[Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] Reminder of meeting tomorrow

Wed May 20 17:01:15 PDT 2015

Hi Massimiliano,

Thank you for your queries. 

Yes, GeoforAll is 100 percent an OSGeo Education initiative (but supported by others like ICA, ISPRS through MoUs and we hope more like minded organisations who have interest in enabling Geospatial education and opportunities for all join us in the future).

Regarding your questions:

- Does a budget for Geo4All exists?  

Yes, the only budget we have is the $5k allocation for ICA/OSGeo Labs Student Travel  in the OSGeo budget last year and this year. Last year budget [1] if i remember correctly we did not use it .
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2014

- ISPRS, ICA and OSGeo how they support the initiative, apart from having signed the MoU?

For example in addition to the amazing support that both ICA and ISPRS has given which helped us expand to many universities globally , they have been contributing to student awards etc. For example for the Europa World Wind challenge 2015, both ICA and ISPRS are contributing student prizes http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-May/001531.html  I remember ICA gave student awards last year also for Europa challenge.

- Why Geo4All need a website hosted in Nottingham and is not using the OSGeo infrastructure, like the OSGeo committees (incubation, marketing, etc.)?

First of all, it is NOT hosted in Nottingham, it is developed and hosted by the University of Southampton. We had long , big discussions in Geofor all maillists to see who can help us with the website development and hosting . In fact, our first offer came from colleagues in Mexico but unfortunately even after nearly 1 year delay nothing happened and thankfully that time University of Southampton colleagues  stepped in and volunteered to develop a website for us free and i am very grateful for that.

If OSGeo intrstructure can be provided  and we can get volunteers for developing and maintaining our website , we will be very happy. The website is really key for us and we  need to make sure it is supported long term. For example, the open educational repository that we at University of Nottingham developed called ELOGeo, i wanted to transfer to OSGeo infrastructure when the project funding ended and i did send many emails but nothing happened. We do not want the same thing to happen to our website as we spend huge amounts of time and effort reaching this stage and hence we request support  for the website developments . As you can see from the links in my email there has been lot of discussions from the community on this and supporting our website developments is the top priority.

- How Geo4All differentiates from the educational committee? Shall we consider that committee dead and replaced by Geo4All?

GeoforAll is a key element of OSGeo Education initiative not replacing the educational committee . The biggest advantage of having GeoforAll initiative is that we have made OSGeo Education into a wider geocommunity initiative ( not just OSGeo but much wider geocommunity inititative in collaboration with other like minded organisations) and we need to take actions to expand this.

Please let me know if there are any other queries. Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith
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Dear Suchith, Jeff and all,
I would like to have some clarification, because due to my fault, I was not able to follow deeply close the events.
So please, apologize me for the questions. I also think this could help in clarifying some aspects to all others that are in my position.

I will list a list of event I remember on the Geo4All initiative, please correct if it is wrong.

- OSGeo signed a MoU with ICA to support Open Source Geospatial Education.
- The ICA-OSGeo labs initiative started and labs started to join.
- ISPRS joined to ICA and OSGeo and a MoU was signed also with the presidend of ISPRS
- Geo4All is the "nickname" used for the ISPRS-ICA-OSGeo labs initiative
- Suchith leads the effort, and together with other colleagues a number of important actions was initiated (thanks)

Now, Geo4All requires some funds to support its initiatives to translate the MoU in actions.

So, here my questions:
- Does a budget for Geo4All exists?
- ISPRS, ICA and OSGeo how they support the initiative, apart from having signed the MoU?
- Why Geo4All need a website hosted in Nottingham and is not using the OSGeo infrastructure, like the OSGeo committees (incubation, marketing, etc.)?
- How Geo4All differentiates from the educational committee? Shall we consider that committee dead and replaced by Geo4All?

As I already asked please apologize me for my lack of information.

Regards,
Massimiliano

2015-05-20 23:09 GMT+02:00 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>:
Thanks Jeff.

Could i also remind you to please add the agenda item "ICA-OSGeo lab budget items reallocation" to the OSGeo Board meeting.

I request that the  OSGeo Board to keep the  allocation same i.e $5k allocation  for ICA/OSGeo Labs from OSGeo budget  2015 (though it was earmarked fully for student travel) ,but change this into two components to support Student travel awards of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul (1500 USD ) and our additional website developments of 5 days with a budget of 3500 USD to support developers at University of Southampton (webmasters) to assist with the setting up of pages to support the regional chairs and the development of other supporting tools,such as an online annual reporting form.

Details and further links of the community discussions on this at http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-May/001561.html

Please contact us for any information needed. Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith
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agenda: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-05-21

time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2015&month=5&day=21&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2015.00UTC

(I believe this is a modified time, as agreed last meeting)

-jeff

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