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Geo for All

2015-07-02T13:53:58Z

Wiki-TomRoche: add section="Latest Updates" per email=Suchith Anand Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:15:36 +0100

''Website of Geo for All: http://www.geoforall.org/''

== Introduction ==
The ICA-OSGeo Lab network is a joint initiative of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and a follow-up of their joint [[MOU ICA | Memorandum of Understanding]]. The ICA and OSGeo Presidents will be the co-chairs and permanent members of the Advisory Board. Others will have a 3 year term starting date of the Advisory Board being constituted (1 Dec 2013). The Advisory Board has brought together an excellent range of expertise (academia, government, industry) and geographical distribution (we have nearly all continents covered). It also brought together members from other key communities ISPRS, AGILE, INSPIRE, UNIGIS and others which will make sure is it a fully inclusive global initiative. The Advisory Board will meet once every six months by telemeeting and AB members will keep an eye on the developments and provide strategic advice to the initiative through various forums.

== Background ==
While there has been tremendous growth in geospatial technology over the last few decades, the number of universities offering courses in geospatial science has not kept pace. Free and open geographic information (GI) software helps make geospatial education available to students from economically poor backgrounds worldwide (removing the need for high cost proprietary GI software). Our key aim is to make it possible for students in developing and poor countries to be also able to get geospatial education. This initiative will bring more opportunities for geospatial education worldwide. Over 50 Open Source Geospatial Labs have already been established in universities around the world as part of this initiative in just two year’s time, and we will be establishing over 100 research labs worldwide by September 2014.

== Latest Updates ==

[[Suchith Anand]] adds updates [http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ here].

== Future Plans ==
ICA and OSGeo aim to have over 500 labs established worldwide in the next five years making Geo for All the biggest geospatial education and research network on the planet. With the Advisory Board the Geo for All initiative has a good team of experts to guide us for the future.

== Advisory Board ==
''http://www.geoforall.org/advisory_board/''

* Professor Georg Gartner (ICA President & co-chair)
* Jeff McKenna (OSGeo President & co-chair)
* Professor Josef Strobl
* Professor Marguerite Madden
* Professor Mike Jackson
* Sven Schade
* Gavin Fleming
* Sergio Acosta y Lara
* Dr Chris Pettit
* Professor Venkatesh Raghavan
* Geoff Zeiss
* Jeroen Ticheler
* Phillip Davis
* Arnulf Christl
* Professor Maria Brovelli
* Dr Rafael Moreno

== Regional Chairs ==

'''North America Region'''

Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)

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Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America

Contact emails : cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu; hmitaso@ncsu.edu ; pdavis@delmar.edu

'''South America Region'''

Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)

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Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America

Contact emails : sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy;silvanacamboim@gmail.com

'''Africa Region'''

Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

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Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa

Contact emails : bridget@afrispatial.co.za;serenacoetzee@gmail.com; ranyaalsayed@gmail.com

'''Asia Region (including Australia)'''

Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)

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Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia

Contact emails: raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp;Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my

'''Europe Region'''

Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Anne Ghilsa (Germany)

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Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe

Contact emails: maria.brovelli@polimi.it; a.ghisla@gmail.com

== Subject/Language Thematic Chairs ==

'''Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

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Website at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics

Contact emails: cpettit@unimelb.edu.au ; patrick.hogan@nasa.gov

'''Teacher Training & School Education thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland) and Adrian Manning (UK)

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Website at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation

Contact emails: j.d.w.m@btinternet.com ; ela@gridw.pl

'''Spanish thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)

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Website at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish

Contact emails: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; aperezn@uoc.edu

== Strategic Level contact ==

For any Global or strategic level queries please contact Suchith Anand (email - suchith_anand@yahoo.com )

Southeast US

2015-04-11T19:55:14Z

Wiki-TomRoche: deobscure user

== Mission ==
The mission of the Southeast US OSGEO Group is to build upon the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html Mission and Goals] of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) by providing local networking and support opportunities and by advocating for Open Source GIS software and OSGeo initiatives through regional groups and conferences.

