2021 GeoforAll planning meeting
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 undefined can be requested by a conference or other GeoforAll labs as student prizes. | 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 |