[Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" Region wise and Subject Thematic groups established

[Suchith Anand]

Dear Colleagues,

We now have the chairs confirmed for the Africa region: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Dr Serena Coetzee (who established the first OSGeo lab in Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa).

Though we had excellent expansion for "Geo for All" globally,  Africa (except South Africa) was one region where we did not make much  progress till now. But i am fully confident that with these three great women now going to lead our Africa region thematic, they will be successful in changing this and will help bring the benefits of not just Openness in Geospatial but the bigger aim of spreading Open Education opportunities to more countries in Africa.

On behalf of all of us, let me thank all three of them for their efforts and coming forward to lead this.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" Region wise and Subject Thematic        groups established

Colleagues,

Following Sergio's excellent suggestion and inputs from the community ,we now have "Geo for All" Region wise and Subject Thematic groups formally established. The webpages of all the 5 regional groups and subject wise thematic groups ready.

With the region wise thematic groups established, the chairs of this are now the contact points for any new labs to be established in that region 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. They will also be the administrators of the mailing lists and they will use the wikipages to develop their ideas with inputs from all members in their groups. This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region requirements/needs. All ideas welcome.

Region wise thematic Groups

North America Region
Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
The mail list will be geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org
Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America


South America Region
Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
The mail list will be geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org
Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America


Africa Region
Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt) and one more to be added
The mail list will be geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org
Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa


Asia Region (including Australia)
Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
The mail list will be geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org
Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia

Europe Region
Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Anne Ghilsa (Germany)
The mail list will be geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org
Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe


Subject/Language Thematics

Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic
Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)
geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org
Website at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics

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
Website at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation

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
Website at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish


Jeff, Anne, Jorge - as you have more knowledge on SAC etc, could you please advise me what is the best way to get all these 8 mail lists created for us for the different themes and i will do accordingly. Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith




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