[Ica-osgeo-labs] Please support the International Map Year

Thu Jan 8 20:46:23 PST 2015

Thanks Cameron for this OSGeo Live support. We will aim to use this IMY opportunity to encourage conference organisors in geospatial worldwide to give out OSGeo Live DVDs to their delegates. If we can get the OSGeo Live artwork to include IMY logo it will help a lot.  I am also thinking of ideas of how we can use this opportunity to reach out to  school teachers as part of Train the Trainers . Currently most geospatial conferences in education that we are involved are  Higher Education focus . I would welcome ideas on how we can reach out to school teachers as then it will have a long term impact.

For example, i will try to use AGILE contacts to explore if we can give OSGeo Live DVDs through GEOTHNK http://www.geothnk.eu/index.php/en/  where they have a teacher training aspect for helping build a spatially thinking society.

If any of you have any other ideas let me know. For example, maybe Ela through  GIS for Schools initiative , Sergio through gvSIG Batovi and others can all share their ideas on this and we can plan . 

The International Map Year is a great opportunity to get our education message across to policy makers, educators and the wider society , so i request all of you for your active support and participation.

Suchith

Brian- it will be really helpful if the artwork can help with this and include IMY logo. We can then point the artwork url to conference organisers and those running educational events to use for printing their DVDs. Many thanks.

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From: Cameron Shorter [cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 9:17 PM
To: Suchith Anand; Sanghee Shin; Georg Gartner; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: bengt at rystedt.se; live-demo; Brian Hamlin
Subject: Re: Please support the International Map Year

Thanks Suchith for letting us know about the International Map Year.

From an OSGeo-Live perspective:
* We could draw upon the theme in creating our OSGeo-Live artwork
(background image / sleeve cover). Brian Hamlin (who usually looks after
our artwork) do you have thoughts?
* Suchith, I'm interested to hear expansion on ideas about handing out
of OSGeo-Live at educational events.

