[Ica-osgeo-labs] Website feedback

[Charles Schweik]

Suchith,

Maybe we should get that on a wiki so people can add ideas and edit? I
don't have time today to do this - sorry! Trying to get the grant out and
done.

Two other ideas though.

We need an item on the broad idea of 'Open Geospatial Science' in this Why
Join text.

Somewhat related to that, has anyone heard of the concept called 'the
Tragedy of the Anticommons' coined by Michael Heller [1]? It is a theory
that suggests that the idea of 'patent thickets' (lots of patents) leads to
people NOT innovating or building on advances because of all the legal
issues they have to deal with to work with a technology.

That idea might be useful. Universities are trying to capitalize on patents
for income (understandable, I guess) but that might lead to more patent
thickets. An open science collaborative effort around geospatial analysis
and methods and innovations in open source software helps to avoid the
tragedy of the anticommons in geospatial science and technology.

I can probably write this up sometime in the future if you all think it is
an important point to add.

Cheers
Charlie

[1] http://wealthofthecommons.org/essay/tragedy-anticommons



On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Jeff McKenna <
jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

> I might add to the beginning text of Reason #1: "GeoForAll *empowers*
> students."
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> -jeff
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> On 2015-08-28 9:07 AM, Charles Schweik wrote:
>
>> Hi Suchith, all:
>>
>> Patrick Hogan made some helpful edits to the text I have on my lab's
>> site (thanks Patrick!), and I then edited it a little more toward some
>> possible useful language for the 'Why universities should join' text.
>> I'm sure there are other points to be made, but its a start. The text is
>> attached.
>>
>> Suchith, not sure who is leading the update to the GeoForAll page on
>> this topic...
>>
>> Cheers
>> Charlie
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Jeff McKenna
>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     On twitter just now a community leader made a comment that our
>>     website (http://www.geoforall.org) doesn't clearly point out the
>>     benefits for a university.  We outline "How to Join"
>>     (http://www.geoforall.org/how_to_join/), but not really "Why to
>> Join".
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>>     I thought this was a good point, and now that we all understand it
>>     more, it might be good to highlight this on the site.
>>
>>     -jeff
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>> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
>> Administration
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Charlie Schweik

Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/

Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012)
- see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545

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