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

Mon Aug 1 23:37:53 PDT 2016

 Hello,

Thanks for your feedback!

I will send a support message from IGEAT/ULB and I proposed to vote at the
FOSS4G.be during our AG " we support the initiative and want to look how we
can help FOSS4GAfrica" (your sentence is really better)...

Kind Regards, Maë//e

2016-08-01 23:18 GMT+02:00 Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com>:

> 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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>>
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>>
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Maëlle VERCAUTEREN DRUBBEL
Coordinatrice du stage SIG Libres ARES

Université Libre de Bruxelles - IGEAT (CP 130 / 03)
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Av. F. D. Roosevelt, 50
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