[OSGeo-Discuss] [ica-opensource] [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

Mon Sep 23 07:32:03 PDT 2013

Wows, I did not expect it, just to commit myself. Will let you updated the progress. Many thanks.

Thuy

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From: Steven Feldman [shfeldman at gmail.com]
Sent: 23 September 2013 21:02
To: TUONG THUY VU
Cc: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org; ica-opensource at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [ica-opensource] [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education  mission is now launched

Thuy

I wanted to let you and the community know that the FOSS4G LOC awarded you a FOSS4G Hero badge for your pledge "
I pledge to fully deploy OSGEO tools in my School education programme"

We were inspired by your pledge and look forward to hearing from you how you progress.

Mail me off list with an address and we will post your badge to you

Cheers

______
Steven

On 23 Sep 2013, at 04:06, TUONG THUY VU <Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my<mailto:Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my>> wrote:

Dear All,
Glad to learn the great progress from FOSS4G 2013. It's pity that I
couldn't attend due to other commitments in Malaysia.
Just for your information, I will be presenting OSGEOLive and ICA-OSGEO
lab network at Asian Geospatial Forum this Friday. Hope to raise more
awareness and interest to join our lab networks from Asian region.
Anne, Suchith, Venka, Maning and other OSGEO players in Asia, please work
together to grow the network in this region.

Cheers,
Thuy

--
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu, MIEEE
Associate Professor
Open-Source Geospatial Research Lab
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus

Course Director for MSc Geospatial Science for Development Management

On 9/23/13 6:37 AM, "Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Dear All,

FOSS4G 2013 has been a great success (28 Workshops, 180 Presentations.,
833 delegates  ) thanks to the countless hours of efforts put in by our
dedicated volunteers. Special thanks to our team members Abi, Addy,
Antony, Barend, Barry, Claire, Franz-Josef, Jeremy, Jo, IanH, IanE, Mark,
Matt, Rollo and Steven who not only made FOSS4G 2013
http://2013.foss4g.org/about-foss4g/committee/  a great success  but also
has given firm foundation for the "Geo for All" Education initiative .
We also launched OSGeo Live 7.0 at FOSS4G 2013 in  Nottingham. Thanks to
the selfless efforts and dedication of hundreds of volunteers worldwide
that help make this excellent resource possible for the benefit of the
wider community . Details at http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html  Having
free and open GI software is key for making possible for students in
developing and poor countries  to be also able to get geospatial
education (without the need for high cost  proprietary GI software ) and
OSGeo Live is cen
tral to our education efforts. Our Education Team will now with full
dedication and focus will carry on the "Geo for All" initiative to all
across the world. Our key aim is to make it possible for students in
developing and poor countries  to be also able to get geospatial
education. By 2015, we will  have 50 Open Source Geospatial Labs
established in universities in Africa alone and they will all be
teaching GIS courses to hundreds of students. We also will be starting
work on "Train the Trainer" GIS program for school teachers all over the
world.

We also launched our latest ICA-OSGeo research lab in Switzerland at  ETH
Zurich at FOSS4G 2013 . The Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH
Zurich is part is part of the Institute of Cartography and
Geoinformation, chair of Cartography . Details at
http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/karto/index_EN
The preceding Institute of Cartography was founded in 1925 by Professor
Eduard Imhof, one of the main founders of modern academic cartography. It
is therefore the oldest university institute in cartography world-wide.
In 2011, with the establishment of the new chair of Geoinformation
Engineering, the scope of activities of the institute was expanded and
its name was adapted. In cartography, the institute strives to maintain
its leading position in topographic cartography (relief representation),
thematic cartography, and atlas cartography (school atlases, national
atlases) by exploiting and further developing cartographic knowledge and
adapting it to new interactive technologies and application domains.
Geoinformation Engineering aims at analyzing, representing, modelling,
and visualizing spatio-temporal decision processes and integrates such
models in mobile geoinformation services and spatial information
technologies.It also aims to provide support for increasing the number
and qua
lity of open source teaching and training materials for Cartography and
GIS. As a proud member of the ICA-OSGeo Network , the ETH Zurich OSGL is
focusing on Education, Open Geodata and on Cartographic and Geospatial
Research. The lab website at http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html

Thanks to the momentum build by FOSS4G 2013, we have got many new
applications from  universities in this week alone for establishing
research labs, so we are well in track to keep bringing investment for
staff and infrastructure to  establish over 100 research labs in
universities world wide by Sep 2014 (the time of the next  FOSS4G
conference ).  We  will be  now working to setup a brand new website for
our rapidly  expanding education initiative and take this to the next
level.

Once again many thanks to all of you who helped for making FOSS4G 2013 a
great success. Without all of your help, we would not have been able to
make this possible. Also thanks to all volunteers who made and kept their
pledges at FOSS4G 2013  http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/pledge/

Best wishes,

Suchith (on behalf of "Geo for All" Team of FOSS4G 2013
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