[Board] "Geo for All" website development requirements

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks for the update Suchith, we will discuss the OSGeo Budget at next 
week's Board meeting, and I will mention moving 1.5k towards the travel 
grants for FOSS4G (great idea).

-jeff



On 2015-05-13 3:40 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> Hi Jason, (cc in OSGeo Board),
>
> Many thanks to you and University of Southampton's great contribution to our mission by developing and hosting our website  and we are delighted to set actions in place to ensure long term support for this .
>
> Through the many discussions we had  in the maillist over the last 4-5 months , it is very clear that our community and Advisory Board  sees our website developments as the biggest priority for our expansion plans and supported appropriate action for more development needs for our website esp. to support the regional chairs.
>
> As we already have $5k allocation [1] for ICA/OSGeo Labs from OSGeo budget  2015 (though it was earmarked fully for student travel) , i would request the OSGeo Board to keep the  allocation same but change this into two components to support Student travel (1500 USD ) and our additional website developments of 5 days with a budget of 3500 USD to support developers at University of Southampton (webmaters) to assist with the setting up of pages to support the regional chairs and the development of other supporting tools,such as an online annual reporting form.
>
> I also request OSGeo Board that remaining Student Travel allocation  ($1.5k)  be allocated directly to FOSS4G 2015 Seoul LOC as OSGeo contribution to the Travel Award scheme at  http://2015.foss4g.org/attending/travel-grants/  to enable few more derserving students to participate at FOSS4G 2015. I leave the selection of the students to the LOC  to decide through thier process already in place.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2015
>
> ________________________________________
> From: jds at geodata.soton.ac.uk [jds at geodata.soton.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 3:53 PM
> To: Suchith Anand
> Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: "Geo for All" website development requirements
>
> Dear all,
>
> As per Suchith's email from March, below, we at Southampton University
> are delighted to continue supporting the group through the development
> and hosting of the GeoforAll website, with the assistance of a few
> helpful volunteers from the community.
>
> I can confirm that a budget of 3500 USD would support our developers
> to assist with the setting up of pages to support the regional chairs
> (around 5 days) and the development of other supporting tools,
> such as an online annual reporting form.
>
> I hope the Advisory Board feels that this would be a suitable use of
> the available budget.
>
> Best regards,
> Jason
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:29:23PM +0000, Suchith Anand wrote:
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> Many thanks to you and Southampton University colleagues for your kind help in developing and hosting the GeoforAll website for us. This website is been very much key for building momentum for all our activities and developments. As you know, i have been working and discussing ideas with the community, our Advisory Board to get ideas on how we can ensure that the work you and colleagues are doing is at least partly supported from our end so that it is sustainable for the long term.
>>
>> Please refer the following discussions to brush up ideas (apologies for my delay in action on this, but it did help us to get clear picture and more ideas for the website development)
>>
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-January/000919.html  [supporting developing countries colleagues related discussions and budget discussions for website developments]
>>
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-February/001011.html  [digital display boards discussions]
>>
>>
>> Also, thanks to all of colleagues globally, we have now expanded rapidly and hence we decided to establish 5 regional chairs for helping direct our future expansion plans and website developments are critical to this.
>>
>> As we now have regional chairs and 5 regional based networks being created, i would suggest that you factor in one day of staff time for each region website development / update help needs (5 days in total) and also staff time to help with the digital display board setting up.
>>
>> Also for info, the GeoforAll Advisory Board   (btw we have now included all our regional chairs also into the AB) are discussing strategies/ideas for our long term education plans, criteria for our labs etc.   The AB wants to have an easy system for annual reporting for the labs with is both easy for the Regional chairs and also for the lab contacts.
>>
>> We want inputs from the whole community for this and we would like to  have a simple form for this in the website which gets posted as a blog entry in the main website under Yearly reports as per the  Criteria for maintaining active status as ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria
>> Once we have a system for this , we can refine it over the years based on the experience gained.
>>
>> So there is a long wish list of all these things we need to do for the website but our maximum budget for website developments is 3500 USD so maybe we have to be realistic and focus on the main requirements (i.e support for our regional chairs (5 days in total) and development of annual reporting form)
>>
>> If you can send the lab list with an estimate for the website developments it will be helpful and i will follow up this request with OSGeo Board in their next meeting itself. Many thanks for your help on this important work from the very start.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>>
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> Jason Sadler
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