[OSGeo-Discuss] Question(s) for board candidates

[Suchith Anand]

Very good points. I am ccing Geo4All colleagues as we will follow up this. It is great to hear that  Boundless has an intern working on material for Geo4All . This kind of closer collaboration and synergies is what we want to build upon.

One of things we want to make sure more students are aware that they can also contribute in different ways to OSGeo (not only as developers), but helping with documentation, translators, etc.

With the student awards at OSGeo conferences, OSGeo SoC activities etc , we are starting to see good progress with this (but more need to be done).

Suchith



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From: Jody Garnett [jody.garnett at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 6:36 PM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: Darrell Fuhriman; OSGeo Discussions; mvloemans at boundlessgeo.com
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question(s) for board candidates

Hi Jody,

Thank you for your insightful inputs. I would like to also use this opportunity to invite Industry like Boundless team who are committed to OSGeo ideals be more actively involved in Geo4All as Industry partner for rapidly expanding opportunities.

Using my personal email here, so not speaking for boundless, but I think you will find we have an intern working on material for Geo4All :)

I would also like to remind the Geo4All initiative to not only focus on use of our OSGeo software, but to relentless push students to take part in the projects. Each and every course should have contact details for the projects in question, a note to be polite online (as their discussion will be visible to potential employers), and a reminder that without their involvement this software will not continue to exist.

I discussed this with Marc Vloemans (cc in ) last week when we met at SASIG 2015  http://osgeopt.pt/sasig2015/   in Lisbon. So i look forward to hear from Marc and others in the industry for closer collaborations in both education and research collaborations (esp. for H2020 opportunities).

I look forward to meeting Marc next month at LocationTech Summit, there is actually a couple days hackfest as part of that event if you have anyone interested in collaboration.
--
Jody




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