[Board] GeoForAll committee co-chairs

Sun Oct 23 05:26:37 PDT 2016

Thanks Helena. My only aim was to get GeoForAll started , get key external communities (OSGeo, ISPRS etc) support our ideas and then hand it over to safe hands which is now achieved by us being firmly established as a committee in OSGeo .

So whichever structure OSGeo Board wants is fine for me.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>
Sent: 22 October 2016 11:01 PM
To: Anand Suchith
Cc: Venkatesh Raghavan; board at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: GeoForAll committee co-chairs

Suchith, Venka,

I think that we have a little bit of confusion here - this is how I understand our roles:

Within GeoForAll:
Suchith - you are the global chair, while I am a regional co-chair for US - we have several people serving as regional chairs for various regions

In relation to OSGeo - I am the member of OSGeo board who serves as a liaison to GeoForAll

Given that GeoForAll is the OSGeo Education and Research outreach initiative which replaced the Education and Curricullum committee, as a committee it needs to have a chair or co-chairs, so I think
that having both of us as co-chairs as suggested by Venka (and similar to the UN Committee) sounds like a good solution to me for now. OSGeo board will have a meeting about the Committees so we will see whether there
will be any suggestions for further discussion but I am OK with the structure as it is now.

Helena

> On Oct 22, 2016, at 2:24 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Many thanks Venka for updating this. No need to put my name as co-chair.
>
> I am happy to be ordinary member of OSGeo and Geo4All and keep expanding the mission.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
> Sent: 22 October 2016 4:56 AM
> To: Anand Suchith; board at lists.osgeo.org; dirk.frigne at geosparc.com
> Subject: Re: [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...
>
> Suchith,
>
> I have made necessary changes at
> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
> Perhaps your name should be retained as co-chair of the GeoforAll (I
> prefer Geo4All) committee.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> On 10/21/2016 5:46 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
>> Yes, and Helena Mitasova was nominated as the contact person for Geo4All. This should be reflected in the websites, promotional materials etc.
>>
>> I also strongly suggest that Geo4All link should be there in the OSGeo index page , as this is our official outreach (official MoUs with external organisations). So it is important to highlight this and not to duplicate efforts.
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Dirk Frigne <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com>
>> Sent: 21 October 2016 8:36 AM
>> To: board at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...
>>
>> 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
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_OSGeo_Relationship#Scenario_1B
>>     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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
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