[Board] Please update Helena Mitasova as the main Geo4All contact in website

Wed Nov 2 14:33:19 PDT 2016

Each committee chair and project officer should have website edit
permissions (if not please ask).

--
Jody Garnett

On 21 October 2016 at 02:58, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Sure. I am ccing in Jason Salder (our web administrator) for this.
>
> Jason - please update the text in our website to reflect this  clearly
> (the first paragraph). Text below
>
> "Geo for All" is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's Committee for
> Educational outreach and works in close collaboration with ICA, ISPRS,
> UN-GIS and other partners worldwide in our mission for making geospatial
> education and opportunities accessible to all.
>
> I don't know who is the main web team for the OSGeo website is. Could they
> please update the info with Helena Mitasova as the main Geo4All contact at
>
> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Venkatesh
> Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
> Sent: 21 October 2016 9:59 AM
> To: dirk.frigne at geosparc.com; board at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...
>
> Hi Dirk,
>
> Yes, the board decision at January 2016 f2f is
> reflected on http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html
>
> but not on the our websites landing page.
>
> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
> shows Suchith Anand as the contact person for Geo4All.
>
> The above decision need to be reflected also on the geo4all
> website (http://www.geoforall.org/) stating clearly that it a
> OSGeo Committee for Educational outreach in close collaboration
> with other players like ICA, ISPRS, UN-GIS. I request Suchith's
> to take this up with the geo4all website admin asap.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> On 2016/10/21 16:36, Dirk Frigne wrote:
> > Venka et All,
> >
> > It was w board decision on the face2face meeting in Januari 2016 to
> > replace the Education committee by  Geo4All. This was mentionned in the
> > meeting. From the meeting notes:
> >
> > MC: Recognize Geo4all is the new educational outreach of OSgeo
> > MS: seconded
> > Passed
> >
> > Relationship with Geo4all
> >
> >      The have decided for scenario 1B
> > I
> >      We are dissolving the disfunct education committee and establish
> > Geo4all as the new education outreach of OSGeo
> >      Geo4all needs to provide a contact personal
> >
> > Regards,
> > D.
> >
> > On 21/10/2016 01:27, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> >> Maxi, Cameron and all,
> >>
> >> Perhaps the term "Education Committee" could be replaced with
> >> Geo4All as it represents the educational outreach project of
> >> OSGeo.
> >>
> >> Mapbuilder which is listed as an Foundation project has
> >> retired [1] and and can be removed or shown
> >> "Past Project".
> >>
> >> Regarding "Public Geodata Project", I expressed my views in
> >> the recent e-mail [2]. I would be happy to work together with
> >> anyone who would like to take up on forming the "Data4All"
> >> initiative with OSM, HOT and others in the Open Data
> >> community.
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Venka
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.jp/2008/07/end-of-
> life-for-community-mapbuilder-we_29.html
> >> [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-October/016812.html
> >>
> >> On 10/21/2016 4:53 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >>> Hi Maxi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure our software incubation checklist is the correct criteria
> >>> to apply to "OSGeo Outreach Projects".
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> The education committee is a huge success story of OSGeo, attracting
> >>> educators from around the world who are promoting Open Source to
> >>> future generations. OSGeo should be promoting this community.
> >>>
> >>> OSGeo-Live likewise has hundreds of contributors, provides a easy way
> >>> for new users to find out about Open Source projects, and maintains a
> >>> high level of quality. It should be promoted. Note, we have considered
> >>> taking OSGeo-Live through graduation. Checklist here:
> >>>
> >>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Incubation_Graduation_Checklist
> >>>
> >>> One concern I have is that OSGeo-Live includes more projects than just
> >>> those incubated. A casual observer would naturally deduce that if
> >>> OSGeo-Live has reached incubation quality, then all included packages
> >>> should have also reached such quality. This assumption is incorrect
> >>> and should not be promoted by OSGeo, and is a reason for OSGeo-Live
> >>> not to be officially recognised as an OSGeo incubated project.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> The OSGeo Data Committee is a great idea, but has lost impetus. This
> >>> might be a candidate for dropping from the home page. Possibly we
> >>> should be pointing people to Open Street Map or similar.
> >>>
> >>> Warm regards, Cameron
> >>>
> >>> On 21/10/2016 12:20 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
> >>>> dear Board,
> >>>> in the OSGeo landing page (www.osgeo.org <http://www.osgeo.org>) in
> >>>> the "OSGeo projects" frame are listed the so called "Outreach
> Projects".
> >>>>
> >>>> To my understanding and knowledge these listed projects (Public
> >>>> Geospatial Data, Education and Curriculum, OSGeo Live) have not been
> >>>> nor incubated nor graduated.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm therefore asking for clarification, and in the case my
> >>>> understanding is correct, to immediately remove these projects from
> >>>> the landing page.
> >>>>
> >>>> Two of them are actually committee, at the same level of the other
> >>>> OSGeo committee, that in my opinion should be equally promoted and
> >>>> listed togheter.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best,
> >>>> Maxi
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> *Massimiliano Cannata*
> >>>>
> >>>> Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica
> >>>>
> >>>> Responsabile settore Geomatica
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Istituto scienze della Terra
> >>>>
> >>>> Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design
> >>>>
> >>>> Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana
> >>>>
> >>>> Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio
> >>>>
> >>>> Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14
> >>>>
> >>>> Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09
> >>>>
> >>>> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch <mailto:massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
> >>>>
> >>>> _www.supsi.ch/ist <http://www.supsi.ch/ist>_
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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