<div dir="ltr">Hi Cameron,<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br>
You (and others on this list) might want to add yourselves to the
list:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the helpful reminder. I added mine. </div><div><br></div><div>I checked yesterday and it looks like the idea of having an OSGeo workshop at the IASC conference might be too late, but I have one other person to ask still.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there anyone in the Western Canada group who might be interested in running a workshop in this conference in Edmonton week of May 25th 2015 on some OSGeo related technology (QGIS would be one option) IF I was able to arrange it? This would be to a community of potential GIS users for environmental research applications.</div><div><br></div><div>If not, over the next two years, I want to make this connection.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Charlie</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br>
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<div>On 10/03/2015 10:02 pm, Charles Schweik
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Also...
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<div>It may be too late, but it occurred to me that it might be
valuable to try and expand the footprint of GeoForAll/OSGeo
users through a connection to the International Association of
the Study of the Commons, and its global conference (May 25,
2015, Edmonton, Alberta) [1]. </div>
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<div>1) I wonder if it would be worth investigating a proposal
of a 1-day workshop on one of OSGeo's desktop GIS packages
(e.g., and Introduction to GIS) or going through the LiveDVD,
or the use of NASA WorldWind to support landcover change
research (brainstorming here...)?</div>
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</div>
<div>2) Would anyone on this list be able to go to Edmonton and
want to propose a workshop -- maybe that would require
participants to bring laptops? (I can help make that
connection to the conference organizers). </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Again, it might be too late, but this is an important
global scholarly and practitioner association who would have
users and appreciation of OSGeo technology and GeoForAll open
access educational efforts.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Contact me if you think you might be interested in going
and flying the GeoForAll flag there, maybe by offering a
workshop.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Charlie</div>
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<div>[1] <a href="http://www.iasc2015.org/" target="_blank">http://www.iasc2015.org/</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:14 AM,
Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Colleagues,<br>
<br>
Let me also take this opportunity to also thank Charlie
and the whole GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year
Award 2015 committee for their help and inputs for this
initiative which will have long term positive impacts in
education efforts globally.<br>
<br>
I would like to also congratulate Charlie ( i just saw
this today!) on his winning the international award
honouring the late political economist Elinor Ostrom, the
only woman to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences.<br>
<br>
I am really grateful to Charlie's strong support for all
our Open Geo Education efforts from the very start. On
behalf of "Geo for All' community, we are really proud and
happy that Charlie has been recognised as one of the top
50 innovators in education for his cutting-edge use of
open-source software in the classroom and as a research
tool.<br>
<br>
Details at <a href="http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/open-source" target="_blank">http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/open-source</a><br>
<br>
"Open Education Week" is a great opportunity for all of us
to reflect on the bigger purpose and join forces in using
our collective knowledge to help open education
opportunities to all to enable a better future for all.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
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Subject: GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award
2015<br>
<br>
Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015 <a href="http://www.openeducationweek.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openeducationweek.org/</a>
, "Geo for All" community <a href="http://www.geoforall.org" target="_blank">http://www.geoforall.org</a>
would to like to thank all educators worldwide who have
made contributions to open education efforts and being
good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of
education to all.<br>
<br>
We are very happy to announce the nominees for the
GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015. This
is an opportunity for us to thank colleagues for their
excellent contributions to Openness in Education
principles in the Geo domain.<br>
<br>
Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who
received one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll
Global Educator of the Year Award<br>
In no particular order, the nominees are:<br>
<br>
<br>
INDIVIDUALS<br>
<br>
- Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa
Rica, for his course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1]<br>
- Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing
leadership and tireless efforts leading the creation of
the GeoAcademy [2]<br>
- Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and
gvSIG Batovi for the course “Sistemas de Información
Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos orientado a la
educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems
for Education using Open Data” [3]<br>
- Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA,
for his Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course
he developed for Central New Mexico Community College [4]<br>
- Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University,
Pennsylvania, USA, for his course on “Open Web Mapping”
[5]<br>
- Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus,
Italy for his “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA
World Wind. [6]<br>
<br>
<br>
TEAMS<br>
<br>
- Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID
Warsaw for their EduGIS Academy [7]<br>
- Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich,
Switzerland for their Interactive Web Maps course [8]<br>
- Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science,
University of Minnesota, USA for their Massive Open Online
Course “From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing” [9]<br>
- Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE,
Spain), Jeremy Morley (University of Nottingham,UK),
Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz (Prodevelop) for
their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University of
Girona in Spain [10]<br>
- Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno - FOSS4G lab, University
of Colorado, Denver USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS
course materials [11]<br>
- Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco, for
their gvSIG Educa/Batovi effort in Uruguay [12]<br>
- Kurt Menke - Brids Eye View, Nate Jennings Urbandale
Spatial, Jon Van Hoesen Green Mtn College, Rick Smith
Texas A&M, and Phil Davis, Delmar College (all in USA)
for their GeoAcademy development efforts [13]<br>
<br>
All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated
for their efforts. Just being nominated is an honour.<br>
<br>
The award committee now has the very difficult task of
selecting the GeoForAll Educator of the Year [14] out of
this well deserving list of nominees. This year’s
selections (possibly an individual and a team award) will
be announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open Innovation
for Europe" conference at Como, Italy in July . Details at
<a href="http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/" target="_blank">http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/</a><br>
<br>
Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage
you to list this nomination honour in your CVs.<br>
<br>
Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Prof. Charlie Schweik, on behalf of the GeoForAll
Educator Award Selection Committee:<br>
<br>
Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)<br>
Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)<br>
Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)<br>
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy)<br>
Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)<br>
Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil)<br>
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia)<br>
Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)<br>
Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)<br>
Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)<br>
Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)<br>
Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA)<br>
Anne Ghisla (Germany)<br>
Patrick Hogan (USA)<br>
Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
REFERENCES<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view" target="_blank">https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81" target="_blank">http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://catalog.cnm.edu/" target="_blank">http://catalog.cnm.edu/</a><br>
[5] <a href="https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/" target="_blank">https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/</a><br>
[6] <a href="http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/" target="_blank">http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/</a><br>
[7] <a href="http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide" target="_blank">http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide</a><br>
[8] <a href="http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html" target="_blank">http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html</a><br>
[9] <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing" target="_blank">https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing</a><br>
[10] <a href="http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/" target="_blank">http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/</a><br>
[11] <a href="http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials" target="_blank">http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials</a><br>
[12] <a href="https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf</a><br>
[13] <a href="https://foss4geo.wordpress.com" target="_blank">https://foss4geo.wordpress.com</a><br>
[14] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015</a><br>
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