[Geo4All] New webinar collaborations with UCGIS and ASPRS

Fri Jun 10 07:37:02 PDT 2016

Hi everyone,
A quick note to inform you on the exciting new webinar collaborations with the
University Consortium for GIS (UCGIS), and the The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)

I have met with Diana Sinton Executive Director University Consortium for GIS (UCGIS), and talked details with David Alvarez from ASPRS.

WITH ASPRS:
(Please see attached)

1.       We will coordinate with ASPRS for 2-3 webinars of their yearly webinar offerings.

2.       For these 2-3 webinars they will post the Geo4All webinar offering in the ASPRS webinars calendar and promote them with their members and mailing lists.

3.        For these 2-3 webinars we will use the ASPRS webinars system. They will record webinar, create MP4 video recording and give it to us for posting in the Geo4All Webinars YouTube Channel. They will also post the recording in the ASPRS YouTube channel. Their webinar broadcast system supports up to 500 participants and usually they have over 100 people attending.

4.       The ASPRS webinars usually take place final Friday of every month around noon. We will select dates for the join webinar preferably out of the summer months when many members and audience of the Geo4All community are out.

WITH UCGIS:
Points 1, 2, 3, and 4 same as above.
Difference:

a)       We will have access to the UCGIS mailing list and Geo4All will be able to directly announce the webinars to the UCGIS members and mailing lists.

Rafael

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Rafael Moreno, Ph.D.
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University of Colorado Denver
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From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 8:58 AM
To: discuss at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science

Dear colleague,

On behalf of Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance [1] and Geo for All community, i would like to invite inputs for this open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science.

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart [2],[3] to expand ideas on this.

I want to specifically thank my colleagues at the University of Nottingham for thier support that made this Think Tank possible. Esp. I want to thank Stuart Marsh, Mike Jackson, Darren Robinson, Didier Leibovici and all colleagues globally who are involved in OpenCitySmart.

Also special thanks to Peter Mooney, Jeremy Morley and Jon Corbett for chairing the two discussion groups and collating inputs from all . I have added this to the wikipage where we are collating inputs from the wider community.

The overview slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/open-geospatial-science-vision-2030

Summary and Open Consulation link at  http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/06/open-consultation-on-the-vision-2030-for-open-geospatial-science/

So what is the essence of our Vision 2030 ?

Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science

  *       Science should always be fully open and inclusive
  *       Transparency of research is fundamental (no "black boxes" or proprietary barriers).
  *       Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

In true spirit of Open Science, we have make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision by either contributing to the wiki directly (but please add your name and details so we can acknowledge your contribution) at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_geospatial_science_-_vision_2030   or email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>   by 30th August 2016.

Thanks for your contributions and support.

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/

Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science

[1] https://rd-alliance.org/groups/geospatial-ig.html
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWuMfMMPfPw

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