[Board] EGU GA 2020: Data Help Desk

[Helena Mitasova]

Peter,

this is just to let you know that board has voted today "to support OSGeo participation at EGU Data Help Desk
with Peter Loewe coordinating the effort for OSGeo”
The vote will show up in the minutes here
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2020-02-24

Best regards, Helena

> On Feb 17, 2020, at 3:37 AM, Peter Löwe <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Helena, Board,
>  
> yep, an official endorsement would be excellent  (and is all what's needed). The timing is right, as the next Haelo Desk telco is scheduled for February 27.
>  
> Best,
> Peter
>  
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
>  
>  
> Gesendet: Montag, 17. Februar 2020 um 03:21 Uhr
> Von: "Helena Mitasova" <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>
> An: "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org
> Betreff: Re: [Board] EGU GA 2020: Data Help Desk
> Peter,
>  
> I put it on the agenda for Feb 24 to make an official endorsement of this action, I assume that is all that is needed from the board,
>  
> Helena
>  
> On Feb 14, 2020, at 8:37 AM, Peter Löwe <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:
>  
> 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>
> 
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> Helena Mitasova
> Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
> Faculty Fellow,
> Center for Geospatial Analytics
> North Carolina State University
> Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
> hmitaso at ncsu.edu
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Helena Mitasova
Professor at the Department of Marine, 
Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
Associate director and faculty fellow at the Center for Geospatial Analytics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
hmitaso at ncsu.edu

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