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GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024: Budget

2024-03-27T14:20:14Z

Annakrat: /* Non-monetary In-kind Contributions */

The following information is requested as part of [[Code_Sprint_Guidelines|OSGeo Code Sprint Guidelines]].

== Request for support of the GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024 ==

=== Basic Information ===

The GRASS GIS community meeting will take place in [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2024 June, 2024 in Prague]. The event is organized by a group formed by GRASS GIS PSC. Contact person for budget questions is Vaclav Petras.

==== Audience ====

Based on previous events, we expect between 10 and 20 people for this meeting. The meeting is open to all users, supporters, contributors, power users and developers who want to make a meaningful contribution to the project. To maximize participation, we are raising money for travel and other expenses. Last year, a total of 17 people participated in the event in-person, additional 4 people participated remotely, and 2 leaders from other projects connected remotely as well.

==== Region ====

The event is global. The in-person meeting will take place in Prague, Czechia.

==== Project and Focus ====

Building on momentum from the 40th birthday meeting, we will continue the revisions of the maintenance processes and infrastructure - a process which highly benefits from the current maintainers being in one place (and time zone). Other topics which require highly synchronous collaboration will be included such as Markdown documentation and CMake build transitions. Other contributors are expected to enhance the collection of processing tools and their documentation. A [https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_08_13_grass_community_meeting_prague_june_2023_report/ press release] gives an overview of last year's event.

==== Length ====

The meeting will last 6 days and includes a weekend to support participants who need to join outside of their work.

==== Venue ====

Meeting will be hosted by [https://prague.ncsu.edu/about/ NC State European Center in Prague] and funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, award 2303651.

=== Expected Budget ===

==== Costs ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! EUR
! USD
! Explanation
|-
| Participant travel and lodging
| 13,000.00
| 14,300.00
| Average 867 EUR per person estimated from 2023 expenses (15 participants)
|-
| Food, drink, snacks
| 3,600.00
| 3,960.00
| 15 participants, 6 days, 40 EUR per day and person (estimated from 2023 rate)
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,600.00'''
| '''18,260.00'''
|
|}

==== Sponsorship ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! '''EUR'''
! '''USD'''
! Explanation
|-
| OSGeo
| 5,000.00
| 5,500.00
| OSGeo budget for sprints (requested)
|-
| FOSSGIS
| 3,500.00
| 3,850.00
| requested for food, travel within Europe, lodging
|-
| In-kind contributions
| 7,000.00
| 7,700.00
| Estimated payments covered by other organizations (travel, lodging, venue)
|-
| Community contributions
| 1,100.00
| 1,210.00
| Newly or previously collected donations to GRASS GIS
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,600.00'''
| '''18,260.00'''
|
|}

==== Non-monetary In-kind Contributions ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! Contributors
|-
| Time for planning
| North Carolina State University, CONICET, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|-
| Time for participation
| North Carolina State University, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|}

==== Profit, Loss and Risk ====

There is no fee for participation and no profit is expected. Surplus money will go to the general GRASS budget, that is esp. the [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants student mini grant program]. Assuming the travel will be reimbursed to participants, the risk of canceled and not taken flights is taken by the potential participants. No or insufficient funding will lead to lower participation. Last year, most participants asked for and received travel support. Loss or failure to acquire the anticipated in-kind contributions will result in a significantly smaller event unless a sponsor steps in.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]
[[Category:Budget]]

GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024: Budget

2024-03-27T14:19:54Z

Annakrat: /* Sponsorship */

The following information is requested as part of [[Code_Sprint_Guidelines|OSGeo Code Sprint Guidelines]].

== Request for support of the GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024 ==

=== Basic Information ===

The GRASS GIS community meeting will take place in [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2024 June, 2024 in Prague]. The event is organized by a group formed by GRASS GIS PSC. Contact person for budget questions is Vaclav Petras.

==== Audience ====

Based on previous events, we expect between 10 and 20 people for this meeting. The meeting is open to all users, supporters, contributors, power users and developers who want to make a meaningful contribution to the project. To maximize participation, we are raising money for travel and other expenses. Last year, a total of 17 people participated in the event in-person, additional 4 people participated remotely, and 2 leaders from other projects connected remotely as well.

==== Region ====

The event is global. The in-person meeting will take place in Prague, Czechia.

==== Project and Focus ====

Building on momentum from the 40th birthday meeting, we will continue the revisions of the maintenance processes and infrastructure - a process which highly benefits from the current maintainers being in one place (and time zone). Other topics which require highly synchronous collaboration will be included such as Markdown documentation and CMake build transitions. Other contributors are expected to enhance the collection of processing tools and their documentation. A [https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_08_13_grass_community_meeting_prague_june_2023_report/ press release] gives an overview of last year's event.

==== Length ====

The meeting will last 6 days and includes a weekend to support participants who need to join outside of their work.

==== Venue ====

Meeting will be hosted by [https://prague.ncsu.edu/about/ NC State European Center in Prague] and funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, award 2303651.

=== Expected Budget ===

==== Costs ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! EUR
! USD
! Explanation
|-
| Participant travel and lodging
| 13,000.00
| 14,300.00
| Average 867 EUR per person estimated from 2023 expenses (15 participants)
|-
| Food, drink, snacks
| 3,600.00
| 3,960.00
| 15 participants, 6 days, 40 EUR per day and person (estimated from 2023 rate)
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,600.00'''
| '''18,260.00'''
|
|}

==== Sponsorship ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! '''EUR'''
! '''USD'''
! Explanation
|-
| OSGeo
| 5,000.00
| 5,500.00
| OSGeo budget for sprints (requested)
|-
| FOSSGIS
| 3,500.00
| 3,850.00
| requested for food, travel within Europe, lodging
|-
| In-kind contributions
| 7,000.00
| 7,700.00
| Estimated payments covered by other organizations (travel, lodging, venue)
|-
| Community contributions
| 1,100.00
| 1,210.00
| Newly or previously collected donations to GRASS GIS
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,600.00'''
| '''18,260.00'''
|
|}

==== Non-monetary In-kind Contributions ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! Contributors
|-
|Space
|To be negotiated
|-
| Time for planning
| North Carolina State University, CONICET, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|-
| Time for participation
| North Carolina State University, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|}

==== Profit, Loss and Risk ====

There is no fee for participation and no profit is expected. Surplus money will go to the general GRASS budget, that is esp. the [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants student mini grant program]. Assuming the travel will be reimbursed to participants, the risk of canceled and not taken flights is taken by the potential participants. No or insufficient funding will lead to lower participation. Last year, most participants asked for and received travel support. Loss or failure to acquire the anticipated in-kind contributions will result in a significantly smaller event unless a sponsor steps in.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]
[[Category:Budget]]

GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024: Budget

2024-03-27T14:19:10Z

Annakrat: /* Sponsorship */

The following information is requested as part of [[Code_Sprint_Guidelines|OSGeo Code Sprint Guidelines]].

== Request for support of the GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024 ==

=== Basic Information ===

The GRASS GIS community meeting will take place in [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2024 June, 2024 in Prague]. The event is organized by a group formed by GRASS GIS PSC. Contact person for budget questions is Vaclav Petras.

==== Audience ====

Based on previous events, we expect between 10 and 20 people for this meeting. The meeting is open to all users, supporters, contributors, power users and developers who want to make a meaningful contribution to the project. To maximize participation, we are raising money for travel and other expenses. Last year, a total of 17 people participated in the event in-person, additional 4 people participated remotely, and 2 leaders from other projects connected remotely as well.

==== Region ====

The event is global. The in-person meeting will take place in Prague, Czechia.

==== Project and Focus ====

Building on momentum from the 40th birthday meeting, we will continue the revisions of the maintenance processes and infrastructure - a process which highly benefits from the current maintainers being in one place (and time zone). Other topics which require highly synchronous collaboration will be included such as Markdown documentation and CMake build transitions. Other contributors are expected to enhance the collection of processing tools and their documentation. A [https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_08_13_grass_community_meeting_prague_june_2023_report/ press release] gives an overview of last year's event.

==== Length ====

The meeting will last 6 days and includes a weekend to support participants who need to join outside of their work.

==== Venue ====

Meeting will be hosted by [https://prague.ncsu.edu/about/ NC State European Center in Prague] and funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, award 2303651.

=== Expected Budget ===

==== Costs ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! EUR
! USD
! Explanation
|-
| Participant travel and lodging
| 13,000.00
| 14,300.00
| Average 867 EUR per person estimated from 2023 expenses (15 participants)
|-
| Food, drink, snacks
| 3,600.00
| 3,960.00
| 15 participants, 6 days, 40 EUR per day and person (estimated from 2023 rate)
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,600.00'''
| '''18,260.00'''
|
|}

==== Sponsorship ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! '''EUR'''
! '''USD'''
! Explanation
|-
| OSGeo
| 5,000.00
| 5,500.00
| OSGeo budget for sprints (requested)
|-
| FOSSGIS
| 3,500.00
| 3,850.00
| requested for food, travel within Europe, lodging
|-
| In-kind contributions
| 7,000.00
| 7,700.00
| Estimated payments covered by other organizations (travel, lodging)
|-
| Community contributions
| 1,100.00
| 1,210.00
| Newly or previously collected donations to GRASS GIS
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,600.00'''
| '''18,260.00'''
|
|}

==== Non-monetary In-kind Contributions ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! Contributors
|-
|Space
|To be negotiated
|-
| Time for planning
| North Carolina State University, CONICET, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|-
| Time for participation
| North Carolina State University, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|}

==== Profit, Loss and Risk ====

There is no fee for participation and no profit is expected. Surplus money will go to the general GRASS budget, that is esp. the [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants student mini grant program]. Assuming the travel will be reimbursed to participants, the risk of canceled and not taken flights is taken by the potential participants. No or insufficient funding will lead to lower participation. Last year, most participants asked for and received travel support. Loss or failure to acquire the anticipated in-kind contributions will result in a significantly smaller event unless a sponsor steps in.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]
[[Category:Budget]]

GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024: Budget

2024-03-27T14:13:16Z

Annakrat: /* Costs */

The following information is requested as part of [[Code_Sprint_Guidelines|OSGeo Code Sprint Guidelines]].

== Request for support of the GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024 ==

=== Basic Information ===

The GRASS GIS community meeting will take place in [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2024 June, 2024 in Prague]. The event is organized by a group formed by GRASS GIS PSC. Contact person for budget questions is Vaclav Petras.

==== Audience ====

Based on previous events, we expect between 10 and 20 people for this meeting. The meeting is open to all users, supporters, contributors, power users and developers who want to make a meaningful contribution to the project. To maximize participation, we are raising money for travel and other expenses. Last year, a total of 17 people participated in the event in-person, additional 4 people participated remotely, and 2 leaders from other projects connected remotely as well.

==== Region ====

The event is global. The in-person meeting will take place in Prague, Czechia.

==== Project and Focus ====

Building on momentum from the 40th birthday meeting, we will continue the revisions of the maintenance processes and infrastructure - a process which highly benefits from the current maintainers being in one place (and time zone). Other topics which require highly synchronous collaboration will be included such as Markdown documentation and CMake build transitions. Other contributors are expected to enhance the collection of processing tools and their documentation. A [https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_08_13_grass_community_meeting_prague_june_2023_report/ press release] gives an overview of last year's event.

==== Length ====

The meeting will last 6 days and includes a weekend to support participants who need to join outside of their work.

==== Venue ====

Meeting will be hosted by [https://prague.ncsu.edu/about/ NC State European Center in Prague] and funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, award 2303651.

