<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Kurt<div><br></div><div>Can you please provide me with links to your courses?</div><div><br></div><div>I want to add them as reference and reuse your material if possible.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm also very interested in exercises students need to go through to understand better the concept and technologies.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much!</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Mar 17, 2015, at 10:37 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">Thanks Kurt. That is excellent info.<br><br>Could you please try and attend the telemeeting that Luis is organising, so we can discuss details. Please complete the doodle poll at <a href="http://doodle.com/w5sr533xn95ryswu7c9s59mk/admin#table">http://doodle.com/w5sr533xn95ryswu7c9s59mk/admin#table</a> so luis can find the best time convenient for all. Thanks.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Suchith<br>________________________________________<br>From: <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [<a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of Kurt Menke [<a href="mailto:kurt@birdseyeviewgis.com">kurt@birdseyeviewgis.com</a>]<br>Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 2:05 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] ica-osgeo-labs Digest, Vol 24, Issue 65<br><br>Hello all,<br>I've been covering OGC protocols and standards in my Intro to Open Source<br>GIS and Web Mapping course for the past six years. These are critical<br>concepts to anyone wanting to work in the web environment. The standards and<br>protocols are very well documented. I can also share any material I have<br>which includes a lecture and two labs on the topic.<br>Kurt<br><br>**************************<br>Kurt Menke, GISP<br>Bird’s Eye View<br>3016 Santa Clara Ave SE<br>Albuquerque, NM 87106<br><a href="http://www.BirdsEyeViewGIS.com">www.BirdsEyeViewGIS.com</a><br>Cell: 505-362-1776<br>Work: 505-265-0243<br>Fax: 505-265-0243<br><br>Grand Canyon Wildlands Council - President<br>www.grandcanyonwildlands.org/<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org<br>[mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of<br>ica-osgeo-labs-request@lists.osgeo.org<br>Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 2:08 AM<br>To: ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>Subject: ica-osgeo-labs Digest, Vol 24, Issue 65<br><br>Send ica-osgeo-labs mailing list submissions to<br> ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> ica-osgeo-labs-request@lists.osgeo.org<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> ica-osgeo-labs-owner@lists.osgeo.org<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than<br>"Re: Contents of ica-osgeo-labs digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training<br> (Luis Bermudez)<br> 2. Re: Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW! Whoa! Or<br> What?! (Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX))<br> 3. Re: Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training<br> (Suchith Anand)<br> 4. Re: Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training<br> (Charles Schweik)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:32:25 -0400<br>From: Luis Bermudez <lbermudez@opengeospatial.org><br>To: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com>, Suchith Anand<br> <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br>Cc: George Percivall <gpercivall@opengeospatial.org>, Carl Reed<br> <creed@opengeospatial.org>, "ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org"<br> <ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org>, Christopher Tucker<br> <christopher.tucker@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC<br> standards training<br>Message-ID: <1EB06E3E-36AF-46D4-BA52-DFBF2705BDC4@opengeospatial.org><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<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,<br>contribute and help move forward e-learning material related to OGC<br>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 Open Geospatial Consortium<br>(OGC) The OGC: Making Location Count<br><br>Skype: bermudez_luis<br>Twitter: @berdez<br>Tel: +1 301 760 7323<br>http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez<br><br><br><br><br>On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com><br>wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Forwarding on Chris' email (with permission), which bounced from this<br></blockquote>list.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Thanks Chris for the offer of support from yourself and others from the<br></blockquote>OGC. I think this is another great opportunity for OSGeo and the OGC to work<br>together.<br><blockquote type="cite">It is also very valuable and motivating for us OSGeo contributors to know<br></blockquote>that the OGC can help deliver OSGeo concerns to the right people.<br><blockquote type="cite"><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<br></blockquote></blockquote>GeoForAll community wants any particular involvement from the OGC on this or<br>other matters, I am more than happy to help facilitate the interaction with<br>appropriate OGC staff and membership.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Also, coincidently, I happen to do a lot of work with leading US<br></blockquote></blockquote>government investors in LiDAR technology, collection and processing - all<br>the way up to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. If<br>their attention is required, I am happy to facilitate.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><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 <cameron.shorter@gmail.com><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>I'm bringing this email thread back onto the public ica-osgeo-labs list<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>(CC OGC people) and changing title (with permission of Suchith).<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Title was "RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the ?LAZ<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>clone? by ESRI" and a private conversation had started.