<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">All,<div><br></div><div>We have a best time to discuss how to better develop, share and reuse OGC E-Learning resources.</div><div><br></div><div>We will meet on <b>Thursday, March 26 at 11:00 EDT (16:00 CET)</b></div><div><br></div><div>More times here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2015&month=03&day=26&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=263&p2=1183&p3=37&p4=141&p5=41&p6=1038&p7=241&p8=256&p9=48">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2015&month=03&day=26&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=263&p2=1183&p3=37&p4=141&p5=41&p6=1038&p7=241&p8=256&p9=48</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Logistics</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">1. 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Goal: <a href="https://github.com/opengeospatial/e-learning/wiki/Goal-and-Plan">https://github.com/opengeospatial/e-learning/wiki/Goal-and-Plan</a></div><div>2. Modules: <a href="https://github.com/opengeospatial/e-learning/wiki/Modules">https://github.com/opengeospatial/e-learning/wiki/Modules</a></div><div>3. Next Steps</div><div><br></div><div>@ Cameron, </div><div>If you want to provide any ideas before the meeting, you are more than welcome. I will also record the meeting so others can watch later.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">- Luis<br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>Luis Bermudez, Ph.D.<br>Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning<br>Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)<br>The OGC: Making Location Count<br><br>Skype: bermudez_luis<br>Twitter: @berdez<br>Tel: +1 301 760 7323<br><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez">http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez</a><br><br><br><br></div></span>
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<br><div><div>On Mar 17, 2015, at 9:40 AM, Luis Bermudez <<a href="mailto:lbermudez@opengeospatial.org">lbermudez@opengeospatial.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">All, <div><br></div><div>For those of you interested to discuss the next steps about how to better develop and share E-Learning resources for OGC standards, I have created a doodle poll. Note that the times are in Eastern Time.</div><div><a href="http://doodle.com/w5sr533xn95ryswu7c9s59mk/admin#table">http://doodle.com/w5sr533xn95ryswu7c9s59mk/admin#table</a></div><div><br></div><div>I will also invite folks from the OGC University Domain Working group.</div><div><br></div><div><span><PastedGraphic-1.tiff></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I will send the logistics of the meeting after we have settle on the date and time.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to a great discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">- Luis<br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>Luis Bermudez, Ph.D.<br>Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning<br>Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)<br>The OGC: Making Location Count<br><br>Skype: bermudez_luis<br>Twitter: @berdez<br>Tel: +1 301 760 7323<br><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez">http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez</a><br><br><br><br></div></span>
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<br><div><div>On Mar 17, 2015, at 3:07 AM, Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Luis,<br><br>That is excellent. Let us schedule a telecon to discuss next steps. May i suggest that you send a doodle poll with your convenient times to this list and we can then find a best time suitable for all.Thanks.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Suchith<br><br><br>________________________________________<br>From: Luis Bermudez [<a href="mailto:lbermudez@opengeospatial.org">lbermudez@opengeospatial.org</a>]<br>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 10:32 PM<br>To: Cameron Shorter; Suchith Anand<br>Cc: Christopher Tucker; George Percivall; Carl Reed; <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training<br><br>Hi Suchith, Cameron and all,<br><br>I'm very happy to see this dialog.<br><br>Now that I have been officially appointed (tasked), I want to leverage, contribute and help move forward e-learning material related to OGC standards.<br><br>I'm wondering, is it worth to schedule a telecon about the next steps?<br><br>Best Regards.<br><br>- Luis<br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>Luis Bermudez, Ph.D.<br>Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning<br>Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)<br>The OGC: Making Location Count<br><br>Skype: bermudez_luis<br>Twitter: @berdez<br>Tel: +1 301 760 7323<br><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez">http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez</a><br><br><br><br><br>On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Forwarding on Chris' email (with permission), which bounced from this list.<br><br>Thanks Chris for the offer of support from yourself and others from the OGC. I think this is another great opportunity for OSGeo and the OGC to work together.<br>It is also very valuable and motivating for us OSGeo contributors to know that the OGC can help deliver OSGeo concerns to the right people.<br><br>Regards, Cameron<br><br>On 15/03/2015 8:06 am, Christopher Tucker wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Cameron,<br><br>As an OGC Board member, I appreciate the subject change. If the GeoForAll community wants any particular involvement from the OGC on this or other matters, I am more than happy to help facilitate the interaction with appropriate OGC staff and membership.<br><br>Also, coincidently, I happen to do a lot of work with leading US government investors in LiDAR technology, collection and processing - all the way up to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. If their attention is required, I am happy to facilitate.<br><br>Thanks for all you guys are doing.<br><br>Chris<br>703-981-9373<br><br><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 14, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>I'm bringing this email thread back onto the public ica-osgeo-labs list (CC OGC people) and changing title (with permission of Suchith).<br>Title was "RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the ģLAZ cloneē by ESRI" and a private conversation had started.<br><br>Hi Suchith,<br>I like the idea of bringing OGC standards into education, and would be keen to see authoritative and consistent descriptions of standards available. (We started doing this a while ago on OSGeo Live [1], but these descriptions are incomplete, out of date, and the template needs improving).<br><br>There was further discussion about describing standards within the OGC "Ideas4OGC" initiative [2] ~ October 2013, leading to recognition of a need for consistent descriptions of standards: including a one pager description for architects, and an implementation guide for developers.<br><br>There is a lot of work in developing such documentation for all standards, but if we create a template for what is required, we can then spread the work across multiple interested parties (as we have done with OSGeo-Live documentation). I'd be happy to help with creating such a template.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/standards/standards.html">http://live.osgeo.org/en/standards/standards.html</a><br>[2] <a href="http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity">http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity</a><br>and<br><a href="http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_28:_Active_Direction">http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_28:_Active_Direction</a><br><br><blockquote type="cite">On 13/03/2015 8:30 pm, Suchith Anand wrote:<br>Hi Cameron, All,<br><br>I am not a standards expert but i am determined that i am going to do my best to improve the education aspects of Open Standards in Geo Eduation curriculum worldwide. This is long term action and we need help from all interested to join this.<br><br>We have done this successfully in Open Source GIS education in a very short time. 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