[Ica-osgeo-labs] Thematic Areas - Call for theme leaders and also new themes

Suchith Anand Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
Fri Feb 20 05:08:51 PST 2015


Sergio, that is good point. We should use Charlie's expertise for North America with Helena.

It is great to have Silvana co-chair South America with you (she also established the first OSGeo lab in South America).

For Europe we will use the Anne Ghisla's expertise  with Maria Brovelli. Updated details below


North America Thematic
Theme Leaders -Helena Mitasova and Charlie Schewick
The  mail list will be geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org>

South America Thematic
Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara and Silvana Camboim
The  mail list will be geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org>

Africa Thematic
Theme Leaders -Rania Elsayed Ibrahim and 1 more cochair (Hoping Serena will confirm)
The  mail list will be geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>

Asia Thematic (including Australia)
Theme Leaders - We need two cochairs (hoping Thuy will confirm)
The  mail list will be geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org>

Europe Thematic
Theme Leaders -Maria Brovelli and Anne Ghisla
The  mail list will be geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org>



Subject/Language Thematics



Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic
Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA) and will also be the administrators for the mail list we will create
geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org>

Teacher Training & School Education thematic,
Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland)  and Adrian Manning (UK)
The  mail list will be geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org>

Spanish thematic
Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay)  and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)
The mail list will be geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org>



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From: Silvana Camboim [silvanacamboim at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 12:31 PM
To: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Cc: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Thematic Areas - Call for theme leaders and also new themes

Dear all:

I can co-chair the South American group, then we have some representatives from both Spanish and Portuguese speaker countries. If you have any other ideas for Brazilians to be involved, Sergio?

Best regards,

Silvana Camboim
Dpto. of Geomatica
Universidade Federal do Paraná - Brasil



2015-02-20 10:12 GMT-02:00 SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy<mailto:sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy>>:
Hi. Is Charlie co-leading South America? Is that right? It's not that I have any doubts about his skills, just that I relate him more or best with North America. I`m aware he's been nodal contact for South America when the initiative started but I think this is different: the network grew rapidly and we have many South Americans in it and very active (Brazilians, for example). Just let me know.
Thanks.

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Sección Sistemas de Información Geográfica
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY

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Colleagues,

We need 4 more volunteers to come forward (2 for chairing the Europe thematic ), 1 for Asia and 1 for Africa regions.  Having one more cochair for region thematic will help Helena, Charlie and Anne. I had been the contact for Europe and Africa till now, but i think it is better now that others can lead this. Hence we need new regional thematic chairs for Europe and Africa.

Please let us know your interest for leading these region thematics , so we can finalise this and update in our website etc. Many thanks.

Suchith



North America Thematic
Theme Leaders -Helena Mitasova and more cochair
The  mail list will be geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org>

South America Thematic
Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara and Charlie Schweik
The  mail list will be geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org>

Africa Thematic
Theme Leaders -Rania Elsayed Ibrahim and 1 more cochair
The  mail list will be geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>

Asia Thematic (including Australia)
Theme Leaders -Anne Ghisla and one more cochair
The  mail list will be geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org>

Europe Thematic
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
The  mail list will be geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org>



Subject/Language Thematics



Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic
Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA) and will also be the administrators for the mail list we will create
geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org>

Teacher Training & School Education thematic,
Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland)  and Adrian Manning (UK)
The  mail list will be geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org>

Spanish thematic
Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay)  and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)
The mail list will be geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org>



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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Thematic Areas - Call for theme leaders and also new themes

Thanks Rania. That is excellent.

Anyone else willing to cochair Africa thematic with Dr Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Division of Scientific Training and Continuous Studies, National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt ) please let us know.

Best wishes,

Suchith


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From: Rania Elsayed [ranyaalsayed at gmail.com<mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com>]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 7:15 PM
To: Suchith Anand
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Thematic Areas - Call for theme leaders and also new themes

Hello all
I can lead Africa thematic

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>> wrote:
Hi Rania,

Thank you for the info and we welcome your participation and contributions to "eacher Training & School Education thematic and Africa Thematic.