==Near Term Goals==
*Start to hold near quarterly meetings
*Advocate for the use of Open Source GIS at regional and state levels
*Develop an OSGeo presence at conferences

==Membership==

As of 1st Quarter 2015 we have several people from Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina with an interest in forming a chapter. Contact [[user:rjhale1971|Randal Hale]] for information on joining, or add yourself to the following list of interested persons:

* [[user:dnewcomb|Doug Newcomb]]
* [[User:TomRoche|Tom Roche]]

User:TomRoche

2015-04-11T19:53:52Z

Wiki-TomRoche: first draft

===[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:TomRoche Tom Roche]===

My background is mostly in code ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Computer_Science BSCS] and work) and environmental modeling (subsequent training and work). I currently live @ Carrboro, NC, US. I advocate for and use (nearly exclusively) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), with a special interest in Open Science and engineering/scientific software and services. I have used Linux (mostly Red Hat variants) on servers since the 1990s, and Linux desktops (mostly Debian and variants) since 2008. You might infer something about my code interests and competencies hfrom my [https://bitbucket.org/tlroche/ Bitbucket repositories].

;Contact:
: Tom_Roche@pobox.com
;Spoken Language(s):
: English
;Profile last updated:
: 11 Apr 2015

Southeast US

2015-04-11T19:29:55Z

Wiki-TomRoche: added myself, reformatted for ease of further adding

== Mission ==
The mission of the Southeast US OSGEO Group is to build upon the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html Mission and Goals] of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) by providing local networking and support opportunities and by advocating for Open Source GIS software and OSGeo initiatives through regional groups and conferences.

==Near Term Goals==
*Start to hold near quarterly meetings
*Advocate for the use of Open Source GIS at regional and state levels
*Develop an OSGeo presence at conferences

==Membership==

As of 1st Quarter 2015 we have several people from Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina with an interest in forming a chapter. Contact [[user:rjhale1971]] for information on joining, or add yourself to the following list of interested persons:

* [[user:dnewcomb|Doug Newcomb]]
* [[User:TomRoche|Tom Roche]]

Edu goals and to dos

2013-08-26T17:25:06Z

Wiki-TomRoche: fix typo

=Coordinated OSGeo Edu Webinars - Sept-December 2012=

Our goal is to start a new and coordinated international OSGeo educational webinar series, beginning September, 2012. We are using this page to try and figure out what this webinar series might look like.

==Target Audiences==

Please add other ideas here:

# [[Audience 1. Undergraduates or graduate students|Undergraduate or graduate students]]
# [[Audience 2. Train the trainers|Train the trainers]] -- our education group members who might be tooling up to add new content to some existing courses
# [[Audience 3. General public|General public]] -- anyone interested in FOSS4G or FOSS4G technologies
# GIS job seekers -- people seeking to find jobs involving open GIS, or to convert their OSGeo skills into paid employment.

==Types of webinars==

This is where Cameron and I might have a difference of opinion and given his track record of getting things done I take his views quite seriously and respectfully. But I my concern is related to Yochai Benkler's (Wealth of Networks) idea of "task granularity." But I think we will get more people to step up to do a webinar if we reduce the amount of work they have to do up front to put the webinar together. Fine or smaller tasks will be undertaken more easily than tasks that take more work. I worry that forcing a template on presenters will reduce their willingness to participate.

==Webinar topics and authors==

===Sponsored topics===

Please add topics '''you would be willing to present''' below. (Numbering purely for identification.)

# 3D visualization or some other topic related to processing and analyzing terrain data. -- Helena Mitasova
# Open source collaboration -- findings from a 5 year study of Sourceforge.net projects. (This is not on geospatial specifically, but I think people will find it interesting.) -- Charlie Schweik
# Introduction to OSGeo geospatial technologies (each of the different OSGeo software projects) -- who?
# GIS software categories and projects - Stefan Steiniger
# GIS licenses - Stefan Steiniger
# Role of metadata catalogue software in Spatial Data Infrastructures - [[User:Genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]]
# Multispectral and hyperspectral analysis with FOSS.

===Topics of interest===

Add topics here which interest you, but which you personally are unable to present. (Numbering purely for identification.)

