[Ica-osgeo-labs] Website feedback

[SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA]

​I agree with the three ideas. Surely we all have something to add.

Best wishes,


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
________________________________
De: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
Enviado: viernes, 28 de agosto de 2015 11:26
Para: Jeff McKenna
Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Website feedback

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<mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
I might add to the beginning text of Reason #1: "GeoForAll *empowers* students."


-jeff





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> <mailto: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".

    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




    _______________________________________________
    ica-osgeo-labs mailing list
    ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org> <mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>>
    http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs




--
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

--------------------------------------------
Q: Why do I try my best to keep my emails to five sentences or less?
A: http://five.sentenc.es


_______________________________________________
ica-osgeo-labs mailing list
ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs



--
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

--------------------------------------------
Q: Why do I try my best to keep my emails to five sentences or less?
A: http://five.sentenc.es
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/attachments/20150828/923fb0ec/attachment.html>