[Geo4All] Two events of possible interest to promote GeoForAll and OSGeo-related work

[Charles Schweik]

Dear GeoForAll colleagues,

I’m writing you to let you know about two upcoming events GeoForAll members
might be interested in. Apologies in advance for a longish email.

1. *World Commons Week2022 <https://wcw2022.iasc-commons.org/> – Teaching
Video and Podcast contest*.

World Commons Week (WCW) is an online, global event I’ve been running for 5
years out of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (
IASC-commons.org <iasc-commons.org>).  WCW is an event meant to celebrate
scholarship and practice around “the commons”. Open Source Geospatial
software and open access educational materials are both examples of
“digital commons.” You may remember that GeoForAll did a webinar in the WCW2020
event <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqrUQ9apFkc>.

In this year’s WCW 2022 event, we are running a Teaching the Commons Video
and Podcast Contest
<https://wcw2022.iasc-commons.org/teaching-video-contest/>. More
information about this is below [1]. It would be wonderful to see some
GeoForAll education or OSGeo-related software submissions in this contest!
Submission deadline is November 15th.

*2. IASC’s biennial international conference will be in Nairobi, Kenya in
June 2023 <https://2023.iasc-commons.org/>*

It would be wonderful to see some GeoForAll activity there. Many of the
conference sub-themes <https://2023.iasc-commons.org/#conference-sub-themes>
are of interest to people affiliated with GeoForAll. There is a call for
Panels out right now and Subtheme #10 is “*Opportunities and challenges of
the digital commons*.”

A GeoForAll panel (or individual papers) around open education, open data
or FOSS4G software would be a welcomed contribution!

It might even be possible to organize a set of papers that could,
potentially, lead to a special issue in the International Journal of the
Commons that I could help navigate if there is interest.

Or, it might be possible – if someone wanted to propose this – run a
workshop on Open Source GIS, co-located at this event. If you are
interested in any of these ideas, email me at cschweik at umass.edu.

Finally, related to #2, the conference organizers are actively looking for
conference financial sponsors to help scholars and students from African
countries get to this conference. If there are any GeoForAll or OSGeo
affiliated projects or organizations who would like to be a conference
sponsor, please contact me.

I hope some of you will consider participating on one or both events to
help promote GeoForAll and FOSS4G!

Professor Charlie Schweik

President-elect of the International Association for the Study of the
Commons <https://iasc-commons.org/>

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[1] WCW Video/podcast contest

The aim of this contest is to produce a high-quality, well-conceptualized
video or podcast that is 3-5 minutes long and instructional around commons
terminology or commons-related concepts. Video or Podcast entries should
target either: primary school age children; secondary or high school age
children; university undergraduate and graduate students; or the general
public.

-- 
Professor, Dept of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy
University of Massachusetts Amherst

CharlieSchweik.org <http://charlieschweik.org/>
Associate Director, Public Interest Technology at UMass
<https://groups.cs.umass.edu/pit/pit-at-umass/>
President-elect (2023-25), International Association for the Study of the
Commons <https://iasc-commons.org/>
Co-founder, WorldLibrarians.org <http://worldlibrarians.org>
Co-lead, UMassAir.org
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