=== Expected Budget ===

==== Costs ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! EUR
! USD
! Explanation
|-
| Participant travel and lodging
| 13,000.00
| 14,300.00
| Average 867 EUR per person estimated from 2023 expenses (15 participants)
|-
| Food, drink, snacks
| 3,600.00
| 3,960.00
| 15 participants, 6 days, 40 EUR per day and person (estimated from 2023 rate)
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,600.00'''
| '''18,260.00'''
|
|}

==== Sponsorship ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! '''EUR'''
! '''USD'''
! Explanation
|-
| OSGeo
| 5,000.00
| 5,500.00
| OSGeo budget for sprints
|-
| In-kind contributions
| 7,000.00
| 7,700.00
| Estimated payments covered by other organizations (travel, lodging)
|-
| Community contributions
| 4,100.00
| 4,510.00
| Newly or previously collected donations to GRASS GIS
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,100.00'''
| '''17,710.00'''
|
|}

==== Non-monetary In-kind Contributions ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! Contributors
|-
|Space
|To be negotiated
|-
| Time for planning
| North Carolina State University, CONICET, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|-
| Time for participation
| North Carolina State University, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|}

==== Profit, Loss and Risk ====

There is no fee for participation and no profit is expected. Surplus money will go to the general GRASS budget, that is esp. the [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants student mini grant program]. Assuming the travel will be reimbursed to participants, the risk of canceled and not taken flights is taken by the potential participants. No or insufficient funding will lead to lower participation. Last year, most participants asked for and received travel support. Loss or failure to acquire the anticipated in-kind contributions will result in a significantly smaller event unless a sponsor steps in.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]
[[Category:Budget]]

GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024: Budget

2024-03-27T14:07:35Z

Annakrat: /* Length */

The following information is requested as part of [[Code_Sprint_Guidelines|OSGeo Code Sprint Guidelines]].

== Request for support of the GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024 ==

=== Basic Information ===

The GRASS GIS community meeting will take place in [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2024 June, 2024 in Prague]. The event is organized by a group formed by GRASS GIS PSC. Contact person for budget questions is Vaclav Petras.

==== Audience ====

Based on previous events, we expect between 10 and 20 people for this meeting. The meeting is open to all users, supporters, contributors, power users and developers who want to make a meaningful contribution to the project. To maximize participation, we are raising money for travel and other expenses. Last year, a total of 17 people participated in the event in-person, additional 4 people participated remotely, and 2 leaders from other projects connected remotely as well.

==== Region ====

The event is global. The in-person meeting will take place in Prague, Czechia.

==== Project and Focus ====

Building on momentum from the 40th birthday meeting, we will continue the revisions of the maintenance processes and infrastructure - a process which highly benefits from the current maintainers being in one place (and time zone). Other topics which require highly synchronous collaboration will be included such as Markdown documentation and CMake build transitions. Other contributors are expected to enhance the collection of processing tools and their documentation. A [https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_08_13_grass_community_meeting_prague_june_2023_report/ press release] gives an overview of last year's event.

==== Length ====

The meeting will last 6 days and includes a weekend to support participants who need to join outside of their work.

==== Venue ====

Meeting will be hosted by [https://prague.ncsu.edu/about/ NC State European Center in Prague] and funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, award 2303651.

=== Expected Budget ===

==== Costs ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! EUR
! USD
! Explanation
|-
| Participant travel and lodging
| 13,000.00
| 14,300.00
| Average 867 EUR per person estimated from 2023 expenses (15 participants)
|-
| Food, drink, snacks
| 3,000.00
| 3,300.00
| 15 participants, 5 days, 40 EUR per day and person (estimated from 2023 rate)
|-
| Venue small expenses
| 100.00
| 110.00
| 40 EUR Wifi fee, office supplies (estimated from 2023)
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,100.00'''
| '''17,710.00'''
|
|}

==== Sponsorship ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! '''EUR'''
! '''USD'''
! Explanation
|-
| OSGeo
| 5,000.00
| 5,500.00
| OSGeo budget for sprints
|-
| In-kind contributions
| 7,000.00
| 7,700.00
| Estimated payments covered by other organizations (travel, lodging)
|-
| Community contributions
| 4,100.00
| 4,510.00
| Newly or previously collected donations to GRASS GIS
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,100.00'''
| '''17,710.00'''
|
|}

==== Non-monetary In-kind Contributions ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! Contributors
|-
|Space
|To be negotiated
|-
| Time for planning
| North Carolina State University, CONICET, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|-
| Time for participation
| North Carolina State University, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|}

==== Profit, Loss and Risk ====

There is no fee for participation and no profit is expected. Surplus money will go to the general GRASS budget, that is esp. the [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants student mini grant program]. Assuming the travel will be reimbursed to participants, the risk of canceled and not taken flights is taken by the potential participants. No or insufficient funding will lead to lower participation. Last year, most participants asked for and received travel support. Loss or failure to acquire the anticipated in-kind contributions will result in a significantly smaller event unless a sponsor steps in.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]
[[Category:Budget]]

GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024: Budget

2024-03-27T14:06:49Z

Annakrat: /* Venue */

The following information is requested as part of [[Code_Sprint_Guidelines|OSGeo Code Sprint Guidelines]].

== Request for support of the GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024 ==

=== Basic Information ===

The GRASS GIS community meeting will take place in [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2024 June, 2024 in Prague]. The event is organized by a group formed by GRASS GIS PSC. Contact person for budget questions is Vaclav Petras.

==== Audience ====

Based on previous events, we expect between 10 and 20 people for this meeting. The meeting is open to all users, supporters, contributors, power users and developers who want to make a meaningful contribution to the project. To maximize participation, we are raising money for travel and other expenses. Last year, a total of 17 people participated in the event in-person, additional 4 people participated remotely, and 2 leaders from other projects connected remotely as well.

==== Region ====

The event is global. The in-person meeting will take place in Prague, Czechia.

==== Project and Focus ====

Building on momentum from the 40th birthday meeting, we will continue the revisions of the maintenance processes and infrastructure - a process which highly benefits from the current maintainers being in one place (and time zone). Other topics which require highly synchronous collaboration will be included such as Markdown documentation and CMake build transitions. Other contributors are expected to enhance the collection of processing tools and their documentation. A [https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_08_13_grass_community_meeting_prague_june_2023_report/ press release] gives an overview of last year's event.

==== Length ====

The meeting will last 5 days. Last year's event included a weekend to support participants who need to join outside of their work.

==== Venue ====

Meeting will be hosted by [https://prague.ncsu.edu/about/ NC State European Center in Prague] and funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, award 2303651.

=== Expected Budget ===

==== Costs ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! EUR
! USD
! Explanation
|-
| Participant travel and lodging
| 13,000.00
| 14,300.00
| Average 867 EUR per person estimated from 2023 expenses (15 participants)
|-
| Food, drink, snacks
| 3,000.00
| 3,300.00
| 15 participants, 5 days, 40 EUR per day and person (estimated from 2023 rate)
|-
| Venue small expenses
| 100.00
| 110.00
| 40 EUR Wifi fee, office supplies (estimated from 2023)
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,100.00'''
| '''17,710.00'''
|
|}

==== Sponsorship ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! '''EUR'''
! '''USD'''
! Explanation
|-
| OSGeo
| 5,000.00
| 5,500.00
| OSGeo budget for sprints
|-
| In-kind contributions
| 7,000.00
| 7,700.00
| Estimated payments covered by other organizations (travel, lodging)
|-
| Community contributions
| 4,100.00
| 4,510.00
| Newly or previously collected donations to GRASS GIS
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''16,100.00'''
| '''17,710.00'''
|
|}

==== Non-monetary In-kind Contributions ====

{| class="wikitable"
! style="font-weight: bold;" | Item Description
! Contributors
|-
|Space
|To be negotiated
|-
| Time for planning
| North Carolina State University, CONICET, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|-
| Time for participation
| North Carolina State University, Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU), mundialis
|}

==== Profit, Loss and Risk ====

There is no fee for participation and no profit is expected. Surplus money will go to the general GRASS budget, that is esp. the [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants student mini grant program]. Assuming the travel will be reimbursed to participants, the risk of canceled and not taken flights is taken by the potential participants. No or insufficient funding will lead to lower participation. Last year, most participants asked for and received travel support. Loss or failure to acquire the anticipated in-kind contributions will result in a significantly smaller event unless a sponsor steps in.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]
[[Category:Budget]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2023

2023-11-06T14:58:12Z

Annakrat: /* Participants */

Annual Code Sprint comes to Vienna (Austria) in 2023!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020|Virtual Event]] (2020)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Co-Host</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:BIDS23.jpg|340px|Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS)|link=https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/]]
 
https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/
|}

; <big>Gold Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:GC-Group logo.png|220px|GeoCue|link=http://www.geocue.com/]]
 
http://www.geocue.com/
||
[[File:safe-software-logo.png|220px|Safe Software|link=https://www.safe.com/]]
 
https://www.safe.com/
||
[[File:RIEGL.png|310px|RIEGL|link=http://www.riegl.com/]]
 
http://www.riegl.com/
|}

; <big>Silver Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Hobulogo.png|160px|Hobu|link=https://hobu.co/]]
 
https://hobu.co/
||
[[File:Bh-logo.jpg|300px|link=https://www.bhinc.com/]]
 
[https://www.bhinc.com/ https://www.bhinc.com/]
||
[[File:Crunchydata.png|160px|CrunchyData||link=http://www.crunchydata.com/]]
 
[http://www.crunchydata.com/ http://www.crunchydata.com/]
|}
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Gaia3D.png|240px|Gaia3D||link=https://gaia3d.com/en/]]
 
[https://gaia3d.com/en/ https://gaia3d.com/en/]
|}

; <big>Bronze Sponsors</big>
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== Dates and Times ==

* Date: November 6 to November 9
* Time: 9:00am to 17:00pm each day

== Other Events in Q4 2023 ==

* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna Vienna], Austria

=== BIDS23 ===
The OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 will be hosted by the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) event.

BiDS brings together key actors from industry, academia, EU entities and government to reveal user needs, exchange ideas and showcase latest technical solutions and applications touching all aspects of space and big data technologies, providing a unique opportunity to discuss and present the most recent innovations and challenges encountered in the context of big data from space. The 2023 edition of BiDS will focus not only technologies enabling insight and foresight inferable from big data from space. Together, we want to emphasize how breakthrough space data driven technologies impact on society’s grand challenges, such as climate change and the green transition.

The event, organized by the [https://www.esa.int/ European Space Agency] (ESA) together with the [https://www.satcen.europa.eu/ European Union Satellite Center] (SatCen) and the [https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/departments-and-executive-agencies/joint-research-centre_en Joint Research Center] (JRC), will take place at the [https://www.acv.at/en/ Austria Center Vienna], and counts with the support of the partners [https://www.ffg.at/en FFG], [https://austria-in-space.at/en/ Austria in Space] and the [https://www.bmk.gv.at/en.html Federal Ministry Republic of Austria].

=== Coding Venue ===
* The Austria Center Vienna will be the host of BIDS '23.
* As Austria's largest conference center, it opened in 1987 and has 19 halls, 180 meeting rooms, and 26,000 square meters of exhibition and networking space with a capacity of up to 22,800 guests.
* It is a popular destination in the international conference circuit and is located next to a UN headquarters, making it a unique location for the latest edition of Big Data from Space.
* [https://www.acv.at/en/ Austria Center Vienna], Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, 1220 Wien, Austria
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/48.2343/16.4144 OpenStreetMap]

=== Parking ===
* Austria Center Vienna provides parking space

=== Accommodation ===
Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue. You will be able to find lots of options within walking distance.

=== Social Evening ===

EOX has organized a social evening on Wednesday November 8th.

The event is by invite only and people need to get an wristband at the sprint location.

[[File:OSGeo_Evening_20231108.png|800px|Social Event|link=https://www.stoecklimpark.at/]]

The event will take place at [https://www.stoecklimpark.at/ Stockl im Park] at 19:00

Right before the event there is the option for a city tour with [https://www.wien.info/de/sightseeing/architektur-design/ringstrasse-356766 Tramway-Oldtimer Ride]

Details in [https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/images/f/fc/OSGeo_Evening_20231108.pdf pdf]

=== How to get there ===

'''Travelling to/from Vienna international airport'''

==== Metro ====

==== Suburban Rail ====

==== Bus Services ====

==== Taxi ====

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''OSGeoLive''':
** Work towards 16.0 release

* '''Pangeo community''':
** [https://github.com/pangeo-data/bids2023_codesprint Pangeo project ideas], incl. Alexander Kmoch & DGGS

* '''STAC BoF / European Community Show of Hands''':
** We (EOX) would like to better get to know the European scene of STAC users and contributors. For this reason we'd like to organize a Birds of a Feather session, where we talk about the use and development of STAC specification, tools and resources. If there is a reasonable interest, we could expand this to a session actually dedicated towards actual work on STAC related items.

