[OSGeoLive] [KRIHS] QuickStart/Manual for UN OSGeo Challenge 2

Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 12:19:27 PDT 2018


Dear HaeKyong,

Thank you for reaching out to this list.
Please let us know if we can help you in the process.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 04/04/2018 11:16 AM, HaeKyong Kang wrote:
> Dear Angelos and all
>
>
> Regarding to quickstart/manuals of UN OSGeo Challenge 2: GeoAnalysis--it will be
> prepared by around the end of April 2018 (or earlier). I will send you a link
> when it will be ready.
>
>
> If you need hands for documentation of the Challenge 2, three mentors of the
> Challenge 2(Prof. D.H Cho, Mr. Minpa Lee, HaeKyong Kang) will be pleased to support.
>
>
> PS. Sorry for my late response because of my business trip.
>
> Best regards,
>
> HaeKyong Kang
>
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>      ---------- *원본 메일* ----------
>      *보낸사람*: "Angelos Tzotsos" <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>      *받는사람*: "live-demo" <live-demo at lists.osgeo.org>
>      *참조*: "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>, "un at lists.osgeo.org"
>      <un at lists.osgeo.org>, "Haekyong" <hkkang at krihs.re.kr>, "Serena Coetzee"
>      <serenacoetzee at gmail.com>, "Christina Hupy" <chupy at boundlessgeo.com>, "Maria
>      Antonia Brovelli" <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
>      *날짜*: 2018-03-30 (금) 17:34:30
>      *제목*: Re: [UN] UN OSGeo Challenge
>
>
>      Hi all,
>
>      We had a short discussion about this topic 2 weeks ago in our weekly
>      OSGeoLive meeting, where we asked for volunteers to mentor this initiative.
>
>      As a result of those challenges for OSGeoLive I would see:
>      1. Some updated quickstarts (e.g. GeoNode which is the code base of GeoShape)
>      2. New workshop materials being added in the wiki we publish, along with
>      their data.
>
>      Any volunteers for helping out as mentors for the documentation?
>
>      Best,
>      Angelos
>
>
>      On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 12:26 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli
>      <maria.brovelli at polimi.it <mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>> wrote:
>
>          Dear Cameron
>          Yes, we already presented the initiative to Angelos and Astrid.
>          Many thanks for the suggestions.
>          About the criteria
>          1) being charter member is not mandatory; everybody can apply. On the
>          other side charter members are people who were awarded with this title
>          and we believe that it is worth to be considered.
>          2) we want to have young people but with experience in education and
>          training as they have to produce this kind of material.
>          I believe there are many good candidates and the competition will be
>          very high.
>
>          Thanks a lot also for the typos that we will correct.
>          Best,
>          Maria
>
>
>
>
>          Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
>          -------- Messaggio originale --------
>          Da: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
>          <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>
>          Data: 29/03/18 22:08 (GMT+01:00)
>          A: un at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:un at lists.osgeo.org>, live-demo
>          <live-demo at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:live-demo at lists.osgeo.org>>, Angelos
>          Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com <mailto:gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>>
>          Oggetto: Re: [UN] UN OSGeo Challenge
>
>          Maria, OSGeo UN Committee, OSGeoLive team,
>
>          Great initiative, I'm very supportive.
>
>          I'm excited to see OSGeoLive engaged prominently in the criteria. I
>          think that OSGeoLive has the potential to be a great asset to the
>          education community and this is an excellent initiative to fast track this.
>
>          Have you been talking with someone from the OSGeoLive team about the
>          practical implementation? (Angelos would be a good start). There are a
>          few things that I think need to be thought through:
>
>          * OSGeoLive is currently space constrained to our distribution medium.
>          Typically a 4 Gig or 8 Gig USB. Large teaching datasets could cause us
>          challenges. We have options to address this, but it is something we
>          should consider up front.
>
>          * OSGeoLive has remained a healthy project for 8 years in part because
>          we have ensured our cost of maintenance doesn't exceed our volunteer
>          capacity. We need to think through how can maintain any material
>          created, and how we can keep maintenance requirements to a minimum.
>
>          Re: evaluation criteria:
>
>          On 29/3/18 10:45 pm, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
> >
> >         Evaluation criteria:
> >
> >          1. Proposer is an OSGeo Charter Member 
> >
>          * I'd suggest this be changed to "has demonstrable experience within the
>          OSGeo community". One of our best technical contributors to OSGeoLive,
>          who regularly also gave great council, as well as writing very good
>          documentation, was someone who shunned titles and has never signed up to
>          be an OSGeo Charter member. (As I write this, I think he'd be a good
>          candidate for this project - if he could be tempted). There are others
>          like him. They shouldn't be excluded from applying.
>          On the other hand, there are some OSGeo Charter members who have done
>          little after joining. I believe creating a "honey-pot" will lead to
>          people applying for charter membership for personal benefit instead of
>          altruistic reasons.
> >
> >          1. Proposer’s age (20 if < 40 years old; 0 if >40 years old)
> >
>          * I question the purpose of this? If you are trying to increase young
>          people applying, then an age break at 40 doesn't help the struggling end
>          of the age spectrum. (I'd be more inclined to make a break at say 25).
>          I think you will find older people, will self select themselves out
>          based on their typically higher pay grade.
>          I'd be inclined to remove this criteria all together.
>
>
>
>
>      --
>      Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>      OSGeo Charter Member
>      http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>
>

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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
Charter Member
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos




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