[OpenCitySmart] FW: President Barack Obama: America's Chief Resilience Officer?

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,
Yep, all these places like to speak to the hot topic of the day, Global Urban Innovators. They've got Events, Research and Past Projects, and they are doing all kinds of things that need to be done except for the one thing that is needed for actual results.

The basic foundation app that is needed to actually do what they say they want to, yet they do everything but deliver a solution. The solution still remains a very proprietary world, and it doesn't have to be. In fact, if we are going to have a future on this planet, we need to do something mighty quick about how to live on it sustainably and together, with cities leading development of that solution. Their needs are essentially the same. And we don't need trade agreements to make this a viable result that rapidly becomes a success story of allowing a planet to work in each other's interest.

The first order of business is the platform for managing a city's basic infrastructure, and do it with an eye for resilience. We started down that road with the City of Springfield Oregon, http://nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html with WorldWind Java. We are now moving to establish that foundational app that all cities can contribute to and benefit from with WebWorldWind. So, there is the Europa Challenge, lightweight as it is, but it does exist to deliver solutions, not ideas. http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

And we have provided the basic 'app' framework for others to run with,

Demo: http://explorer.worldwind.earth/

Code: https://github.com/emxsys/WorldWindExplorer

We need the seed crystal that is actually 'working' for a city that then gets other cities to participate. We will rapidly achieve nirvana from there.

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (office)
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

From: Suchith Anand [mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 12:15 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); Tyler Veinot; Ingo Simonis
Cc: Charlie Schweik; opencitysmart at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OpenCitySmart] FW: President Barack Obama: America's Chief Resilience Officer?

Patrick, All,

I came across this Newcities Foundation http://www.newcitiesfoundation.org/about/



Will it be worth contacting them for exploring synergies.



Suchith

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From: OpenCitySmart <opencitysmart-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>
Sent: 28 July 2016 8:06 PM
To: Tyler Veinot; Ingo Simonis
Cc: Charlie Schweik; opencitysmart at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OpenCitySmart] FW: President Barack Obama: America's Chief Resilience Officer?

Tyler,

It will be quite productive to work with actual cities such as Springfield Oregon, and some brilliantly cheap labor of computer science students actually building the seed crystal for urban infrastructure management, with an eye for resilience. And do this as open source so that cities of the world could join together in advancing the platform that serves their essentially identical needs. While also allowing each city to tailor it to serve their specific needs.

More affluent cities would directly benefit less-affluent cities which also need this kind of technology.

In the process we would save cities millions of dollars in license fees, and challenge our computer science students with the beautiful prospect of supporting their local communities. With the big bonus that they would be doing this on an international stage, and also benefitting the larger world of cities.

What is more inspiring than that?!

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (office)
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

From: OpenCitySmart [mailto:opencitysmart-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Veinot
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 11:39 AM
To: Ingo Simonis
Cc: Charlie Schweik; opencitysmart at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OpenCitySmart] FW: President Barack Obama: America's Chief Resilience Officer?

Patrick;
Contacted our sustainability officer and these are some contacts she thought might help us.
Tyler

Some contacts that might help...


UPEI Computer Sciences,  Associate Professor Scott Bateman sbateman at upei.ca<mailto:sbateman at upei.ca>

Start-Up Zone,  Executive Director Christina MacLeod christinamcld at gmail.com<mailto:christinamcld at gmail.com>

Open Data Book Club, Michael Easter Michael Easter  codetojoy at gmail.com<mailto:codetojoy at gmail.com>

UPEI Climate Lab, Dr. Adam Fenech afenech at upei.ca<mailto:afenech at upei.ca>



PS: Sorry Ingo for sending this to you twice.



Ramona Doyle

Sustainability Officer


City of Charlottetown

PO Box 98, 199 Queen Street

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Canada, C1A 7K2

Office: 902-629-6613<tel:902-629-6613>

Fax: 902-566-4701<tel:902-566-4701>


rdoyle at charlottetown.ca<mailto:rdoyle at charlottetown.ca>

www.charlottetown.ca<http://www.charlottetown.ca/>

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:18 AM, Ingo Simonis <isimonis at opengeospatial.org<mailto:isimonis at opengeospatial.org>> wrote:
Hi Charlie,

I added my name to two sections, first the sensing part, though my focus is on standardized information models and processing chains rather than on the hardware side, and the education side, as one of my primary interests is making standards easier to understand and use.

Best regards,
Ingo


Charlie Schweik<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
27 July 2016 at 21:13
Thanks Patrick -- I'm convinced not to contact them!

OpenCitySmart colleagues:

As I've said previously, we're working on a revised submission to the US National Science Foundation to establish us as a "Open Geographical Science Research (and education) Coordination Network for Urban Resilience." Working with several people on this list, we've decided to focus in three areas:

1) Research in "Open Geospatial-Temporal Data Collection or 'Sensing'" -- focusing on open source environmental sensors (e.g., arduino-based sensor devices) and Unmanned Aerial Systems;

2) Research in "Open Geospatial-Temporal Analytics and Visualization; and,

3) Open Geographical Science Education

In general, if we get this grant, it would provide us with funds to help support some members each year, over four years, to meet at conferences, like FOSS4G, to build collaborative work in these areas.

MY REQUEST TO YOU

We are trying to develop a short inventory on people who would like to be part of this RCN, and their areas of expertise (organized by the three areas: (1) Sensing, (2) Analytics/Visualization and (3) Education.

AS SOON ASA POSSIBLE, please look at this Google Document, look for your name, and add 2-3 lines on how what you do relates to one or more of these three areas (and include references to your work and the bottom -- references).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cvKBnekV_zCg59WJ__tSd2ALUtC8o198seDsgI52KbE/edit?usp=sharing

I know some on this list don't like using Google Docs, but I don't want this on the wiki and publically accessible yet, which is why I am using it. If you don't want to use it -- send me your information via email.

If you DON'T want to be listed on this, let me know. If I am missing your name -- apologies! And add it wherever relevant. You can add your name and information to multiple sections (Sensing, Analytics, Education).

Thanks in advance!!!!

Charlie


--
Charlie Schweik
Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation &
Interim Director of the School of Public Policy,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst



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