* '''GRASS GIS''':
** Review lidar binning code for large point clouds (''r.in.pdal'' tool)
** Work on topics not completed at the recent [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2023#Agenda_-_What_we_plan_to_do GRASS Community Meeting Prague 2023]

* '''pycsw'''
** STAC enhancements
** OGC API - Records alignment
** metadata repository abstraction
** federation
** 3.0.0-alpha5 release

* '''pygeoapi'''
** updating CI to Python 3.8
** dependency policy
** PR/issue sweep
** OGC API - Maps updates
** <del>OGC API - Records CSW provider</del>
** data access abstraction (fs, s3, etc.) in core
** 0.16 release

* '''MapServer'''
** Creation of a new OGC API workshop
** mappyfile community project discussions

* '''QGIS'''
**

* '''PDAL'''
** geometric and topometric topics (for example: neighbors search, grid computations, and other stuff).

* '''GeoNode'''
**

* '''GeoNetwork'''
**

* '''EOEPCA'''
** Package an EO application with the EO Application Package Best Practices - https://terradue.github.io/app-package-training-bids23/
** Improvements on Resource Catalogue (see pycsw above)
** Work towards 1.4 release of the common architecture reference implementation

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="60"|Accommodation
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
!width="60"|social event
|-
| 1 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB || x || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 2 ||[[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis(at)gmail.com || OSGeo || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython projects || x || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 3 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc(at)gmail.com || OSGeo || pdal, mapserver, other geopython projects || x || x || x || x || || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 4 ||[[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]] || AT || stephan.meissl(at)eox.at || EOX || MapServer, View Server/EOxServer, various || x || x || x || x || local || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 5 ||[[User:Allixender|Alexander Kmoch]] || EE || alexander.kmoch(at)ut.ee || Univ. Tartu, Pangeo || DGGS, DGGRID, pygeoapi, xarray, various || x || x || x || x || || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 6 ||[[User:hobu|Howard Butler]] || US || howard(at)hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || PDAL, GDAL, point clouds || x || x || x || x || || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 7 ||[[User:darkblueb|Brian M Hamlin]] || US || maplabs(at)light42.com || CalOpenData || OSGeoLive, Open Data Cube || x || x || x || x || || Certain || Vegetarian || x ||
|-
| 8 ||[[User:mbernasocchi|Marco Bernasocchi]] || CH || marco@opengis.ch || OSGeo, QGIS.org || QGIS || x || x || x || x || || Certain || NOne || x ||
|-
| 9 ||[[User:Sethg|Seth Girvin]] || FR || sethg@geographika.net || OSGeo || MapServer, OSGeoLive, GeoStyler, mappyfile|| x || x || x || x || booked || Certain || None || x ||
|-
| 10 ||[[User:Pirmin_Kalberer|Pirmin Kalberer]] || CH || pka (at) sourcepole.com || Sourcepole || OGC APIs, BBOX, GeoRust, various|| x || x || x || - || booked || Certain || None || x ||
|-
| 11 ||[[User:Anita_Graser|Anita Graser]] || AT || anita@qgis.orgm || AIT || QGIS, MobilityDB, MovingPandas || x || x || x || - || local || Certain || None || x ||
|-
| 12 ||[[User:chambbj|Brad Chambers]] || US || brad.chambers(at)gmail.com || Grover Consulting Services || PDAL, point clouds || x || x || x || x || || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 13 ||[[User:jef|Jürgen Fischer]] || DE || jef(at)norbit.de || norBIT GmbH || QGIS, OSGeo4W || x || x || x || x || tbd || Likely || None || x ||
|-
| 14 ||[[User:Fschindler|Fabian Schindler]] || AT || fabian.schindler(at)eox.at || EOX || MapServer, View Server/EOxServer || x || x || x || x || local || Certain || Vegetarian || x ||
|-
| 15 ||[[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] || FR || gerald.fenoy(at)Geolabs.fr || GeoLabs || ZOO-Project, MapServer || x || x || - || - || local || Very likely || None || x ||
|-
| 16 ||[[User:Fschindler|Léa Vauchier]] || FR || lea.vauchier(at)ign.fr|| IGN || pdal, point clouds || x || x || x || x || tbd || Certain || Vegetarian || x ||
|-
| 17 ||[[User:Fschindler|Antoine Lavenant]] || FR || antoine.lavenant(at)ign.fr|| IGN || pdal, point clouds || x || x || x || x || tbd || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 18 ||[[User:aanthieni|Ariel Anthieni]] || AR || aanthieni(at)kan.com.ar || OSGeo, Kan Territory&IT, Geolibres Arg. || GeoNode, QGIS, Metadata || x || x || x || x || Booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 19 ||[[User:tinaok|Tina Odaka]] || AR || Tina.Odaka(at)ifremer.fr || IFREMER, LOPS, Pangeo || DGGS(Healpix)-Xarray || x || x || x || x ||Booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 20 ||[[User:danlooo|Daniel Loos]] || DE || dloos(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de || Max Planck Biogeochemistry || DGGS || - || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 21 ||[[User:rouault|Even Rouault]] || FR || even.rouault(at)spatialys.com || Spatialys || GDAL, PROJ || x || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 22 ||[[User:dbaston|Dan Baston]] || US || dbaston(at)isciences.com || ISciences || GDAL, GEOS || x || x || x || x ||tbd || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 23 ||[[User:acocac|Alejandro Coca-Castro]] || UK || acoca(at)turing.ac.uk || Pangeo || DGGS(Healpix)-Xarray || x || x || x || - || booked || Likely || No || x ||
|-
| 24 ||[[User:tinaok|Justus Magin]] || FR || justus.magin(at)ifremer.fr || CNRS, LOPS, Pangeo || DGGS(Healpix)-Xarray || x || x || x || x ||tbd || Certain || Vegetarian || x ||
|-
| 25 ||[[User:tinaok|Benoit Bovy]] || FR || Tina.Odaka(at)ifremer.fr || Xarray || DGGS(Healpix)-Xarray || x || x || x || - ||tbd || Likely || No || x ||
|-
| 26 ||[[User:neteler|Markus Neteler]] || DE || neteler(at)mundialis.de || mundialis || GRASS GIS || x || x || x || x ||tbd || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 27 ||[[User:lubojr|Lubomir Dolezal]] || AT || lubomir.dolezal(at)eox.at || EOX || View Server/EOxServer || x || x || x || x || local || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 28 ||[[User:ungarj|Joachim Ungar]] || AT || joachim.ungar(at)eox.at || EOX || mapchete || x || x || - || x || local || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 29 ||[[User:jankovicgd|Nikola Jankovic]] || AT || niikola.jankovic(at)eox.at || EOX || View Server/EOxServer || x || x || x || x || local || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 30 ||[[User:wonder|Martin Dobias]] || SK || martin.dobias(at)lutraconsulting.co.uk || Lutra Consulting || QGIS, PDAL || - || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 31 ||[[User:eynardbg|Guillaume Eynard-Bontemps]] || FR || guillaume.eynard-bontemps(at)cnes.fr || CNES, Pangeo || Xarray, Datacubes || - || x || x || x || booked || Very Likely || No || x ||
|-
| 32 ||Andreas Neumann || CH || andreas(at)qgis.org || QGIS / ETH Zurich || QGIS || - || x || x || x || booked || certain || No || x ||
|-
| 33 ||Aron Gergely || NL || aron.gergely(at)rasterra.nl || Rasterra || QGIS, xarray, pangeo || - || x || x || x || booked || Very Likely || No || x ||
|-
| 34 ||[[User:bmallinger|Bernhard Mallinger]] || AT || bernhard.mallinger(at)eox.at || EOX || pygeoapi, View Server/EOxServer, EOxHub || x || x || x || x || local || Certain || Vegetarian || x ||
|-
| 35 ||Raymond Nijssen || NL || r.nijssen(at)terglobo.nl || Terglobo || QGIS || - || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 36 ||Richard Duivenvoorde || NL || richard(at)zuidt.nl || Zuidt || QGIS || - || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 37 ||Selma Vidimlic || BA || selma@kartoza.com || QGIS / Kartoza || QGIS || x || x || x || x || tbd || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 38 || Moritz Langer || AT || moritz.langer@ama.gv.at || equip || pygeoapi, various python projects || x || x || x || x || local || Very likely || Vegetarian || x ||
|-
| 39 || Mathieu Tachon || NO || mathieu.tachon@kartverket.no || Kartverket || pygeoapi || x || x || x || x || tbd || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 40|| Connor Manning || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu || PDAL, COPC, Entwine || - || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 41 || Felix Cremer || DE || fcremer(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de || Max Planck Biogeochemistry ||YAXArrays.jl, other JuliaGeo projects, || x || x || x || x || booked || Certain || Vegetarian || x ||
|-
| 42 || [[User:plimkilde|Peter Limkilde Svendsen]] || DK || pelis at sdfi.dk || SDFI || PDAL, COPC, GDAL || x || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 43 || [[User:rabernat|Ryan Abernathey]] || US || ryan at earthmover.io || Earthmover || Xarray, Zarr || x || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 44 || [[User:Ahocevar|Andreas Hocevar]] || AT || andreas.hocevar at gmail.com || w3geo || OpenLayers, STAC || - || x || x || - || local || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 45 || [[User:Misev|Dimitar Misev]] || DE || misev at rasdaman.com || rasdaman / Constructor University || rasdaman || - || x || x || - || local || Very likely || No || x ||
|-
| 46 || [[User:monodeldiablo|Brian Davis]] || HR || brian at earthmover.io || Earthmover || Xarray, Zarr || x || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 47 || [[User:martinl|Martin Landa]] || CZ || landa.martin at gmail.com || CTU in Prague || GRASS GIS || x || x || x || x || tbd || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 48|| Andrew Bell || US || andrew@hobu.co || Hobu || PDAL, COPC, Entwine || - || x || x || x || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 49|| [[User:lindakarlovska|Linda Karlovska]] || CZ || linda.karlovska@fsv.cvut.cz || Ctu in Prague || GRASS GIS || x || x || - || - || tbd || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 50|| [[User:Germán_Carrillo|Germán Carrillo]] || CO || gcarrillo(at)linuxmail.org || GeoTux / Geoideal || QGIS || x || x || x || - || booked || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 51 ||[[User:Thomas|Thomas Brus]] || AT || thomas.brus@geosphere.at || geosphere.at || QGIS, Geonetwork, Geoserver || - || x || x || - || local || Certain || No || x ||
|-
| 52 ||[[User:ScubbX|Markus Mayr]] || AT || markus.mayr@gisforge.com || RISE (Research Industrial Systems Engineering) || QGIS (Plugin) || x || x || x || x || local || Very Likely || No || x ||
|-
| 53 ||[[User:genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]] || NL || genuchten@yahoo.com || ISRIC - World soil Information || pycsw, pygeometa, mapserver, geonetwork || - || - || x || x || || Very Likely || No || x ||
|-
| 54 ||[[User:mkuhn|Matthias Kuhn]] || CH || matthias@opengis.ch || OPENGIS.ch|| QGIS, QField, OSGeoLive || - || x || x || - || booked || Very Likely || No || x ||
|-
| 55 ||[[User:mmhr|Matthias Mohr]] || DE || matthias@mohr.ws || - || STAC, OpenLayers || x || x || x || - || booked || Very Likely || No || - ||
|-
| 56 || Dominik Nussbaumer|| AT || dnussbaumer@riegl.com || RIEGL || PDAL GDAL, point clouds || x || x || x || - || booked || Very Likely || No || - ||
|-
| 57 || Florent Gravin|| FR || florent.gravin@camptocamp.com || Camptocamp || GeoNetwork, Openlayers || x || x || x || - || booked || Very Likely || No || - ||
|-
| 58 || Jukka Rahkonen|| FI || jukka.rahkonen@nls.fi || NLS Finland|| GDAL, MapServer, GeoServer || x || x || x || - || booked || Certain || No || - ||
|-
| 59 || Lucia Kadlec|| SVK || lucia.kadlecova@ama.gv.at || Equip|| pygeoapi, various python projects || x || x || x || x || local || certain || No || - ||
|-
| 60 || [[User:Macho|Werner Macho]]|| AT || werner.macho(at)gmail.com || IQSOFT|| QGIS || - || - || x || - || local || certain || No || x ||
|-
| 61 || Tyna Dolezalova || AT || tyna.dolezalova(at)eox.at || EOX || STAC || x || x || x || x || local || Certain || No || x ||
|}

'''Participants remote:'''
* Vaclav (Vashek) Petras (US, wenzeslaus gmail com, NC State University, GRASS GIS, asynchronous, 6 hours behind)
* Rajat Shinde (US, rajatshinde2303 gmail com, NASA IMPACT - UAH, ZOO-Project, Asynchronous, GMT-5)
* Anna Petrasova (US, kratochanna gmail com, NC State University, GRASS GIS, asynchronous, 6 hours behind)

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net
* Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/OSGeo/Sprint

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Vienna
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed. See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place Nov 6-9, 2023.

