[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Volunteers for Geodata Committee

[Landon Blake]

Jeff:

I would also be wiling to help out with a reboot of the committee. After
your done collecting volunteers, let me know how you want to move forward.

Landon

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thank you Jeff for this call . Many thanks to everyone who contributed to
> Geodata over the years.
>
> Please do not dissolve this committee. Let us work to reactivate this
> committee with more interested colleagues . I would like to volunteer
> to work for OSGeo Geodata Committee  for linking ideas with the education
> aspects of Geodata. Just this month Charlie Schweik has given call in
> GeoForAll to identify 2-4 collaboration projects by at where at least
> 2-labs are collaborating on open access educational content they want to
> develop over 2018 and I think  working on a project on GeoData aspects will
> be a great opportunity to link the education community ideas for this. So I
> will follow up this using geodata as an example and try to get colleagues
> in various GeoForAll labs working on this to come together . I am sure
> working together we can make this happen.
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> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
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> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2017-November/004311.html
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> ________________________________________
> From: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> Sent: 25 November 2017 1:11 PM
> To: osgeo
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Volunteers for Geodata Committee
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> Dear OSGeo community,
>
> We are all aware of how important Open data is for our community, and
> for the mission of OSGeo.  Most of you are aware that the OSGeo
> foundation has a committee dedicated to this, called the Geodata
> Committee; however the reality is that this committee is quiescent/not
> active/at rest, as its mailing list has not really been used since a
> message was posted in May of 2015 (which no one answered actually).
>
> The Geodata Committee is still listed as a working committee on the
> OSGeo website, and points to a page[1] that contains the mailing list
> and the wiki.  The mailing list has 387 members, and the archives go all
> the way back to March of 2006.  Back in those days, the committee would
> meet regularly on IRC and it was very vibrant (thanks to Jo, Arnulf, and
> the many early visionaries pushing forward and sharing).
>
> More recently, there was a "reboot" push for this committee around 2012,
> and also another one in October of last year.  Of course there were
> likely many other attempts, but those are the ones that come to mind.
>
> We believe that open data is even more critical to the mission of OSGeo
> today, and a strong relationship with the various data communities is
> important for the health of the ecosystem.  We also look to the massive
> success of GeoForAll for sharing the passion for education and Open as a
> great example of what we can all do together.
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> Would you be willing to help revive the OSGeo Geodata Committee?  It
> would be great to hear more thoughts and ideas on this.  It does not
> seem right to dissolve the committee; in fact we want the opposite to
> occur.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Maria, Codrina, Vasile, Jeff on behalf of the OSGeo Board of Directors
>
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/projects/geodata.html
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