# [[Webinar option 1. OSGeo Colloquium Series|OSGeo Colloquium Series]]. This would be talk series where people in OSGeo edu or affiliated with OSGeo projects can present some of their current work with people interested in education as their target audience. The motivation for presentation is that people WANT to do it for their own reasons. The idea here would be that people on this list with expertise in a topic and interest to present to the community might step up and offer to give a talk on a topic of their choosing. I can't see a template working here and this is what I have had in my mind. The benefit of this is that it would get us online and talking as a group and motivations would be because presenters want to tell others about what they are doing. I think Helena's proposal on 3D visualization or my proposal on my open source study are examples of this kind of webinar.
# [[Webinar option 2. Introduction to OSGeo projects|Introduction to OSGeo projects]]. I think this could be a great step forward for our group. For example, I have a research project where I'd like to post, periodically, data points on a map on a webpage. I think Open Layers would be a way for me to do this, but I don't know anything about putting up a page with an open layers-based map. I'd really like to see a presentation by a knowledgable person on what you can do with Open Layers. I could see potentially a template here being established, and perhaps it is the Live DVD tutorial done as a recording, as Cameron suggested a few months back. I also don't know if a standard template could be created for the different projects -- would the template look the same for QGIS compared to Geoserver or PostGIS, for example?
# Stephan's idea of a webinar on GIS licenses
# FOSS4G open data standards.
# How OSGeo relates to (''de facto'') "workplace standards" which have educational mindshare (notably, which are used for curriculum development). E.g.,
#* the [http://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/pyramid.aspx?GEO=Y Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM)] and [http://www.geotechcenter.org/GTCM GeoTech Center's GTCM work].
#* certifications (e.g., [http://www.gisci.org/certification_program_description.aspx GISP]) and certification providers (e.g., [http://www.gisci.org/ GISCI])

[[Category: Education]]

Edu goals and to dos

2013-08-26T17:24:33Z

Wiki-TomRoche: added item linking education and the workforce

=Coordinated OSGeo Edu Webinars - Sept-December 2012=

Our goal is to start a new and coordinated international OSGeo educational webinar series, beginning September, 2012. We are using this page to try and figure out what this webinar series might look like.

==Target Audiences==

Please add other ideas here:

# [[Audience 1. Undergraduates or graduate students|Undergraduate or graduate students]]
# [[Audience 2. Train the trainers|Train the trainers]] -- our education group members who might be tooling up to add new content to some existing courses
# [[Audience 3. General public|General public]] -- anyone interested in FOSS4G or FOSS4G technologies
# GIS job seekers -- people seeking to find jobs involving open GIS, or to convert their OSGeo skills into paid employment.

==Types of webinars==

This is where Cameron and I might have a difference of opinion and given his track record of getting things done I take his views quite seriously and respectfully. But I my concern is related to Yochai Benkler's (Wealth of Networks) idea of "task granularity." But I think we will get more people to step up to do a webinar if we reduce the amount of work they have to do up front to put the webinar together. Fine or smaller tasks will be undertaken more easily than tasks that take more work. I worry that forcing a template on presenters will reduce their willingness to participate.

==Webinar topics and authors==

===Sponsored topics===

Please add topics '''you would be willing to present''' below. (Numbering purely for identification.)

# 3D visualization or some other topic related to processing and analyzing terrain data. -- Helena Mitasova
# Open source collaboration -- findings from a 5 year study of Sourceforge.net projects. (This is not on geospatial specifically, but I think people will find it interesting.) -- Charlie Schweik
# Introduction to OSGeo geospatial technologies (each of the different OSGeo software projects) -- who?
# GIS software categories and projects - Stefan Steiniger
# GIS licenses - Stefan Steiniger
# Role of metadata catalogue software in Spatial Data Infrastructures - [[User:Genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]]
# Multispectral and hyperspectral analysis with FOSS.

===Topics of interest===

Add topics here which interest you, but which you personally are unable to present. (Numbering purely for identification.)

