[Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" One-stop-shopping

Wed Feb 25 10:07:06 PST 2015

Hello Patrick,
by creating an account at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll and confirm
your email, then you can edit the page by log in to the page

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> wrote:

> Dear OSGEO 'Open Source' Aficionados,
> (Aficionados is the same in Spanish and Italian : ),
>
> I took a crack at getting at least one simple GeoForAll url to guide us to
> the rest.
>
> I haven't learned my way around webpage editing yet, so the layout is
> subpar.
> Please feel free to make this look more professional. And of course, add
> accordingly.
>
> Life for Homo sapiens, the original source, began in Africa, not too long
> ago,
> then on into Asia and Europe, with only cosmetic revisions to the original
> source code.
> So, Africa should be the lead off! And it even works well alphabetically!
> ; -)
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll
>
> -Patrick
>  (650) 604-5656 (office)
>  (650) 269-2788 (cell)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suchith Anand [mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:41 PM
> To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" Region wise and Subject
> Thematic groups established
>
> Thanks Patrick and you are right we need to update this and then link it
> also to the main Geo for All website.
>
> Thankfully we got three volunteers already for the website updating (Ela,
> Pawel and Darshana) and more are welcome, just let me know.
>
> So i will request them to register at the OSGeo wiki site and start
> updating the wikipage bringing all different urls to the same page.
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick
> (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan at nasa.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:23 PM
> To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" Region wise and Subject
> Thematic groups established
>
> Alright, we have the OSGEO GeoForAll wiki,
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll,
> but there seems no reference point for all the associated activities,
> whether it's the thematic groups by country or the other related activities
> such as awards for GIS Student and GIS Teacher/Course.
>
> I will suggest also that any page which is translated has a link to the
> other translations (as well as a link to the GeoForAll 'home' page where
> all the GeoForAll links are listed).
>
> I also suggest we have a 'GeoForAll/News' page where current events,
> upcoming conferences, meetings, awards, etcetera are listed with their url.
>
> -Patrick
>  (650) 604-5656 (office)
>  (650) 269-2788 (cell)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 9:13 AM
> To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" Region wise and Subject Thematic
> groups established
>
> Colleagues,
>
> Following Sergio's excellent suggestion and inputs from the community ,we
> now have "Geo for All" Region wise and Subject Thematic groups formally
> established. The webpages of all the 5 regional groups and subject wise
> thematic groups ready.
>
> With the region wise thematic groups established, the chairs of this are
> now the contact points for any new labs to be established in that region to
> contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new
> members and all regional members in the region can use the list for
> collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc. They
> will also be the administrators of the mailing lists and they will use the
> wikipages to develop their ideas with inputs from all members in their
> groups. This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region
> requirements/needs. All ideas welcome.
>
> Region wise thematic Groups
>
> North America Region
> Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
> The mail list will be geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org
> Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America
>
>
> South America Region
> Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil) The
> mail list will be geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org
> Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America
>
>
> Africa Region
> Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt) and one more to be added The mail
> list will be geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org Webpage at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa
>
>
> Asia Region (including Australia)
> Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan
> (Japan/India) The mail list will be
> geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org
> Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia
>
> Europe Region
> Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Anne Ghilsa (Germany) The mail list
> will be geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org Webpage at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe
>
>
> Subject/Language Thematics
>
> Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic
> Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)
> geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org
> Website at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
>
> Teacher Training & School Education thematic, Theme Leaders - Elżbieta
> Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland)  and Adrian Manning (UK) The  mail list
> will be  geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org
> Website at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation
>
> Spanish thematic
> Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay)  and Antoni Pérez Navarro
> (Spain) The mail list will be geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org
> Website at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish
>
>
> Jeff, Anne, Jorge - as you have more knowledge on SAC etc, could you
> please advise me what is the best way to get all these 8 mail lists created
> for us for the different themes and i will do accordingly. Thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
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Thanks & Regards
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Researcher,
Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies,
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