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I like all the ideas. I am not sure when this would be a appropriate, but a webinar series might be helpful as the project completes sub parts<br>
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Tom<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF991367"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> geoforall-urbanscience-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [geoforall-urbanscience-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Charles Schweik [cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 23, 2015 7:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> geoforall-urbanscience@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Diversity building in our collaborative 'urban science/city analytics' efforts<br>
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<div>I'm working on 'activities' section for our 'Open Geospatial Science for Urban Vulnerability' NSF RCN proposal. The vast majority of this proposal will be asking for funding to send people in our network to either FOSS4G NA or the FOSS4G global to participate
in several activities that will be co-located there: </div>
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<div>1) <i><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Annual ‘Train the Trainer’ workshops on open access educational material (FOSS4G NA and FOSS4G global);</span></i></div>
<div><i><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">2) Annual </span></i><i><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Open Geospatial Science for Urban Vulnerability Doctoral Consortia at FOSS4G
global; </span></i></div>
<div><i><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">3) </span></i><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><i>Coordinated regular ‘Academic Track’ paper submissions to these conferences on Open Geospatial Science
for Urban Vulnerability;</i></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><i>4) A</i></span></font><i><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">nnual 1-day ‘collaborative paper or grant sprints’ co-located at the FOSS4G NA and global
conferences;</span></i></div>
<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><i>and,</i></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><i>5) Hold regular bi-monthly RCN steering committee meetings, and subgroup meetings via an online conferencing system</i></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">If anyone has any reactions to any of the above or other ideas I should consider, let me know. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">But here's my question:</span></font></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">NSF ENCOURAGES EFFORTS TO HELP BUILD A DIVERSE COLLABORATIVE NETWORK. Are there things we can specifically do to encourage more women in this effort or a more diverse participant pool in general?
One idea I have is to build a larger participant pool from the African Continent somehow. Thoughts, reactions? I could use some ideas on how to build diversity. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks,</span></div>
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