[Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Bridget,

Thanks for the update. It will be great to have this edu sprint in South Africa. As there are many events happening and planned in Europe, N.America, Asia with the FOSS4G Regional conferences  ,  we now have opportunities to arrange Geo4All meetings/sprints coinciding with these events.

Having the edu sprint in South Africa will be excellent to build up momentum for Africa and globally (Myself and others will join remotely). And esp. with the excellent pool of developers and educators in QGIS in South Africa, it will  be success. So, if everyone agrees , let us plan Geo4All Sprint in South Africa.

Suchith


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From: Bridget Fleming [bridget at afrispatial.co.za]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 11:07 AM
To: Jeff McKenna; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Suchith Anand; Dean Peters
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint

Hi Jeff

Great idea! I am happy to get some educators in SA together to participate
in such an event. We won¹t be able to meet in Nottingham but we can work
remotely?

Count me in. I head back to the classroom next year to use GIS to teach
the curriculum. Know that kids love QGIS!

Bridget

On 2015/08/26, 9:54 AM, "Suchith Anand"
<ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>Hi Jeff,
>
>This is excellent idea to bring together OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS communities
>for an education materials development focussed sprint. I suggest the
>following
>
>1. Any lab interested to host the event please inform the list (if
>possible with the best timings for them).
>
>2. We can then help the the lead person to put a request for funding for
>the Education materials focussed sprint. It will also be a good
>opportunity to make use of for planning grant sprints (H2020 etc) on the
>sidelines (similar to the one Charlie did at FOSS4G Europe). That will
>then help have regular Edu sprints in the future.
>
>
>So please everyone who are interested to be the lead host for the
>GeoForAll Sprint event , please let us know. Also those who are
>interested to participate in this sprint , please do also let us know
>your ideas/suggestions. Thanks.
>
>Suchith
>
>________________________________________
>From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>[ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Jeff McKenna
>[jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 9:09 PM
>To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>I'd like to pose an idea to the OSGeo-ICA-ISPRS community: a "GeoForAll
>Sprint" event.  The goal of the event would be to get the OSGeo, and
>ICA, and ISPRS communities together over a few days to work together on
>developing Open curriculum materials.  What do you think??
>
>Those of you familiar with code sprints, know them as getting developers
>from around the world to work together, usually in a big room with good
>wifi, and working on OSGeo software projects.
>
>Now, the GeoForAll Sprint would be a little different, as code may not
>be written for the OSGeo projects, but materials would be developed that
>could be used by the project communities, and educators.
>
>If you choose to do this, there are already steps available if you want
>to request for funding to the OSGeo Board for a sprint (see the steps at
>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines).
>
>I wonder if someone in GeoForAll would like to take this on and champion
>it.  If so, it could be a great event for the 3 communities.
>
>
>-jeff
>
>
>
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