On 9/01/2015 1:38 am, Suchith Anand wrote:
> Thanks Georg, Sanghee.
>
> For the IMY logo, you can download it from http://internationalmapyear.org/logos/   and put it FOSS4G 2015 website. I am ccing our colleagues in Geo for All as they all can also add the International Map Year logo to their Open Source Geospatial Lab websites and send internal mails to their staff and students to participate in various events over the year . Also colleagues can start planning ideas for other FOSS4G local conferences (FOSS4G-Europe, FOSS4G-NA etc) to promote the International Map Year and plan activities. But please send an email to the list so we can keep track of the various local activities planned globally.
>
> We will be adding the IMY logo and link to Geo for All website also soon
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: Sanghee Shin [shshin at gaia3d.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 1:58 PM
> To: Georg Gartner
> Cc: Sanghee Shin; Suchith Anand; bengt at rystedt.se
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please support the International Map Year
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks Suchith for the great idea. Regarding your idea,
>
> 1. Please send us IMY official logo. We’ll put the logo to FOSS4G 2015 webpage as related activities.
> 2. We have a plan to distribute OSGeo Live DVD at the event also. We’ll explore the possibility whether we could put the IMY logo in the DVDs.
> 3. If any person from ICA could give a talk about IMY at FOSS4G 2015, that would be appreciated.
> 4. Just like previous FOSS4G, there will be Map Competition (http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/map-gallery/) and the program will be led by Prof. Youngok Kang, president of KCA(Korea Cartographic Association).
>
> And I haven't known that 20th UN Regional Cartographic Conference - Asia Pacific / UN-GGIM-AP will take
> place in Jeju Island, Korea on this October. Wow…
>
> With regards,
>
> Sanghee
> ---
> Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
> "Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!"
> http://2015.foss4g.org
> Twitter: @foss4g
> Facebook: FOSS4G2015
> email: foss4gchair at osgeo.org
>
>
>
>> 2015. 1. 8., 오후 1:33, Georg Gartner <georg.gartner at tuwien.ac.at> 작성:
>>
>> Dear Collegues,
>>
>> I agree with all the suggestions Suchith has brought up.
>> It might be a unique opportunity through highlighting the importance of
>> maps to underpin all our geo-efforts and
>> make their relevance clear to everybody better.
>>
>> I would like to point out as well, that in Ocotber 2015 the 20th UN
>> Regional Cartographic Conference - Asia Pacific / UN-GGIM-AP will take
>> place in Jeju Island,Korea.
>> The International Map Year is on the Agenda and ICA will run an
>> accompanying workshop there as well.
>>
>> all the best,
>>
>> Georg
>>
>> Am 08.01.2015 12:48, schrieb Suchith Anand:
>>> Hi Sanghee,
>>>
>>> Many thanks for this excellent idea and i think FOSS4G Seoul Conference will be an excellent opportunity to also celebrate the International Map Year activities.
>>>
>>> There are many activities we can think of to build synergies with this
>>>
>>> 1. Please add the IMY logo and link to the FOSS4G 2015 website http://2015.foss4g.org
>>> 2. Please arrange OSGeo Live DVDs to be be given out to all delegates at FOSS4G 2015 and add the logo if IMY in the DVDs
>>> 3. We will arrange a presentation for International Map Year at FOSS4G 2015 and i will do my best to get one of the ICA key people to be present for this.
>>> 4. Plan to hold a Map competition http://internationalmapyear.org/for-professionals/  at FOSS4G 2015
>>>
>>> I am also ccing ICA President Professor Georg Gartner and Bengt Rystedt (Chairperson of the IMY Working Group) who i am sure will be pleased to give their ideas and inputs. Also our Geo for All colleagues (cc in) will be happy to plan ideas for this.
>>>
>>> I have fully confident with the FOSS4G momentum at Seoul we will make sure there will be OSGeo labs established at the excellent universities in South Korea soon.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Suchith
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Sanghee Shin [shshin at gaia3d.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 10:41 AM
>>> To: Suchith Anand
>>> Cc: Sanghee Shin
>>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please support the International Map Year
>>>
>>> Hello Suchith,
>>>
>>> I just feel that we could do something there at FOSS4G Seoul conference. It’s not a concrete idea but just feeling.
>>>
>>> As you know International Map Year was discussed at the UN-GGIM and the Head of UN Cartographic Section, Mr. Gyung-Soo Eom will come to Seoul. Mr. Eom has played key role in forming and boosting UN-GGIM. And at the same time, ICA is part of “Geo for All” initiative. So, I just feel that we can do something for IMY. We also expect some delegates from developing or under-developed countries. So I just feel we can draw picture.
>>>
>>> It’s just feeling.
>>>
>>> Do you have any idea on this?
>>>
>>> Anyway happy new year and hope to see you in Seoul.
>>>
>>> With regards,
>>>
>>> Sanghee
>>>
>>> P.s.) It’s somewhat embarrassing that there is no OSGeo Lab in South Korea. Please come to Korea and promote that!!
>>> ---
>>> Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
>>> "Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!"
>>> http://2015.foss4g.org
>>> Twitter: @foss4g
>>> Facebook: FOSS4G2015
>>> email: foss4gchair at osgeo.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2015. 1. 7., 오후 10:05, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> 작성:
>>>>
>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> Please support and participate in the International Map Year (IMY) activities led by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and supported by the United Nations that will be celebrated worldwide with the aim to provide opportunities to demonstrate, follow, and get involved in the art, science and technology of making and using maps and geographic information.  The most important legacies will be a new generation of cartographers and geographic information scientists, as well as an exceptional level of interest and participation from professionals, schoolchildren, the general public, and decision-makers, worldwide.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The purpose of International Map Year is to:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *   Make the map more visible to citizens and school children in a global context;
>>>>
>>>> *   Show how maps and atlases can be used in society;
>>>>
>>>> *   Show how information technology can be used in getting geographic information and how to produce one’s own maps;
>>>>
>>>> *   Display and show different types of maps and map production;
>>>>
>>>> *   Show the technical development of mapping and atlas production;
>>>>
>>>> *   Show the necessity of a sustainable development of geographic information infrastructures;
>>>>
>>>> *   Increase the recruitment of students to cartography and cartography-related disciplines.
>>>>
>>>> To enable this objective , The ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and "Geo for All" community will strongly support this initiative of the ICA  by organising training workshops and events during this year and we welcome ideas for joint collaborations.
>>>>
>>>> OSGeo Live DVDs http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html   will be given out at the educational events to enable more students to learn and be part of the geospatial opportunities for the future.
>>>>
>>>> More details of IMY at http://internationalmapyear.org
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>
>>>> Suchith
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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