Difference between revisions of "2021 GeoforAll planning meeting"

Latest revision as of 22:54, 16 January 2021

Purpose

Plan the events for GeoforAll in 2021 and determine the budget needed.

Meeting time

Date: Thursday (14 January) at 15:00 UTC

Meeting link (via Zoom), https://zoom.us/j/98794958775

Possible activities

GeoforAll AGM (similar to the OSGeo AGM with updates from different labs)
3 min thesis competition for students
Restart initiative for collaborative projects between labs
International Diploma (certification program) in GEOMATICS Based on Free and Open Source Software (in Spanish - for GeoForAll Iberoamerica)
Please add any other ideas

Agenda

Meeting link (via Zoom), https://zoom.us/j/98794958775

Welcome
Roll call and introductions
Discuss possible activities
Draft budget - Email request via projects mailing list
ISPRS Educational resource catalogue
Unite Maps Initiative
Any other business
Please add any other agenda topics

Minutes

Attendees:

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Dimitris Kotzinos
Peter Mooney
Nikos Lambrinos
Helena Mitasova
Zoltán Siki
Victoria Rautenbach
Azile Mdleleni
Cameron Green
Lucy Bastin

please add you name if I missed it (sorry about that)

GeoforAll Annual General Meeting (AGM):

Best possible date - March 2021
Request webinar Zoom account from OSGeo Board
[Action] Victoria to create doodle and start slidedeck

3 min thesis:

Request $2000 for prize money
Run competition after AGM
Possible categories/themes:
- Software/Apps Development
- Education
- Agriculture
- Environment
- Rights / justice (?)
[Action] Victoria to circulate draft guidelines in late Feb 2021

Collaborations:

A map of the collaborations would be nice
Try to collect information from AGM slides

ISPRS Educational resource catalogue

UN-GGIM Academic Network might be interested, but previous funding is finished
[Action] Victoria to add link to OSGeo website or wiki

Unite Maps Initiative

Advertise in network/mailing lists (incl. YouthMappers)
Possible collaborations with OSM via B2B meeting

International Diploma (certification program) in GEOMATICS Based on Free and Open Source Software:

Great initiative!
[Action] Sergio or Toni to present more at the AGM
Support can be requested from OSGeo via GeoforAll

Budget

After the GeoforAll planning meeting that took place on 14 January 2021, GeoforAll would like to request the following:

Item	Description	Amount
Student competition	In 2021, we would like to run a 3 minute thesis competition for students in the GeoforAll network. The budgeted amount will be used to award small prizes to the students.	$2 000
Conference Student awards	An amount of max $500 can be requested by a conference or other GeoforAll labs as student prizes.	$1 000
Zoom account for AGM	For the AGM, planned in March 2021, we would like to request a Zoom Webinar account for 500 participants.	$140

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 == Meeting time ==
+Date: Thursday (14 January) at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=2021+GeoforAll+planning+meeting&iso=20210114T15&p1=1440&ah=1 15:00 UTC]
 Meeting link (via Zoom), https://zoom.us/j/98794958775
-Please complete the Doodle, so that we can select a date that would suit as many people as possible (please complete it by 8 January 2021), https://doodle.com/poll/hd799babpfd6nsds?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
 == Possible activities ==
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 * 3 min thesis competition for students
 * Restart initiative for collaborative projects between labs
+* International Diploma (certification program) in GEOMATICS Based on Free and Open Source Software (in Spanish - for GeoForAll Iberoamerica)
 * Please add any other ideas
 == Agenda ==
+Meeting link (via Zoom), https://zoom.us/j/98794958775
 * Welcome
 * Roll call and introductions
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 == Minutes ==
-== Action items ==
+Attendees:
+* Sergio Acosta y Lara
+* Dimitris Kotzinos
+* Peter Mooney
+* Nikos Lambrinos
+* Helena Mitasova
+* Zoltán Siki
+* Victoria Rautenbach
+* Azile Mdleleni
+* Cameron Green
+* Lucy Bastin
+''please add you name if I missed it (sorry about that)'' <br>
+GeoforAll Annual General Meeting (AGM):
+* Best possible date - March 2021
+* Request webinar Zoom account from OSGeo Board
+* [Action] Victoria to create doodle and start slidedeck <br>
+min thesis:
+* Request $2000 for prize money
+* Run competition after AGM
+* Possible categories/themes:
+** Software/Apps Development
+** Education
+** Agriculture
+** Environment
+** Rights / justice (?)
+* [Action] Victoria to circulate draft guidelines in late Feb 2021 <br>
+Collaborations:
+* A map of the collaborations would be nice
+* Try to collect information from AGM slides <br>
+ISPRS Educational resource catalogue
+* UN-GGIM Academic Network might be interested, but previous funding is finished
+* [Action] Victoria to add link to OSGeo website or wiki <br>
+Unite Maps Initiative
+* Advertise in network/mailing lists (incl. YouthMappers)
+* Possible collaborations with OSM via B2B meeting <br>
+International Diploma (certification program) in GEOMATICS Based on Free and Open Source Software:
+* Great initiative!
+* [Action] Sergio or Toni to present more at the AGM
+* Support can be requested from OSGeo via GeoforAll
+== Budget ==
+After the GeoforAll planning meeting that took place on 14 January 2021, GeoforAll would like to request the following:
+{| class="wikitable"
+! Item !! Description !! Amount
+|-
+| Student competition || In 2021, we would like to run a 3 minute thesis competition for students in the GeoforAll network. The budgeted amount will be used to award small prizes to the students.  || $2 000
+|-
+| Conference Student awards || An amount of max $500 can be requested by a conference or other GeoforAll labs as student prizes. || $1 000
+|-
+| Zoom account for AGM || For the AGM, planned in March 2021, we would like to request a Zoom Webinar account for 500 participants.  || $140
+|-
+|}