# [[Webinar option 1. OSGeo Colloquium Series|OSGeo Colloquium Series]]. This would be talk series where people in OSGeo edu or affiliated with OSGeo projects can present some of their current work with people interested in education as their target audience. The motivation for presentation is that people WANT to do it for their own reasons. The idea here would be that people on this list with expertise in a topic and interest to present to the community might step up and offer to give a talk on a topic of their choosing. I can't see a template working here and this is what I have had in my mind. The benefit of this is that it would get us online and talking as a group and motivations would be because presenters want to tell others about what they are doing. I think Helena's proposal on 3D visualization or my proposal on my open source study are examples of this kind of webinar.
# [[Webinar option 2. Introduction to OSGeo projects|Introduction to OSGeo projects]]. I think this could be a great step forward for our group. For example, I have a research project where I'd like to post, periodically, data points on a map on a webpage. I think Open Layers would be a way for me to do this, but I don't know anything about putting up a page with an open layers-based map. I'd really like to see a presentation by a knowledgable person on what you can do with Open Layers. I could see potentially a template here being established, and perhaps it is the Live DVD tutorial done as a recording, as Cameron suggested a few months back. I also don't know if a standard template could be created for the different projects -- would the template look the same for QGIS compared to Geoserver or PostGIS, for example?
# Stephan's idea of a webinar on GIS licenses
# FOSS4G open data standards.
# How OSGeo relates to (''de facto'') "workplace standards" which have educational mindshare (notably, which are usd for curriculum development). E.g.,
#* the [http://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/pyramid.aspx?GEO=Y Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM)] and [http://www.geotechcenter.org/GTCM GeoTech Center's GTCM work].
#* certifications (e.g., [http://www.gisci.org/certification_program_description.aspx GISP]) and certification providers (e.g., [http://www.gisci.org/ GISCI])

[[Category: Education]]

Edu goals and to dos

2013-08-26T17:18:59Z

Wiki-TomRoche: separate types of webinars from the list of webinar topics, and separate topics with authors from those without

Edu goals and to dos

2013-08-26T17:11:06Z

Wiki-TomRoche: add jobseekers

=Coordinated OSGeo Edu Webinars - Sept-December 2012=

Our goal is to start a new and coordinated international OSGeo educational webinar series, beginning September, 2012. We are using this page to try and figure out what this webinar series might look like.

==Target Audiences==

Please add other ideas here:

# [[Audience 1. Undergraduates or graduate students|Undergraduate or graduate students]]
# [[Audience 2. Train the trainers|Train the trainers]] -- our education group members who might be tooling up to add new content to some existing courses
# [[Audience 3. General public|General public]] -- anyone interested in FOSS4G or FOSS4G technologies
# GIS job seekers -- people seeking to find jobs involving open GIS, or to convert their OSGeo skills into paid employment.

==Types of webinars==

This is where Cameron and I might have a difference of opinion and given his track record of getting things done I take his views quite seriously and respectfully. But I my concern is related to Yochai Benkler's (Wealth of Networks) idea of "task granularity." But I think we will get more people to step up to do a webinar if we reduce the amount of work they have to do up front to put the webinar together. Fine or smaller tasks will be undertaken more easily than tasks that take more work. I worry that forcing a template on presenters will reduce their willingness to participate. Some options:

# [[Webinar option 1. OSGeo Colloquium Series|OSGeo Colloquium Series]]. This would be talk series where people in OSGeo edu or affiliated with OSGeo projects can present some of their current work with people interested in education as their target audience. The motivation for presentation is that people WANT to do it for their own reasons. The idea here would be that people on this list with expertise in a topic and interest to present to the community might step up and offer to give a talk on a topic of their choosing. I can't see a template working here and this is what I have had in my mind. The benefit of this is that it would get us online and talking as a group and motivations would be because presenters want to tell others about what they are doing. I think Helena's proposal on 3D visualization or my proposal on my open source study are examples of this kind of webinar.
# [[Webinar option 2. Introduction to OSGeo projects|Introduction to OSGeo projects]]. I think this could be a great step forward for our group. For example, I have a research project where I'd like to post, periodically, data points on a map on a webpage. I think Open Layers would be a way for me to do this, but I don't know anything about putting up a page with an open layers-based map. I'd really like to see a presentation by a knowledgable person on what you can do with Open Layers. I could see potentially a template here being established, and perhaps it is the Live DVD tutorial done as a recording, as Cameron suggested a few months back. I also don't know if a standard template could be created for the different projects -- would the template look the same for QGIS compared to Geoserver or PostGIS, for example?
# [[Webinar option 3. Other relevant topics|Other relevant topics]]. Stephan's idea of a webinar on GIS licenses would be an example. Or a topic on FOSS4G open data standards. Or a presentation related to the "Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) that the GeoTech Center is working with.

Other ideas? Please add here or add to the topic list below if you have something you'd be willing to present...

==Possible Webinar topics and authors==

Colleagues, please add topics you might be willing to present below. (Numbering purely for identification.)

