[Ica-osgeo-labs] Building synergies for geospatial education

[Suchith Anand]

Hi All,

At FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham, there was informal meeting between OGC and OSGeo representatives for discussing areas for building future collaboration and clearly there is strong synergies in many areas (esp. In Geospatial Education).  OGC and OSGeo already have an MoU and we already work closely with OGC colleagues in geospatial education areas. For example Luis (OGC)  has done excellent work on his OGC Github initiative and we should be all working more  in further extending these collaborations.

ICA-OSGeo lab network has been building up rapidly (we have our 50th lab  now joining last Friday - press release to be send this week along with our new website launch ) and it is important we keep building geospatial education opportunities and we aim to work closely with OGC to make available resources for geospatial standards education more accessible to educators worldwide. There is lot of synergies we can build upon the ICA-OSGeo labs initiative by working closely with OGC for further building up geospatial education opportunities for all. 

Jeff, Ian, myself (and any others interested) will be having telemeeting with Denise (OGC) on next Friday to build up ideas we discussed at FOSS4G Nottingham. I will keep you all updated on the developments. Thanks for your support.

Best wishes,

Suchith
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