Best wishes,

Suchith
________________________________________
From: Rania Elsayed [ranyaalsayed at gmail.com<mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com><mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com<mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com>>]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 8:14 AM
To: Suchith Anand
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Thematic Areas - Call for theme leaders and also new themes

Hello,
kinly count me in Teacher Training & School Education thematic, and Africa Thematic.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Rania Elsayed <ranyaalsayed at gmail.com<mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com><mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com<mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com>><mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com<mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com><mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com<mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com>>>> wrote:
Respected Sir/Madam​
I am  Rania Elsayed Ibrahim, Researcher, and have PhD in Computers & Information. I teach GIS and Remote sensing courses using ArcGIS, ENVI.  I am now working with ESRI ArcGIS,  and QGIS. I received email from Prof. Dr. Franz-Joseph Behr  concerning open source programs and he suggested me to join this group. I register my interest/use of QGIS in educational settings. I am now involved in a project for building spatial data infrastructure based on open source programs in Egypt, I am responsible for training people on open source programs such as QGIS, Postgis,etc.
I am looking to create a project for education development using open source programs. currently I am looking to create a suite of GIS training courses using QGIS, postgis, etc. I am also looking to get postdoc opportunity to improve my knowledge and relationships in this setting.



On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>><mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>>> wrote:
Colleagues,

As have build consensus on the need to create separate thematic areas  to accommodate different topics , language and regions, we will now go ahead  and to setup mail lists to start the process.

It is good if we can identify the needed thematics as well as the leaders for each area, as it is time wise easy to do this in one go rather than doing this separately

For example

For Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic
Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA) and will also be the administrators for the mail list we will create
geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org>><mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org>>>

Teacher Training & School Education thematic,
Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland)  and Adrian Manning (UK)
the  mail list will be geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org>><mailto:geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-teachertraining at lists.osgeo.org>>>

Spanish thematic
Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay)  and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)
the  mail list will be geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org>><mailto:geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org>>>

We could also setup region wise thematics that again links with region wise activities like FOSS4G-NA, FOSS4G-Europe, FOSS4G-Asia and hopefully we will establish FOSS4G-Africa and FOSS4G- SA soon. So we need two people to lead each of these region thematic. This is important as we are growing, as Sergio rightly pointed out we need to accommodate local needs and continent wise thematics are good as it is  big to build collaboration but more local to suit the needs.

Europe Thematic
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org>><mailto:geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-europe at lists.osgeo.org>>>

North America Thematic
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org>><mailto:geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-northamerica at lists.osgeo.org>>>

South America Thematic
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org>><mailto:geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-southamerica at lists.osgeo.org>>>

Africa Thematic
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>><mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>>>

Asia Thematic (including Australia)
Theme Leaders -Please come forward
the  mail list will be geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org>><mailto:geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-asiaaustralia at lists.osgeo.org>>>

As we have grown rapidly my suggestion is that once we have the region wise thematic group leads established, the leaders of that become the contact points for any new labs to be established to contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new members and all regional members in the region can use the list for collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc. All ideas welcome.

Timing wise, this is good as the Advisory Board is working to finalise the criteria for new and existing labs and this way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region requirements/needs.

So could i request those of you interested to lead the Region wise thematics to inform me by 25th Feb at the latest and we can finalise this. Also if you wish to setup any other thematic (specific area) please inform all of us now, so we can finalise this. Many thanks.

Suchith




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Thanks & Regards
Dr Rania Elsayed Ibrahim

PhD. Computers & Information

Researcher,

Division of Scientific Training and Continuous Studies,                                                         National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences,Cairo, Egypt.

23 Joseph Teto st., ElNozha ElGedida, Cairo, Egypt. P.O.Box 1564 Alf Maskn.




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