We expect about 80 developers from all over the world to come from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

This years' sprint will take place in Vienna and will be hosted by [https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/, Big Data From Space '23] and organized by members of the local OSGeo chapter.

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023/ community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]]

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

Anna Petrasova

2023-09-26T19:50:52Z

Annakrat:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Anna Petrasova
|JobTitle=Geospatial Research Software Engineer
|Company=North Carolina State University
|Country=USA
|State=NC
|City=Raleigh
|Coordinate=35.7804015, -78.6390779
|LocalChapter=North America
|Email=kratochanna AT gmail DOT com
|Photo=Anna_Petrasova_photo.jpg
|Languages=Czech; English;
|Info=Anna is an active GRASS GIS developer since 2011. She promotes free and open source geospatial software for research and education among students and colleagues and supports its users both in person and on mailing lists.
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=Yes
|Translate=No
|PSC=Yes
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
=== Anna Petrasova ===
* Member of [https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/geoforall/ NCSU GeoForAll Lab]
* Former member of [http://geomatics.fsv.cvut.cz/research/geoforall/ GeoForAll Lab at FCE CTU in Prague]
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/ GRASS GIS] user, developer and PSC member
** participated in GSoC as a student and in GSoC 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021 as a mentor
*Previous location: Prague, Czech Republic

* GitHub: https://github.com/petrasovaa
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-petrasova/

;Profile last updated: September 2023

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

Google Summer of Code 2020 Accepted

2020-05-27T16:36:52Z

Annakrat: /* Accepted Proposals */ add GRASS GIS project

<center>
[[Image:GSoC2016Logo.jpg|400px|link=https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/]] @ 
[[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|300px|link=http://www.osgeo.org]]
</center>

* Back to the main OSGeo [[Google Summer of Code 2020]] @ OSGeo wiki page.

== Accepted Proposals ==

This year OSGeo accepted 10 students working on the following projects:

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|'''1st mentor'''
|'''2nd mentor'''
|'''Other Mentors'''
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|[[Image:logo-qgis.png|40px|center]]
|QGIS
|Improving QGIS 3D
|[[User:Belgacem_nedjima|Belgacem Nedjima]]
|[[User:MartinDobias|Martin Dobias]]
|[[User:Zilolv|Peter Petrik]]
|
|https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Improving_qgis_3d
|https://github.com/NEDJIMAbelgacem/QGIS
|-
|-
|[[Image:logo-grass.png|40px|center]]
|GRASS GIS
|New GRASS GIS startup mechanism
|Linda Kladivova
|[[User:Annakrat|Anna Petrasova]]
|[[User:Martinl|Martin Landa]]
|[[User:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]], [[User:Mlennert|Moritz Lennert]]
|https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2020/StartupWindow
|https://github.com/lindakladivova/grass (fork of GRASS repository)
|-
|-
|[[Image:Mapmint-logo-small.png|40px|center]]
|MapMint
|Enhancing ARScale and CloudAnchor support to the MapMint4ME Android Application
|Aditi Sawant
|Gérald Fenoy
|Rajat Shinde
|
|https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enhancing_ARScale_and_CloudAnchor_support_to_the_MapMint4ME_Android_Application
|https://github.com/aditis1204/MapMint4ME_shapes
|-
|-
|[[Image:logo-gvSIG.png|40px|center]]
|[http://www.gvsig.com/ gvSIG]
|[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_rules_for_the_Topology_Framework_in_gvSIG_Desktop_(_GSoC_2020_)#Brief_Description New rules for the Topology Framework in gvSIG Desktop]
|[https://github.com/Maureque/GSoC2020-topology-osgeo-gvsig Giani Carlevaro]
|Carlos Colombana
|Oscar Martínez
|
|https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_rules_for_the_Topology_Framework_in_gvSIG_Desktop_(_GSoC_2020_)
|https://github.com/Maureque/GSoC2020-topology-osgeo-gvsig
|-
|-
|[[Image:logo-gvSIG.png|40px|center]]
|gvSIG
|New rules for the Topology Framework in gvSIG Desktop
|José Olivas
|Oscar Martinez
|Mario Carrera
|jjdelcerror
|https://github.com/jolicar/GSoC2020/wiki/GSoC2020-New-rules-for-the-Topology-Framework-in-gvSIG-Desktop
|https://github.com/jolicar/GSoC2020
|-
|-
|[[Image:Pgrouting-logo.png|40px|center]]
|pgRouting
|Depth First Search and Sequential Vertex Coloring for pgRouting
|Ashish Kumar
|Daniel Kastl
|Cayetano Benavent
|
|https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-2020-Depth-First-Search-and-Sequential-Vertex-Coloring
|https://github.com/krashish8/GSoC-pgRouting
|-
|-
|[[Image:Pgrouting-logo.png|40px|center]]
|pgRouting
|Implementation of Edge Contraction Technique in pgRouting
|Himanshu Raj
|Vicky Vergara
|Daniel Kastl
|
|https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-2020-Implementation-of-Edge-Contraction-Technique-in-pgRouting
|https://github.com/pgRouting/GSoC-pgRouting/tree/edgeContract
|-
|-
|[[Image:Pgrouting-logo.png|40px|center]]
|pgRouting
|Lengauer Tarjan dominator tree and Two graphs common Spanning Trees for pgRouting
|Prakash Tiwari
|Vicky Vergara
|Aasheesh Tiwari
|<Fill Details Here>
|https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-2020-Lengauer-Tarjan-dominator-tree-and-Two-graphs-common-Spanning-Trees
|https://github.com/prakashupes/GSoC-pgRouting
|-
|-
|[[Image:Pygeoapi-logo.png|100px|center]]
|pygeoapi
|Data Transaction implementation on pygeoapi
|Alex Mathew
|Jorge de Jesus
|Francesco Bartoli
|
|https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GSoC_2020_Data_transaction_implementation_on_pygeoapi
|https://github.com/alex-mathew/pygeoapi
|-
|-
|[[Image:Pygeoapi-logo.png|100px|center]]
|pygeoapi
|Develop CQL Filter implementation for pygeoapi
|Farheen Bano
|Francesco Bartoli
|Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus
|
|https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GSoC_2020_Develop_CQL_Filter_implementation_for_pygeoapi
|https://github.com/FarheenB/pygeoapi
|-
|}

[[Category:Google Summer of Code]]

Anna Petrasova

2018-05-31T16:24:50Z

Annakrat:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Anna Petrasova
|JobTitle=Postdoc
|Company=North Carolina State University
|Country=USA
|State=NC
|City=Raleigh
|Coordinate=35.7804015, -78.6390779
|LocalChapter=North America
|Email=kratochanna AT gmail DOT com
|Photo=Anna_Petrasova_photo.jpg
|Languages=Czech; English;
|Info=Anna is an active GRASS GIS developer since 2011. She promotes free and open source geospatial software for research and education among students and colleagues and supports its users both in person and on mailing lists.
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=Yes
|Translate=No
|PSC=Yes
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
=== Anna Petrasova ===
[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[File:Anna_Petrasova_photo.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Anna Petrasova]]

PhD student at North Carolina State University

Location: Raleigh, NC, USA

Previous location: Prague, Czech Republic

Anna is an active GRASS GIS developer since 2011. As a PhD student, she promotes free and open source geospatial software for research and education among other students and colleagues and supports its users both in person and on mailing lists.

;OSGeo Experience
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]

:
:* Member of [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ NCSU OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory]
:* Former member of [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Research_and_Education_Laboratory OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory at FCE CTU in Prague]
:* GRASS GIS user and developer
:** GUI testing, maintenance and development of new GUI features
:** participated in GSoC [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WxNviz_GSoC_2011 2011] and [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014/ImplementationOf3DRasterFlowLine 2014]
:** development [https://www.openhub.net/accounts/annakrat statistics]

;Contact:
: Email: kratochanna AT gmail DOT com

;Spoken Language(s): Czech, English

;Profile last updated: August 2, 2014

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

OSGeoUS

2018-05-31T16:22:19Z

Annakrat: /* Membership */

For the latest information visit [http://osgeo.us OSGeo.US] online, or our [https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/osgeo-us/ page] on the OSGeo website.

== Mission ==

OSGeo.US will cultivate and support local OSGeo chapters and projects in the United States. OSGeo.US will also support activities and events that build awareness of the OSGeo and create opportunities to grow the OSGeo community.

==Goals==

* Chapter is in the process of forming, initial goal is to be recognized as an official local chapter
* Start to hold meetings
* Advocate for the use of Open Source GIS at regional and state levels
* Develop an OSGeoUS presence at conferences

==Meetings==

Please join us at foss4gna for our first f2f meeting!

==Activities==

OSGeo.US is supporting the [[FOSS4GNA_Code_Sprint_2018]], obtaining a venue for sprint participants.

==Email list==
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/us

==Membership==

[[user:rjhale1971|Randal Hale]]

[[user:Kurt_Menke|Kurt Menke]]

[[user:Micheletobias|Michele Tobias]]

[[user:kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]]

[[user:gsteinmon|Guido Stein]]

[[user:jrosenthal|Josh Rosenthal]]

[[user:paylakatel|Kayla Patel]]

[[user:Chrismarx|Chris Marx]]

[[user:erikfriesen|Erik Friesen]]

[[user:candrsn|Carl Anderson]]

[[user:helena|Helena Mitasova]]

[[user: Gisn8|Nathan Saylor]]

David Bitner

Rachel Stevenson

[[user:MichaelTerner|Michael Terner]]

[[user:Bdollins|Bill Dollins]]

[[user:dnewcomb|Doug Newcomb]]

[[user:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]]

[[user:tmueller|Tom Mueller]]

[[user:Annakrat|Anna Petrasova]]

FOSS4G 2017 Code Sprint

2017-05-23T13:44:05Z

Annakrat: /* GRASS GIS */

== Code Sprint ==

Venue: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

This year, once again, we are following the old tradition of hosting a code sprint right after [http://2017.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2017].
The code sprint will be held Saturday August 19th, 2017 at District Hall (http://www.districthallboston.org/).

Participation in the code sprint is free of charge and all folks currently involved or interested in getting involved in OSGeo community projects are welcome.

This is open to all who wish to participate in one or more projects. There’s always plenty to do – it’s not all about programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, and testing are also very important for projects! Registration with the conference is not a prerequisite for participation in code sprint.

