[Oceania-Board] [OSGeo Oceania] Geospatial Council of Australia - thoughts?

[Alex Leith]

Hey Folks

Thanks for raising this, Adam.

I’ll add it to the next Board meeting for discussion, and will reach out to
Paul Digney, who is acting president.

Something that we could push for is having our awards (proposed for the
next conference) feed into the APSEA awards. I think that might work.

Any other ideas for what could be included in the MOU?

Cheers,

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 8:22 am, Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Emma, Kate
>
> Thanks for the support!
>
> As a strategic approach I'd personally go straight for board <> board
> level comms without delay - because honestly FOSS4G tools and
> OSGeo-championed concepts of open-ness / inclusivity are in every aspect of
> geostuff, all the areas of practice.
>
> (in my opinion) we do ourselves, the community and industry a disservice
> if we act as if open source geostuff is a special interest or niche subset
> within the geospatial community.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 21:22 Kate Fairlie <kfairlie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> YES! I would love to see this happen (as someone who has been very active
>> in SSSI previously, and not very active in OSgeo). I highly doubt SSSI/GCA
>> has previously reached out. Possibly worthwhile waiting until "areas of
>> practice" chairs are determined (to get a bit of a champion), though could
>> definitely sound out board in the meantime..
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 4:47 PM Emma Hain <emmahain at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all
>>> My thoughts exactly!
>>> I think setting up a MOU would be a good step forward.
>>> Cheers
>>> Em
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 3:29 PM Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey OSGeo Oceania
>>>>
>>>> The Geospatial Council of Australia formally launched recently -
>>>> merging SSSI and SIBA/GITA: https://geospatialcouncil.org.au/
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious about their level of interaction with the open geospatial
>>>> community, does anyone have any thoughts / input / news? Should OSGeo
>>>> Oceania seek to form an MoU with GCA about how the organisations can
>>>> collaborate?
>>>>
>>>> I think there's a lot of potential for raising the profile of open
>>>> source geospatial approaches, especially in professional development
>>>> and mentoring, given the depth of expertise existing in the OSGeo
>>>> Oceania community - and also a lot of potential to return value
>>>> (maintenance $$) to the open source community that might not otherwise
>>>> flow back.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe the OSGeo Oceania board has already reached out, or the GCA has
>>>> already reached out?
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts and discussion welcome :)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Adam
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