<div dir="ltr">Hi GeoForAll colleagues:<div><br></div><div>Last call! </div><div><br></div><div>Anyone wishing to be listed on this inquiry letter on Urban Science/City Analytics to the US NSF, please contact me <b><u>today</u></b>. I want to send this letter off at the end of the day today (it is 10am where I am). </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Charlie Schweik<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Charles Schweik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu" target="_blank">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear GeoForAll colleagues,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I, along with Patrick Hogan, Chris Pettit, Phil Davis, and a
few others in our GeoForAll group, have developed a draft “letter of inquiry”
to the US National Science Foundation’s Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) program.
This letter will be investigating whether NSF GSS would welcome a full grant
proposal submission to create a Research Coordination Network for GeoForAll
with a specific focus on Urban Science and City Analytics. We are focusing on
this topic because it is an area that has received some substantial dialog over
the last month over the GeoForAll list, and we need something to focus on
collaboratively so that we can move to the next level of network collaboration. </p><p class="MsoNormal">We also have the idea
to try and have GeoForAll participants in universities or colleges use our own campuses
as “educational sandboxes” where students develop geospatial applications for
our institutions as service learning, team-based learning opportunities, and share their solutions with the network.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">According to the NSF GSS program website [1], the due date
for a proposal would be September 3, 2015. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We already have a list of interested GeoForAll\OSGeo
partners on the Urban Science\City Analytics wiki page [2], and I have used the
names there on the end of the letter of inquiry.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>If you would like to
see the draft letter and perhaps be included on this initiative as a network
participant, please </b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>(1) add your name to
the Urban Science wiki ‘Who’s Who Here’ list [2] and </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>(2) contact me right
away so I can send you the draft letter for a quick read. </b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope to send this letter out to NSF this week, and hopefully we can build on this text to go after some funding via other sources worldwide.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Charlie Schweik</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505034" target="_blank">http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505034</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[2] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Charlie Schweik<br><br>Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<div>Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration</div><div><br><div>Personal website: <a href="http://people.umass.edu/cschweik" target="_blank">http://people.umass.edu/cschweik</a></div><div>Publications: <a href="http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/" target="_blank">http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/</a></div><div><br>Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see <a href="http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>--------------------------------------------</div><div>Q: Why is this email five sentences or less?</div><div>A: <a href="http://five.sentenc.es" target="_blank">http://five.sentenc.es</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Charlie Schweik<br><br>Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<div>Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration</div><div><br><div>Personal website: <a href="http://people.umass.edu/cschweik" target="_blank">http://people.umass.edu/cschweik</a></div><div>Publications: <a href="http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/" target="_blank">http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/</a></div><div><br>Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see <a href="http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>--------------------------------------------</div><div>Q: Why is this email five sentences or less?</div><div>A: <a href="http://five.sentenc.es" target="_blank">http://five.sentenc.es</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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