[Board] FOSS4G Argentina

[Venka]

On 2017/05/30 15:36, Anita Graser wrote:
> Big +1 to support air fare and accommodations!

+1, Venka.
> 
> Thank you Maria for taking the time to make this trip.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Anita
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks to FOSS4G Argentina LOC for their efforts to promote Open
>> Principles in geoeducation. I really hope the Board will support Maria's
>> travel to give keynote on behalf of OSGeo for wider outreach to South
>> America. OSGeo needs to support and expand our activities in the developing
>> world
>>
>> Malena and the Argentinian colleagues - Please let the GeoforAll community
>> know how we can support you for the  session you are planning?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Shin, Sanghee <
>> shshin at gaia3d.com>
>> Sent: 30 May 2017 6:59 AM
>> To: Maria Antonia Brovelli; board at lists.osgeo.org
>> Cc: Mauricio Miranda
>> Subject: Re: [Board] FOSS4G Argentina
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> 신상희 드림
>> ---
>> Shin, Sanghee
>> Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
>> http://www.gaia3d.com
>>
>> 보낸 사람: Maria Antonia Brovelli<mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
>> 보낸 날짜: 2017년 5월 30일 화요일 오후 1:13
>> 받는 사람: board at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>
>> 참조: Mauricio Miranda<mailto:maurimiranda at gmail.com>
>> 제목: [Board] FOSS4G Argentina
>>
>>
>> Dear All
>>
>>
>>
>> I was invited as key note speaker for Geo4All (and OSGeo) at the FOSS4G
>> Argentina [1].
>>
>>
>> Malena, the chair of the Conference, wrote:
>> ...
>> 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.
>>
>> ....
>>
>>   Besides these specific activities,  I will have a keynote about OSGeo and
>> our activity.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> In any case, many many thanks to Malena and the Argentinian friends for
>> their sweet words and their kind offer.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Maria
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.foss4g-ar.org/
>>
>>
>>
>> Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:
>>
>> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_
>> Studies
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>> Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
>> Politecnico di Milano
>>
>> 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
>>
>> UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative
>> (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)
>>
>> Sol Katz Award 2015
>>
>> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
>> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  maria.brovelli at polimi.it
>>
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