[Geo4All] Webinar Friday Dec 1 7:00 PM GMT How we teach tools for open geospatial science.

[Moreno-sanchez, Rafael]

Hi everyone,
Correction on the title for our coming webinar this Friday at 7:00 PM GMT

How we teach tools for open geospatial science.
Emphasis in Open Science.
WEBINAR
Join URL: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/307232469

Friday December 1  at 7:00 PM GMT (12:00 PM Central Mountain Time)
How we teach tools for open geospatial science.

Vaclav Petras, Helena Mitasova, Anna Petrasova
North Carolina State University
Abstract:
Open science is much needed method to achieve more transparent and efficient research and its applications. The course we teach at North Carolina State University covers this emerging field of open science and deals with reproducibility and replicability challenges of geospatial research. The students gain a hands-on experience with tools used by scientists to conduct geospatial research which can be validated and applied by the wider geospatial community. Several geospatial open source tools are discussed in connection with general-purpose and text authoring tools such as interactive documents and revision control tools. Although the focus of the course is open science, many of the tools used in the course are used in industry, so that students pursuing various carriers can benefit from the course. The course further covers how open source communities and software development process work and how to apply this to research workflows in a lab group.

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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: 303-315-7556
Fax 303-556-6197
Website: https://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 6:43 AM
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Cc: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [Geo4All] GeoForAll Budget 2018

Dear Board,

On behalf of GeoForAll, I wish to submit the budget for 2018 for your consideration.

GeoForAll's focus is on education and we have been working to enable geoeducation opportunities for all. Esp. in developing countries we now are seeing real progress being made. We see students not just as future of OSGeo but current leaders of OSGeo.

FOSS4G conferences have been a great vehicle to reach out to all communities and we have been using this to provide more participation for students to present their ideas to the world. Students are also contributing hugely to the various OSGeo software projects. We have been discussing many ideas on how we can enable more participation of students and also provide recognition to their contributions. The Student Awards at FOSS4G conferences are the right instrument to enable this.

Based on this, I am proposing the following for GeoForAll budget 2018

GeoForAll Student awards for FOSS4G events will be 500 USD per event (both local and global). Distributed as follows
First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD

We will arrange for max. 4 FOSS4G events to be supported for student awards per year (these will be FOSS4G regional events or other events like gvSIG conference etc which have a dedicated Open source Geo Track and LOC willing to run the award event. This will help us provide more global distribution for supporting student excellence.

The main deliverable for any LOC wishing to take up this is to ensure there is an LOC contact responsible for running the student awards  with criteria setup etc and award ceremony done at the closing ceremony and awards given to winners.

Total budget  - 2000 USD

As 2018 FOSS4G Global event is happening in Africa, it is a great opportunity for widening participation for more students in Africa, so I am also requesting OSGeo Board to consider some of the ideas generated in the discussions for enabling more student participation  [1]  and plan appropriately. There is no need to rush into any decision, but I request that there is discussions take place.

We had some online discussion on ideas for this [1]  and  Mark Iliffe (Chair of FOSS4G 2018) has  volunteered to administer (on behalf of LOC Dar)  directly the $2k from the OSGeo board for this . We need to be careful not to do anything that undermines the Travel Grant program structures that are already  in place . I will hope that Mark and LOC will send a detailed plan for this later on their ideas and then Board can decide as appropriate.

I believe having FOSS4G in Africa in 2018, is a great opportunity esp. for the students in local universities there to ever get the opportunity to be at a  Global FOSS4G event and learn new ideas to help them develop.  This $2k can be used to support providing free registration  to eligible students in local universities will help them attend and help maximum impact for more students.

I thank everyone for your inputs and I now leave this to the community and Board to discuss and take forward as appropriate.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2017-November/004310.html







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