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

Wed Feb 25 06:21:23 PST 2015

Nice one! As a student, I hope to see and help "Geo For All" make more 
impact in Ghana and Africa as whole. Wishing all Africa chairs the best.

Best,

On 02/24/2015 01:33 PM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote:
> I completely agree with your words.
>
> 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 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> Enviado: martes, 24 de febrero de 2015 9:35
> Para: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Asunto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" Region wise and Subject      Thematic        groups established
>
> 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
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
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> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" Region wise and Subject Thematic        groups established
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> 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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