[Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training

Wed Mar 18 14:43:59 PDT 2015

Hi, I'm keen, but not keen enough to wake up at 2am/3am (for 
Sydney/Australia timezone).

Happy to contribute by email before/afterwards.

Alternatively, I can make this timeslot:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=196&p7=215

On 18/03/2015 12:40 am, Luis Bermudez wrote:
> All,
>
> For those of you interested to discuss the next steps about how to 
> better develop and share E-Learning resources for OGC standards, I 
> have created a doodle poll. Note that the times are in Eastern Time.
> http://doodle.com/w5sr533xn95ryswu7c9s59mk/admin#table
>
> I will also invite folks from the OGC University Domain Working group.
>
>
>
> I will send the logistics of the meeting after we have settle on the 
> date and time.
>
> Looking forward to a great discussion.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> - Luis
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Luis Bermudez, Ph.D.
> Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning
> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
> The OGC: Making Location Count
>
> Skype: bermudez_luis
> Twitter: @berdez
> Tel: +1 301 760 7323
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 17, 2015, at 3:07 AM, Suchith Anand 
> <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Luis,
>>
>> That is excellent. Let us schedule a telecon to discuss next steps. 
>> May i suggest that you send a doodle poll with your convenient times 
>> to this list and we can then find a best time suitable for all.Thanks.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Luis Bermudez [lbermudez at opengeospatial.org 
>> <mailto:lbermudez at opengeospatial.org>]
>> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 10:32 PM
>> To: Cameron Shorter; Suchith Anand
>> Cc: Christopher Tucker; George Percivall; Carl Reed; 
>> ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC 
>> standards training
>>
>> Hi Suchith, Cameron and all,
>>
>> I'm very happy to see this dialog.
>>
>> Now that I have been officially appointed (tasked), I want to 
>> leverage, contribute and help move forward e-learning material 
>> related to OGC standards.
>>
>> I'm wondering, is it worth to schedule a telecon about the next steps?
>>
>> Best Regards.
>>
>> - Luis
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> Luis Bermudez, Ph.D.
>> Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning
>> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
>> The OGC: Making Location Count
>>
>> Skype: bermudez_luis
>> Twitter: @berdez
>> Tel: +1 301 760 7323
>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Cameron Shorter 
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Forwarding on Chris' email (with permission), which bounced from 
>>> this list.
>>>
>>> Thanks Chris for the offer of support from yourself and others from 
>>> the OGC. I think this is another great opportunity for OSGeo and the 
>>> OGC to work together.
>>> It is also very valuable and motivating for us OSGeo contributors to 
>>> know that the OGC can help deliver OSGeo concerns to the right people.
>>>
>>> Regards, Cameron
>>>
>>> On 15/03/2015 8:06 am, Christopher Tucker wrote:
>>>> Cameron,
>>>>
>>>> As an OGC Board member, I appreciate the subject change.  If the 
>>>> GeoForAll community wants any particular involvement from the OGC 
>>>> on this or other matters, I am more than happy to help facilitate 
>>>> the interaction with appropriate OGC staff and membership.
>>>>
>>>> Also, coincidently, I happen to do a lot of work with leading US 
>>>> government investors in LiDAR technology, collection and processing 
>>>> - all the way up to the White House Office of Science and 
>>>> Technology Policy.  If their attention is required, I am happy to 
>>>> facilitate.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all you guys are doing.
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>> 703-981-9373
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 14, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Cameron Shorter 
>>>>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm bringing this email thread back onto the public ica-osgeo-labs 
>>>>> list (CC OGC people) and changing title (with permission of Suchith).
>>>>> Title was "RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the 
>>>>> ģLAZ cloneē by ESRI" and a private conversation had started.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Suchith,
>>>>> I like the idea of bringing OGC standards into education, and 
>>>>> would be keen to see authoritative and consistent descriptions of 
>>>>> standards available. (We started doing this a while ago on OSGeo 
>>>>> Live [1], but these descriptions are incomplete, out of date, and 
>>>>> the template needs improving).
>>>>>
>>>>> There was further discussion about describing standards within the 
>>>>> OGC "Ideas4OGC" initiative [2] ~ October 2013, leading to 
>>>>> recognition of a need for consistent descriptions of standards: 
>>>>> including a one pager description for architects, and an 
>>>>> implementation guide for developers.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a lot of work in developing such documentation for all 
>>>>> standards, but if we create a template for what is required, we 
>>>>> can then spread the work across multiple interested parties (as we 
>>>>> have done with OSGeo-Live documentation). I'd be happy to help 
>>>>> with creating such a template.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://live.osgeo.org/en/standards/standards.html
>>>>> [2] 
>>>>> http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity
>>>>> and
>>>>> http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_28:_Active_Direction
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 13/03/2015 8:30 pm, Suchith Anand wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Cameron, All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not a standards expert but i am determined that i am going 
>>>>>> to do my best to improve the education aspects of Open Standards 
>>>>>> in Geo Eduation curriculum worldwide. This is long term action 
>>>>>> and we need help from all interested to join this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have done this successfully in Open Source GIS education in a 
>>>>>> very short time. For example, our GeoAcademy colleagues have not 
>>>>>> only established a very successful MOOC program ( i understand 
>>>>>> over 4000 students are enrolled for their March 2015 cohort, so 
>>>>>> the scale of expansion of this amazing) but more importantly they 
>>>>>> made available  the curriculum (lecture materials, tutorials etc) 
>>>>>> available to all educators to share and share alike under the 
>>>>>> Creative Commons BY 3.0 license at the GitHub repository at 
>>>>>> https://gi
>>>
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