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