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Hi Suchith,<br>I like the idea of bringing OGC standards into education, and would be<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>keen to see authoritative and consistent descriptions of standards<br>available. (We started doing this a while ago on OSGeo Live [1], but these<br>descriptions are incomplete, out of date, and the template needs improving).<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>There was further discussion about describing standards within the OGC<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>"Ideas4OGC" initiative [2] ~ October 2013, leading to recognition of a need<br>for consistent descriptions of standards: including a one pager description<br>for architects, and an implementation guide for developers.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>There is a lot of work in developing such documentation for all<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>standards, but if we create a template for what is required, we can then<br>spread the work across multiple interested parties (as we have done with<br>OSGeo-Live documentation). I'd be happy to help with creating such a<br>template.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>[1] http://live.osgeo.org/en/standards/standards.html<br>[2]<br>http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRec<br>ommendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity<br>and<br>http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRec<br>ommendations#Topic_28:_Active_Direction<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<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>my best to improve the education aspects of Open Standards in Geo Eduation<br>curriculum worldwide. This is long term action and we need help from all<br>interested to join this.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>We have done this successfully in Open Source GIS education in a<br>very short time. For example, our GeoAcademy colleagues have not<br>only established a very successful MOOC program ( i understand over<br>4000 students are enrolled for their March 2015 cohort, so the<br>scale of expansion of this amazing) but more importantly they made<br>available the curriculum (lecture materials, tutorials etc)<br>available to all educators to share and share alike under the<br>Creative Commons BY 3.0 license at the GitHub repository at<br>https://gi<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>--<br>Cameron Shorter,<br>Software and Data Solutions Manager<br>LISAsoft<br>Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,<br>26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009<br><br>P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>ica-osgeo-labs mailing list<br>ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs<br></blockquote><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 05:18:00 +0000<br>From: "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan@nasa.gov><br>To: "ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org" <ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org><br>Cc: MELICK Brandt <bmelick@springfield-or.gov>, 'G?bor Remetey'<br> <gabor.remetey@gmail.com>, 'Giuseppe Conti'<br> <Giuseppe.Conti@trilogis.it><br>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar?<br> WoW! Whoa! Or What?!<br>Message-ID:<br> <79D76AA488C4C24B8883181318DBB4D4100A5076@NDJSMBX203.ndc.nasa.gov><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Brandt,<br><br>Once we have an "All Systems Go!" we'll need a couple weeks to prepare.<br><br>So the earliest date, given Suchith's concurrence, is early April.<br><br>We are still trying to gauge level of interest. So far we have . . .<br><br>* Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver, www.ucdenver.edu<br>* G?bor Remetey, GIS Lead for Hungary, www.hunagi.hu<br>* Nikos Lambrinos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece,<br>www.auth.gr/en<br>* Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst, www.umass.edu<br>* Bridget Fleming, AfriSpatial Geospatial Education & Training,<br>www.afrispatial.co.za<br>* Thomas Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, www.calu.edu<br>* Brand Melick, City of Springfield Oregon, www.springfield-or.gov<br>* Phil Davis, Del Mar College and the GeoAcademy, www.delmar.edu<br><br>We want more!<br><br>-Patrick<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: MELICK Brandt [mailto:bmelick@springfield-or.gov]<br>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:39 PM<br>To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>Cc: 'G?bor Remetey'; 'Giuseppe Conti'<br>Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW!<br>Whoa! Or What?!<br><br>Patrick and others,<br><br>Really appreciate the recognition and interest in youth involvement -<br>empowering future generations and supporting the wonderful people who<br>dedicate their lives to such important and demanding work is the ultimate<br>goal. The greatest honor is serving the future steward of this precious<br>planet. Please let me know should there be opportunities to engage<br>pre-college students.<br><br>9:00AM pacific time works well. Have any dates been proposed? A few key<br>people from our site will be out next week during spring break.<br><br>Look forward to the webinars.<br><br><br>Thank you for your time,<br>Brandt<br><br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [mailto:patrick.hogan@nasa.gov]<br>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:51 AM<br>To: ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>Cc: MELICK Brandt; 'G?bor Remetey'; 'Giuseppe Conti'<br>Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW!<br>Whoa! Or What?!<br><br>Nikos and Others,<br><br>Thanks for your response and interesting suggestion.<br><br>There is no reason why we shouldn't challenge all students, given their<br>interest, to make a contribution to society via FOSS4G. The modular<br>componentry architecture for World Wind code is essentially the same across<br>all versions, Java, Android and iOS. The new web version in JavaScript will<br>be no different. And all World Wind code contains plenty of examples. So it<br>is an excellent platform to teach with.