[Ica-osgeo-labs] Defining criteria for REL membership

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi all,
I think that the OSGeo Education community has grown to the level where 
it will help to define what REL membership means, and acknowledge the 
members who meet membership criteria.

Am I right in understanding that the only current membership requirement 
is to acknowledge an intent to incorporate OSGeo principles into future 
training programs? This is very easy to achieve.  Based on the email 
thread below, it appears their may be 20 inactive labs?

I suggest that it is time to define best practices for REL members, then 
list members that meet this criteria.
Other members can then be labeled as "setting up" or "incubating" or 
similar.

Having such criteria for membership in place, matched by defining the 
value of being a member, should help each institution in bidding for 
educational funding within your organisation.

Here is a rough idea:

Membership involves:
** Your training courses are based upon OSGeo Software
** Your training material is made available under an Open License
** You will actively aim to build upon prior training material rather 
than creating your own from scratch
** When you build upon prior material, you will help incorporate it back 
into the commons baseline
** If you are a core contributor, you will help others incorporate their 
improvements into your baseline.

Business case for involvement:
** Open Source GIS Software is robust and effective for professionals 
and students should learn about it.
** Open Source GIS Software is rapidly innovating, and as such, needs to 
be constantly maintained.
** It is more cost effective to share maintenance with an international 
community of experts rather than develop on our own.

We successfully use these principles for both OSGeo Incubation and the 
OSGeo-Live project:
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2011/06/memoirs-of-cat-herder-coordinating.html


On 1/06/2015 12:34 am, Helena Mitasova wrote:
> This is just a reminder that today is the deadline for updating your entry in the OSGeo REL network wiki table
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives#sortable_table_id_0
>
> - we still have over 20 labs with statement “in the process of being established” that is more than one year old.
>
> Thank you, Helena
>
>
>> 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
>> hmitaso at ncsu.edu
>> http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/
>> "All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties."
>>
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> 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
> hmitaso at ncsu.edu
> http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/
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