[Geo4All] G4A website updates: mailing lists issue

Tue Apr 26 12:19:18 PDT 2016

Suchith, Roberto,

another issue that popped up as I am preparing my talk for FOSS4G NA
is in the instructions on How to join
http://www.geoforall.org/how_to_join/
- at the beginning of the page everybody is invited to join the main
mailing list
- but in "How to apply section"  the new members are instructed to join the
regional mailing lists and the main list is not mentioned.
I am not sure whether the regional lists are used at all (I am not
subscribed to NA list) and the regional wikis are not really maintained
either.
So I suggest to keep the regional mailing lists and wiki for any potential
regional activities, but we should clearly state that to join the new
members should subscribe to the main mailing list and add and maintain
their information in the wiki table at the beginning of Section 2 or 3
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives#Current_members_of_the_ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS_Labs_Network

Looking at the title of that wiki section, the "Current members of the
ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs network should be changed to Geo for All network,
similarly also in the last section on research and teaching areas.

Jason, regarding the map - were you able to find the script that is
generating the map or should I try to contact Luca Delucchi to get it (I
believe he has writtn the latest version unless you have further modified
it)?

Thank you all, Helena

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Many thanks Roberto.
>
> May i request all to have a look at the website and inform Roberto if any
> other updates needed.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: Roberto Santos [Roberto.Santos at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 10:33 AM
> To: Venkatesh Raghavan; Suchith Anand
> Cc: jds at geodata.soton.ac.uk; hmitaso at ncsu.edu; maria.brovelli at polimi.it
> Subject: RE: G4A website updates
>
> Dear Venka,
>
> Sorry about the delay! The advisory board text is updated now, as well as
> the training and how to join pages. We are working on the banner and zoom.
>
> Thanks,
> Roberto
> ________________________________________
> From: Venkatesh Raghavan [raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp]
> Sent: 03 April 2016 10:23
> To: Suchith Anand; Roberto.Santos at nottingham.ac.uk
> Cc: jds at geodata.soton.ac.uk; hmitaso at ncsu.edu; maria.brovelli at polimi.it
> Subject: Re: G4A website updates
>
> Hi All,
>
> First of all, I would request the display of tag tine,
> below "Geo for All" indicating as below;
>
> "Educational Outreach of the OSGeo Foundation" in
> all the banners of the Geo for All website.
>
> More comments inline below;
>
> On 2016/04/03 16:56, Suchith Anand wrote:
> > s. Could i please request your help in updating the G4A website with
> details below
> >
> > 1. Please update the Advisory Board page
> http://www.geoforall.org/advisory_board/  with details below
> >
> >
> > Advisory board
> >
> > The Advisory Board for the Geo for All initiative are as follows:
>
> I suggest to remove title for all names or add
> Professor for Chris Pettit and Phillip Davis and
> appropriate titles for others.
> > あProfessor Venkatesh Raghavan (President, OSGeo)
> > Professor Menno-Jan Kraak (President, ICA)
> > Professor Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)
> > Professor Georg Gartner (Austria)
> > Jeroen Ticheler (Netherlands)
> > Jeff McKenna (Canada)
> > Professor Josef Strobl (Austria)
> > Professor Marguerite Madden (USA)
> > Professor Mike Jackson (UK)
> > Sven Schade (Germany)
> > Gavin Fleming (South Africa)
> > Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay)
> > Dr Chris Pettit (Australia)
> > Geoff Zeiss (Canada)
> > Phillip Davis (USA)
> > Arnulf Christl (Germany)
> > Professor Maria Brovelli (Italy)
> > Dr Rafael Moreno (USA)
>
> The zoom level at [1] needs to be reset to display the entire earth.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> [1] http://www.geoforall.org/locations/
> >
> > 2. Also it will be good to have details of our Regional and Thematic
> chairs in a seperate page.
> >
> >
> > 3. We will need to change "ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab" references in the
> webpage to Geo for All to maintain consistency.
> >
> > For example in the page http://www.geoforall.org/how_to_join/  all
> reference to "ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab"s in the webpage should be changed to
> "Geo for All"
> >
> > How to join
> >
> > Interested in joining the Geo for All network?
> >
> > Feel free to join the mailing list to follow the discussions among the
> participants of this initiative.
> >
> > Joining details are provided below and further information, including
> criteira for maintaining active status, can be found on the wiki.
> > 1. Criteria for admission to "Geo for All" Network
> >
> > ...........................................................
> >
> >
> > I am ccing in Maria, Venka and Helena as they will be also be also send
> any changes/updates needed to you directly. I am available to meet this
> week anytime convinient to you (Thursday is best for me), so we can discuss
> more ideas. We will need to setup a new mailling list in OSGeo for all the
> main contacts of the labs . This will help us put in structures for
> efficient and participatory decision making for the initiative esp. in
> selecting new Advisory Board (every 4 years), Regional chairs etc for the
> future etc.Please let me know your best time.
> >
> > Thanks again for your help with our website.
> >
> > Suchith
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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