[Portugal] Fwd: Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

[Artur Gil]

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*De:* Suchith Anand

Dear colleague,

20 years back academics and educators (esp. in  developing countries)
struggled to start GIS courses for thier students and had to beg to vendors
for some "free" licences .Now they dont need any "charity" from any
vendors, as they are fully empowered and can start courses as they wish
without any permissions from any vendor owners . We want academics globally
to be fully empowered  from now and   give software as they wish to thier
students education. By  making free and open software and educational
resources available for all has empowered academics and educators globally
and brought down the "Iron Curtains" that  some  vendors have tried to
create in education. Now no vendors  can dictate terms to any academic or
educator or student. We want academics to be in full control of education
from now not any vendors.


I would like to thank the OSGeo Live community for making available Version
10.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection that has been released,
ready for the FOSS4G conference in Bonn, Germany - the annual global event
of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

OSGeo Live  is an excellent resource for academics and educators around the
world to teach geospatial science and give away the software for free to
thier students thereby empowering them in the true sense. This  excellent
resource is made  available to the global community thanks to the hardwork
and selfless dedication of hundreds of  volunteers (Developers, packagers,
documenters and translators) in addition to thousands who have been
involved in building the packaged software. Thank you all for making this
possible.

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual
Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which
can be trialled without installing anything.


OSGeo Live  includes:


  *       Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and
pre-configured
  *       Free world maps and sample datasets
  *       Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
  *       Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's
script
  *       Translations to multiple languages




Details at  http://live.osgeo.org

Download details at  http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html

Contents overview at https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html



I request all colleagues globally to make use of opportunities like
Geography Awareness Week (November 13 - 19, 2016) and other important
Geography events  like OSM Week 2016, GIS Day 2016    etc to spread Geo4All
ideas and give away OSGeo Live DVD, USB   to your colleagues and  students
so they dont have to buy any properitery GIS software and truly empowering
them. By doing so, you are  gifting millions of dollars of software to your
students (if i may borrow some ideas from our properitery friends!  :-) So
go ahead and gift software for free from now at all  Geography Awareness
Week and all other key GIS events... We want all academics from now be the
owners of the software and tools . You dont have to get permission from any
properitery GIS vendor owners to start your courses or gift software to
your students!


Geo4All is and will be always open to all projects and initiatives that
support Open Principles in Education. We have a duty and long term view on
Open Principles in education to ensure that free and open geospatial
education opportunities  are available not just to current generation but
also to our future generations...

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand


http://www.geoforall.org/
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/suchith-anand-6447b42
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=2L29q_QAAAAJ&hl=en


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