[Ica-osgeo-labs] ngo and industry partners

Sun May 3 07:52:49 PDT 2015

I'm currently in Nottingham working with Suchith. I've noted this as an
important discussion topic for our meeting(s) in Como. . More on that
agenda in the next month.

Cheers,
Charlie

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:37 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Suchith,
>
> in Portland we discussed the importance of working with industry,
> non-profit organizations,
> and others outside academia and government.
>
>  OSGeo Labs Network industry partners membership was suggested among other
> things -
> we can continue this discussion in Como and prepare there a proposal to
> get some feedback
> from the members. This would be a good way to give recognition to
> companies that provide
> fellowships for students or organize and fund code sprints where students
> from the labs participate.
> This would allow the industry work with multiple labs or across the entire
> geo4all initiative,
> rather than a single lab.
>
> For others on the list - we will call for feedback, specific examples of
> collaboration with industry
> and your ideas after FOSS4G Europe in Como when we will have the outline
> written up on wiki.
>
> best regards, Helena
>
>
>
>
>
> > On May 2, 2015, at 5:21 AM, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Helena. May i request all of you to update this info by 30th May
> 2015, so that we can keep this updated.
> >
> > Let me thank all of you who have contributed your ideas/inputs for
> updating the criteria list and also all our AB members for thier insights
> and inputs for the long term planning. Apologies it took over 8 months to
> get this updated version but it was important we take time to discuss all
> ideas/suggestions from the AB members and the community for this. It was
> also decided that it is time for us to think ahead and make sure local
> organisations must be committed to contribute to the vision  to develop
> collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government
> organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open
> access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future.
> >
> > Also the Advisory Board decided that as we  have the backing of three
> great Geo organisations (ICA, ISPRS and OSGeo) and to maintain quality, no
> private organisations be allowed to use the name of ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab
> title. We welcome participation from private organisations (they are
> welcome to join our mailling lists, participate etc) but we will only allow
> ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab title from now only to  universities, educational
> institutes, government organisations with focus on education who agree to
> follow the criteria listed at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria  The regional chairs will
> make sure that  future applications from interested organisations for
> ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab reflect this updated criteria.
> >
> > There are many open source GIS companies making great contributions to
> our aims and we want to encourage our university labs to collaborate with
> them by including those private companies etc to work directly with thier
> universities as some of our labs are already doing (getting them in the
> Advisory Boards of the labs etc)
> > http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/advisory-board
> >
> > We have made amazing progress thanks to the efforts put in by all of you
> and this is now making a real difference to expanding geoeducation
> opportunities globally.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Suchith
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Helena Mitasova [
> hmitaso at ncsu.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 5:18 PM
> > To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] ALL LABS PLEASE READ: request for wiki table
> update
> >
> > Dear members of the OSGeo REL network,
> >
> > the advisory board has approved formalized conditions of the
> ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab network membership.
> > The document can be found here
> >
> > http://www.geoforall.org/how_to_join/
> >
> > It is now important to make sure that all members of the network,
> including the small and large labs
> > confirm their membership by updating the information in the wiki table:
> >
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives#sortable_table_id_0
> >
> > If everything there is correct, up to date and you have there links to
> your active OSGeo lab website,
> > you don't need to do anything.
> >
> > If you still have "in process of being established" or no link at all,
> please fill in the column
> > "Notes" with an update on where you are in the process.
> >
> > We need your update by the end of May 2015, after that the regional
> chairs will start contacting
> > the members who seem to be inactive to see whether they are still
> interested.
> > Please, contact your regional chairs if you need any help with updates,
> >
> > Helena
> >
> >
> > Helena Mitasova
> > Professor at the Department of Marine,
> > Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
> > and Center for Geospatial Analytics
> > North Carolina State University
> > Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
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> Helena Mitasova
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> Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
> and Center for Geospatial Analytics
> North Carolina State University
> Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
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