[Board] Collaboration with the National GeoTech Center of Excellence

Sun Jan 27 17:10:26 PST 2019

Hi Jody,

Thank you for the information. I have actually already communicated with the some of this year’s FOSS4G-NS organizers already, since they are based in San Diego and so am I. The GeoTech team has members in different parts of the country, so I suspect they may want to help with future events as FOSS4G-NA moves to different locations. The NSF will like to see evidence of sustained collaboration between the GeoTech Center and professional partners, that’s why I thought we should formalize this partnership in an MOU with a central body like the OS Geo Foundation rather than a local committee that may change from year to year.

Thank you for pointing me to the GeoForAll site, I will definitely reach out to that group.

As for our contribution to open source GIS, we have hosted several QGIS workshops with URISA at Palomar College in the past, and the GeoTech Center also hosted QGIS workshops at its national conference, GeoEd (http://www.geotechcenter.org/geoed-181.html) . Several GeoTech members and I have also included classes or activities on QGIS in our colleges’ and universities’ GIS curriculum.

Thank you,
Wing

From: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2019 4:10 PM
To: Cheung, Wing <wcheung at palomar.edu>
Subject: Re: [Board] Collaboration with the National GeoTech Center of Excellence

Please reach out to the foss4gna organizers directly volunteering your time to help with the travel grant program if you would like to help (as a volunteer lead organization time commitment is critical to these activities).

Remember we are a global organization so if we were to  “sponsor with complementary passes” we would be buying them from the local event organizers. We instead fund the travel grant program (together with sponsors) which is application based rather than a sponsorship.

Please see https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/foss4g-travel-grant-program/

While you are welcome to attend our next board meeting (happening in February via IRC chat) I suspect  you would best be served by signing up the the GeoForAll mailing list and introducing yourself and ideas (https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/).

Can I ask how your faculty and students are contributing to open source today?

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 5:53 PM Cheung, Wing <wcheung at palomar.edu<mailto:wcheung at palomar.edu>> wrote:
Hi Jody,

Thank you for the speedy response!

It is great to hear about the foundation’s initiatives and programs aimed at advancing open source GIS.

One of my ideas of sponsorship is along the lines of the OSGeo foundation providing a limited number of complimentary FOSS4G-NA passes, while the GeoTech Center offer travel stipends to a limited number of community college students and faculty.

We are definitely interested in booth swaps and speaker exchanges, and the GeoTech Center can similar support OSGeo members (preferably from community colleges) to attend our events or your events.

I will love to set up a call with you or other interested board members to explore the details of these potential opportunities.

Thank you,
Wing

From: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com<mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2019 8:38 AM
To: Cheung, Wing <wcheung at palomar.edu<mailto:wcheung at palomar.edu>>
Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Board] Collaboration with the National GeoTech Center of Excellence

OSGeo has the GeoForAll group devoted to educational an open education, and the majority of our partnerships are via this initiative. My understanding is we are very interested in forming partnerships of this nature, others here can speak more to this program.

Keep in mind our primary contribution is free software, while we are experimenting with finically supporting some of our community activities that does not extend to supporting partners directly. We will consider cross
sponsorship for equal amounts of having sponsors is important to your story, we tend to focus joint activities instead.

Our travel grant program was set up in part to increase diversity and is available me to students.  We hope to increase our budget for this program in 2019. This is an application process rather than a sponsorship.  We will need to recruiters participants to review applications in order to run a travel grant program for foss4gna - perhaps you would like to help?

We are open to setting up booth swaps or speaking engagements if there is opportunity. Our ability to do so depends on our community members having plans to attend your event.

I am glad you are seeing success and hope we can be part of that success in the year ahead.

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:57 PM Cheung, Wing <wcheung at palomar.edu<mailto:wcheung at palomar.edu>> wrote:
Hello everyone,

My name is Wing Cheung, and I am an Assistant Director with the National Science Foundation funded GeoTech Center of Excellence (http://www.geotechcenter.org/) and a Professor of GIS/Geography at Palomar College, San Marcos, CA. The GeoTech Center’s mission is to prepare students for the geospatial workforce by providing educators and students with geospatial curriculum and training opportunities. I was wondering if the OSGeo Board is interested in formalizing a no-cost partnership with the GeoTech Center. We are grateful for what the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is already doing in terms of its support of our annual Geospatial Technology Student Skills Competition http://www.geotechcenter.org/2019-geospatial-technology-skills-competition.html , and we will like to explore additional collaboration opportunities such as sponsoring educational participants from community colleges at FOSS4G-NA, or presenting at each other’s conferences (our annual conference is GeoEd http://www.geotechcenter.org/geoed-19.html).

Our current list of partners include organizations such as ASPRS, GISCI, URISA, and others. http://www.geotechcenter.org/center-partners.html

Thank you,

Wing Cheung PhD, GISP
Professor of Geography and GIS,
Assistant Director of National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence,
Department Chair of Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences,
Palomar College, San Marcos, CA 92069
(760)744-1150 ext.3652<tel:%28760%297441150%20ext.3652>

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