[OSGeo-Edu] Academic event?

[maria.brovelli at diiar-topo.polimi.it]

Ari, we too (Milan) are interested.
Cheers.
Maria

Def. Quota Ari Jolma Ar<ari.jolma at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>>
>>    ________________________________________
>>    From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>    <mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>>    [edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>    <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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