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Dear All,<br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We now have over 100 OSGeo labs and it is a great time to think innovative ideas for expanding research and teaching collaborations between our labs. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Charlie Schweik gave an excellent webinar
on "Can we develop collaborative educational </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> research </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">?" with so many ideas for rapidly expanding joint collaborations between our labs. If you couldn’t attend the webinar the recording is at
</span><a href="https://youtu.be/dVCDME7cxUA" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk769569" previewremoved="true" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://youtu.be/dVCDME7cxUA</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>
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I am really hoping we follow up some ideas from this. The work that Charlie and Boston LOC did setting up the scholarworks is a big contribution to our whole community and all future FOSS4G LOCs. Charlie has put forward an excellent bigger aim for having
a system in place to collaboratively develop "GeoForAll Education Book" for different levels building upon the scholarworks system from FOSS4G Boston . I can see the benefit of this for the wider community. I volunteer myself to also help on the GeoForAll
Book idea (though I don’t have technical skills, I can volunteer for writing articles, editing etc as needed) , so we keep building upon this.<br>
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But to make all these happen, we need team efforts. Charlie or myself won’t be able to do this but if we get volunteers from atleast 2 labs interested in working collaboratively, then we can move ahead. There is option to request for OSGeo Board funding
but ideally I would like to see if we can get volunteers willing to help with this. If there are no volunteers, then we can request a small budget for this (1000 USD) and put in an open call.
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If we can get some volunteers who want to work together on educational content, and be willing to do this because they are already doing this as part of their jobs, it will be ideal . The volunteers need to investigate platforms and come up with a suggested
system and suggested content structure standards, and to support 2-4 collaborative education projects between 2 or more labs. Then we would also issue the call for 2-lab educational collaboration proposals. Can I request any volunteers interested to help
in this to let me know . Thanks.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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