<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Jeff, Dear All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks a lot for this very interesting and useful initiative.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First of all, let me just introduce myself because I’m an OSGeo Member since a few years… but I was mostly silent (but reading with interest most of the emails on various OSGeo mailing lists).</div><div class="">My name is Gregory Giuliani. I’m a lecturer in Geomatics and Remote Sensing at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and SDI office at UNEP/GRID-Geneva.</div><div class="">I’m actively involved in GEO/GEOSS and I’m the leading the UNIGE/Geo For All lab (<a href="http://www.unige.ch/tigers/en/autres-reseaux/geoforall/" class="">http://www.unige.ch/tigers/en/autres-reseaux/geoforall/</a>). Both at the University and GRID-Geneva we are using various FOSS solutions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will be more than happy to contribute to this new committee.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To follow Werner Leyh and Vivien Deparday emails, I agree with them that “disaster management” is an important topic to cover.</div><div class="">At the GRID-Geneva, we have developed the “Global Risk Data Platform”: <a href="http://preview.grid.unep.ch" class="">http://preview.grid.unep.ch</a></div><div class="">It is entirely based on FOSS solutions. We present the platform and its architecture in this paper: <a href="http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/11/53/2011/nhess-11-53-2011.html" class="">http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/11/53/2011/nhess-11-53-2011.html</a></div><div class="">The platform has been develop to support UNISDR Global Assessment Reports on Disaster Risk Reduction.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I take also the opportunity to suggest another “hot topic" related to the UN. It concerns the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org" class="">https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org</a></div><div class="">Related to that, in August 2014 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked an Independent Expert Advisory Group to make concrete recommendations on bringing about a data revolution in sustainable development. This is the Data Revolution Group: <a href="http://www.undatarevolution.org" class="">http://www.undatarevolution.org</a></div><div class="">And I’m sure that OSGeo has a role to play within this arena :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looking forward to collaborate with all of you and happy to join the team.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Greg</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Message: 2<br class="">Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 15:21:25 +0000 (UTC)<br class="">From: Werner Leyh <<a href="mailto:wernerleyh@yahoo.com" class="">wernerleyh@yahoo.com</a>><br class="">To: osgeo <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" class="">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, Jeff McKenna<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" class="">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="mailto:1208805130.2171265.1446650485706.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com" class="">1208805130.2171265.1446650485706.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com</a>><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<br class=""><br class="">Hi Jeff, Hi Jeroen, Hi Venka, Hi all<br class=""><br class="">With regard to the work package “disaster managment”, covered by <a href="http://www.unisdr.org/" class="">www.unisdr.org/</a> , <br class="">the following “UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the implementation of the <br class="">Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030” could be important for us:<br class=""><a href="http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/45270" class="">http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/45270</a> <br class=""><br class="">The event will take place on 27-29 January 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.<br class=""><br class="">Of course, there are many other UN activities where FOSS could be very useful.<br class="">Nevertheless, disaster management is an important point with links to main other areas.<br class="">“Link Open Data” approaches with “crowd sourced data” will surely an important point.<br class=""><br class="">Submission of abstracts is still possible till 30 November 2015. <br class="">Werner<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--------------------------------------------<br class="">On Sat, 10/31/15, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" class="">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members<br class=""> To: "osgeo" <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" class="">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br class=""> Date: Saturday, October 31, 2015, 12:18 PM<br class=""><br class=""> Thanks Jeroen, Venka, and everyone<br class=""> that already signed up as members <br class=""> (wow, great). I'm waiting on the new mailing list to<br class=""> be created, then <br class=""> we can start planning there. Venka: I had spoken with<br class=""> Kyoung-Soo Eom <br class=""> yesterday and he is very happy to hear of the new committee,<br class=""> I will <br class=""> definitely add him to the new mailing list so we can all<br class=""> collaborate there.<br class=""><br class=""> -jeff<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> On 2015-10-31 7:50 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Jeff,<br class="">Great initiative, I've just signed up to the<br class=""></blockquote> committee.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Cheers,<br class="">Jeroen<br class=""><br class="">GeoCat Bridge for ArcGIS allows instant publishing of<br class=""></blockquote> data and metadata on GeoServer, MapServer, PostGIS and<br class=""> GeoNetwork. Visit <a href="http://geocat.net" class="">http://geocat.net</a> for details.