Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Academic Event

Wed Oct 26 17:11:20 EDT 2011

Hi,
I'd like to organize a virtual meeting for week of Nov 1st. To discuss these workshop proposals.  Anyone have ideas on how to settle on a day/time?

Charlie

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From: "Lluís Vicens" <lluis at sigte.udg.es>
To: "edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org" <edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [OSGeo-Edu] Academic Event
Date: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 4:13 am
Dear all,

Rosa has been looking for different funding options to host the Academic/Edu meeting here in Girona next March and it seems that it's not easy.

Here it goes a short summary:

*1/ COST provides financial support for cooperation efforts of scientific groups across Europe and the coordination of these research networks called “Actions”. The support will cover the costs of networking activities such as meetings (e.g. travel, subsistence, local organiser support), conferences, workshops, short-term scientific exchanges, training schools, publications and dissemination activities. COST does not fund the research itself.

As Ari suggested, the proposal submission is a two steps process: a) Submit a short proposal before March 30th 2012, and then a long proposal before July 27h.

Final resolution will be December 5th 2012

*2/ LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAM (KA3 ICT MULTILATERAL NETWORKS): Page129 on http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc/call12/fiches_en.pdf and http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/ka3/ict_multilateral_networks_en.php

As you can see, the deadline is March 1st 2012, and the resolution is June 2012.

The problem with this two different funding programs (COST & LifeLong Learning...) is that they are good to organize a meeting in 2013, but not for 2012. 

I don't know if there are any other options for funding a meeting in 2012. Anybody knows? If we don't have funds I believe that it's not so easy to move persons across Europe, coming from different universities and research institutions. 

Otherwise, maybe we can plan a «working meeting» in Girona (March 2012) in order to share ideas and experiences and to work together to choose a funding program, and start to work to organize a Edu-meeting in 2013 (scope, needs, actions, attendants, workshops, ...) and to get the real interest for a meeting like that, and to know who really wants to be involved... Even without a funding program, universities and institutions can be able to send a delegate for one or two days in Girona in order to attend a « preparatory working meeting». Then we can share and present this project during the Spanish foss4g meeting (Jornadas de SIG Libre). 

This are just some ideas 

What do you think? Please, let me know your thoughts... 

Lluís

El dj 20 de 10 de 2011 a les 15:15 -0400, en/na Charles Schweik va escriure: 

1) I have created a new entry on our wiki page to help us organize our 2011-2012 initiatives. I've tried to build "interest party" lists from the emails. I'm sure I missed some or couldn't remember exact institutional affiliations. 

See 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Educational_Content_Inventory#2011-2012_Initiatives

Please add your name if it is missing, or update if I have something wrong or email me if you can't edit the wiki. 

2) Tyler's question of nailing down a date. 

+1 for doing the events in sequence (EU-March, US-May) rather than in parallel. 

See if we can get funds for some cross-participation and we figure out how to build from the March event in May. 

3) More relatively soon on a virtual meeting to plan. I think Phil is crunching on a his proposal which may have the idea of a May workshop in it but Phil, when you are ready let's discuss the virtual meeting logistics and plan for early November.

4) Our next step is maybe to try and work on virtual meeting topics. I've tried to start this on the wiki page above. Please add ideas, colleagues! 

Great to see this energy. One goal I know we have is to have some kind of educational deliverable for FOSS4G next year to compliment the LiveDVD. 

Cheers
Charlie

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