[OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive UCGIS article

[Cameron Shorter]

Nicolas, I won't put my name down for being a point of contact, but I
hopefully should be able to find time to review any material you write.

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 19:28, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> 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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-- 
Cameron Shorter
Technical Writer, Google
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