[OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive UCGIS article

[Helena Mitasova]

Nicolas,

thank you for reaching out about OSGeo Live entry in the UCGIS
GIS&T Body of Knowledge https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-basic-page/welcome-gist-body-knowledge
It was formerly a printed book, the new edition is a dynamic, peer reviewed on-line document
heavily used for designing and teaching university level courses so it is a high impact initiative.

First a little bit of background:
I was invited to comment on several topics and to write on Open Source Software Development
in Programming and Development knowledge area together with Anna and Vasek
https://gistbok.ucgis.org/all-topics?term_node_tid_depth=93

There is already quite a bit of open source material, e.g. here
https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/python-gis
https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/pysal-and-spatial-statistics-libraries
https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/r-geospatial-analysis-and-mapping
https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/gis-apis

but I felt that OSgeo Live and some other topics should be covered as well
and I was asked to provide suggestions for possible authors.
The topics have a prescribed template and the existing entries linked above provide good examples of how the text and figures
should look like.
 I made a suggestion for including OSGeo Live in Computing Platforms Knowledge Area
and the editor in chief John Wilson is interested in including it in Examples and Applications
https://gistbok.ucgis.org/all-topics?term_node_tid_depth=92

So please let me know whether I can provide your name and perhaps others who could take
this task on - you would be then officially invited by the topic editor

Thank you,

Helena


> On Aug 7, 2020, at 11:29 AM, Nicolas Roelandt <roelandtn.pro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Helena,
> 
> I come back to you on behalf of the OSGeoLive project.
> Angelos told us that you wanted an article about OSGeoLive for UCGIS.
> 
> I would like to help you into this matter, can you give us more details about it please ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Nicolas Roelandt
> OSGeo Charter member
> OSGeo-fr board
> OSGeoLive PSC

Helena Mitasova
Professor at the Department of Marine, 
Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
Associate director and faculty fellow at the Center for Geospatial Analytics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
hmitaso at ncsu.edu

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