If you plan to attend, please signup in the table below so we have ample time for planning of snacks and drinks!

.

One thing we’d like to ask you: with over 200 participants anticipated, the WLAN capacity will naturally be exhausted at some point. Please be sure to avoid huge on-site downloads of data, as this could impact the work of others. Thank you!

The Codesprint Organizing Team is looking forward to your coming!

'''In summary:'''

===When ===
* Saturday August 19th 9AM - 5PM

=== Where===
* Venue & Accommodation: Boston District Hall. (For more information: http://www.districthallboston.org/) [[http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.35229/-71.04528| OpenStreetMap]]

'''Power connector:'''
* Bring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] . See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/

== Registered Attendees ==

The Code Sprint does not cost any money. For us it makes planning easier if we know who is coming. So please leave your Name.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="30"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Projects
!width="60"|Accomodation
!width="30"|vegetarian food
|-
| 1 ||[[User:Robe|Regina Obe]] || lr@pcorp.us|| [[PostGIS]], [[GDAL]], [[pgRouting]], [[GEOS]] || home || No
|-
| 2 ||[[Leo Hsu]] || lr@pcorp.us || [[PostGIS]], [[pgRouting]] || home || No
|-
| 3 ||[[User:gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || gstein@appgeo.com || [[FOSS4G]] || home || No
|-
| 4 ||[[User:wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]] || wenzeslaus gmail com || [[GRASS GIS]], PDAL || || No
|-
| 5 ||[[User:Annakrat|Anna Petrasova]] || akratoc gmail com || [[GRASS GIS]] || || No
|}

= Workgroups =

== PostGIS ==

Spatial database extender for PostgreSQL

'''Attending:'''

Regina Obe

Leo Hsu

'''Goals:'''
Getting ready for PostGIS 2.4.0 release.
Testing out what we'll be pushing.

== GRASS GIS ==

Backend and desktop geospatial analysis tool

'''Attending:''' Vaclav Petras, Anna Petrasova

'''Goals:''' Documentation, images for manual pages, and testing for next release.

[[Category:FOSS4G2017]] [[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:Code_Sprints]]

FOSS4G 2017 Code Sprint

2017-05-23T13:43:30Z

Annakrat: /* Registered Attendees */

== Code Sprint ==

Venue: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

This year, once again, we are following the old tradition of hosting a code sprint right after [http://2017.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2017].
The code sprint will be held Saturday August 19th, 2017 at District Hall (http://www.districthallboston.org/).

Participation in the code sprint is free of charge and all folks currently involved or interested in getting involved in OSGeo community projects are welcome.

This is open to all who wish to participate in one or more projects. There’s always plenty to do – it’s not all about programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, and testing are also very important for projects! Registration with the conference is not a prerequisite for participation in code sprint.

If you plan to attend, please signup in the table below so we have ample time for planning of snacks and drinks!

.

One thing we’d like to ask you: with over 200 participants anticipated, the WLAN capacity will naturally be exhausted at some point. Please be sure to avoid huge on-site downloads of data, as this could impact the work of others. Thank you!

The Codesprint Organizing Team is looking forward to your coming!

'''In summary:'''

===When ===
* Saturday August 19th 9AM - 5PM

=== Where===
* Venue & Accommodation: Boston District Hall. (For more information: http://www.districthallboston.org/) [[http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.35229/-71.04528| OpenStreetMap]]

'''Power connector:'''
* Bring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] . See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/

== Registered Attendees ==

The Code Sprint does not cost any money. For us it makes planning easier if we know who is coming. So please leave your Name.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="30"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Projects
!width="60"|Accomodation
!width="30"|vegetarian food
|-
| 1 ||[[User:Robe|Regina Obe]] || lr@pcorp.us|| [[PostGIS]], [[GDAL]], [[pgRouting]], [[GEOS]] || home || No
|-
| 2 ||[[Leo Hsu]] || lr@pcorp.us || [[PostGIS]], [[pgRouting]] || home || No
|-
| 3 ||[[User:gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || gstein@appgeo.com || [[FOSS4G]] || home || No
|-
| 4 ||[[User:wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]] || wenzeslaus gmail com || [[GRASS GIS]], PDAL || || No
|-
| 5 ||[[User:Annakrat|Anna Petrasova]] || akratoc gmail com || [[GRASS GIS]] || || No
|}

= Workgroups =

== PostGIS ==

Spatial database extender for PostgreSQL

'''Attending:'''

Regina Obe

Leo Hsu

'''Goals:'''
Getting ready for PostGIS 2.4.0 release.
Testing out what we'll be pushing.

== GRASS GIS ==

Backend and desktop geospatial analysis tool

'''Attending:''' Vaclav Petras

'''Goals:''' Documentation, images for manual pages, and testing for next release.

[[Category:FOSS4G2017]] [[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:Code_Sprints]]

Google Summer of Code 2017 Administrative

2017-03-06T14:19:56Z

Annakrat: /* Mentors */

<center>
[[Image:GSoC2016Logo.jpg|400px|link=https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/]] @ [[Image:OSGeo_300_127_pixel.png|300px|link=http://www.osgeo.org]]
</center>

* Back to the main OSGeo [[Google Summer of Code 2017]] @ OSGeo wiki page.
* Visit our [[Google Summer of Code 2017 Ideas]] and our [[Google Summer of Code Recommendations for Students]] pages

This is the central page for OSGeo administrative information in Google Summer of Code 2017.

== GSoC general information ==

* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline The official timeline]
* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq Google's FAQ on the program]
* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ Official 2017 GSoC site]
* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/responsibilities Roles and Responsibilities]

== Contacts ==

* Would-be mentors and students: you are invited to sign up to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc OSGeo SoC mailing list] right away. The list is the central communication channel for mentors, students and administrators. It is used for general GSoC announcements, specific OSGeo announcements, and for clarification about the program. As soon as you subscribe it, you are encouraged to introduce yourself and your role. We look forward to hear from you!

* To contact OSGeo's GSoC admin team directly:
** send an email to [mailto:gsoc-admin@osgeo.org gsoc-admin@osgeo.org]
** join the #osgeo-gsoc channel on irc.freenode.net (connect directly in your browser via [https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=osgeo-gsoc webchat])

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]] acts as chair of the Admin team, which includes [[User:Masterflorin|Florin-Daniel Cioloboc]], [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], [[Helmut Kudrnovsky]], [[User:Macho|Werner Macho]], [[Jeff McKenna]], and Guillermo Pizarro. Feel free to email us with any questions, we're here to help mentor the mentors as much as anything else!



[[Image:Madi_BW_1.jpg|60px|link=https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]][[Image:FlorinCioloboc.jpg|100px|link=https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Masterflorin|Florin Cioloboc]][[Image:Aghisla-profile-pic.jpg|60px|link=https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]][[Image:Hk grey.png|60px|link=https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Helmut_Kudrnovsky|Helmut Kudrnovsky]][[Image:Macho.jpg|60px|link=https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Werner_Macho|Werner Macho]][[Image:Jeff_McKenna.jpg|60px|link=https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Jeff_McKenna|Jeff McKenna]]

.

== Mentors ==

If you're interested in mentoring / supervising a student for one of the software participating this year under OSGeo's umbrella, please add your name, email, OSGeo/guest software and the projects you're interested in mentoring here:

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#D7E3D1; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|width=30px|'''Number'''
|width=100px|'''Name'''
|width=100px|'''Surname'''
|width=100px|'''Nickname (IRC)'''
|width=250px|'''email'''
|'''Software community'''
|'''Idea(s) you are available to mentor''' (please write down the title of the idea, not link to ideas page!)
|-
|1
|Tom
|Kralidis
|tomkralidis
|tomkralidis at gmail.com
|pycsw
|[https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/OSGeo-GSoC#2017 pycsw filter abstraction, Elasticsearch backend, admin HTTP API]
|-
|2
|Gabriele
|Prestifilippo
|gabry501
|gabriele.prestifilippo at gmail com
|ESA-NASA WebWorldWind
|HeatMap Layer, Plug-in, Create Your Own
|-
|3
|Vicky
|Vergara
|cvvergara
|vicky at georepublic de
|pgRouting
|Develop new functionality into pgRouting
|-
|4
|Daniel
|Kastl
|dkastl
|daniel at georepublic de
|pgRouting
|Connect more boost functions to pgRouting
|-
|5
|Rohith
|Reddy
|sankepallyrohithreddy
|rohithreddy2219 at gmail com
|pgRouting
|Connect more boost functions to pgRouting
|-
|6
|Patrick
|Hogan
|HamletAlive
|patrick.hogan at nasa gov
|ESA-NASA WebWorldWind
|CitySmart Urban Infrastructure Management
|-
|7
|Anna
|Petrasova
|
|kratochanna at gmail com
|GRASS GIS
|3D rendering, 3D viewer
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|}

== A Mentor's Responsibilities ==

Being a mentor can take anywhere from 2-10 hours a week of your time depending on the student (it really ''is'' in your best interest to take on the strongest students you can find). You must have the time to be responsive and an advocate for the student. No matter how cool the project is and how much your team needs the job done, if you can't commit to supporting it, experience shows that the best thing to do is not start it, i.e. even with the best of intentions don't set a student up to fail. Long story short, student projects simply can't go ahead without proper mentoring support.

Every student project will also have a '''backup mentor''', this person should come from your dev community and should at minimum keep up to date with the student's weekly developments. ''' Both mentors need to appoint themselves officially'''. The best way is if the student is well integrated into your development team from the start, it lessens the workload on you and betters the buy-in from the rest of the community once you're ready for the final code merge.

You '''must''' be available at some time during the '''evaluation periods'''. If you will be away during these time periods please arrange with the OSGeo org admins and your backup mentor so that one of us can fill in your answers for you. These are hard cutoffs -- evaluations ''must'' be filed within these dates. There are '''3 evaluation periods''' this year where mentors are required to complete an evaluation of their student. After the first 4 weeks of coding, after 8 weeks of coding and then at the end (after 12 weeks of coding). The evaluation forms are shorter than previous years so they should take less time to complete.

== Guides for mentors ==

* [http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsoc-mentoring/what-is-gsoc/ The GSoC Mentoring Guide] - A must. Do get all useful info and tips from many years of experience from GSoC mentors.
* [http://people.gnome.org/~federico/docs/summer-of-code-mentoring-howto/ GNOME GSoC Mentoring HOWTO]
* [http://emptysqua.re/blog/mentoring/ An excellent summary of mentoring, from A. Jesse Jiryu Davis]

== Tips for mentors ==

This section is for collecting suggestions on best practices, from mentors to other mentors. If you have good / bad experiences in mentoring, please share here! Remember that this is a public page, respect the privacy of the people.

=== Good ideas ===

* '''Test students before selection.''' Challenge them with small programming tasks or bug fixes. This will help them getting familiar with the dev environment well before GSoC starts, and helps mentors understand if they are capable. Think to a task much earlier to the timeline, and connect the task to the idea in the ideas page.
* Time management tip: Try not to mentor more than one project per year. In any case, '''you can be primary mentor only for one project.''' Consider carefully the time that you can allocate on GSoC.
* ...

=== Bad ideas ===

* ...

== Learn more ==

* Previous years SoC involvement: [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2016/organizations/6434461499523072/ 2016] [https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2015 2015], [https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2014 2014], [https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2013 2013], [https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2012 2012], [https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2011 2011], [https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2010 2010], [https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2009 2009], [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/osgeo/about.html 2008]

* OSGeo GSoC wiki pages: [[Google Summer of Code 2016|2016]],[[Google Summer of Code 2015|2015]],[[Google Summer of Code 2014|2014]],[[Google Summer of Code 2013|2013]],[[Google Summer of Code 2012|2012]],[[Google Summer of Code 2011|2011]],[[Google Summer of Code 2010|2010]],[[Google Summer of Code 2009|2009]],[[Google Summer of Code 2008|2008]]

* OSGeo Applications: [[Google Summer of Code Application 2016|2016]],[[Google Summer of Code Application 2015|2015]],[[Google Summer of Code Application 2014|2014]],[[Google Summer of Code Application 2013|2013]],[[Google Summer of Code Application 2012|2012]],[[Google Summer of Code Application 2011|2011]],[[Google SoC Application 2010|2010]],[[Google SoC Application 2009|2009]]

[[Category: Google Summer of Code]]

GeoForAll/FOSS4GBoston

2016-11-07T19:58:07Z

Annakrat: NCSU GeoForAll Lab

''' GeoForAll meeting topics or workshops at FOSS4G Boston, August 14-18'''

''Instructions: (1) Add either new meeting topics using a new bullet, and/or (2) add your name below topics you'd be interested in having meetings on at FOSS4G Boston.''

