<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Jeff:<br><br></div>I would also be wiling to help out with a reboot of the committee. After your done collecting volunteers, let me know how you want to move forward.<br><br></div>Landon<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 7:33 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">
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Thank you Jeff for this call . Many thanks to everyone who contributed to Geodata over the years.
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Please do not dissolve this committee. Let us work to reactivate this committee with more interested colleagues . I would like to volunteer to work for OSGeo Geodata Committee for linking ideas with the education aspects of Geodata. Just this month Charlie
Schweik has given call in GeoForAll to identify 2-4 collaboration projects by at where at least 2-labs are collaborating on open access educational content they want to develop over 2018 and I think working on a project on GeoData aspects will be a great
opportunity to link the education community ideas for this. So I will follow up this using geodata as an example and try to get colleagues in various GeoForAll labs working on this to come together . I am sure working together we can make this happen.<br>
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Dear OSGeo community,<br>
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We are all aware of how important Open data is for our community, and<br>
for the mission of OSGeo. Most of you are aware that the OSGeo<br>
foundation has a committee dedicated to this, called the Geodata<br>
Committee; however the reality is that this committee is quiescent/not<br>
active/at rest, as its mailing list has not really been used since a<br>
message was posted in May of 2015 (which no one answered actually).<br>
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The Geodata Committee is still listed as a working committee on the<br>
OSGeo website, and points to a page[1] that contains the mailing list<br>
and the wiki. The mailing list has 387 members, and the archives go all<br>
the way back to March of 2006. Back in those days, the committee would<br>
meet regularly on IRC and it was very vibrant (thanks to Jo, Arnulf, and<br>
the many early visionaries pushing forward and sharing).<br>
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More recently, there was a "reboot" push for this committee around 2012,<br>
and also another one in October of last year. Of course there were<br>
likely many other attempts, but those are the ones that come to mind.<br>
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We believe that open data is even more critical to the mission of OSGeo<br>
today, and a strong relationship with the various data communities is<br>
important for the health of the ecosystem. We also look to the massive<br>
success of GeoForAll for sharing the passion for education and Open as a<br>
great example of what we can all do together.<br>
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Would you be willing to help revive the OSGeo Geodata Committee? It<br>
would be great to hear more thoughts and ideas on this. It does not<br>
seem right to dissolve the committee; in fact we want the opposite to occur.<br>
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Thank you,<br>
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Maria, Codrina, Vasile, Jeff on behalf of the OSGeo Board of Directors<br>
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