[Geo4All] Welcome to DePaul University - 112 member of Geoforall

[Helena Mitasova]

Cassie,

Thank you for your email - your goals to adhere your GIS usage and curriculum to social
justice focus and mission are wonderful contribution to the geoforall mission.

I have added DePaul University, Department of Geography to the GeoForAll laboratories network table 
with a warm welcome to 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.

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/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs

I have added your lab to the network table as #112. Please
create a login on the OSGeo wiki (unless you already have one)
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives) and edit the table
with your lab information (coordinates longitude/latitude, brief descriprion
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, 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 Oct 26, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Follett, Cassandra <CFOLLETT at depaul.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello Helena,
> 
> Thank you for your email. After our faculty meeting I have had interest
> from other faculty and instructors, as well as the Dean, in supporting
> this. 
> 
> At DePaul, we are expanding our Geography program and our GIS offerings.
> We have a new dedicated GIS Lab where we have GRASS, QGIS, and other open
> source GIS programs such as GeoDA. Every couple quarters we also offer a
> GIS course specifically on using QGIS. We are expanding our curriculum in
> coming quarters to teach interactive GIS mapping, and are developing
> coursework that will incorporate open geospatial software for online
> mapping and other alternatives to commercial software offerings. We
> support local community organizations by offering courses in community
> GIS, and due to organizational resources teaching sustainable GIS
> practices such as adopting open source GIS is often a goal in those
> collaborations. Furthermore we employ open data such as the Chicago Data
> Portal often in our projects, as well as freely available remote sensing
> products and other data products.
> 
> As my position in the program is a GIS Coordinator and adjunct instructor,
> my interest is in being a point of contact for Geo4All and fostering
> adoption and teaching of open GIS on campus. This is because I believe
> that offering alternatives to students in this way is beneficial to
> students and gaining relevant skills. Long term goals discussed by our
> program include ways to adhere our GIS usage and curriculum to social
> justice focus and mission.
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> -Cassie
> 
> 

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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