• Raffalba
• Peter

Outcome

Top 1: EGU GA 2016

• OSGeo-related sessions

Madi will create a sub page on FOSS sessions and conferences

• Townhall preparation: Timeline / Volunteers

Townhall topic and other details will be discussed later. Info about the past townhalls sits on the Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2015

Jeff lobbies OSGeo board to support Townhall even

Madi and Raffaele volunteer for the EGU Townhall preparation

• Short courses: OSGeo-Scope / Format / Timeline / Volunteers

We are planning for one short course during the lunch hours, focusing on OSGeoLive, and possibly a second one to cover more detailed topics. We can announce the event during the FOSS-themed sessions and the Townhall. Target groups are ECS (young scientists) representatives group, NH and others divisions.

OSGeo-related topics for short course:

1. initial introduction on FOSS and OSGeo
2. "integration" of several open source software in a single workflow (use case) to accomplish very complex task in geospatial data analysis
3. involve scientists that present in not deep way several tools and software

• Candidates for the second course (istSOS + PostGIS) need to be heard. topic of the second course needs to be discussed at a later time

• Epifanio offers technical support for the first on the osgeolive (for which I can not be directly involved in giving the workshop) and very interested in a second one more focused on sw libraries and tools

• Information about student grant opportunities need to be added to the Wiki.

• It remains to be determined which persons will give the short course(s) at EGU. The whole Open GeoScience group and ICA Geolabs should be contacted.

• Epifanio will contact Maxi to discuss/push istSOS integration in the live and setup a wiki page on the osgeo wiki to plan the "Osgeolive-EGU-tuning

GSOC: Jupyter / Binder for OSGeo Live

Use Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks (Jupyter/binder) on OSGeo Live (GSOC 2015 project) to omit standard OSGeo Live spin-up/installation hazzles:

• No Desktop applications included
• Focus on software libraries or any other project which has a command line interface (R, GRASS, OSSIM, GDAL, Python, etc .. )
• Having a web interface for each to the workshop materials will simplify enormously the workshop logistic.
• Cloud platform based on binder (http://mybinder.org/) essentially it give "life" to any repository which has a specific structure.
• GSOC project example: https://github.com/epifanio/binder-docker-test the user just needs to open the browser and click to "launch binder" bunner to have access to a (osgeolive based, both data and sw) online.

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Top 2: Outreach

• GIS DAY 2015
  • New Hampshire Uni: Poster about OSGeo Live + OSGeo givewaways (Epifanio)
  • GFZ Potsdam (Peter): Presentation
• MOSCOW GIS CONFERENCE: Jeff
• SAN FRANCISCO: GSOC MENTORS SUMMIT (Madi)

Top 3: Various

Student course: Prep of a prez about OSGeo-live for RAFFALBAs students (C2 Epifanio / Madi)

Past meetings

The minutes from past meetings can be found at this page