<br><br>For teaching World Wind Java, this should be of help,<br>http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/guidance. The current JavaScript<br>examples, though meager in terms of the final code, are each also a good<br>teaching exercise.<br><br>That said, though this first webinar will be fairly qualitative and<br>therefore mostly non-technical, any successive webinar, though fundamental,<br>will be purely technical. So, depending on the interest and skill of the<br>student, could certainly help to advance their skill, and provide a template<br>for good software architecture.<br><br>Tomorrow's world needs our children to be as well-equipped as possible.<br>Whatever we can do to accelerate that is dearly needed. Our teachers have<br>the most important job in the world! Good luck!!!<br><br>Would 9AM Pacific time be a reasonable enough hour?<br><br>-Patrick<br>?650.604.5656 (office)<br>?650.269.2788 (cell)<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: labrinos@eled.auth.gr [mailto:labrinos@eled.auth.gr]<br>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 12:52 AM<br>To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>Cc: 'MELICK Brandt'; 'G?bor Remetey'; 'Giuseppe Conti'<br>Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW!<br>Whoa! Or What?!<br><br>Dear Patrick,<br><br>I will be glad to join the webinar.<br>As a primary school teacher trainer I would like to ask if you think that<br>the webinar will be simple enough so primary school teachers and<br>undergraduate student teachers could also join. In this case I could<br>motivate a number of teachers and my students.<br>Have you decided on what exactly the webinar will cover?<br>Please take into account the time difference or let us download the webinar<br>later.<br><br>Nikos<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>-----------<br>Dr. Nikos Lambrinos<br>Associate Professor<br>Dept. of Primary Education<br>Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Greece, GR-54124 Tel. +30<br>2310 991201<br>Email: labrinos@eled.auth.gr<br>Web pages: http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/<br> http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org<br>[mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick<br>(ARC-PX)<br>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 1:59 AM<br>To: ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>Cc: MELICK Brandt; G?bor Remetey (gabor.remetey@gmail.com); Giuseppe Conti<br>Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW! Whoa!<br>Or What?!<br><br>Dear OSGeo/GeoForAll,<br><br>We need your feedback to gauge interest by this community.<br><br>Suchith has recommended a NASA World Wind Webinar where we discuss the new<br>web version of World Wind. . .<br>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/<br>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/api-doc/<br><br>And how to win a NASA Crystal Bull (and Euros) via the Europa Challenge,<br>http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/<br>Awarded this year at http://europe.FOSS4G.org/2015/ (Register now for the<br>best FOSS4G ever!)<br><br>And win another Crystal Bull for the GeoForAll CitySmart Challenge:<br>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics<br><br>Please let me know, who, what and how many, and any questions you might want<br>answered.<br><br>Kind regards,<br>-Patrick<br><br> Patrick.Hogan@nasa.gov<br> Project Manager<br> NASA World Wind<br> 650.604.5656 (office)<br> 650.269.2788 (cell)<br><br>NASA motto, 'for the benefit of all'<br>World Wind, built to challenge a world<br>for innovative solutions with spatial data.<br>_______________________________________________<br>ica-osgeo-labs mailing list<br>ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:07:21 +0000<br>From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br>To: Luis Bermudez <lbermudez@opengeospatial.org>, Cameron Shorter<br> <cameron.shorter@gmail.com>, Suchith Anand<br> <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br>Cc: George Percivall <gpercivall@opengeospatial.org>, Carl Reed<br> <creed@opengeospatial.org>, "ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org"<br> <ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org>, Christopher Tucker<br> <christopher.tucker@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC<br> standards training<br>Message-ID:<br><br><DF5C4FB2277FEC4C824FEDC89906CAA85046D6DB50@EXCHANGE3.ad.nottingham.ac.uk><br><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-4"<br><br>Hi Luis,<br><br>That is excellent. Let us schedule a telecon to discuss next steps. May i<br>suggest that you send a doodle poll with your convenient times to this list<br>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 [lbermudez@opengeospatial.org]<br>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 10:32 PM<br>To: Cameron Shorter; Suchith Anand<br>Cc: Christopher Tucker; George Percivall; Carl Reed;<br>ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards<br>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,<br>contribute and help move forward e-learning material related to OGC<br>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 Open Geospatial Consortium<br>(OGC) The OGC: Making Location Count<br><br>Skype: bermudez_luis<br>Twitter: @berdez<br>Tel: +1 301 760 7323<br>http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez<br><br><br><br><br>On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com><br>wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Forwarding on Chris' email (with permission), which bounced from this<br></blockquote>list.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Thanks Chris for the offer of support from yourself and others from the<br></blockquote>OGC. I think this is another great opportunity for OSGeo and the OGC to work<br>together.<br><blockquote type="cite">It is also very valuable and motivating for us OSGeo contributors to know<br></blockquote>that the OGC can help deliver OSGeo concerns to the right people.<br><blockquote type="cite"><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<br></blockquote></blockquote>GeoForAll community wants any particular involvement from the OGC on this or<br>other matters, I am more than happy to help facilitate the interaction with<br>appropriate OGC staff and membership.