[Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

[Suchith Anand]

Jorge and all,

Can you please suggest some  best days which has some OSGeo connection as well as good for maximum of people. We can then decide which date.

Suchith



-----Original Message-----
From: xurxosanz at gmail.com [mailto:xurxosanz at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz
Sent: 01 October 2013 11:12
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: Luca Delucchi; Lene Fischer; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

2013/10/1 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>:
> Thanks Jorge. Whichever day we select it will be holiday every 2 days in seven years cycle (Saturday, Sunday) or holidays in some parts of the world. The aim is to find a day which is relevant of OSGeo and best for maximum people.
>
> We are also going to slowly dominate GIS day to push our education mission - so that is another opportunity for us to further get OSGeo Education mission.
>
> So my suggestion is that 4th of February being the OSGeo Formation day  is a good day to plan our "Geo for All" day. Being the OSGeo Formation date it has a strong significance and connection with the whole OSGeo community. We will also be using GIS day for activily promoting OSGeo (distributing OSGeo LiveDVDs etc) . So we have 2 days to actively promote our education mission which means that we have double impact (plus atleast one day will be working day for all parts of the world) . Thanks.
>
> Suchith
>

Selecting February because it's not holidays in Europe/USA universities, when it is in South-america, most of Africa, Australia and many other places seems not fair to me, nor aligned with what I understood was the meaning of the activity. It's not the same than a weekend.

IMHO selecting a date that can reach the maximum of people (who doesn't know about OSGeo probably) is more important than selecting one that is meaningful for the OSGeo community.

For example, and we discussed that briefly at FOSS4G, having a release of OSGeo Live in the mid of August was really hard to get translations done because many of us were on holidays.

Best
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Jorge Sanz
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