# 3D visualization or some other topic related to processing and analyzing terrain data. -- Helena Mitasova
# Open source collaboration -- findings from a 5 year study of Sourceforge.net projects. (This is not on geospatial specifically, but I think people will find it interesting.) -- Charlie Schweik
# Introduction to OSGeo geospatial technologies (each of the different OSGeo software projects) -- who?
# GIS software categories and projects - Stefan Steiniger
# GIS licenses - Stefan Steiniger
# Role of metadata catalogue software in Spatial Data Infrastructures - [[User:Genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]]
# Multispectral and hyperspectral analysis with FOSS.

[[Category: Education]]

Edu goals and to dos

2013-08-26T16:57:13Z

Wiki-TomRoche: made sections, removed unnecessary HTML and inappropriate wikitext--generally made more "wiki-well-formed"

=Coordinated OSGeo Edu Webinars - Sept-December 2012=

Our goal is to start a new and coordinated international OSGeo educational webinar series, beginning September, 2012. We are using this page to try and figure out what this webinar series might look like.

==Target Audiences==

Please add other ideas here:

# [[Audience 1. Undergraduates or graduate students|Undergraduate or graduate students]]
# [[Audience 2. Train the trainers|Train the trainers]] -- our education group members who might be tooling up to add new content to some existing courses
# [[Audience 3. General public|General public]] -- anyone interested in FOSS4G or FOSS4G technologies

==Types of webinars==

This is where Cameron and I might have a difference of opinion and given his track record of getting things done I take his views quite seriously and respectfully. But I my concern is related to Yochai Benkler's (Wealth of Networks) idea of "task granularity." But I think we will get more people to step up to do a webinar if we reduce the amount of work they have to do up front to put the webinar together. Fine or smaller tasks will be undertaken more easily than tasks that take more work. I worry that forcing a template on presenters will reduce their willingness to participate. Some options:

# [[Webinar option 1. OSGeo Colloquium Series|OSGeo Colloquium Series]]. This would be talk series where people in OSGeo edu or affiliated with OSGeo projects can present some of their current work with people interested in education as their target audience. The motivation for presentation is that people WANT to do it for their own reasons. The idea here would be that people on this list with expertise in a topic and interest to present to the community might step up and offer to give a talk on a topic of their choosing. I can't see a template working here and this is what I have had in my mind. The benefit of this is that it would get us online and talking as a group and motivations would be because presenters want to tell others about what they are doing. I think Helena's proposal on 3D visualization or my proposal on my open source study are examples of this kind of webinar.
# [[Webinar option 2. Introduction to OSGeo projects|Introduction to OSGeo projects]]. I think this could be a great step forward for our group. For example, I have a research project where I'd like to post, periodically, data points on a map on a webpage. I think Open Layers would be a way for me to do this, but I don't know anything about putting up a page with an open layers-based map. I'd really like to see a presentation by a knowledgable person on what you can do with Open Layers. I could see potentially a template here being established, and perhaps it is the Live DVD tutorial done as a recording, as Cameron suggested a few months back. I also don't know if a standard template could be created for the different projects -- would the template look the same for QGIS compared to Geoserver or PostGIS, for example?
# [[Webinar option 3. Other relevant topics|Other relevant topics]]. Stephan's idea of a webinar on GIS licenses would be an example. Or a topic on FOSS4G open data standards. Or a presentation related to the "Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) that the GeoTech Center is working with.

Other ideas? Please add here or add to the topic list below if you have something you'd be willing to present...

==Possible Webinar topics and authors==

Colleagues, please add topics you might be willing to present below. (Numbering purely for identification.)

# 3D visualization or some other topic related to processing and analyzing terrain data. -- Helena Mitasova
# Open source collaboration -- findings from a 5 year study of Sourceforge.net projects. (This is not on geospatial specifically, but I think people will find it interesting.) -- Charlie Schweik
# Introduction to OSGeo geospatial technologies (each of the different OSGeo software projects) -- who?
# GIS software categories and projects - Stefan Steiniger
# GIS licenses - Stefan Steiniger
# Role of metadata catalogue software in Spatial Data Infrastructures - [[User:Genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]]
# Multispectral and hyperspectral analysis with FOSS.

[[Category: Education]]