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Also, coincidently, I happen to do a lot of work with leading US<br></blockquote></blockquote>government investors in LiDAR technology, collection and processing - all<br>the way up to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. If<br>their attention is required, I am happy to facilitate.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><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 <cameron.shorter@gmail.com><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>I'm bringing this email thread back onto the public ica-osgeo-labs list<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>(CC OGC people) and changing title (with permission of Suchith).<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Title was "RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the ?LAZ<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>clone? by ESRI" and a private conversation had started.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Hi Suchith,<br>I like the idea of bringing OGC standards into education, and would be<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>keen to see authoritative and consistent descriptions of standards<br>available. (We started doing this a while ago on OSGeo Live [1], but these<br>descriptions are incomplete, out of date, and the template needs improving).<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>There was further discussion about describing standards within the OGC<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>"Ideas4OGC" initiative [2] ~ October 2013, leading to recognition of a need<br>for consistent descriptions of standards: including a one pager description<br>for architects, and an implementation guide for developers.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>There is a lot of work in developing such documentation for all<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>standards, but if we create a template for what is required, we can then<br>spread the work across multiple interested parties (as we have done with<br>OSGeo-Live documentation). I'd be happy to help with creating such a<br>template.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>[1] http://live.osgeo.org/en/standards/standards.html<br>[2]<br>http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRec<br>ommendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity<br>and<br>http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRec<br>ommendations#Topic_28:_Active_Direction<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<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>my best to improve the education aspects of Open Standards in Geo Eduation<br>curriculum worldwide. This is long term action and we need help from all<br>interested to join this.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>We have done this successfully in Open Source GIS education in a<br>very short time. For example, our GeoAcademy colleagues have not<br>only established a very successful MOOC program ( i understand over<br>4000 students are enrolled for their March 2015 cohort, so the<br>scale of expansion of this amazing) but more importantly they made<br>available the curriculum (lecture materials, tutorials etc)<br>available to all educators to share and share alike under the<br>Creative Commons BY 3.0 license at the GitHub repository at<br>https://gi<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>--<br>Cameron Shorter,<br>Software and Data Solutions Manager<br>LISAsoft<br>Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,<br>26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009<br><br>P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>ica-osgeo-labs mailing list<br>ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs<br></blockquote><br><br><br><br><br>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and<br>may contain confidential information. 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Email communications with the<br>University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:07:48 +0100<br>From: Charles Schweik <cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu><br>To: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br>Cc: "ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org" <ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org>,<br> Christopher Tucker <christopher.tucker@gmail.com>, Carl Reed<br> <creed@opengeospatial.org>, George Percivall<br> <gpercivall@opengeospatial.org><br>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC<br> standards training<br>Message-ID:<br> <CAAqFMQkeBV_2CQF_muv3tuVsWPdBaeeLLRw_FV8x7_4EmP3J4g@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Hi,<br><br>Great Luis! I hope to attend a discussion if I can fit it in. One general<br>point of encouragement:<br><br>*The GeoForAll community should not lose the sight of our long-standing goal<br>of developing a library of educational modules that we can all potentially<br>use in our classes*. So in the OGC standards case, I urge you Luis, or<br>whoever else might develop content, to develop it under a Creative Commons<br>license and either as video (e.g., recorded webinar), text content (that<br>would allow for future new derivatives or translations), or even audio<br>recordings if need-be that we educators can use as modules in various<br>courses.<br><br>This brings us back to the long-standing issue of a GeoForAll\OSGeo<br>educational *content repository*. We still have the older metadata<br>inventory system operational [1], and I've got a ticket request in to the<br>OSGeo website team get the input form [2] up and running again. And the<br>GeoAcademy has created a GitHub repository for storing content [3]. With<br>their permission, we should work on a simple tutorial that outlines to<br>content authors how to submit the course module metadata in [2], and then<br>upload the course content under [3], and develop some kind of "badge"<br>system or regular "GeoForAll educational journal" with links to this content<br>for acknowledging and incentivizing author contributions.<br><br>Finally, Maria Brovelli and I are talking this week, planning for a<br>GeoForAll meeting at FOSS4G, where we can take up this and other topics.