FOSS4G Europe 2015 GeoForAll Agenda

GeoForAll FOSS4G Como meetings, tentative agendas and who will be there. Please add your name to the sessions if you plan to attend, and feel free to add agenda items if you have something you want discussed. -- email me (cschweik AT Pubpol.umass.edu) if you have questions or concerns.

1. GeoForAll pre-conference meeting
When: Tuesday July 14th, 8:30-11:30 am

Where: Hall of Via Natta building

Discussion topics (order may change):


 * 1) Certification: Phil Davis has agreed to give us an update on where we are on the certification discussion and lead further discussion on that topic. (Thanks Phil. Suggested pre-meeting readings: Phil -- gtcm curriculum guide, Arnulf -- geoint workforce).
 * A model for OS Geospatial Education (result of Master's Thesis by Tanzeel Khan, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences)


 * 2) Educational content curation strategies -platforms for sharing curriculum
 * QGIS course collaboration (raised by Lene Fischer)


 * 3) GeoForAll labs and its connection to firms (industry?)


 * 4) GeoForAll Membership criteria. Refer back to the email discussion of Suchith, Phil and Anthony (acr181), and Cameron


 * 5) Update the current membership list to active members (who decides which lab gets removed? What is the criteria we use)


 * 6) Re-assess the need for regional mailing lists (is anybody using them at all? Are they obstacle to our global collaboration goal?)


 * 7) Update on grant-getting efforts


 * 8) Decide on agenda item priorities for BOF 1, which has the largest group signed up and will only be 1 hour.


 * add your agenda item

Attending? Add your name below.


 * Charlie Schweik, USA
 * Maria, Italy
 * Dimitris Kotzinos
 * Helena Mitasova
 * Daria Svidzinska
 * Vaclav Petras
 * Franz-Josef Behr
 * Antoni Perez-Navarro
 * others?

2. GeoForAll BOF meeting #1
When: Thursday July 16th, 8:00-9:00 AM

Where: room VS9

Agenda: TBD

Attending? Add your name to the BOF signup list here

3. GeoForAll Europe Meeting
When: Thursday July 16th, 5:30

Where: room 3.5 at Politecnico di Milano

(This is a good idea... any other regions have a group attending and want to meet up?)

Agenda:
 * collaborations between the European and US labs, students exchange and funding opportunities

Attending? Add your name below.


 * Charlie Schweik, USA
 * Maria, Italy
 * Anne, Italy/Germany
 * Dimitris Kotzinos
 * Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Poland
 * Helena Mitasova
 * Daria Svidzinska, Ukraine
 * Franz-Josef Behr
 * Antoni Perez-Navarro
 * Nadia Panchaud, Switzerland
 * others?

4. GeoForAll Bird's of a Feather 2
When: Friday July 17th, 12:00-13:00

Where: room 3.6

Open session to plan our collective activities after reflecting on the conference experiences.

Agenda:
 * Plan activities over the summer,
 * identify who will be going to FOSS4G in Seoul and begin discussion of GeoForAll activities there.

Attending? Add your name to the BOF signup list here

5. GeoForAll Grant Sprint
When: Saturday July 18th - 8:30-11:30

Where: Hall of Via Natta building

Agenda:


 * US NSF Smart City proposal (Charlie Schweik, others with GeoForAll city analytics group)
 * Hopefully some discussion by European participants on another grant effort to support GeoForAll efforts (anyone working on this? add your name and topic)

Attending? Add your name below.
 * Charlie Schweik, USA
 * Maria, Italy
 * Dimitris Kotzinos
 * Daria Svidzinska, Ukraine
 * Vaclav Petras
 * Antoni Perez-Navarro
 * others?

TOPICS NOT ON THE CURRENT AGENDA BUT NEED TO BE DISCUSSED
Add any ideas here please.

Questions? Contact Charlie Schweik - cschweik AT pubpol DOT UMass DOT edu