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

Tue Mar 17 02:36:55 PDT 2015

Hi Antoni,

Yes, I am putting US participants first, but the US NSF Research
Coordination Network program encourages the development of an international
network. There are rules about how the funding can be used, but I am trying
to show in this letter that we have an international group who wants to
work on Urban Science/City Analytics research and education together.

So having international names under the US ones is helpful.

Finally, I am hoping that the same ideas can be used by others on this list
to go after other non-US sources of funding.

I hope that clarifies. If you want me to send you the letter, let me know.

Thanks,
Charlie

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Antoni PXrez Navarro <aperezn at uoc.edu>
wrote:

> Sorry Charlie but, since it a letter to the USA government, should not
> only to be signed by USA citizens?
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> Antoni Pérez Navarro
> Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació [Responsable de les
> assignatures de Física i Sistemes d'Informació Geogràfica]
> Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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> aperezn at uoc.edu
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> Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament a qui va destinat i pot contenir
> informació privilegiada o confidencial i dades de caràcter personal, la
> difusió de les quals és regulada per la Llei orgànica de protecció de dades
> i la Llei de serveis de la societat de la informació. Si no sou la persona
> destinatària indicada (o la responsable de lliurar-lo a qui va destinat),
> no heu de copiar aquest missatge ni lliurar-lo a tercers per cap concepte.
> Si heu rebut aquest missatge per error o l'heu aconseguit per altres
> mitjans, us demanem que ens ho comuniqueu immediatament per aquesta mateixa
> via i l'elimineu irreversiblement.
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> Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge electrònic penseu en el medi ambient.
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> --- Missatge original de Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> per
> a "ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org" <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> enviat el 17.03.2015 10:06
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> Hi GeoForAll colleagues:
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> Last call!
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> Anyone wishing to be listed on this inquiry letter on Urban Science/City
> Analytics to the US NSF, please contact me *today*. I want to send this
> letter off at the end of the day today (it is 10am where I am).
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> Thanks,
> Charlie Schweik
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> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Charles Schweik <
> cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:
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>>  Dear GeoForAll colleagues,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> According to the NSF GSS program website [1], the due date for a proposal
>> would be September 3, 2015.
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>> 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.
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>> *If you would like to see the draft letter and perhaps be included on
>> this initiative as a network participant, please *
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>> *(1) add your name to the Urban Science wiki ?Who?s Who Here? list [2]
>> and *
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>> *(2) contact me right away so I can send you the draft letter for a quick
>> read. *
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Charlie Schweik
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>> [1] http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505034
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>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
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>> --
>>   Charlie Schweik
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>> Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
>> Administration
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>> Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
>> Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
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>> Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press,
>> 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545
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>> Q: Why is this email five sentences or less?
>> A: http://five.sentenc.es
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> --
>   Charlie Schweik
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> Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
> Administration
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> 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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> Q: Why is this email five sentences or less?
> A: http://five.sentenc.es
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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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