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Charlie<br><br>[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content (operational) [2]<br>https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content (not operational, ticket<br>submitted)<br>[3] https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy<br><br><br><br>On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Suchith Anand <<br>Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Luis,<br><br>That is excellent. Let us schedule a telecon to discuss next steps.<br>May i suggest that you send a doodle poll with your convenient times<br>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 [lbermudez@opengeospatial.org]<br>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 10:32 PM<br>To: Cameron Shorter; Suchith Anand<br>Cc: Christopher Tucker; George Percivall; Carl Reed;<br>ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC<br>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<br>leverage, contribute and help move forward e-learning material related<br>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 Open Geospatial<br>Consortium (OGC) The OGC: Making Location Count<br><br>Skype: bermudez_luis<br>Twitter: @berdez<br>Tel: +1 301 760 7323<br>http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez<br><br><br><br><br>On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Cameron Shorter<br><cameron.shorter@gmail.com><br>wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Forwarding on Chris' email (with permission), which bounced from<br>this<br></blockquote>list.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Thanks Chris for the offer of support from yourself and others from<br>the<br></blockquote>OGC. I think this is another great opportunity for OSGeo and the OGC<br>to work together.<br><blockquote type="cite">It is also very valuable and motivating for us OSGeo contributors to<br></blockquote>know that the OGC can help deliver OSGeo concerns to the right people.<br><blockquote type="cite"><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<br></blockquote></blockquote>GeoForAll community wants any particular involvement from the OGC on<br>this or other matters, I am more than happy to help facilitate the<br>interaction with appropriate OGC staff and membership.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Also, coincidently, I happen to do a lot of work with leading US<br></blockquote></blockquote>government investors in LiDAR technology, collection and processing -<br>all the way up to the White House Office of Science and Technology<br>Policy. If their attention is required, I am happy to facilitate.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><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 <<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>cameron.shorter@gmail.com> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>I'm bringing this email thread back onto the public ica-osgeo-labs<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>list (CC OGC people) and changing title (with permission of Suchith).<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Title was "RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>?LAZ clone? by ESRI" and a private conversation had started.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Hi Suchith,<br>I like the idea of bringing OGC standards into education, and<br>would be<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>keen to see authoritative and consistent descriptions of standards<br>available. (We started doing this a while ago on OSGeo Live [1], but<br>these descriptions are incomplete, out of date, and the template needs<br></blockquote>improving).<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>There was further discussion about describing standards within the<br>OGC<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>"Ideas4OGC" initiative [2] ~ October 2013, leading to recognition of a<br>need for consistent descriptions of standards: including a one pager<br>description for architects, and an implementation guide for developers.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>There is a lot of work in developing such documentation for all<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>standards, but if we create a template for what is required, we can<br>then spread the work across multiple interested parties (as we have<br>done with OSGeo-Live documentation). I'd be happy to help with<br>creating such a template.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>[1] http://live.osgeo.org/en/standards/standards.html<br>[2]<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecom<br>mendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and<br><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecom<br>mendations#Topic_28:_Active_Direction<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><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<br>to do<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>my best to improve the education aspects of Open Standards in Geo<br>Eduation curriculum worldwide. This is long term action and we need<br>help from all interested to join this.<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>We have done this successfully in Open Source GIS education in a<br>very<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>short time. For example, our GeoAcademy colleagues have not only<br>established a very successful MOOC program ( i understand over 4000<br>students are enrolled for their March 2015 cohort, so the scale of<br>expansion of this amazing) but more importantly they made available<br>the curriculum (lecture materials, tutorials etc) available to all<br>educators to share and share alike under the Creative Commons BY 3.0<br>license at the GitHub repository at https://gi<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>--<br>Cameron Shorter,<br>Software and Data Solutions Manager<br>LISAsoft<br>Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,<br>26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009<br><br>P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>ica-osgeo-labs mailing list<br>ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs<br></blockquote><br><br><br><br><br>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee<br>and may contain confidential information. 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