[Geo4All] Do you want to do a webinar about FOSS4G for Geo4All?

Thu Feb 9 22:49:28 PST 2017

Dear Rafael and David,

Many thanks for your positive reaction to my proposal.

Having briefly consulted my colleagues last night (I will need a little
support from them in the preparation),  they are also enthusiastic about
the opportunity of sharing our experiences with this type of audience, so
let's do this!

*A) Why FOSS/FOSS4G for our work*: I grew up in a mixed proprietary/FOSS
environment...with these options, whenever I had the opportunity of
choosing a an approach, I always went for "F/OS" when possible, and -if
that was not possible- I invite people to consider how it would be possible
to go "F/OS" on the next round of a given project.

*B) About the time of the presentation:* I worked for some eight years for
a US company, and we had a lot of teleconferences (mostly on PST), so I am
flexible on the time...I would say please choose whatever time slot is
comfortable for your attendees...if you want to set this via a doodle poll,
that's also fine with me.

*C) Concerning the date:* two options here...it could be either next week
(Feb 16 or 17) or after mid-March, ideally even April.

What changes : having the webinar next week, I would essentially cut down a
50-minute selection of material which I have rehearsed at least 170 times
in public events (plus a lot more in meetings) over the past ten
years...this would be great and, even though I occasionally advertize
events and news on these mailing lists, I am sure what you hear will be of
interest for many.

At the same time, we would miss some level of elaboration on things which
have been happening since mid-December, and there have been A LOT of things
happening by our team (blog posts per month on pibinko.org after the Summer
went like 3-6-22-12 and 8 as of Feb 10). These things are related to our
project and are showing the cutting edge of what we do with our "F/OS"
approach.

However, in order to prepare a decent summary of the "cutting edge", we
need a little time and especially some "chill out" phase, which we do not
have right now (pls. see http://www.pibinko.org/calendar/).

...so: I am open to your choices on date (between Feb 16 or 17) or after
mid-March (with a date TBD ASAP, if this were to be your choice)

Many thanks for your attention, and best regards from Italy.

Andrea Giacomelli
http://www.pibinko.org
info at pibinko.org
+39 331 7539228 <+39%20331%20753%209228>
P. IVA: 01582480537

2017-02-09 18:26 GMT+01:00 Moreno-sanchez, Rafael <
Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu>:

