[UN] 2019 Activities
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed Mar 27 04:38:59 PDT 2019
Hi Ivana,
Re PostGIS course, am I right in assuming that the material you used
with UN initiative is here:
https://postgis.net/workshops/postgis-intro/index.html ?
If so, this material is freely available under a creative commons license.
Re Google Season of Docs timeframe:
https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline
Organisation application due 23 April 2019
Writing done: August - November 2019
There are limited tech writers available (when compared to Google Summer
of Code); 50 in total so I'd expect OSGeo would only get access to 1.
So how could we lever that tech writer to super-charge the writing
capability of our existing community?
In particular, are there gaps or improvements in PostGIS (or other OSGeo
project) documentation that a tech writer could add significant value to?
I'd like to see the Google Season of Docs used as a focal point to
tackle hard open source documentation challenges, probably by working on
a pilot in one project, developing template(s) in conjunction with
volunteer users and developers to create a pattern than can be followed.
Is this of interest to you as well?
On 27/3/19 12:55 pm, Ivana Ivanova wrote:
>
> Hi Maria (and all),
>
> This is the material we used in the UN OpenGIS’s PostGIS course:
>
> *Introduction to PostGIS, release 1.0*, authored by Mark Leslie and
> Paul Ramsey. This material belongs to Boundless – can we re-use it in
> the Spiral 2 challenge?
>
> If not, then we just develop new course material and listing
> requirements for update become meaningless – we will need to design a
> new course structure.
>
> I’m not sure when the challenge is due to run (I’m not subscribed to
> un at osgeo list so might have missed some email traffic on this), but if
> you need UN Challenge mentors, I’m could be available – let me know
> about the dates, please.
>
> Not sure we answered anything for Cameron as yet… still hitting the
> ‘send’ button to wait for follow-up questions, if any.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ivana
>
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> *From:*Maria Antonia Brovelli [mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 27 March 2019 5:43 AM
> *To:* Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>; un at lists.osgeo.org;
> Serena Coetzee <serenacoetzee at yahoo.com>; Ivana Ivanova
> <ivana.ivanova at curtin.edu.au>
> *Subject:* R: [UN] 2019 Activities
>
> Dear Cameron
>
> thanks! The exigence is to update/improve/rethink the Boundless
> training that we used for the UN Open GIS Initiative.
>
> Ivana, who was the wonderful leader of the mentors in the PostGIS
> training, can better explain how the material must be improved. The
> mentors of the OSGeo UN challenge are volunteers who help a young
> person in preparing the material.
>
> To better understand, please check what we did last year:
>
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/
>
> The outcome of the projects are here:
>
> 1) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
>
> 2) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
>
> 3) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData
>
> The winners of the 2018 Challenge were respectively:
>
> 1) Ketty Adoch
> (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug),
>
> 2) Silvia Franceschi
> (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page)
>
>
> 3) Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie)
>
> Mentors of OSGeo UN Challenge 2018 were: Christina
> Hupy, Haekyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli.
>
> Are you interested, then, in being a mentor for a PostGIS training?
>
> Cheers
>
> Maria
>
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> *Da:*Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>
> *Inviato:* martedì 26 marzo 2019 20:05
> *A:* Maria Antonia Brovelli; un at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:un at lists.osgeo.org>; Serena Coetzee
> *Oggetto:* Re: [UN] 2019 Activities
>
> Maria, Serena,
>
> I'll be offering to mentor a Google Season of Docs [1] initiative,
> which I hope to do on behalf of OSGeoLive and OSGeo (if there is
> support from OSGeo). This initiative will be for 1 technical writer to
> work part time for ~ 3 months on an open source project, which could
> be put toward something like PostGIS training.
>
> Would that be of interest? What resources do you currently have access
> to? I'm in the process of collating ideas [2] which could be extended
> to include PostGIS. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
>
> [1] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/
> <https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/>
>
> [2]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yriJoybYjsCKhprNLNGGanw8HRA5Z8GhrNrA5RjavUU/edit#
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yriJoybYjsCKhprNLNGGanw8HRA5Z8GhrNrA5RjavUU/edit>
>
> On 26/3/19 11:01 pm, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> I wonder who wants to contribute to the activities of the
> organization of the new UN OSGeo Challenge for 2019. They are
> similar to what we did in 2018 (see the wiki for more pieces of
> information). The topics we proposed are:
>
> 1) preparing PostGIS training material
>
> 2) computing SDGs with FOSS4G and open data.
>
> We need people who want to mentor on these two projects, helping
> before in organizing the challenge (open call/collection of
> applications/evaluation of applications).
>
>
>
> Please, if you have time and are willing to help on that write
> here or contact privately Serena and/or me.
>
> Best regards
>
> Maria and Serena
>
> http://cci.esa.int/HRLandcover
>
> *----------------------------------------------------*
>
> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
>
> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
> Politecnico di Milano
>
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
>
> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,
> maria.brovelli at polimi.it <mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
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