* '''Anyone interested in offering a Pre-conference educational workshop? If so, what topic?'''

# Tangible Landscape for geospatial education [developing course units with augmented reality and tangible interfaces] (NCSU GeoForAll Lab)
# Introduction to GRASS GIS with focus on lidar [offered as a general workshop] (NCSU GeoForAll Lab)

* '''GeoForAll "Grant Sprint (if you have a grant you are thinking of going after related to support of GeoForAll, add your name and potential topic)'''"

# name, grant idea, solicitation (if you want to share)

* '''Educational content sharing system (add any ideas you have here on what this meeting should include), and any ideas you may have on platform:'''

# Charlie Schweik
# add your name

* '''Papers or presentations related to GeoForAll people are thinking of submitting -- perhaps we can organize a whole GeoForAll track of panels
'''

# Charlie Schweik - presentation on GeoForAll OpenCitySmart Research Coordination Network (if it comes in)
# Helena Mitasova - GSoC as an example Collaboration between GeoForAll labs, NCSU Center for Geospatial Analytics Geospatial Studios with open source focus
# Add your name and topic

Google Summer of Code 2016 Accepted

2016-08-17T13:14:46Z

Annakrat: /* Accepted Proposals */ add github repo

<center>
[[Image:GSoC2016Logo.jpg|500px|link=https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/]] @ [[Image:OSGeo_300_127_pixel.png|200px|link=http://www.osgeo.org]]
</center>

* Back to the main OSGeo [[Google Summer of Code 2016]] @ OSGeo wiki page.

== Accepted Proposals ==

This year OSGeo accepted 22 students working on the following projects.

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#D7E3D1; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|'''Community'''
|'''Project'''
|'''Student'''
|'''1st mentor'''
|'''2nd mentor'''
|'''Wiki page'''
|'''Repository'''
|-
|GDAL
|Introduce Triangulated Surface, Polyhedral Surface and Triangle API in the OGRGeometry core and implement their support in OGR drivers for GDAL
|Avyav Kumar Singh
|Rob Emanuele
|Even Rouault
|[https://github.com/avyavkumar/gdal/wiki Github]
|[https://github.com/avyavkumar/gdal Github]
|-
|GDAL
|GDAL DWG support
|Alexandr Borzykh
|Dmitry Baryshnikov
|Even Rouault
|[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GDALDWG_SoC_2016 Wiki]
|[https://github.com/sandyre/libopencad Github]
|-
|GRASS GIS
|Complete basic cartography suite in GRASS GIS wxGUI Map Display
|Adam Laža
|Anna Petrasova
|Vaclav Petras
|[https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2016/BasicCartographySuiteInGRASS Trac]
|[https://github.com/lazaa32/SoC16 GitHub]
|-
|GRASS GIS
|GRASS GIS - Additional segmentation algorithms for i.segment
|Bo Yang
|Moritz Lennert
|Markus Neteler
|[https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2016/Additional_segmentation_algorithms Trac]
|[https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/sandbox/bo/i.segment.gsoc2016 Sandbox]
|-
|GRASS GIS
|GRASS GIS - PyQt implementation of GUI forms generated automatically from XML
|Ondřej Pešek
|Vaclav Petras
|Anna Petrasova
|[https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2016/PyQtGUI Trac]
|[https://github.com/pesekon2/GRASS-Qt-based-GUI GitHub]
|-
|GRASS GIS
|GRASS GIS - WEBGRASS
|Mayank Agrawal
|Rashad Kanavath
|Massimo Di Stefano
|[https://github.com/mayank33/webgrass/wiki Wiki]
|
|-
|gvSIG
|Add tests and educational games support to gvSIG Educa.
|Carlos I. Colombana
|Óscar Martínez
|Joaquín del Cerro
|[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG-Educational-Games_GSoC_2016#Project Wiki]
|[https://github.com/nacho0605/GSoC/tree/master/GSoC_2016 GitHub]
|
|-
|gvSIG
|Development of a model for woody debris flooding hazard in gvSIG
|Silvia Franceschi
|Andrea Antonello
|Riccardo Rigon
|[https://github.com/moovida/jgrasstools/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2016 github]
|[https://github.com/silviafranceschi/jgrasstools github]
|
|-
|istSOS
|Android istSOS client
|Florin-Daniel Cioloboc
|Mirko Cardoso
|Milan Antonovic
|[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Android_istSOS Wiki]
|[https://github.com/istSOS/java-core Github-Core] [https://github.com/masterflorin/java-core Fork]
[https://github.com/istSOS/android-demo Github-Android] [https://github.com/masterflorin/android-demo Fork]
|-
|istSOS
|istSOS Web API
|Luka Glušica
|Massimiliano Cannata
|Milan Antonovic
|[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IstSOS_Web_API Wiki]
|[https://github.com/istSOS/javascript-core GitHub] [https://github.com/WebPractice-LukaG/javascript-core Fork]
|-
|istSOS
|VistSOS: the istSOS Data Visualization Framework
|Felipe Poveda
|Milan Antonovic
|Massimiliano Cannata
|[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/VistSOS_Data_Visualization_Framework Wiki]
|[https://github.com/felipe07/vistsos GitHub]
|-
|NASA World Wind
|NASA Web World Wind - Multidimensional Visualization Tool for Environmental Variables
|Gabriele Prestifilippo
|Jakub Balhar
|Patrick Hogan
|[[NASA Web WorldWind Multidimension Visualization Tool GSoC 2016|Wiki]]
|[https://github.com/GabrielePrestifilippo/EST-WA-Javascript GitHub]
|-
|OpenLayers3 - Google maps
|OGC protocols support within OL3-Google-Maps
|Samuel Lapointe
|Alexandre Dube
|Jessica Lapointe
|[[OL3-GoogleMaps_GSoC_2016|Wiki]]
|[https://github.com/mapgears/ol3-google-maps GitHub] [https://github.com/samuellapointe/ol3-google-maps Fork]
|-
|OneBusAway/Transitime
|Tansitime Quickstart application
|Brendan Egan
|Og Crudden
|Stefan Steiner
|[https://github.com/Egan109/core/wiki/Transitime-QuickStart-Gsoc-2016 Wiki]
|[https://github.com/Egan109/core Github]
|-
|OSSIM
|A complete photogrammetric OSSIM tool for automatic DSMs generation using multi-view optical and SAR images
|Martina Di Rita
|Oscar Kramer
|Dave Burken
|[https://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/wiki/GSoC_2016 Wiki]
|[https://github.com/martidi/opencv_dsm/tree/imageStack GitHub]
|-
|pgRouting
|Flow Algorithms for pgRouting
|Andrea Nardelli
|Daniel Kastl
|Vicky Vergara
|[https://github.com/Illedran/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-2016-Flow Github Wiki]
|
|-
|pgRouting
|Implementation of a framework which supports addition of contraction techniques for pgRouting
|Sankepally Rohith Reddy
|Vicky Vergara
|Daniel Kastl
|[https://github.com/sankepallyrohithreddy/pgrouting/wiki/GSoc-2016-Contraction Github Wiki]
|
|-
|PyWPS
|Remote Output Storage for PyWPS
|Vikas Mishra
|Jachym Cepicky
|Jonas Eberle
|[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vikasmishra95 Wiki]
|[https://github.com/mishravikas/pywps Github]
|-
|PyWPS
|Web-based administration & process management for PyWPS
|Jan Rudolf
|Jonas Eberle
|Jachym Cepicky
|[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GSoC_2016_Web_administration_and_process_management_for_PyWPS Wiki]
|[https://github.com/jan-rudolf/pywps Forked PyWPS] [https://github.com/jan-rudolf/gsoc-python-process-control Support app 1] [https://github.com/jan-rudolf/gsoc-pywps-app Support app 2]
|-
|QGIS
|QGIS Styles, Symbols, and SVG Markers Sharing Repository
|Akbar Gumbira
|Alessandro Pasotti
|Anita Graser
|[[QGIS Sharing Repository|Wiki]]
|
|-
|ZOO-Project
|Bringing pyModis to the web through ZOO-Project
|Chingchai Humhong
|Luca Delucchi
|Gerald Fenoy
|[http://zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/Bringing_pyModis_to_the_web_through_ZOO-Project_GSoC_2016 Wiki]
|[https://github.com/chingchai/pyModis/tree/gsoc-2016/zoo-pymodis/ Github]
|-
|ZOO-Project
|Implementing WPS for Geopaparazzi field data collection tool using ZOO-Project: Simplifying integration of field data and GIS
|Niroshan Sanjaya
|Gerald Fenoy
|Andrea Antonello
|[http://zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/IMPLEMENTING_WPS_FOR_GEOPAPARAZZI_FIELD_DATA_COLLECTION_TOOL_USING_ZOO-PROJECT%3ASIMPLIFYING_INTEGRATION_OF_FIELD_DATA_AND_GIS Wiki]
|[https://github.com/niroshansb/GSoC2016 Github]
|-
|}

See the [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6273632556810240/ accepted projects on Google's platform].

[[Category: Google Summer of Code]]

Google Summer of Code 2016 Administrative

2016-03-04T14:24:34Z

Annakrat: /* Mentors */

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[[Image:GSoC2016Logo.jpg|500px|link=https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/]] @ [[Image:OSGeo_300_127_pixel.png|200px|link=http://www.osgeo.org]]
</center>

* Back to the main OSGeo [[Google Summer of Code 2016]] @ OSGeo wiki page.

This is the central page for OSGeo administrative information in Google Summer of Code 2016.

== GSoC general information ==

* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline The official timeline]
* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/ Google's FAQ on the program]
* [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ Official 2016 GSoC site]

== Contacts ==

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]] acts as Administrative contact, with support from [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]]. Feel free to email us with any questions, we're here to help mentor the mentors as much as anything else!

* Would-be mentors and students: you are invited to sign up to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc OSGeo SoC mailing list] right away. The list is the central communication channel for mentors, students and administrators. It is used for general GSoC announcements, specific OSGeo announcements, and for clarification about the program. As soon as you subscribe it, you are encouraged to introduce yourself and your role. We look forward to hear from you!

