[Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll/OSGeo at the International Society of the Study of the Commons global conference (Edmonton, Canada, late May, 2015)?

Wed Mar 11 03:59:53 PDT 2015

Hi Cameron,

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> You (and others on this list) might want to add yourselves to the list:
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> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate
>

Thanks for the helpful reminder. I added mine.

I checked yesterday and it looks like the idea of having an OSGeo workshop
at the IASC conference might be too late, but I have one other person to
ask still.

Is there anyone in the Western Canada group who might be interested in
running a workshop in this conference in Edmonton week of May 25th 2015 on
some OSGeo related technology (QGIS would be one option) IF I was able to
arrange it? This would be to a community of potential GIS users for
environmental research applications.

If not, over the next two years, I want to make this connection.

Cheers,
Charlie

>
>
> On 10/03/2015 10:02 pm, Charles Schweik wrote:
>
> Also...
>
>  It may be too late, but it occurred to me that it might be valuable to
> try and expand the footprint of GeoForAll/OSGeo users through a connection
> to the International Association of the Study of the Commons, and its
> global conference (May 25, 2015, Edmonton, Alberta) [1].
>
>  1) I wonder if it would be worth investigating a proposal of a 1-day
> workshop on one of OSGeo's desktop GIS packages (e.g., and Introduction to
> GIS) or going through the LiveDVD, or the use of NASA WorldWind to support
> landcover change research (brainstorming here...)?
>
>  2) Would anyone on this list be able to go to Edmonton and want to
> propose a workshop -- maybe that would require participants to bring
> laptops? (I can help make that connection to the conference organizers).
>
>  Again, it might be too late, but this is an important global scholarly
> and practitioner association who would have users and appreciation of OSGeo
> technology and GeoForAll open access educational efforts.
>
>  Contact me if you think you might be interested in going and flying the
> GeoForAll flag there, maybe by offering a workshop.
>
>  Cheers
> Charlie
>
>  [1] http://www.iasc2015.org/
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> Let me also take this opportunity to also thank Charlie and the whole
>> GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 committee for their help
>> and inputs for this initiative which will have long term positive impacts
>> in education efforts globally.
>>
>> I would like to also congratulate Charlie ( i just saw this today!) on
>> his winning the international award honouring the late political economist
>> Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in
>> Economic Sciences.
>>
>> I am really grateful to Charlie's strong support for all our Open Geo
>> Education efforts from the very start.  On behalf of "Geo for All'
>> community, we are really proud and happy that Charlie has been recognised
>> as one of the top 50 innovators in education for his cutting-edge use of
>> open-source software in the classroom and as a research tool.
>>
>> Details at http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/open-source
>>
>> "Open Education Week" is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on
>> the bigger purpose and join forces in using our collective knowledge to
>> help open education opportunities to all to enable a better future for all.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Anand Suchith
>> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 7:27 AM
>> To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015
>> http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , "Geo for All" community
>> http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all educators worldwide
>> who have made contributions to open education efforts and being good global
>> citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all.
>>
>> We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll - Global
>> Educator of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for us to thank
>> colleagues for their excellent contributions to Openness in Education
>> principles in the Geo domain.
>>
>> Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or
>> more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award
>> In no particular order, the nominees are:
>>
>>
>> INDIVIDUALS
>>
>> - Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his
>> course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1]
>> - Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and
>> tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2]
>> - Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for
>> the course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos
>> orientado a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems
>> for Education using Open Data” [3]
>> - Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his
>> Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central
>> New Mexico Community College [4]
>> - Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for
>> his course on “Open Web Mapping” [5]
>> - Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his
>> “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6]
>>
>>
>> TEAMS
>>
>> - Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for
>> their EduGIS Academy [7]
>> - Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for
>> their Interactive Web Maps course [8]
>> - Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of
>> Minnesota, USA for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and Google
>> Maps to Spatial Computing” [9]
>> - Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy
>> Morley (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge
>> Sanz (Prodevelop) for their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University
>> of Girona in Spain [10]
>> - Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno - FOSS4G lab, University of Colorado,
>> Denver USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS course materials [11]
>> - Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco, for their gvSIG
>> Educa/Batovi effort in Uruguay [12]
>> - Kurt Menke - Brids Eye View, Nate Jennings Urbandale Spatial, Jon Van
>> Hoesen Green Mtn College, Rick Smith Texas A&M, and Phil Davis, Delmar
>> College (all in USA) for their GeoAcademy development efforts [13]
>>
>> All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated for their
>> efforts. Just being nominated is an honour.
>>
>> The award committee now has the very difficult task of selecting the
>> GeoForAll Educator of the Year [14] out of this well deserving list of
>> nominees. This year’s selections (possibly an individual and a team award)
>> will be announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open Innovation for Europe"
>> conference at Como, Italy in July . Details at
>> http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/
>>
>> Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage you to list
>> this nomination honour in your CVs.
>>
>> Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Prof. Charlie Schweik,  on behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award
>> Selection Committee:
>>
>> Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)
>> Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)
>> Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)
>> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy)
>> Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)
>> Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil)
>> Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia)
>> Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
>> Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)
>> Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)
>> Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)
>> Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA)
>> Anne Ghisla (Germany)
>> Patrick Hogan (USA)
>> Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)
>>
>>
>>
>> REFERENCES
>>
>> [1]
>> https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view
>> [2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/
>> [3] http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81
>> [4] http://catalog.cnm.edu/
>> [5] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/
>> [6] http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/
>> [7] http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide
>> [8] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html
>> [9] https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing
>> [10] http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
>> [11] http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials
>> [12]
>> https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf
>> [13] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com
>> [14]
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015
>>
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