[Geo4All] GeoAmbassador– Professor Charlie Schweik

[Darshana Rawal]

Congrats Charlie!!!

Darshana Rawal

On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
> 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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