[Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us forward on geoeducation

Thu Aug 22 06:27:46 PDT 2019

Thanks Suchith for your volunteering to moderate the GeoForAll lab
mini-conference (or whatever we call it).

I added some thoughts to your document (under Attachment 1 at the bottom)
for the Bucharest BOF since I won't be there. I hope perhaps one of the
people who volunteered to participate (thanks!) might be there to help try
and organize the online mini-conference.

Cheers all,
Charlie Schweik

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:19 AM Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
>
>
> Thank you for the excellent ideas and inputs. This is very helpful for
> moving our community forward. This now added to the agenda at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTgLetei863hY2a-oz0PMy9ejcT6HkEq5IqZG1k8Wn4/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> I volunteer to  help you and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this
> GeoForAll community miniconference for the World Commons Week. Please let
> me know the exact day/time and I will coordinate this with Rafael. I thank
> all colleagues who volunteered to present for this webinar mini conference.  Your
> help and support is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> I would also like to add one more agenda item on GeoForAll support for
> STEM education in schools especially for economically poor students
> globally. I came across an excellent initiative for widening STEM education
> opportunities for female students that GEO is involved in Ghana at
> http://earthobservations.org/geo_blog_obs.php?id=368
>
>
> GeoForAll is committed to support STEM education opportunities for
> women. As many  GEO colleagues will be at FOSS4G, I suggest that we reach
> out to GEO and explore ways for working together for expanding STEM
> education opportunities for students globally.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
> *Sent:* 21 August 2019 16:00
> *To:* Suchith Anand <ezasa7 at exmail.nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Cc:* GeoForAll <GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org>; discuss at lists.osgeo.org <
> discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] GeoForAll - what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us
> forward on geoeducation
>
> Hi Andreea, Suchith and other GeoForAll/OSGeo colleagues,
>
> (Sorry I won't be there next week).
>
> Again, one tangible GeoForAll community building effort we can do is to
> start an annual GeoForAll community webinar mini-conference, as part of
> this World Commons Week (October 6-12)
> <https://wcw2019.iasc-commons.org/local-events/> I am organizing. Open
> Source Geospatial projects are an important subset of "world commons"
> digital projects. I hope in the GeoForAll BOF meeting this idea of a
> mini-conference as part of this global event can be discussed and refined.
> It will also help draw attention to OSGeo/GeoForAll by others who need
> geospatial technologies to study natural resource commons who don't know
> about them.
>
> But from my previous posts on this idea, here are the colleagues who
> responded and signaled their interest to do this (thanks to those below!).
> I'm not sure each wanted to present something or not?
>
>    - Victor N.Sunday, Team Coordinator, UniqueMappersTeam, Port Harcourt
>    Nigeria. -- Open Source and Open Data for All
>    - Suchith Anand Dr. Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition By
>    webinar United Kingdom  -- Open Principles in Science and Education
>    - Sergio Acosta y Lara, Architect Comunidad gvSIG, Uruguay, Montevideo
>    Uruguay -- Experiences from the 3rd edition of the course-contest Projects
>    with students and gvSIG Batoví
>    - Victoria Rautenbach, Dr University of Pretoria Pretoria South
>    Africa.  GeoNode for data management and sharing
>    - Paulo Cesar Coronado, Engineer, Universidad Distrital Francsico José
>    de Caldas, Bogota Colombia. SIG con herramientas OSGeo (GIS with OSGeo
>    tools)
>
> But this is a nice cross-section of some of the GeoForAll labs. Raphael
> Moreno has nicely agreed to use his webinar platform.
>
> *QUESTIONS, maybe for the BOF meeting:*
>
> *1) What is the goal of such a online "mini-conference"? I would argue it
> would be to learn what other labs are doing and to build a richer dialog
> across labs. *
> *2) Would each of these people listed want to present, say, for 15-30
> minutes about their topics or lab activities? Anyone else want to
> participate?*
> *3) What day/time range during the week of October 6-12 would we want to
> run this GeoForAll community online miniconference?*
> *4) Is there someone in the GeoForAll community who would be willing to
> help me and be the "organizing chair/moderator" of this GeoForAll community
> miniconference? With me running the broader event I don't think I can do
> this. *
>
> I hope this is helpful and moves the community forward in a small way.
>
> Charlie Schweik
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 4:28 AM Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> Thanks to Andreea, Victoria and all colleagues working for GeoForAll
> meeting next week. Andreea will be sending the draft agenda for you all to
> provide inputs. Even if you are not able to attend FOSS4G 2019 GeoForAll
> meeting, I request you to share your inputs/ideas on how we can move
> forward on our education aims.
>
>
> For the GeoForAll Como meeting in 2015 , Charlie had created the following
> 4 key questions[1] for discussing  . I think  it is an excellent idea
> that we need to use for our community meetings  to get everyone's inputs.
>
>
> * Geo4All - What would you like to see Geo4All in 5 years -- 2020  -- in
> the context of educational collaboration?
>
> * Geo4All  - What we need to do together to achieve this vision?
>
> * Geo4All  - What can we do THIS YEAR to move forward?
>
> * Geo4All - What can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision?
>
>
>
> May i request all to reflect and share your ideas. Esp. we are interested
> to hear on "what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision?".
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_BOF1
>
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