[Belgium] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa

[Johan Van de Wauw]

I support the idea, but we must take care that we don't create expectations
that we can not deliver.

Rather than saying that we will support "as much as we can" it is may be
better to say that we support the initiative and that we want to look how
we can help them.

Kind Regards,
Johan

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Maelle Vercauteren <mavercau at ulb.ac.be>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> It 's an trainee formed by our internship in ULB/IGEAT who want to lauched
> this :-)
>
> Are you ok that we say that OSGeo.be will support as much as we can the
> FOSS4GAfrica ?
>
> I think it could be nice that we send a message to tell that we support
> officialy this initiative...
>
> Tell me if it's not ok for you  ? Or do you have another suggestion ?
>
> Cheers, Maë//e
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>
> Date: 2016-07-29 6:18 GMT+02:00
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa
> To: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>, "Gildas Jr. Boko" <
> eddygordo at gmail.com>, "geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org" <
> geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>, "discuss at lists.osgeo.org" <
> discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
> Gildas,
>
> To compliment the encouragement and good guidance of Suchith,
> here is a starter app for you, the WorldWind Explorer 'reference app'
> that's all yours!
> Demo: http://explorer.worldwind.earth/
> Code: https://github.com/emxsys/WorldWindExplorer
>
> And here is a fun sandbox to play in and to teach with
> http://jsbin.com/nomafey/edit?output
>
> And an example of encouragement you can also establish for Africa
> http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
>
> And if we want the world to work together from the ground up (speaking
> city-wise),
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart
>
> -Patrick
>
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Suchith Anand
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 6:38 PM
> To: Gildas Jr. Boko; geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org;
> discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa
>
> Hi Gildas,
>
> Thank you for your mail and interest. Your idea to organise FOSS4G Africa
> and to create a network of capacity-building and knowledge and
> experience-sharing in Africa is excellent. I am CC'ing our wider community
> so that we will be able to bring in more ideas to support you.
>
> btw i could not get the link of your centre RECTAS www.rectas.org (maybe
> the site is currently down) that you emailed but i did find another link
> with info at
>
>
> http://www.un-spider.org/links-and-resources/institutions/regional-centre-training-aerospace-surveys-rectas
>
> Thanks again for your initiative.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: GeoForAll-Africa <geoforall-africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on
> behalf of Gildas Jr. Boko <eddygordo at gmail.com>
> Sent: 27 July 2016 8:07 PM
> To: geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've a user or OSGEO products for almost ten years now. And while i notice
> a growing interest all over the world for these products and the creation
> of FOSS4G chapters in different countries, in Africa there nothing like
> that.
>
> My idea is to organise a FOSS4G conference for OSGEO products users in
> order to create a network of capacity-building and knowledge and
> experience-sharing in all the possible fields.
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while now and i think a centre like
> RECTAS (www.rectas.org<http://www.rectas.org>), where I've worked for the
> past two years can host such event thanks to their experience in the GIS
> field and also their hosting capacity.
>
> Well that is an aspect on which everybody can discuss.
>
> But i believe it is high time for a FOSS4G chapter in Africa.
>
> Thanks in advance for your opinion on this idea
>
> --
> Gildas Jr BOKO (PhD)
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