[Board] EGU GA 2020: Data Help Desk

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Thank you for the information and congratulation for the great work (I
wasn't able to attend, sorry).

I fully support this action and hope for a positive feedback from OSGeo
Board.

I will help as much as I can during EGU since I will be there.

Best,
Maxi

Il giorno ven 14 feb 2020 alle ore 14:37 "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
ha scritto:

> Dear Board,
> I’m reporting on the latest development regarding the new Data Help Desk
> (DHD) at the EGU General Assembly 2020 in Vienna and ask for your feedback
> and support.
>
> Yesterday the DHD effort 2020 had its kickoff in a telco, with
> stakeholders from  AGU, EGU, ENVRI, ESIP, GEANT and OSGeo (yours truly).
>
> This project will allow us to raise awareness about OSGeo and do reach out
> to early career scientitsts at EGU (16.000 attendees expected, over 50% of
> the early career scientists) on a completely new level (compared to earlier
> EGU-related efforts).
>
> While it’s called a Data Help Desk, it’s about Open Science, which
> includes Open Data, but also Open Source.
>
> As an example, this is the agenda of the DHD at AGU 2019:
> https://copdess.org/data-fairs/2019-data-fair-at-agu-fall-meeting/
>
> The Data Help Desk will be based in a (small) booth in a prime spot within
> the exhibition space of the conference.
>
> For those who have attended EGU before: The booth will be just opposite of
> the big EGU installation in the basement level (where complimentary
> conference postcards can be dropped of, EGU swag is sold, next to the
> mineral exhibition, near the photo competition).
>
> Due to conference-related deadlines, the concept for the booth needs to be
> developed rapidly, within the next two weeks.
>
> The booth will be occupied for the whole conference (five days) by
> volunteers from various communities (-> opportunity for OGeo folks
> attending EGU) which will answer questions, serve as a switchboard to
> connect to experts, give presentations, etc.
>
> We can use this in several ways, based on already existing OSGeo handouts
> and presentations.
> Even if the DHD booth will only be staffed with OSGeo activists
> infrequently, other staff can also hand out OSGeo-related gear or show high
> level presentations about OSGeo live.
>
> I propose to set up a dedicated wiki-page for this, to gather ideas and
> links to documents, files, etc.
>
> The Open GeoScience 2020 budget includes about 2500 USD for EGU-related
> activities. The OSGeo Lunchbag event (
> https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/session/38173) which has
> to be covered by this budget is expected to cost less than 1.200 USD. So
> sufficient funding remains for Data Helpdesk related efforts, like
> giveaways or OSGeo Live thumbdrives / DVDs / postcards, etc.
>
> For now, the DHD organizers at AGU/EGU have requested me to report this to
> the OSGeo Board and to ask whether this course of action is supported by
> the OSGeo Board (we have a MOU with AGU, but not EGU).
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
>
>

-- 
*Massimiliano Cannata*

Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica

Responsabile settore Geomatica


Istituto scienze della Terra

Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design

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