[Pacific] Fwd: [Geo4All] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

[Edwin Liava'a]

Hi All,

Forwarding here a "great read" message by Dr. Suchith Anand on "Geo
For All" http://www.geoforall.org/ and on OSGeo Live:

Details at  http://live.osgeo.org

Download details at  http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html

Contents overview at https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html

And I quote :

"Geo4All is and will be always open to all projects and initiatives
that support Open Principles in Education. We have a duty and long
term view on Open Principles in education to ensure that free and open
geospatial education opportunities  are available not just to current
generation but also to our future generations..."

cheers,

Edwin

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:54 PM
Subject: [Geo4All] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators
globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography
Awareness Week
To: "geoforall at lists.osgeo.org" <geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>,
"discuss at lists.osgeo.org" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>


Dear colleague,


20 years back academics and educators (esp. in  developing countries)
struggled to start GIS courses for thier students and had to beg to
vendors for some "free" licences .Now they dont need any "charity"
from any vendors, as they are fully empowered and can start courses as
they wish without any permissions from any vendor owners . We want
academics globally to be fully empowered  from now and   give software
as they wish to thier students education. By  making free and open
software and educational resources available for all has empowered
academics and educators globally and brought down the "Iron Curtains"
that  some  vendors have tried to create in education. Now no vendors
can dictate terms to any academic or educator or student. We want
academics to be in full control of education from now not any vendors.

I would like to thank the OSGeo Live community for making available
Version 10.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection that has been
released, ready for the FOSS4G conference in Bonn, Germany - the
annual global event of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

OSGeo Live  is an excellent resource for academics and educators
around the world to teach geospatial science and give away the
software for free to thier students thereby empowering them in the
true sense. This  excellent resource is made  available to the global
community thanks to the hardwork and selfless dedication of hundreds
of  volunteers (Developers, packagers, documenters and translators) in
addition to thousands who have been involved in building the packaged
software. Thank you all for making this possible.

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and
Virtual Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial
software, which can be trialled without installing anything.


OSGeo Live  includes:

    Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and
pre-configured
    Free world maps and sample datasets
    Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
    Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script
    Translations to multiple languages



Details at  http://live.osgeo.org


Download details at  http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html


Contents overview at https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html



I request all colleagues globally to make use of opportunities like
Geography Awareness Week (November 13 - 19, 2016) and other important
Geography events  like OSM Week 2016, GIS Day 2016    etc to spread
Geo4All ideas and give away OSGeo Live DVD, USB   to your colleagues
and  students so they dont have to buy any properitery GIS software
and truly empowering them. By doing so, you are  gifting millions of
dollars of software to your students (if i may borrow some ideas from
our properitery friends!  :-) So go ahead and gift software for free
from now at all  Geography Awareness Week and all other key GIS
events... We want all academics from now be the owners of the software
and tools . You dont have to get permission from any properitery GIS
vendor owners to start your courses or gift software to your students!


Geo4All is and will be always open to all projects and initiatives
that support Open Principles in Education. We have a duty and long
term view on Open Principles in education to ensure that free and open
geospatial education opportunities  are available not just to current
generation but also to our future generations...


Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand

http://www.geoforall.org/


Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science


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