[Geo4All] GeoForAll Digest, Vol 21, Issue 4

Mon Dec 4 04:31:13 PST 2017

Prof. Charles (Charlie) Schweik

It is great to have you as a GeoAmbassador. We here in Uganda we are
ready to work with you.

Best Wishes

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>    1. Re: GeoAmbassador– Professor Charlie Schweik (Andy Anderson)
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> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:34:06 +0000
> From: Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador– Professor Charlie Schweik
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> Congratulations, Charlie!
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> — Andy
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> On Dec 2, 2017, at 9:27 AM, Suchith Anand
> <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> On behalf of GeoForAll community , it is my great pleasure to honour Charles
> (Charlie) Schweik  as our GeoAmbassador. Charlie Schweik is a full professor
> at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA in a joint appointment
> between the Department of Environmental Conservation and the School of
> Public Policy.
>
> Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, a Masters of Public
> Administration from Syracuse University, and a PhD in Public Policy from
> Indiana University. At UMass, since 1999 he’s offered regularly an
> introduction to Geographic Information Systems to undergraduate and graduate
> students in natural resource conservation majors, as well as to students in
> UMass’ Masters of Public Policy and Administration program. Schweik began
> his research career studying landcover change -- usually deforestation or
> reforestation -- using GIS and Landsat satellite-based remote sensing, and
> connecting that to the social science study of natural resource “commons”
> governance and management. But beginning around the year 1998, his computer
> science background converged with this interest in commons and common
> property regimes, when he first heard the phrases “Free/Libre” or “Open
> Source” software. Since then, much of his research has focused on the study
> of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) as a form of Internet-based
> collective action. In 2012, he published his book, Internet Success: A Study
> of Open Source Software Commons (MIT Press) [1], which included a
> statistical analysis of over 170,000 open source software projects, looking
> for factors that lead projects either to ongoing collaboration or project
> abandonment. One of the chapters in the book studied qualitatively six OSGeo
> projects, investigating similarities and differences in the way they are
> governed and managed. Among other things, he learned from this study that
> open source software collaboration is not about the establishment of large
> development teams, but are usually made up of smaller teams of two to three
> developers with an interest or a “user-centered need” for that software. He
> also discovered that more than half of the successful ongoing collaborations
> in his dataset gained a developer from another continent [2]. Since
> completing that work, Schweik continues to expand his interest in the
> potential and promise of global Internet-based collaboration in the
> development of open source scientific hardware and in open educational
> resources (OER).
>
> Most recently, he gave a GeoForAll webinar [3] where he emphasized the
> untapped potential of the GeoForAll network in online collaboration in Free
> and Open Source for Geospatial research and education, and is actively
> trying to encourage educators and geospatial scientists at GeoForAll labs to
> find areas of mutual need and interest, to start cross-lab collaborations in
> FOSS4G-related research or educational content development. GeoForAll lab
> members with an interest in collaborating with another lab on educational
> material, make your interests known by entering a record in the OSGeo wiki
> table at https://tinyurl.com/GFA-collaborations  or contacting Charlie
> directly at cschweik at umass.edu<mailto:cschweik at umass.edu>
>
> GeoForAll is committed to work towards the vision of the United Nations 2030
> Agenda for Sustainable Development for building a better world for everyone.
> Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is
> a public good and that technology in general and the internet in particular
> provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse
> knowledge. Openness is key for true empowerment and sustainability.
>
> We are proud to honor Charlie as our GeoAmbassador and we are extremely
> grateful for his contributions to GeoForAll.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> [1] e-book freely available for download at
> https://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/29/
> [2] https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.397/
> [3] https://youtu.be/dVCDME7cxUA
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