[OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa
Suchith Anand
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Aug 3 16:39:28 PDT 2016
Hi Dirk,
Thanks for sharing the ideas on Europe chapter . I also think we should build upon North American Regional chapter[1] ideas now to have regional chapters (continent wise )setup globally in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America for rapid expansion of OSGeo globally. If there are OSGeo members supporting creating Europe Chapter (as i could see from the list), then the OSGeo Board should facilitate its creation and provide support to effectively address the specific needs of those areas.
Similarly if colleagues in South America or Asia want to setup a regional chapter to build region wise needs and synergies, let us provide them support as done with the North America chapter. I also suggest that those who already setup or in the process of setting up continient wise chapters like North America, Europe (in fact, these are two regions who have strong OSGeo growth) should share thier experiences to support other Regional chapters to form in Asia, South America and Africa to further accelerate thier development. Thanks.
Best wishes,
Suchith
[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/North_America_Regional
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From: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Dirk Frigne <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com>
Sent: 02 August 2016 11:09 AM
To: discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa
Hi Enock,
I fully agree with you.
This is one of the reasons we send a formal request to the OSGeo board
begin July to accept the formation of the OSGeo.EU chapter.
We already have some key members supporting the initiative and the idea
is to discuss the further roll-out of the organisation at the Bonn
FOSS4G conference.
In my vision, every continent should have a LOC that could focus on the
initiatives where free and open source software for Geo could be
introduced and used. These should help the LOC's already present in
different countries and form an addition to the language specific LOC's
I am open to share our experience and idea's with you.
All the information about who is involved and what our goals are you can
find on the wiki [1]
Dirk
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe
On 02-08-16 11:18, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
> Good Morning from Ghana, West Africa.
>
> I've been on this list for sometime now. I follow every bit just that I
> haven't seen any traffic from other Africa regions. As Tim said 'South
> Africa' centric :).
>
> I think there is more work ahead talking about decentralization of
> Chapters and the way forward.
>
> Best,
>
> - Enock
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Maelle Vercauteren <mavercau at ulb.ac.be
> <mailto:mavercau at ulb.ac.be>> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> As far as IGEAT (Free University of Brussels) is concerned, we have
> been consulted and are happy to see that the event is taking shape
> by Gildas (an trainee formed in 2009 by our intership). We will
> support the event as much as we can.
> Kind Regards,
> Maë//e
>
> --
> Maëlle VERCAUTEREN DRUBBEL
> Coordinatrice du stage SIG Libres ARES
>
> Université Libre de Bruxelles -
IGEAT (CP 130 / 03)
> Campus du Solbosch
> Av. F. D. Roosevelt, 50
> B-1050 Bruxelles
> Tél.: 02/650.68.14 Fax: 02/650.50.92 Local: DB6.143
>
> 2016-07-29 6:18 GMT+02:00 Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
> <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov <mailto:patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>>:
>
> Gildas,
>
> To compliment the encouragement and good guidance of Suchith,
> here is a starter app for you, the WorldWind Explorer 'reference
> app' that's all yours!
> Demo: http://explorer.worldwind.earth/
> Code: https://github.com/emxsys/WorldWindExplorer
>
> And here is a fun sandbox to play in and to teach with
> http://jsbin.com/nomafey/edit?output
>
> And an example of encouragement you can also establish for Africa
> http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
>
> And if we want the world to work together from the ground up
> (speaking city-wise),
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart
>
> -Patrick
>
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 6:38 PM
> To: Gildas Jr. Boko; geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>;
> discuss at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa
>
> Hi Gildas,
>
> Thank you for your mail and interest. Your idea to organise
> FOSS4G Africa and to create a network of capacity-building and
> knowledge and experience-sharing in Africa is excellent. I am
> CC'ing our wider community so that we will be able to bring in
> more ideas to support you.
>
> btw i could not get the link of your centre RECTAS
> www.rectas.org <http://www.rectas.org> (maybe the site is
> currently down) that you emailed but i did find another link
> with info at
>
> http://www.un-spider.org/links-and-resources/institutions/regional-centre-training-aerospace-surveys-rectas
>
> Thanks again for your initiative.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: GeoForAll-Africa <geoforall-africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:geoforall-africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of
> Gildas Jr. Boko <eddygordo at gmail.com <mailto:eddygordo at gmail.com>>
> Sent: 27 July 2016 8:07 PM
> To: geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've a user or OSGEO products for almost ten years now. And
> while i notice a growing interest all over the world for these
> products and the creation of FOSS4G chapters in different
> countries, in Africa there nothing like that.
>
> My idea is to organise a FOSS4G conference for OSGEO products
> users in order to create a network of capacity-building and
> knowledge and experience-sharing in all the possible fields.
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while now and i think a
> centre like RECTAS (www.rectas.org
> <http://www.rectas.org><http://www.rectas.org>), where I've
> worked for the past two years can host such event thanks to
> their experience in the GIS field and also their hosting capacity.
>
> Well that is an aspect on which everybody can discuss.
>
> But i believe it is high time for a FOSS4G chapter in Africa.
>
> Thanks in advance for your opinion on this idea
>
> --
> Gildas Jr BOKO (PhD)
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