[Ica-osgeo-labs] Website feedback

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/08/28 23:12, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> I might add to the beginning text of Reason #1: "GeoForAll *empowers* 
> students."
and *teachers* too.

Reason#2: It provides free planet wide lifetime license to geospatial 
technology as
opposed to laboratory, campus, institution or nation wide paid licensing 
models
adopted by proprietary geospatial service providers.

Venka

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> On 2015-08-28 9:07 AM, Charles Schweik wrote:
>> Hi Suchith, all:
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>> 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.
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>> Suchith, not sure who is leading the update to the GeoForAll page on
>> this topic...
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>> Cheers
>> Charlie
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>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Jeff McKenna
>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
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>>     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.
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>>     -jeff
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