== Mentors ==

If you're interested in mentoring / supervising a student for one of the software participating this year under OSGeo's umbrella, please add your name, email, OSGeo/guest software and the projects you're interested in mentoring here:

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|width=30px|'''Number'''
|width=100px|'''Name'''
|width=100px|'''Surname'''
|width=100px|'''Nickname (IRC)'''
|width=250px|'''email'''
|'''Software'''
|'''Idea(s) you are available to mentor'''
|-
|1
|Margherita
|Di Leo
|madi
|diregola AT gmail DOT com
|admin at OSGeo
|Idea I would like to mentor
|-
|2
|Alexander
|Bruy
|alexbruy
|alexander.bruy AT gmail.com
|QGIS
|
|-
|3
|Victor
|Olaya
|volaya
|volayaf AT gmail DOT com
|QGIS
|
|-
|4
|Daniel
|Kastl
|dkastl
|daniel AT georepublic DOT de
|pgRouting
|
|-
|5
|Massimiliano
|Cannata
|maxi
|massimiliano.cannata AT gmail DOT com
|istSOS
|
|-
|6
|Milan
|Antonovic
|milan
|milan.antonovic AT gmail DOT com
|istSOS
|
|-
|7
|Jachym
|Cepicky
|jachym
|jachym.cepicky AT gmail
|PyWPS
|
|-
|8
|Andrea
|Antonello
|moovida
|andrea.antonello AT gmail DOT com
|JGrasstools, gvSIG, Geopaparazzi
|
|-
|-
|9
|Rashad
|Kanavath
|rashadkm
|rashadkm AT gmail DOT com
|GRASS GIS, OSSIM, GDAL
|
|-
|10
|Cameron
|Shorter
|CameronShorter
|cameronDOTs h o r ter AT gmail com
|OSGeo-Live
|
|-
|11
|Stephen
|Woodbridge
|woodbri
|woodbri AT swoodbridge DOT com
|pgRouting
|
|-
|12
|Vicky
|Vergara
|cvvergara
|vicky AT georepublic DOT de
|pgRouting
|
|-
|13
|Dmitry
|Baryshnikov
|bishop
|bishop.dev AT gmail.com
|GDAL
|
|-
|14
|Luca
|Delucchi
|lucadelu
|lucadeluge AT gmail.com
|GRASS
|
|-
|15
|Anna
|Petrasova
|
|kratochanna AT gmail.com
|GRASS
|
|-
|}

== A Mentor's Responsibilities ==

Being a mentor can take anywhere from 2-10 hours a week of your time depending on the student (it really ''is'' in your best interest to take on the strongest students you can find :). You must have the time to be responsive and an advocate for the student. No matter how cool the project is and how much your team needs the job done, if you can't commit to supporting it, experience shows that the best thing to do is not start it, i.e. even with the best of intentions don't set a student up to fail. Long story short, student projects simply can't go ahead without proper mentoring support.

Every student project will also have a '''backup mentor''', this person should come from your programming team and should at minimum keep up to date with the student's weekly developments. The best way is if the student is well integrated into your development team from the start, it lessens the workload on you and betters the buy-in from the rest of the community once you're ready for the final code merge.

You '''must''' be available at some time during the '''midterm and final evaluation period'''. If you will be away during these time periods please arrange with the OSGeo org admins and your backup mentor so that one of us can fill in your answers for you. These are hard cutoffs -- evaluations ''must'' be filed within these dates.

== Guides for mentors ==

* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/ The GSoC Mentoring Guide] - A must. Do get all useful info and tips from many years of experience from GSoC mentors.
* [http://people.gnome.org/~federico/docs/summer-of-code-mentoring-howto/ GNOME GSoC Mentoring HOWTO]
* [http://emptysqua.re/blog/mentoring/ An excellent summary of mentoring, from A. Jesse Jiryu Davis]

== Tips for mentors ==

This section is for collecting suggestions on best practices, from mentors to other mentors. If you have good / bad experiences in mentoring, please share here! Remember that this is a public page, respect the privacy of the people.

=== Good ideas ===

* Test students before selection. Challenge them with small programming tasks or bug fixes. This will help them getting familiar with the dev environment well before GSoC starts, and helps mentors understand if they are capable.

=== Bad ideas ===

== Learn more ==

* Previous years SoC involvement: [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/osgeo/about.html 2008], [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2009/osgeo 2009], [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2010/osgeo 2010], [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/osgeo 2011], [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/osgeo 2012], [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/osgeo 2013], [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/osgeo 2015]

* OSGeo GSoC wiki pages: [[Google Summer of Code 2008|2008]], [[Google Summer of Code 2009|2009]], [[Google Summer of Code 2010|2010]], [[Google Summer of Code 2011|2011]], [[Google Summer of Code 2012|2012]], [[Google Summer of Code 2013|2013]], [[Google Summer of Code 2014|2014]], [[Google Summer of Code 2015|2015]]

* OSGeo Applications: [[Google SoC Application 2009|2009]], [[Google SoC Application 2010|2010]], [[Google Summer of Code Application 2011|2011]], [[Google Summer of Code Application 2012|2012]], [[Google Summer of Code Application 2013|2013]], [[Google Summer of Code Application 2014|2014]], [[Google Summer of Code Application 2015|2015]], [[Google Summer of Code Application 2016|2016]]

[[Category: Google Summer of Code]]

LIDAR Format Letter

2015-04-21T19:23:58Z

Annakrat: /* Signed */

=Open Letter of the Need for Open Standards in LiDAR=
April 2015.

We, the undersigned, are concerned that the current interoperability between LiDAR applications, through use of the open "LAS" format, is being threatened by ESRI's introduction and promotion of an alternative "Optimized LAS" '''''proprietary format.''''' This is of grave concern given that fragmentation of the LAS format will reduce interoperability between applications and organisations, and introduce vendor lock-in.

We request that:
# The OGC initiate the formalisation of an open standard for storing LiDAR data, and that OGC sponsors help prioritise the development of this open LiDAR standard.
# ESRI support the OGC in their [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/vision mission] "to advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability." In particular, ESRI joins with the OGC in consolidating an Open Standard for use of LiDAR data. This might include proposing ESRI's "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard to remove any technical or legal hurdles in use of "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard. A simple test to determine if "Optimized LAS" can be used as an Open Standard would be if "Optimized LAS" can legally be implemented by Open Source software such as libLAS or LASzip.
# Users and sponsors of LiDAR data, publicly state their preference for the use of an open LiDAR format over proprietary when selecting software and services.
# The custodians of the open LAS format [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)], who are part of [http://www.asprs.org/ American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)], request the term "LAS" not to be included in the name of a proprietary format, as it makes such a proprietary format appear to be an approved derivative of LAS.

=Signed=
Name, Affiliation(s), Optional comment on interest in Open LiDAR format

# Suchith Anand, Geo for All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy.
# Martin Isenburg, founder of [http://rapidlasso.com rapidlasso GmbH] and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools], and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves].
# Cameron Shorter, GeoSpatial Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft]. Core contributor and coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]. Contributor to numerous OGC testbeds, technical lead on a range of previous Australian and New Zealand Open Government initiatives.
# Stefan Keller, founder and director of [http://www.hsr.ch/geometalab Geometa Lab]; Professor in GIS, databases, open (government) data and interoperability; maintainer of GeoConverter; contributor to open source software (GDAL/OGR, QGIS).
# Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, committed to the US National Spatial Data Infrastructure principles, one being "to make geographic data more accessible to the public" [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]. Open standards are essential for this.
# Lene Fischer, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen. User of Open and free Data from The Danish Geodata Agency - Using LAZ and LAS http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/content/dhmpunktsky.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria Antonia Brovelli], Full Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. Geo For All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy and to Open Principles in Research.
# Ron Fortunato, President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning] LLC. Committed to open data standards that are necessary for education and all levels of communication.
# [http://www.geodatawiz.com/armin-schmidt Armin Schmidt], Chief Developer at [http://www.GeodataWIZ.com GeodataWIZ Ltd] and Chairman of [http://www.archprospection.org ISAP], committed to better science through Open Data.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti], CTO Trilogis Srl, Italy. Committed to open data standards that maximize opportunity for innovative solutions, unencumbered by artificial obstacles to data exchange.
# [http://pt.linkedin.com/pub/jorge-rocha/1b/560/499 Jorge Gustavo Rocha], Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Minho, Portugal, committed to better science through [http://www.gistam.org/EventChairs.aspx?y=2016 Open Data].
# [http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Jim Miller], University of Kansas, Professor, Computer Science. Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA. The need to promote open solutions is paramount.
# Alex Paza Makini, National University Solomon Islands, Natural Resources and Applied Science. Committed to open data standards for education and research, and everything beyond.
# Jorg M. Hacker, Professor, Director/Chief Scientist of [http://www.airborneresearchaustralia.com Airborne Research Australia], Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Open formats have always been a great benefit to airborne LiDAR.
# Didier Richard, Head of IS Training Dept. in Education and Research Directorate of [http://www.ign.fr Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière], France. OGC user, Contributor to OSGeO projects like GDAL.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adryane-gorayeb/74/517/96a Adryane Gorayeb], [http://www.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará Brazil], Geography Department. Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/yuryryabov Yury Ryabov], PhD, Senior researcher at [http://www.istc.ru/istc/db/inst.nsf/wsu/i0001823 Russian Scientific-Research Centre for Ecological Safety], [http://www.interacademies.net/Academies/ByRegion/CentralEasternEurope/13383.aspx Russian Academy of Sciences], Saint Petersburg, Russia. Open data formats are essential for successful and reproducible scientific research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/teresa-lamelas-gracia/40/4a7/20b María Teresa Lamelas], [http://cud.unizar.es/ Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza], [http://geoforest.unizar.es/es/index.php GeoForest-IUCA]. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidherries David Herries], [http://www.interpine.co.nz/SitePages/Home.aspx Using LiDAR for forest yield modelling at Interpine Innovation]. Establishing open data standards provide scope for exponential growth in innovation. This is key to a rapidly developing technology like LiDAR.
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez Ortega]], [http://www.mazemap.no Mazemap]. OSGeo Charter member and Open Data nerd.
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer]], [http://www.geomaticblog.net Geomaticblog]. OSGeo Charter member and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/karl-donert/3/160/571 Professor Karl Donert], President European Association of Geographers (http://www.eurogeo.nl/ EUROGEO)
# Drew Fenton, Boulder Creek, CA [http://www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/coast-redwoods/ Countdown to the Last Coast Redwood]. Please protect Open Standards for geospatial data!
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] Geogeek & OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [http://vmx.cx Volker Mische], OSGeo Charter member and creator of GeoCouch
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/clquintanilla Carlos López Quintanilla], [http://www.psig.es PSIG] [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] GIS consultant, Spain
# [[User:woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], [http://imaptools.com iMaptools], OSGeo Charter member.
# [[User:odoepner|Oliver Doepner]], [http://oliver.doepner.net doepner.net], Software Engineer (Java,Linux), Open Standards and Open Source advocate
# [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]], [http://gis.cri.fmach.it Fondazione Edmund Mach], OSGeo Charter member, FOSS4G and Open Data developer, advocate, contributor and user.
# Antoine Cottin, CTO of [http://www.carbomap.com Carbomap Ltd.] and creator of [http://github.com/carbomap/Fleurdelas Fleurdelas], Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], [http://strk.keybit.net/services.html NetLab], Free Software Hacker. There are already too many users slave to their tools, let's stop that!
# [http://www.itopen.it Alessandro Pasotti], [http://www.itopen.it ItOpen], GIS Free Software Developer.
# [http://www.roccatello.com Eduard Roccatello], [http://www.3dgis.it 3DGIS], 3DGIS CTO and co-Founder
# [[User:moovida|Andrea Antonello]], [http://www.hydrologis.com HydroloGIS], OSGeo Charter member, Open Source GIS developer, HydroloGIS co-founder.
# [http://www.associazionegfoss.it Stefano Campus], President of [http://www.associazionegfoss.it GFOSS.it] Association (Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera), Italian Local Chapter of OSGeo Foundation.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Madi Margherita Di Leo], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Sacosta Sergio Acosta y Lara], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maximdubinin Maxim Dubinin], CEO at NextGIS, OSGeo Charter Member. Another 'standard' proprietary format? No, thank you.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], Soprintendenza Archeologia della Liguria, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Italy
# [http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/jgrn Jonathan Greenberg], Assistant Professor, [http://publish.illinois.edu/jgrn/ GEARS Laboratory], Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
# Bob Basques, Saint Paul, Mn., Technical Director for SharedGeo.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maning Maning Sambale], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Pcav Paolo Cavallini], QGIS PSC
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dr Phillip Davis], Member OSGeo Geo For All education advisory board, Director @ GeoAcademy
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon Nicolas Bozon], Researcher and software developer, OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ruslanrainis Ruslan Rainis], Professor, Director, [http://www.research.usm.my/default.asp?tag=36 Centre for Research Initiatives in Liberal Arts & Social Sciences](CRI-LASS). Open GeoInformation for a Sustainable Tomorrow and the Bottom Billions.
# [[User:Silli|Silvia Franceschi]], [http://www.hydrologis.com HydroloGIS], OSGeo Charter member, Environmental Engineer Open Source GIS power user, HydroloGIS co-founder.
# Oscar Martinez Rubi [http://esciencecenter.nl Netherlands eScience Center] eScience engineer.
# Werner Macho, QGIS team member. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# Giuseppe Patti, Geologist and Freelance Geospatial Advisor, GFOSS supporter.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Drappo Daniel Rappo], Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, School of Business and Engineering Vaud.
# [[User:nachouve|Juan Ignacio Varela]], Freelance Geospatial Advisor and OSGeo Local Chapter Member.
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com Mapgears], OSGeo Charter member.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulnanclares Raul Nanclares], RS&GIS Specialist
# [http://www.ing.unitn.it/dica/hp/index_eng.php?user=rigon Riccardo Rigon], Professor at University of Trento (Italy)
# [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]] Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), OSGeo Charter member.
# [http://lefsky.org Michael Lefsky], Professor of Remote Sensing Science, Colorado State University and Director, Center for Ecological Applications of Lidar.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lucas-c-villa-real/7/a0b/b06 Lucas Villa Real], Research software engineer at IBM Research - Brazil.
# [http://terraremote.com Loren Dawe], GIS Manager at Terra Remote Sensing Inc. Lidar Supplier and Open Standards Advocate
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Warmerda Frank Warmerdam], Software Developer, OSGeo Charter member
# [http://ch.linkedin.com/pub/jens-ingensand/0/836/6b0 Jens Ingensand], Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, [http://www.heig-vd.ch/international School of Business and Engineering Vaud].
# [http://nsidc.org/research/bios/khalsa.html Siri Jodha Khalsa], Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, [http://cires.colorado.edu/ Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences], University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
# [http://gis.uster.ch/ Andreas Neumann], GIS manager, City of Uster, Kanton Zurich, Switzerland
# [http://www.iwmi.org/ Yann Chemin], Researcher - Remote Sensing, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/etiennebracine Etienne B. Racine], Geomatics and remote sensing project manager, WSP, Canada
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alejandro-hinojosa/7/33b/342 Alejandro Hinojosa], [http://cicese.mx CICESE Research Center], Earth Sciences Division, GIS & Remote Sensing Lab, Ensenada, Mexico
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:epifanio Massimo Di Stefano], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno Rafael Moreno], University of Colorado Denver, [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/CLAS/Departments/ges/Pages/Geography.aspx Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]. Openness is fundamental to progress.
# Peter Drexel, GIS manager, [http://www.vorarlberg.at/vorarlberg/bauen_wohnen/bauen/vermessung_geoinformation/start.htm State of Vorarlberg (State Survey Office)], Austria
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marco-minghini/a8/3b6/198 Marco Minghini], Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, [http://www.polimi.it Politecnico di Milano]. Committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/candan-eyl%C3%BCl-kilsedar/65/380/976 Candan Eylül Kilsedar], WebGIS Developer, Research Fellow at [http://www.polimi.it Politecnico di Milano].
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:AlastairMcKinstry Alastair McKinstry], Debian Linux meteorology/GIS developer, Ireland
# [http://people.unibo.it/it/elena.mezzini2 Elena Mezzini], Remote-sensing in forest ecology, Research Fellow, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=43566064 Mihai A. Tanase], Honorary fellow, Dept. of Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dave-murray/10/742/3a2 Dave Murray], GIS Coordinator at [http://www.ci.westminster.co.us/ City of Westminster]
# Ayesa Martínez Serrano, Estudiante de Doctorado en [http://www.ciga.unam.mx/ Geografía del Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental de la UNAM-México]
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-crosby/15/b7/114 Christopher Crosby], co-founder, [http://www.opentopography.org/ OpenTopography]
# [http://sg.linkedin.com/in/sgganesh Shanmugam Ganeshkumar], Vice President - Consulting, [http://www.geoicon.com GeoICON]
# [[User:Chaitanya|Chaitanya Kumar CH]], GIS Developer with [http://www.egis-geoplan.com/ Egis Geoplan - India] and OSGeo Charter member.
# KS Rajan, Associate Professor and Head, [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/ Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIIT Hyderabad] and Chairman, [http://www.kaiinos.com/ KAIINOS Geospatial Technologies]; Promoter and Supported of Open Source, Open Data, Open Standards and e-Governance in India
# Pericles Nacionales, RS/GIS Specialist and OSGeo Charter member.
# Vasile Crăciunescu, Researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration and OSGeo Board member.
# [http://geo.tuwien.ac.at/staff/andreas-roncat/ Andreas Roncat] PostDoc Researcher, Research Groups Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, [http://www.geo.tuwien.ac.at/ Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation], Vienna University of Technology, Austria. In full agreement with [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maximdubinin Maxim Dubinin]: Another 'standard' proprietary format? No, thank you.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:remanuele Rob Emanuele], Software Developer, Azavea Inc.
# Codrina Ilie, Researcher at the Groundwater Engineering Research Center, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest and OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay Gérald Fenoy], Software Developer, OSGeo Charter Member.
# [http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ Lucy Bastin], Software Developer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission / Computer Science lecturer, UncertML developer, Member of OGC SWG on User Feedback.
# Matt Wilkie, Geomatics Analyst at [http://www.gov.yk.ca/ Yukon Government], [http://www.env.gov.yk.ca/geomatics Department of Environment]. A practising GIS Professional for 20+ years. Throughout that time, the process of manipulating data into, through and out of proprietary formats has been the most aggravating source of inefficiency and wasted time. Things are hard enough without adding unnecessary barriers.
# [[User:Annakrat|Anna Petrasova]], OSGeo Charter Member, GRASS GIS developer

