[Board] FOSS4G Argentina

[Jody Garnett]

This sounds like a great opportunity, would you like to make a loomio
motion approving travel funds Sanghee Shin?

Thanks for volunteering Maria; that is a long flight.

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:59 PM Shin, Sanghee <shshin at gaia3d.com> wrote:

> I’m in favour of supporting Maria’s air fare and accommodations, since her
> visiting and activities are clearly in line with OSGeo’s outreach goal.
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> Kind regards,
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> 신상희 드림
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> Shin, Sanghee
> Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
> http://www.gaia3d.com
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> *보낸 사람: *Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
> *보낸 날짜: *2017년 5월 30일 화요일 오후 1:13
> *받는 사람: *board at lists.osgeo.org
> *참조: *Mauricio Miranda <maurimiranda at gmail.com>
> *제목: *[Board] FOSS4G Argentina
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> Dear All
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> I was invited as key note speaker for Geo4All (and OSGeo) at the FOSS4G
> Argentina [1].
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> Malena, the chair of the Conference, wrote:
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> Geo4All: I said before that we have a lot of users. Most of them are
> government employees that have started to work with FOSS just because of
> money issues in their agencies or institutions. Argentina is not different
> from any other country, we have the same problems: all Universities only
> teach with proprietary software so every professional that cames out to the
> market only knows about some specific tools. Definitively we want, and we
> must, to change that. Our plan is to organize a specific activity related
> with Geo4All where we put together people from different Universities with
> people that already have good experience working and teaching with FOSS4G.
> We think this would be a "mind change" event, we need to evangelize people
> to make them know that FOSS is the way to go, not because of money, because
> of freedom. I, and some others here, can talk a lot about this but no one
> will pay as much attention as they will to someone like María. She's not
> only the Queen of FOSS4G, she is a great leader and an awesome speaker. We
> need her here to convince those all professors and decision takers from
> Universities to move into the FOSS4G world.
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>  Besides these specific activities,  I will have a keynote about OSGeo and
> our activity.
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> I'm able to organize my first semester teachings in such a way to have one
> free week  and therefore I'm able to go. Argentina is far, the travel will
> be tiring  but the Latino American people are wonderful and I will have
> great time there. And definitey we need to strenghten our presence there.
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> I want to ask the Board if I can be provided economic support because the
> LOC is not able to pay my travel and I have great difficulties in covering
> it.
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> In any case, many many thanks to Malena and the Argentinian friends for
> their sweet words and their kind offer.
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> Best regards,
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> Maria
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> [1] http://www.foss4g-ar.org/
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> Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:
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> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies
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> *----------------------------------------------------*
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> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
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> Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
> Politecnico di Milano
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> ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)"
> http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors
> of OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge;
> SIFET Advisory Board
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> UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative
> (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)
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> *Sol Katz Award 2015*
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> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
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> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  maria.brovelli at polimi.it
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