[Ica-osgeo-labs] Our charter: Education definitely, but also Research?

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Charlie,

We have put research also in the criteria list but maybe this need to be more highlighted

[C] There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

We can highlight importance of research in the main mission statement

Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education and Research will provide great opportunities for everyone. 

Suchith
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From: Charles Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 11:29 AM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Our charter: Education definitely, but also Research?

Hi,

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
but we will only allow ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab title from now only to  universities, educational institutes, government organisations with focus on education

An educational focus is imperative. But I'd like to encourage us to think also about a collaboration on the RESEARCH front too -- we all know this is a critical component to education. Perhaps we should make that more apparent in the text on [1]?

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

Cheers,
Charlie




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