[Ica-osgeo-labs] Letter of Inquiry to US NSF to support a Research Coordination Effort in the context of Urban Science and City Analytics

[Charles Schweik]

Hi Jeff,
Done. Thanks for the reminder.
Cheers
Charlie

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> wrote:

> Charlie, all,
>
> When creating a new wiki page, the most important thing to remember is to
> add a wiki 'category' to your page right away, or else your wiki page can
> never be found again (unless you have the exact link to the new page).  To
> learn about this, look at the bottom of this page[1], and click on the
> "Education" or "ICA OSGeo Lab Network" categories; then now look at your
> page[2] - no category.
>
> Long story short: copy the category section from the current initiatives
> page and paste to the bottom of your page.  (do this for every new
> Education wiki page that you create)
>
> Thanks!
>
> (acting #arnulf-wiki-borg today ha)
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2015-03-16 7:33 AM, Charles Schweik wrote:
>
>> Dear GeoForAll colleagues,
>>
>> I, along with Patrick Hogan, Chris Pettit, Phil Davis, and a few others
>> in our GeoForAll group, have developed a draft “letter of inquiry” to
>> the US National Science Foundation’s Geography and Spatial Sciences
>> (GSS) program. This letter will be investigating whether NSF GSS would
>> welcome a full grant proposal submission to create a Research
>> Coordination Network for GeoForAll with a specific focus on Urban
>> Science and City Analytics. We are focusing on this topic because it is
>> an area that has received some substantial dialog over the last month
>> over the GeoForAll list, and we need something to focus on
>> collaboratively so that we can move to the next level of network
>> collaboration.
>>
>> We also have the idea to try and have GeoForAll participants in
>> universities or colleges use our own campuses as “educational sandboxes”
>> where students develop geospatial applications for our institutions as
>> service learning, team-based learning opportunities, and share their
>> solutions with the network.
>>
>> According to the NSF GSS program website [1], the due date for a
>> proposal would be September 3, 2015.
>>
>> We already have a list of interested GeoForAll\OSGeo partners on the
>> Urban Science\City Analytics wiki page [2], and I have used the names
>> there on the end of the letter of inquiry.
>>
>> *If you would like to see the draft letter and perhaps be included on
>> this initiative as a network participant, please *
>>
>> **
>>
>> *(1) add your name to the Urban Science wiki ‘Who’s Who Here’ list [2]
>> and *
>>
>> *(2) contact me right away so I can send you the draft letter for a
>> quick read. *
>>
>> **
>>
>> I hope to send this letter out to NSF this week, and hopefully we can
>> build on this text to go after some funding via other sources worldwide.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Charlie Schweik
>>
>> [1] http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505034
>>
>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
>>
>> --
>> Charlie Schweik
>>
>> Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
>> Administration
>>
>> Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
>> Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
>>
>> Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press,
>> 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545
>>
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-- 
Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/

Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012)
- see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545

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