[Ica-osgeo-labs] Letter of Inquiry to US NSF to support a Research Coordination Effort in the context of Urban Science and City Analytics

[Jeff McKenna]

Charlie, all,

When creating a new wiki page, the most important thing to remember is 
to add a wiki 'category' to your page right away, or else your wiki page 
can never be found again (unless you have the exact link to the new 
page).  To learn about this, look at the bottom of this page[1], and 
click on the "Education" or "ICA OSGeo Lab Network" categories; then now 
look at your page[2] - no category.

Long story short: copy the category section from the current initiatives 
page and paste to the bottom of your page.  (do this for every new 
Education wiki page that you create)

Thanks!

(acting #arnulf-wiki-borg today ha)

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics

-jeff



On 2015-03-16 7:33 AM, Charles Schweik wrote:
> Dear GeoForAll colleagues,
>
> I, along with Patrick Hogan, Chris Pettit, Phil Davis, and a few others
> in our GeoForAll group, have developed a draft “letter of inquiry” to
> the US National Science Foundation’s Geography and Spatial Sciences
> (GSS) program. This letter will be investigating whether NSF GSS would
> welcome a full grant proposal submission to create a Research
> Coordination Network for GeoForAll with a specific focus on Urban
> Science and City Analytics. We are focusing on this topic because it is
> an area that has received some substantial dialog over the last month
> over the GeoForAll list, and we need something to focus on
> collaboratively so that we can move to the next level of network
> collaboration.
>
> We also have the idea to try and have GeoForAll participants in
> universities or colleges use our own campuses as “educational sandboxes”
> where students develop geospatial applications for our institutions as
> service learning, team-based learning opportunities, and share their
> solutions with the network.
>
> According to the NSF GSS program website [1], the due date for a
> proposal would be September 3, 2015.
>
> We already have a list of interested GeoForAll\OSGeo partners on the
> Urban Science\City Analytics wiki page [2], and I have used the names
> there on the end of the letter of inquiry.
>
> *If you would like to see the draft letter and perhaps be included on
> this initiative as a network participant, please *
>
> **
>
> *(1) add your name to the Urban Science wiki ‘Who’s Who Here’ list [2] and *
>
> *(2) contact me right away so I can send you the draft letter for a
> quick read. *
>
> **
>
> I hope to send this letter out to NSF this week, and hopefully we can
> build on this text to go after some funding via other sources worldwide.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie Schweik
>
> [1] http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505034
>
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
>
> --
> Charlie Schweik
>
> Associate 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
>