[OSGeo-Edu] Academic event?

[Ari Jolma]

Folks,

I'm interested in a academic workshop, which could be composed the way 
Tyler suggests. My main interest for the workshop is to plan and develop 
an OSGeo edu virtual machine / live system - i.e., not a single system 
but mainly develop the method, procedure and capabilities for making 
packages that are used to compose such systems.

I already presented this idea to Charlie and Suchith and offered to 
organize it in Finland some time in the early spring (February would be 
best for me). University facilities for me at least are free and I could 
even have some small support for it to pay the food for example. Atlanta 
(Georgia Tech) would also be possible but it is of course expensive for 
me to travel to USA and bringing my students is problematic.

European funding for this kind of thing is COST - the next collection 
date is 30 March - so if we have a meeting in Feb, we could also plan 
for a COST action. I think we could have a nice group for a COST action 
if we get Nottingham, Girona, Trento and possibly some others (what do 
you say?). I've not been in a COST before so I have only superficial 
knowledge of it.

Best regards,

Ari

On 10/18/2011 11:33 PM, Charles Schweik wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Phillip Davis <pdavis at delmar.edu 
> <mailto:pdavis at delmar.edu>> wrote:
>
>     We have an event scheduled May 21-23 @ Georgia Tech Conference
>     Center that might be good venue.
>
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>     <mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Tyler
>     Mitchell [tmitchell at osgeo.org <mailto:tmitchell at osgeo.org>]
>     Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:46 PM
>     To: OSGeo-edu
>     Subject: [OSGeo-Edu] Academic event?
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Would anyone be interested in having an OSGeo Educators
>     workshop/conference sometime in 2012? 
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for my silence -- I've been traveling a great deal this month 
> and cannot keep up with the influx of emails. I think we should have 
> our first OSGeo edu "virtual meeting" about this idea.
> I find myself wondering if some of us could collaborate on one or 
> multiple proposals somewhere to pay for workshop participants to 
> travel to such an event. For example -- US or EU funding sources perhaps?
>
> Phil, I think you said you had the capability to hold a virtual 
> meeting for our group?
>
> Charlie
>
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