[Geo4All] welocome to U of Wisconsin Cartography Lab joining Geo For All

[Carl Sack]

Thanks for the warm welcome, Helena et al. We are happy to join and looking
forward to collaborating. We will have a description up on the Wiki site
soon.

Best,
-Carl

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
wrote:

> Thanks for doing that Helena and Carl -- AWESOME to have your lab join the
> GeoForAll community.
>
> Charlie Schweik
> Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Carl,
>>
>> it was great to meet you at AutoCarto and welcome to the Global GeoForAll
>> lab network.
>>
>> You are doing great work at your lab -
>> perhaps you can post a brief description of your lab and a link to the
>> presentation at AutoCarto
>> on the geoforall mailing list so that others can learn more about your
>> course and other initiatives.
>>
>> I have added University of Wisconsin, Cartography Lab
>>
>> to the GeoForAll laboratories network table with a warm welcome from our
>> community.
>> We hope you will participate in promoting the vision of GeoForAll
>> and share the goal of developing global collaboration
>> opportunities for education and research with open source GIS software
>> and data.
>> You are welcome to contact other GeoForAll Labs to exchange experiences
>> and collaborate in teaching and research programs based on open source
>> GIS software.
>> You can find contact information in the table at
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives
>> You are also welcome to follow our monthly newsletters
>> and contribute any news that you may have
>> http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/
>>
>> I assume that you are already subscribed to our mailing list,
>> if not, here is the link, to make sure you get updated on the latest
>> developments
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall
>>
>> I have added your lab to the network table as #113.
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives#Universi
>> ty.2FHigher_Education.2FSchools_members
>> Please create a login on the OSGeo wiki (unless you already have one),
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount
>> and edit the table with your lab information (coordinates
>> longitude/latitude, brief description
>> of you activities/competencies and link to your website when you have it
>> ready).
>> Please also add your lab in the relevant sections of these pages:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas
>>
>> Finally, if you do not have it yet, you should set up a webpage page on
>> your website that
>> provides information about your open source geospatial activities
>> and a list of active participants among your staff.
>>
>> We look forward to your participation in the network!
>> Let me know if you have any further questions,
>> or need any help with the wiki.
>>
>> best regards, Helena
>>
>>
>> On Dec 1, 2016, at 12:46 PM, Carl Sack <cmsack at wisc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Helena, Charles, and Phillip,
>>
>> I am writing to request the University of Wisconsin Cartography Lab be
>> admitted to the Geo For All labs network. I will be the liaison for our lab
>> until August, 2017. I met Helena at AutoCarto back in September and talked
>> to her there about joining, but our internal process to get it approved
>> took some time. We are now ready to join the network. Please let me know
>> how to proceed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Carl
>>
>>
>> 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/publications.html
>>
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>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Charlie Schweik
>
> Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation &
> Interim Director of the School of Public Policy,
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>
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