> Hi Andrea, everyone,
>
> Yes!
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> This would be fantastic.
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> A topic that would be of interest to a broad audience.
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> We can run the webinar as a join event with ASPRS (David Alvarez) to
> provide it with a broader audience and distribution.
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> If you briefly touch on “Why FOSS/FOSS4G for our work” it would be great.
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> Can you give us some tentative dates to start scheduling the presentation.
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> Around 5:00-6:00 pm Italy time would work best for audiences in America
> and Europe/Africa.
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> 50 min presentation
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> 10 min questions
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> David or I set up the webinar broadcast and recording.
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> Thank you
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> Rafael
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> __________________________________________________
>
> Rafael Moreno, Ph.D.
>
> Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences
>
> University of Colorado Denver
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> Office: North Classroom 3524, Auraria Campus
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> Campus Box 172
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> 1200 Larimer Street NC 3524
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> Denver, CO 80204
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> Phone: 303-352-3762 <(303)%20352-3762>
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> Fax 303-556-6197 <(303)%20556-6197>
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> Website: https://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno
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> *From:* Andrea Giacomelli (pibinko) [mailto:info at pibinko.org]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 9, 2017 4:36 AM
> *To:* Moreno-sanchez, Rafael <Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu>
> *Cc:* geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; list at giscolorado.org;
> all at listserve.ucgis.org; Antonella Pocci <antonella.pocci.piloni at gmail.com>;
> Stefano Costa <steko at iosa.it>
> *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] Do you want to do a webinar about FOSS4G for
> Geo4All?
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> Dear Rafael,
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> Concerning webinars, I would like to submit a proposal from Italy
> (Southern Tuscany, to be more precise).
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> We are in fact in the tenth anniversary of an operation which has been
> intertwining culture, environment, and open innovation since 2006,
> involving a group of Italians.
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> The group has been evolving and relating to various legal entities, while
> always retaining its nature of what may be defined as a "loose integration"
> paradigm for collaboration.
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> I have been one of the founding members of the Italian (or
> italian-language...?) OSGEO Chapter, then creating my own small NGO
> (Attivarti.org) , gradually interacting with small-medium enterprises,
> national research institutes, universities etc.
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> I will be presenting a poster about this in the upcoming FOSS4G-IT event
> in Genova, in a couple of hours.
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> We will then be having three events at the end of February, related to our
> participatory light pollution monitoring project, and have the Open Data
> Day following.
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> Putting a lot of projects into a single perspective, I might sum the whole
> story proposing that the webinar would deal with "how free/open source
> geomatics can integrate in local communities (mainly rural) to improve
> resilience and quality of life.
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> ...the webinar might also represent a way of summarizing in almost over
> nine years afert this: http://www.pibinko.org/r
> iflessioni-sul-tematismo-on-freeopen-source-gis/ , and engaging most of
> the people and territories you see in the video in the projects which you
> find detailed in www.pibinko.org and www.attivarti.org
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> If you think this can be a topic of interest, I can discuss the case with
> my colleagues and we can lay out a plan to deliver the webinar (no sooner
> than May).
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>
> Thank you for your attention, and best regards
>
>
>
>
> Andrea Giacomelli
> http://www.pibinko.org
> info at pibinko.org
> +39 331 7539228 <+39%20331%20753%209228>
>
> P. IVA: 01582480537
>
>
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> 2017-02-08 1:16 GMT+01:00 Moreno-sanchez, Rafael <
> Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu>:
>
> Hi everyone,
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> I am collecting proposals for new webinars.
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>
>
> Great way to showcase  your work or ideas, have it recorded, and made
> available to a broad audience in the Geo4All YouTube Channel.
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> Very simple:
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> ·       Prepare your slides.
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> ·       Tell us about your work/ideas for up to 50 min.
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> ·       We record and post to YouTube Channel.
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> ·       You can use your webinar recording as a presentation card for
> introducing your work or ideas.
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> Anything that creates excitement and interest about FOSS4G is great.
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> For example:
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> ·       Research, service, or education activities.
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> ·       Applications.
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> ·       Discussion of issues/ideas, challenges, advantages, regarding the
> use of FOSS4G, etc...
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> ·       “Why I use FOSS4G in my organization?”
>
> ·       “FOSS4G in country or organization X”
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> ·       “How to get started with FOSS4G in X or Y conditions or
> organization”
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> ·       “What would help me to get started with FOSS4G”
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> ·       Etc..
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> _________________________________________________
>
> Rafael Moreno, Ph.D.
>
> Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences
>
> University of Colorado Denver
>
> Office: North Classroom 3524, Auraria Campus
>
> Campus Box 172
>
> 1200 Larimer Street NC 3524
>
> Denver, CO 80204
>
> Phone: 303-352-3762 <(303)%20352-3762>
>
> Fax 303-556-6197 <(303)%20556-6197>
>
> Website: https://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno
>
>
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> *From:* GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Ravi Kumar
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 5, 2017 7:11 AM
> *To:* Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Cc:* discuss at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] Greetings to everyone as we
> celebrate our 11th Anniversary
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> Great 11 years indeed.
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> A multitude of National Chapters flourishing too.
>
> Ravi Kumar
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> On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> Today, The Open Source Geospatial Foundation celebrates our 11th
> Anniversary. I would like to  send our greetings to everyone on the happy
> occassion of 11th Anniversary of when our  Foundation was founded (4th Feb
> 2006) [1] .The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has come a long way . The
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation is now the world’s largest Geospatial
> ecosystem , so we welcome you to the huge network of our partners and
> collaborators globally from governments, industry , universities, NGOs
> worldwide that you can connect to expand your ideas rapidly. Open
> innovation is key in driving Digital Economy opportunities and we are
> determined to make sure that everyone benefits.
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> On this happy occassion, i am pleased to honour *Dr. Rafael
> Moreno-Sanchez* as our GeoAmbassador. Rafael established GeoForAll lab at
> the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of
> Colorado Denver, USA. Details at http://opensourcegeospatial.ic
> aci.org/2017/02/geoambassador-dr-rafael-moreno-sanchez/
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> It is also my great pleasure to introduce our colleagues at *the Open
> Source Geospatial Lab [2] of The Department of Geodesy and Geoinformatics
> of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade* as our
> “GeoForAll” lab of the month. Details at http://opensourcegeospatial.ic
> aci.org/2017/02/geoforall-lab-of-the-month-open-source-geosp
> atial-lab-belgrade-serbia/
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> On behalf of the GeoForAll community, we thank Dr. Milan KIlibarda and all
> colleagues from the University of Belgrade and for their contributions to
> the GeoForAll initiative and look forward to working and building more
> collaborations with all interested on this education mission.
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> Happy birthday to OSGeo Foundation and may God’s grace and blessings be
> with all of us and OSGeo for our efforts to empower everyone with open geo
> principles  to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and
> full of innovation and opportunities for everyone.
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> May the FOSS be with everyone...
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> Best wishes,
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> Suchith
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> Dr. Suchith Anand
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> http://www.geoforall.org/
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> http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org
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> GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science
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> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/node/1672
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> [2] http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/en/
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