<div dir="ltr">Key to this is incentives to participation. I've worked a decade ago with an Urban simulation modeling community and the challenge was that contributions beyond their city (such as cross-city collaborations) was not seen as something they should be doing. <div><br></div><div>There are examples of this though in some spaces, like Moodle or Sakai development across universities, for example. <br><div><div><br></div><div>I'm focused on the grant getting side of what we are trying to do. From that angle, what we will need is some letters of commitment. We also need to focus on research and education needs rather than sell the creation of a system -- which won't fly with NSF. (I realize this is just one avenue. Perhaps we need to look, as a group, to some foundations. For instance city analytics on public health? Disease vectors?</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>I hope these posts are helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>CHarlie</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.hogan@nasa.gov" target="_blank">patrick.hogan@nasa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I added a bunch of resource links to the website, we may not need them forever, but in designing a Road Map for us to build a CitySmart app, we need to be thinking
big, as in every city on the planet. <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Can you imagine if we really got this seed crystal in place?! The big idea being an open source project with talent from metropolitan areas around the world,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The logic in the value to all cities may be a no-brainer, but can we really get our ducks lined up enough and then quacking in harmony enough to do what needs
to be done? It’s so tantalizing to consider. . .we must find a way! A world literally working together to actually help each other. Nah, we could never do that. . .or could we? ; -)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 27, 2015 11:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Charles Schweik; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a>; Varun Chandola (<a href="mailto:chandola@buffalo.edu" target="_blank">chandola@buffalo.edu</a>); Gabor Remetey; Giuseppe Conti; Jim Miller; MELICK Brandt<br>
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Thanks for the email. Yes, I intend to read the documents this weekend and hopefully will have some ideas on a research question, etc.<br>
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As far as focal points, I like the climate change resilience part - under that section we could discuss the issue of mapping or managing rolling brown outs, etc. Just an idea<br>
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<a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [<a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] on behalf of Charles Schweik [<a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu" target="_blank">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 26, 2015 8:55 AM<br>
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Urban Science - City Analytics is going to take a lot of work.<br>
But I can't think of more fertile ground for engaging a world in a<br>
mutually beneficial enterprise with practical and positive results than this.<br>
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How hard the climb will be a measure of how much we want to accomplish.<br>
If easy, then not much, or maybe we really are all pulling each other up.<br>
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We need a groundswell for a world in mutually constructive dialogue, working in unison towards a common goal.<br>
This is something our planet dearly needs at this very precarious time in one species' very short history (~150k years, we're just babes).<br>
We are a species consuming resources at an unsustainable rate (a future in jeopardy),<br>
and polluting our biosphere (our life support system) as if we didn't need it.<br>
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What Can We Do?<br>
I hope we can design/architect an OSGEO software solution that excites the world community.<br>
We need municipalities around the world engaged in a partnership with us and us with them.<br>
What can we do for them? The OGC Smart Cities SI Framework and others is a big-picture bird's-eye view:<br>
<a href="http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/" target="_blank">http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/</a><br>
And also these:<br>
<a href="http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/" target="_blank">http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/" target="_blank">http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/</a><br>
There must be more of these, help us find them please!<br>
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Some Recent History:<br>
When NASA took on the mantle of going to the Moon, there were several independent projects designing and testing their idea for a Moon-shot.<br>
>From that group some projects were selected to go forward while others were mined for their gems to go into the remaining projects.<br>
This process continued until there was only one 'project,' Apollo. Apollo was not one program, but the cumulative result of several 'competing' projects.<br>
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Our Task:<br>
We need to develop a road map, the requirements doc, for what this Urban Science - City Analytics (CitySmart) program looks like.<br>
The requirements doc will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents above<br>
This road map needs to allows for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us to keep value-added on target.<br>
Then we will need a cadre of software development teams (or individuals) providing their solution in response to the road map.<br>
As we collectively together evaluate these, some will be asked to mashup until in the end we have one OSGEO CitySmart app. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for drag-n-drop of functionalities, so that each city can tailor it for their use,
and the world community can continue to optimize old functionalities and design new ones (proprietary or open source).<br>
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Who Will Do This?<br>
Maybe we can ask an academic or other organization to provide us with the road map (specifications/requirements), such as these two:<br>
<a href="http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/" target="_blank">http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/</a><br>
<a href="https://rd-alliance.org/" target="_blank">https://rd-alliance.org/</a><br>
If anyone knows of an organization or university who would be interested in designing the road map for city management per the 'framework' document links above, please let me know.<br>
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The Road Map Challenge (a proposal):<br>
Here is 'a' plan (not 'the' plan, this 'plan' will change depending on feedback from all of us).<br>
An OSGEO Challenge with a NASA crystal bull for the award, just like the Europa Challenge,
<a href="http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/" target="_blank">http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/</a>, and of course NASA T-shirts.<br>
We need YOU (whoever you are) to design the requirements doc for the Urban Science - City Analytics (CitySmart) program.<br>
We will rank these and the number one vote getter will get the crystal bull (after they mashup the best of what is in all of the road maps into theirs).<br>
We will ask the Region and Theme Chairs to do the voting. <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll" target="_blank">
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll</a><br>
And if there are special needs for the cities in the respective Regions, we need to hear about those requirements.<br>
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What Next?<br>
The next challenge, the OSGEO SmartCity Challenge, will be to build according to those requirements and put a smile on the face of every municipality! And something the whole world can be proud of together, while experiencing the benefits of living in a smarter
city. The City of Springfield Oregon has already shown us the path, <a href="http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html" target="_blank">
http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html</a>. Are there others?<br>
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-Patrick<br>
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