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
- EGU GA 2016:
- OSGeo-related sessions
- Townhall preparation: Timeline / Volunteers
- Short courses: OSGeo-Scope / Format / Timeline / Volunteers
- Promoting the new OSGeo Opengeoscience Committee
- 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:
- initial introduction on FOSS and OSGeo
- "integration" of several open source software in a single workflow (use case) to accomplish very complex task in geospatial data analysis
- 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