[Ica-osgeo-labs] Mark your calendars! Doodle poll for GeoForAll substantive meetings at FOSS4G Europe in Como in July - results

Wed May 6 06:59:12 PDT 2015

The GeoSkills+ project in the EU is an example of what we hope would occur from FOSS4G/OSGeo:

http://www.geoskillsplus.eu/press/blog/46-bridging-the-geoskills-gap-planning-awareness-raising-with-geoskills

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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Davis [pdavis at delmar.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 8:45 AM
To: Charles Schweik; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Mark your calendars! Doodle poll for GeoForAll substantive meetings at FOSS4G Europe in Como in July - results

Charles the Certification issue was raised at the PDX meeting in a Birds of Feather with Jeff McKenna in attendance.  It resulted from Arnulfs mission to create a FOSS4G certification track with his Metaspatial Institute.  He has since thrown in the towel on that effort having received little assistance from the OSGeo projects, such as QGIS and GRASS.  We GeoForAll educators are still agitating to get an industry-led and defined certification process so our higher education graduates can gain additional recognition for their knowledge and skills.  Last rumors I heard QGIS project might be doing so this year.  I will be in Denmark in two weeks at the next Code Sprint hosted by Lene Fisher and Tim Sutton of QGIS will be there and we hope to have an update/discussion at that time.  It would be nice to report at Como in July that at least QGIS will have a certification available for end of 2015 so we can begin modifying our curriculum to meet those outcomes.  I approached the US
 GIS Cert
 ification Institute last year about adding FOSS4G certification to the GISP, but they declined having too much on their plate for next year or two.

Phillip Davis
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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Mark your calendars! Doodle poll for GeoForAll substantive meetings at FOSS4G Europe in Como in July - results

Hi GeoForAll colleagues,

Thanks for the reminder, Toni. (Attached below is the email I sent out in March with the confirmed dates/times of our GeoForAll meetings in Como to help with travel arrangements.) But here's an update with more detail:

Tuesday July 14th 8:30 - 11:30 am - substantive discussions

Right now I have these three topics down as things we need to discuss live as a group:

1) GeoForAll and its connection to firms (this is a new issue that came up this week and is very important we get right)
2) Educational content curation strategies (e.g., ELOGeo, GeoAcademy GitHub, OSGeo Metadata Inventory system)
3) Certification issues (I need some help on this one -- is there someone who will be  there who can update us all on where we are related to this?)

Please let me know if there are other pressing topics needing our attention. But I think we want to keep the agenda to 2 or 3 key discussion topics so we can really make some progress on them while together.

Friday July 17th 12:00-1:00 pm - Bird's of a Feather.

This will be an open session to plan our collective activities after reflecting on the conference experiences/discussions.

Saturday July 18th 8:30-11:30 "Grant Sprint"

This will partially be focused on Urban Science/City Analytics US NSF proposal that some of us have been discussing, but it would be **great** if any EU colleagues present could think about grant opportunities BEFORE the Como conference and use this time to possibly work on it here with others.

I hope many of you going to Como can make these meetings.

Cheers,
Charlie Schweik

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>> wrote:
GeoForAll colleagues,

18 participants completed the FOSS4G EU GeoForAll meeting Doodle Poll (thanks!)

For your travel planning and calendars, the best (Como, Italy) times for us to meet are:

** Tuesday July 14th, 8:30-11:30 - GeoForAll pre-conference meeting (13 participants)
- Here we will discuss 2 or 3 key substantive issues (still to be defined)

** Friday July 17th 12:00-1:00 Bird's of a Feather (all 18 participants)
- Topic still to be defined, but my suggestion would be to have an open discussion of any topics people want to bring up after 2.5 days of the conference.

** Note: Friday afternoon, Maria tells me will be when the GeoForAll education award will be awarded

** Saturday July 18th, 8:30-11:30 - "Grant Sprint" -- (6 participants). Even though smaller group, we'll still do this and others are welcome to attend if they can.

I've attached a screen shot (png) of the doodle pool results so you can see who will be there. We'll turn to trying to identify as a group the topics for July 14th next.

Thanks all,

Charlie Schweik

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Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration

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Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545

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