[Ica-osgeo-labs] Thematic Areas - Call for theme leaders and also new themes

[Suchith Anand]

Colleagues,

As have build consensus on the need to create separate thematic areas  to accommodate different topics , language and regions, we will now go ahead  and to setup mail lists to start the process. 

It is good if we can identify the needed thematics as well as the leaders for each area, as it is time wise easy to do this in one go rather than doing this separately

For example

For Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic
Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA) and will also be the administrators for the mail list we will create 
geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org

Teacher Training & School Education thematic, 
Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland)  and Adrian Manning (UK)
the  mail list will be geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org

Spanish thematic
Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay)  and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)
the  mail list will be geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org

We could also setup region wise thematics that again links with region wise activities like FOSS4G-NA, FOSS4G-Europe, FOSS4G-Asia and hopefully we will establish FOSS4G-Africa and FOSS4G- SA soon. So we need two people to lead each of these region thematic. This is important as we are growing, as Sergio rightly pointed out we need to accommodate local needs and continent wise thematics are good as it is  big to build collaboration but more local to suit the needs.

Europe Thematic
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org

North America Thematic
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org

South America Thematic
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org

Africa Thematic
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org

Asia Thematic (including Australia)
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org

As we have grown rapidly my suggestion is that once we have the region wise thematic group leads established, the leaders of that become the contact points for any new labs to be established to contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new members and all regional members in the region can use the list for collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc. All ideas welcome.

Timing wise, this is good as the Advisory Board is working to finalise the criteria for new and existing labs and this way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region requirements/needs.

So could i request those of you interested to lead the Region wise thematics to inform me by 25th Feb at the latest and we can finalise this. Also if you wish to setup any other thematic (specific area) please inform all of us now, so we can finalise this. Many thanks.

Suchith



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