[Geo4All] Geoforall main maillist update

[Suchith Anand]

Dear All,

In order to maintain consistency , we have now renamed the maillist name (ica-osgeo-labs)  to geoforall .We are updating the website also to reflect this.

Thanks to big help from Jorge Sanz , we have now migrated the lists archives to the new name along with users. Old lists addresses will be redirected to the new ones.

Main GeoForAll list:

- list at  https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall
- archive at  http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Geo-For-All-f5046485.html

So when you send  message to all the list members, please from now send email to geoforall at lists.osgeo.org

Also for  GeoForAll Schools (chairs: Nikos and Ela)

- list is at  https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-schools

Thanks again to Jorge for his prompt help on this.

Best wishes,

Suchith
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From: ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2016 12:44 PM
To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall-ab at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] New maillist for lab contacts

Dear All,

The Advisory Board of Geo4All had been key for giving us strategic advice and guidance over our initial growing years. When we started on this initiative, we did not think we will have over 100 labs in 4 years time and hence our AB's help and advice were critical in every stage of our growth (from setting up regional chairs to help manage the process to ideas/inputs for various topics). Our Regional chairs are the decision makers of new lab members in each region (all new members interested to join the initiative have to apply to them) and Regional Chairs help provide any inputs as needed to the AB.

As we are now over 100 labs (and we will be over 1000 before we know), so it is important that we put in structures for efficient and participatory decision making for the initiative . Hence we have setup a maillist (this will be low traffic) for all the main contacts of each lab. I request the main contact of each lab to join this maillist.

https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-labdirectors

The heads of all our labs are the stakeholders of Geo4All and thier voice need to be included in the decision making. They should be helping selecting new Advisory Board (every 4 years), Regional chairs for the future and contribute to all key decision making.

With our plans in place for Geo4All schools thematic (lead by Nikos and Ela) to be launched soon , we will have exponential growth. We have been waiting to get a free and open, easy to use online geoplatform and with MapStory Foundation's help we now have at our disposal a great teaching platform for expanding our spatial literacy program to schools globally. Now teachers globally will not be at the mercy of any properitery vendor's enslavement strategies. No vendor will be able to dictate thier terms to any schools, universities , teachers and educators in the future.

Thanks again for everyone  of you who have contributed to Geo4All initiative.

Best wishes,

Suchith







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