[OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Call for Volunteers for Geodata Committee

Mon Nov 27 05:43:17 PST 2017

Colleagues,

(Hi Ron!)

Ron Fortunato and Trillium Learning is a leader in this collaborative area.
I believe the cloud-based system he is describing is "Basecamp" which is
indeed a great platform for collaboration and might be one GeoForAll
collaborations might want to consider, but I'm not sure of the annual cost
for such a system if we wanted to establish a collaborative platform for
GeoForAll lab collaborations to use.

Ron's list of needed functionality is great:

- Live chat - all team blog
- Project activities/workflow - threaded
- Task assignment scheduling/To-do lists, sub-threaded and capability to
assign team members tasks along with due dates
- Scheduled reporting structure
- Calendar linked to task assignment lists
- Database for containment and review of all project data, documentation,
media.

I'd add:

- Copyleft licensing (e.g., GPL or some open source license for software;
Creative Commons license allowing new derivative work for
documentation/educational materials)

I'm running to teach, *but I think we should take these ideas and develop a
shared document on these requirements that could help us identify what
system collaborative GeoForAll labs we could establish*.  I'll do that
sometime soon.

The collaborative documentation system historically in OSGeo and GeoForAll
has been the OSGeo wiki system. Should we continue to use that? Or are
there barriers to entry to using OSGeo's wiki that make it too hard to use?

So far, there are five entries here suggesting to me that it might be a
barrier: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Labs_Edu_Collaborations
I could have built that with an open access/edit Google document, for
example, which might have been easier for people to edit.

Is access and use of the wiki a problem for others or is that list all the
collaborative interests we can identify? I think there is a new one in the
Uganda discussion but Daniel suggested he didn't have access to the wiki
which suggests to me a barrier for collaboration.

I'm looking forward to the GeoForAll webinar this Friday, where I think
we'll hear with the NCSU team has to say about collaborative platforms.

Let's keep trying to move true GeoForAll lab collaboration in education and
research forward.

Cheers all,

Charlie

I have

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Ronald Fortunato <ron at trilliumlearning.com
> wrote:

> Suchith,
>
> We use a project management system, which is secure and collaborative;
> joint project tools need to meet (at least) the following requirements:
> - Live chat - all team blog
> - Project activities/workflow - threaded
> - Task assignment scheduling/To-do lists, sub-threaded and capability to
> assign team members tasks along with due dates
> - Scheduled reporting structure
> - Calendar linked to task assignment lists
> - Database for containment and review of all project data, documentation,
> media.
>
> Let’s catch up; we have our labs in NY and Alaska working on collaborative
> projects utilizing these tools, as well as VTC.
>
> Ron
>
> Ron Fortunato
> President, Trillium Learning
> Mobile: (862) 222-2233
> Office (973) 907-2332
> Trillium Learning - Real-world Process-Based Learning
> A World Bridge® www.aworldbridge.com
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2017, at 1:04 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Patrick for this excellent links and ideas.
>
> Ron, I will be in contact with you on this for more ideas/joint work.
>
> Charlie - As we are now working on GeoForAll website migration/updates
> with Getinteractive, it makes sense to plan the collaboration tool you need
> for this in our website itself .Can you please let us know what exactly you
> need and will you be able to send us the needs/requirements  ?  Peter
> Mooney is the main contact for GeoForAll for the website migration/update
> plans . So if you can send this by 8th Dec, it will help us plan all this
> together. Thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>
> Sent: 25 November 2017 11:37 PM
> To: Suchith Anand; Jeff McKenna; osgeo; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: Ronald Fortunato
> Subject: RE: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Volunteers for Geodata
> Committee
>
> Suchith,
>
> Technically, former Teacher-In-Space astronaut Ron Fortunato’s
> www.AWorldBridge.com <http://www.aworldbridge.com/><
> http://www.AWorldBridge.com <http://www.aworldbridge.com/>> program is
> multiple labs in one. So his labs are working in concert. This WorldBridge
> enterprise involves multiples High Schools and at least one University. Ron
> has these ‘labs’ collaborating with each other building truly powerful apps.
>
> An interface to experience the UN’s World Heritage Sites:
> http://eval.whs.aworldbridgelabs.com/aworldbridge_whs.html
>
>
> And urban infrastructure management tool:
> http://eval.cs.aworldbridgelabs.com/CS_MainPage_aworldbridge.com.html
>
>
> And he is also working with the UN/FAO on a web app to monitor a major
> North African infestation of the Armyworm, https://en.
> wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_armyworm
>
>
> Everything Ron does is all OpenData, OpenSource and OpenEducation.
>
> -Patrick
> (650) 604-5656 (o)
> (650) 269-2788 (c)
>
> From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 7:34 AM
> To: Jeff McKenna; osgeo; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Volunteers for Geodata
> Committee
>
> 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.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2017-November/004311.html
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>
> ________________________________________
> From: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss-bounces@
> lists.osgeo.org <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>>> on behalf of Jeff
> McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com<mailto:jmckenna@
> gatewaygeomatics.com <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>>
> Sent: 25 November 2017 1:11 PM
> To: osgeo
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Volunteers for Geodata Committee
>
> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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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