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">_________________________<br class="">Jeroen Ticheler<br class="">GeoCat bv<br class="">Veenderweg 13<br class="">6721 WD Bennekom<br class="">Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572<br class=""><a href="http://geocat.net" class="">http://geocat.net</a><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Op 30 okt. 2015 om 20:58 heeft Jeff McKenna <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote> het volgende geschreven:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Hi everyone,<br class=""><br class="">At the last OSGeo board meeting we agreed to form a<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote> new committee, focused on the UN/United Nations. I<br class=""> have drafted an initial wiki page for the committee, that<br class=""> gives some background. Please, if you are interested<br class=""> in helping promote Open Source geospatial at the UN with its<br class=""> members states, definitely add your name to the wiki<br class=""> page. We will likely organize the first committee<br class=""> meeting sometime in November. Thanks!<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee" class="">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee</a><br class=""><br class="">-jeff<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote> _______________________________________________<br class=""> Discuss mailing list<br class=""> <a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class=""> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 3<br class="">Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 12:21:44 -0500<br class="">From: Vivien Deparday <<a href="mailto:vivien.deparday@gmail.com" class="">vivien.deparday@gmail.com</a>><br class="">To: Werner Leyh <<a href="mailto:wernerleyh@yahoo.com" class="">wernerleyh@yahoo.com</a>><br class="">Cc: osgeo <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" class="">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="mailto:CAKK-QjT2G3cECx-rVUfd5xs-RR__t-Lhr3Qu7H2j8w+FJEpZvg@mail.gmail.com" class="">CAKK-QjT2G3cECx-rVUfd5xs-RR__t-Lhr3Qu7H2j8w+FJEpZvg@mail.gmail.com</a>><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">Hi Jeff and all,<br class=""><br class="">Our Open Data for Resilience team (<a href="https://www.gfdrr.org/opendri" class="">https://www.gfdrr.org/opendri</a>) at the<br class="">World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)<br class="">has been promoting open source, open data, OpenStreetMap with regards to<br class="">resilience and disaster risk reduction applications in many countries<br class="">through trainings, projects,etc.... Several members of the team are OSGeo<br class="">charter member and advocate and technically, the World Bank is a UN<br class="">specialized agency so happy to be part of the committee and to help this<br class="">cooperation too.<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class=""><br class="">Vivien<br class=""><br class="">On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Werner Leyh <<a href="mailto:wernerleyh@yahoo.com" class="">wernerleyh@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Jeff, Hi Jeroen, Hi Venka, Hi all<br class=""><br class="">With regard to the work package “disaster managment”, covered by<br class=""><a href="http://www.unisdr.org/" class="">www.unisdr.org/</a> ,<br class="">the following “UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the<br class="">implementation of the<br class="">Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030” could be<br class="">important for us:<br class=""><a href="http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/45270" class="">http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/45270</a><br class=""><br class="">The event will take place on 27-29 January 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.<br class=""><br class="">Of course, there are many other UN activities where FOSS could be very<br class="">useful.<br class="">Nevertheless, disaster management is an important point with links to main<br class="">other areas.<br class="">“Link Open Data” approaches with “crowd sourced data” will surely an<br class="">important point.<br class=""><br class="">Submission of abstracts is still possible till 30 November 2015.<br class="">Werner<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--------------------------------------------<br class="">On Sat, 10/31/15, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members<br class=""> To: "osgeo" <discuss@lists.osgeo.org><br class=""> Date: Saturday, October 31, 2015, 12:18 PM<br class=""><br class=""> Thanks Jeroen, Venka, and everyone<br class=""> that already signed up as members<br class=""> (wow, great). I'm waiting on the new mailing list to<br class=""> be created, then<br class=""> we can start planning there. Venka: I had spoken with<br class=""> Kyoung-Soo Eom<br class=""> yesterday and he is very happy to hear of the new committee,<br class=""> I will<br class=""> definitely add him to the new mailing list so we can all<br class=""> collaborate there.<br class=""><br class=""> -jeff<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> On 2015-10-31 7:50 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Jeff,<br class="">Great initiative, I've just signed up to the<br class=""></blockquote> committee.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Cheers,<br class="">Jeroen<br class=""><br class="">GeoCat Bridge for ArcGIS allows instant publishing of<br class=""></blockquote> data and metadata on GeoServer, MapServer, PostGIS and<br class=""> GeoNetwork. Visit http://geocat.net for details.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">_________________________<br class="">Jeroen Ticheler<br class="">GeoCat bv<br class="">Veenderweg 13<br class="">6721 WD Bennekom<br class="">Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572<br class="">http://geocat.net<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Op 30 okt. 2015 om 20:58 heeft Jeff McKenna <<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com><br class=""> het volgende geschreven:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Hi everyone,<br class=""><br class="">At the last OSGeo board meeting we agreed to form a<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote> new committee, focused on the UN/United Nations. I<br class=""> have drafted an initial wiki page for the committee, that<br class=""> gives some background. Please, if you are interested<br class=""> in helping promote Open Source geospatial at the UN with its<br class=""> members states, definitely add your name to the wiki<br class=""> page. We will likely organize the first committee<br class=""> meeting sometime in November. 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