[Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll/OSGeo at the International Society of the Study of the Commons global conference (Edmonton, Canada, late May, 2015)?

Wed Mar 11 03:11:10 PDT 2015

Charlie, others,
I often help event organisors find OSGeo presenters by looking over the 
OSGeo-Live Advocate list and looking for someone local.

You (and others on this list) might want to add yourselves to the list:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate

On 10/03/2015 10:02 pm, Charles Schweik wrote:
> Also...
>
> It may be too late, but it occurred to me that it might be valuable to 
> try and expand the footprint of GeoForAll/OSGeo users through a 
> connection to the International Association of the Study of the 
> Commons, and its global conference (May 25, 2015, Edmonton, Alberta) [1].
>
> 1) I wonder if it would be worth investigating a proposal of a 1-day 
> workshop on one of OSGeo's desktop GIS packages (e.g., and 
> Introduction to GIS) or going through the LiveDVD, or the use of NASA 
> WorldWind to support landcover change research (brainstorming here...)?
>
> 2) Would anyone on this list be able to go to Edmonton and want to 
> propose a workshop -- maybe that would require participants to bring 
> laptops? (I can help make that connection to the conference organizers).
>
> Again, it might be too late, but this is an important global scholarly 
> and practitioner association who would have users and appreciation of 
> OSGeo technology and GeoForAll open access educational efforts.
>
> Contact me if you think you might be interested in going and flying 
> the GeoForAll flag there, maybe by offering a workshop.
>
> Cheers
> Charlie
>
> [1] http://www.iasc2015.org/
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Suchith Anand 
> <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Colleagues,
>
>     Let me also take this opportunity to also thank Charlie and the
>     whole GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 committee
>     for their help and inputs for this initiative which will have long
>     term positive impacts in education efforts globally.
>
>     I would like to also congratulate Charlie ( i just saw this
>     today!) on his winning the international award honouring the late
>     political economist Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to date to win
>     the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
>
>     I am really grateful to Charlie's strong support for all our Open
>     Geo Education efforts from the very start.  On behalf of "Geo for
>     All' community, we are really proud and happy that Charlie has
>     been recognised as one of the top 50 innovators in education for
>     his cutting-edge use of open-source software in the classroom and
>     as a research tool.
>
>     Details at http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/open-source
>
>     "Open Education Week" is a great opportunity for all of us to
>     reflect on the bigger purpose and join forces in using our
>     collective knowledge to help open education opportunities to all
>     to enable a better future for all.
>
>     Best wishes,
>
>     Suchith
>     ________________________________________
>     From: Anand Suchith
>     Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 7:27 AM
>     To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015
>
>     Dear colleagues,
>
>     On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015
>     http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , "Geo for All" community
>     http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all educators
>     worldwide who have made contributions to open education efforts
>     and being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of
>     education to all.
>
>     We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll -
>     Global Educator of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for
>     us to thank  colleagues for their excellent contributions to
>     Openness in Education principles in the Geo domain.
>
>     Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received
>     one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of
>     the Year Award
>     In no particular order, the nominees are:
>
>
>     INDIVIDUALS
>
>     - Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica,
>     for his course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1]
>     - Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing
>     leadership and tireless efforts leading the creation of the
>     GeoAcademy [2]
>     - Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi
>     for the course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de
>     datos abiertos orientado a la educación,” or in English,
>     “Geographic Information Systems for Education using Open Data” [3]
>     - Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his
>     Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed
>     for Central New Mexico Community College [4]
>     - Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania,
>     USA, for his course on “Open Web Mapping” [5]
>     - Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for
>     his “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6]
>
>
>     TEAMS
>
>     - Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw
>     for their EduGIS Academy [7]
>     - Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich,
>     Switzerland for their Interactive Web Maps course [8]
>     - Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of
>     Minnesota, USA for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and
>     Google Maps to Spatial Computing” [9]
>     - Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain),
>     Jeremy Morley (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu
>     (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz (Prodevelop) for their GIS Open Source
>     Summer School at the University of Girona in Spain [10]
>     - Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno - FOSS4G lab, University of
>     Colorado, Denver USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS course materials
>     [11]
>     - Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco, for their gvSIG
>     Educa/Batovi effort in Uruguay [12]
>     - Kurt Menke - Brids Eye View, Nate Jennings Urbandale Spatial,
>     Jon Van Hoesen Green Mtn College, Rick Smith Texas A&M, and Phil
>     Davis, Delmar College (all in USA) for their GeoAcademy
>     development efforts [13]
>
>     All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated for their
>     efforts. Just being nominated is an honour.
>
>     The award committee now has the very difficult task of selecting
>     the GeoForAll Educator of the Year [14] out of this well deserving
>     list of nominees. This year’s selections (possibly an individual
>     and a team award) will be announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe
>     "Open Innovation for Europe" conference at Como, Italy in July .
>     Details at http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/
>
>     Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage you to
>     list this nomination honour in your CVs.
>
>     Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone.
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>     Prof. Charlie Schweik,  on behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award
>     Selection Committee:
>
>     Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)
>     Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)
>     Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)
>     Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy)
>     Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)
>     Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil)
>     Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia)
>     Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
>     Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)
>     Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)
>     Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)
>     Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA)
>     Anne Ghisla (Germany)
>     Patrick Hogan (USA)
>     Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)
>
>
>
>     REFERENCES
>
>     [1]
>     https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view
>     [2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/
>     [3] http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81
>     [4] http://catalog.cnm.edu/
>     [5] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/
>     [6] http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/
>     [7] http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide
>     [8] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html
>     [9] https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing
>     [10] http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
>     [11] http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials
>     [12]
>     https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf
>     [13] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com
>     [14]
>     http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015
>
>
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> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and 
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