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<div>Many thanks Cameron & Suchith. Look forward to ideas and submissions from the geoforall community.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 9:07 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>>, Shaowen Wang <<a href="mailto:shaowen@illinois.edu">shaowen@illinois.edu</a>>, "<a href="mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall@lists.osgeo.org</a>"
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Geo4All] CFP: First NSF Workshop on Conceptualizing a National Geospatial Software Institute<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thank you Cameron for these excellent materials which will provide strong background.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">May I request GeoForAll colleagues in USA to please send position papers by 21st Dec and proactively contribute ideas for this initiative. Many thanks.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Best wishes,</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 12 December 2017 19:23<br>
<b>To:</b> Wang, Shaowen; <a href="mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Geo4All] CFP: First NSF Workshop on Conceptualizing a National Geospatial Software Institute</font>
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<p>Hi Shaowen,</p>
<p>I'm not in a position to pitch to the NSF as:</p>
<p>* I'm Australian, not from the US</p>
<p>* I'm not an academic</p>
<p>However, I have material which I'm very hopeful someone else might want to make use of to justify why a pitch should be for Open Source GIS. I'd be happy to work with someone doing such a pitch to customise their material.</p>
<p>Here is some source material:</p>
<p>* Pitch to the UN to justify using Open Source for GIS: <a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_document_d_19Di-2DWxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM_edit-23&d=DwMFAw&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=YjxOBMQgcaifzkYDsExgQYt_yTdbFp29oAhFm7bM3-I&m=MaMX-FvKy9fD1eiZlOLBvea-g6kMc3LC6_DIiag4DQw&s=RuYVNIZKeOjhFG2ApTLNg18K5T-NOU12ec29RbbvnPo&e=" id="LPlnk132259" previewremoved="true">
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#</a></p>
<p>* Generic pitch for "Why Open Source over Proprietary": <a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au_2017_11_open-2Dsource-2Dpitch-2Dfor-2Dyour-2Dboss.html&d=DwMFAw&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=YjxOBMQgcaifzkYDsExgQYt_yTdbFp29oAhFm7bM3-I&m=MaMX-FvKy9fD1eiZlOLBvea-g6kMc3LC6_DIiag4DQw&s=mZdZ4SLZkWLSiV7f5XprCdPSuqTgxAIjtSDopNOnwy0&e=" id="LPlnk709004" previewremoved="true">
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/open-source-pitch-for-your-boss.html</a><br>
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<p>* "Why Open Source GIS over Proprietary": <a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au_2016_11_the-2Delusive-2Dopen-2Dbusiness.html&d=DwMFAw&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=YjxOBMQgcaifzkYDsExgQYt_yTdbFp29oAhFm7bM3-I&m=MaMX-FvKy9fD1eiZlOLBvea-g6kMc3LC6_DIiag4DQw&s=9R1c81MEvmvJPrNhdYd3Gc5d2XLRPl8fcpKNZYqCqLA&e=" id="LPlnk581191" previewremoved="true">
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/the-elusive-open-business.html</a></p>
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<div>The National Science Foundation has recently funded a project (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ncsa.illinois.edu_enabling_software_gsi&d=DwMFAw&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=YjxOBMQgcaifzkYDsExgQYt_yTdbFp29oAhFm7bM3-I&m=MaMX-FvKy9fD1eiZlOLBvea-g6kMc3LC6_DIiag4DQw&s=jDl-D-D-hTdsvu-Svb5bf7qPqh3A6lWaweb2yIq6alU&e=" id="LPlnk97326" previewremoved="true">http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/software/gsi</a>)
to conceptualize a national Geospatial Software Institute (GSI) as a long-term hub of excellence in software infrastructure that can serve diverse research and education communities. A suite of community workshops will be convened to design the GSI. The first
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<div>We are inviting position papers due on December 21, 2017, and look forward to your submissions. Your help for spreading the word of the attached call for position papers is greatly appreciated.</div>
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