[GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa

[Rania Elsayed]

It may be good idea if we can organize a special session in the 11
international conference of the african association of remote sensing of
the environment http://aarse2016.org/


On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> wrote:

> Gildas,
>
> To compliment the encouragement and good guidance of Suchith,
> here is a starter app for you, the WorldWind Explorer 'reference app'
> that's all yours!
> Demo: http://explorer.worldwind.earth/
> Code: https://github.com/emxsys/WorldWindExplorer
>
> And here is a fun sandbox to play in and to teach with
> http://jsbin.com/nomafey/edit?output
>
> And an example of encouragement you can also establish for Africa
> http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
>
> And if we want the world to work together from the ground up (speaking
> city-wise),
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart
>
> -Patrick
>
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Suchith Anand
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 6:38 PM
> To: Gildas Jr. Boko; geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org;
> discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa
>
> Hi Gildas,
>
> Thank you for your mail and interest. Your idea to organise FOSS4G Africa
> and to create a network of capacity-building and knowledge and
> experience-sharing in Africa is excellent. I am CC'ing our wider community
> so that we will be able to bring in more ideas to support you.
>
> btw i could not get the link of your centre RECTAS www.rectas.org (maybe
> the site is currently down) that you emailed but i did find another link
> with info at
>
>
> http://www.un-spider.org/links-and-resources/institutions/regional-centre-training-aerospace-surveys-rectas
>
> Thanks again for your initiative.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: GeoForAll-Africa <geoforall-africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on
> behalf of Gildas Jr. Boko <eddygordo at gmail.com>
> Sent: 27 July 2016 8:07 PM
> To: geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've a user or OSGEO products for almost ten years now. And while i notice
> a growing interest all over the world for these products and the creation
> of FOSS4G chapters in different countries, in Africa there nothing like
> that.
>
> My idea is to organise a FOSS4G conference for OSGEO products users in
> order to create a network of capacity-building and knowledge and
> experience-sharing in all the possible fields.
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while now and i think a centre like
> RECTAS (www.rectas.org<http://www.rectas.org>), where I've worked for the
> past two years can host such event thanks to their experience in the GIS
> field and also their hosting capacity.
>
> Well that is an aspect on which everybody can discuss.
>
> But i believe it is high time for a FOSS4G chapter in Africa.
>
> Thanks in advance for your opinion on this idea
>
> --
> Gildas Jr BOKO (PhD)
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Thanks & Regards
Rania Elsayed Ibrahim, PhD. Computers & Information
Researcher,
Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies,
National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt.

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