=Background=
==About LiDAR==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar LiDAR] (Light Detection And Ranging) is a form of high precision range measurement, much like a radar system, that uses laser light instead of electromagnetic waves. The standard LiDAR product is a 3D point cloud that can be conceptualized as a series of point measurements representing distance between the sensor to a returned emission.

For over a decade (since 2003), there has been a common format for storing LiDAR data, the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html “LAS” format], and open source libraries have been developed to read, write and process these LAS files: [http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/liblas_overview.html libLAS] and [http://github.com/LASlib/LASlib LASlib]. These libraries have been incorporated within many LiDAR applications, allowing read/write access to a common exchange format, and resulting in full interoperability between the applications. There is also an open source compression algorithm for the LAS format called [http://laszip.org LASzip] that many LiDAR data portals use to compress LAS into smaller LAZ files for faster download. Many LiDAR software packages have added [http://laszip.org/#software-with-native-laz-support native support] for these compressed LAZ files.

==LAS Limitations==

Quoting [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ Paul Ramsey]:

: LAS format is not without its drawbacks:

:* While it is a binary format and does not waste any space unnecessarily, neither does it apply any compression to the data it stores. That’s not good for archival use.
:* Also, LAS stores points in scan order, so accessing any particular chunk of points involves reading the whole file. That’s not good for random access.
: Clearly there is a little more work to be done. Can LAS be improved? In fact, it already has been:
:* An open source compression library, LASzip can apply 20''':'''1 lossless compression to LAS files, making them great for archival purposes.
:* Other LAS users have experimented with re-ordering points in a LAS or LASzip file to allow random access to internal chunks of the LIDAR point cloud.
: Basically, making LAS smaller and faster is not rocket science, and if the work were incorporated into libLAS then the whole LIDAR community could leverage it together, and the user community would only have one file type to interchange.

=="Optimized LAS" A ''' ''Proprietary'' ESRI Format'''==
ESRI announced, 12 January 2014, the release of an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214 "Optimized LAS"] format which is claimed to provide faster access and smaller file sizes (similar to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format). This announcement created a outburst of vocal protest in the LiDAR community [[http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ 1] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ 2] [http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2014/01/15/las-laz-lazzip-zlas-and-you/ 3] [http://www.northrivergeographic.com/archives/lidar-software 4] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars-2/ 5] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/02/lidar-format-wars-3/ 6]].

The implementation of the "Optimized LAS" format is not available as Open Source and the format and algorithm details itself are undocumented, which means nobody can currently create alternate implementations, neither closed nor Open Source. This causes both technical as well as legal barriers for other applications reading and/or writing to this proprietary format. It creates a vendor lock-in scenario which is contrary to the principles of the Open Geospatial Consortium, the OSGeo Foundation, and many government IT procurement policies.

One year after releasing the "Optimized LAS" format, ESRI released a Windows only library (DLL) as a free-of-charge (gratis) download that is claimed to convert between LAS and "Optimized LAS". Note there is a distinct difference between a "free-of-charge" binary distribution of DLLs and publishing something as "Open Source". Unless the source code of the library is released as Open Source under an Open Source license, libLAS and related products will be legally prevented from incorporating ESRI's reader/writer code into their codebase, or from fixing any underlying bugs or performance limitations which may exist in ESRI's product.

Ironically, ESRI later placed their '''binary''' library files [http://github.com/Esri/esri-zlas-io-library on github] accompanied by an Apache License, but no source code was published. The distribution of binaries without source code is allowed by Apache License, but very uncommon and misleading, to say the least. The practice goes against the basic idea of “Open Source” and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) even has an FAQ entry on the obvious contradiction of [http://opensource.org/faq#non-distribution “Open Source” without source code].

==OGC's Efforts For An ''' ''Open'' LiDAR Standard'''==

The [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] has indicated their interest in developing a standard LiDAR format.

Carl Reed (formerly on OGC staff) provided the following information on OGC's previous efforts to work toward enabling Open Standards in LiDAR:

: "Over the last 8 or so years, the OGC approached ASPRS at least twice regarding LAS and worked with ASPRS to bring LAS into the OGC for consideration as both a Best Practice and an OGC standard. OGC member Rick Pearsall worked diligently on this. Rick worked for NGA, was active in the OGC, and was also the Standards Committee chair at ASPRS. Rick and Carl tried and failed. These attempts go back to [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/divisions/ppd/ppd_meetings/2007springppdreport.pdf at least 2007]. More recently, Carl Reed had an email dialogue with Lewis Graham to bring LAS into OGC as an OGC Best Practice. Carl thought progress was being made, but then for some reason all communication stopped."

[http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/ssimmons Scott Simmons] (Executive Director, Standards Program) has explained the OGC's continuing interest in pursuing point cloud encoding standards, including a member-initiated mechanism to extend LAS data with OGC-standard XML content.
: The OGC invites interested members who wish to work on this effort to please contact Scott Simmons (Executive Director, Standards Program E-mail : ssimmons@opengeospatial.org) to register their interest and discuss details. OGC will also be holding an ad hoc session at the OGC's next [http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1506tc Technical Committee meeting in Boulder, CO, USA in early June] to bring together all interested parties from all sectors (government, industry, academia) for this and plan next steps.

==History: LAS and ESRI's "Optimized LAS"==

Martin Isenburg, one of the leading experts in LIDAR formats, and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools] and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves], explains the history of LAS and "Optimized LAS":

: '''Summary:'''

:* The LAS format has been used successfully for over a decade.
:* Within last couple of years, ESRI has added native LAS support into ESRI products.
:* ESRI discussed embracing the open [http://laszip.org LAZ] format and simultaneously developed a proprietary "Optimized LAS" format.
:* The open geospatial community offered, on numerous occasions, to work with ESRI to avoid format fragmentation.
:* ESRI's proprietary "Optimized LAS" format is very similar in design and performance to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format.

: '''1998: Original LAS format definition'''

: The original development of the LAS format started in 1998 according to [http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lasroom/zKqchDj1JL4/discussion Lewis Graham]. The effort was at first led by pioneers of the LiDAR industry until the format was donated to the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html ASPRS]. Since then ASPRS's [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)] has been maintaining the LAS format, guiding it from the initial LAS 1.0 version until today's LAS 1.4 version. This effort successfully created an open data exchange format for discrete LiDAR points that is currently supported by practically every LiDAR-related software program.

: '''2011: ESRI joins LAS Working Group'''

: ESRI did not join the LWG of the ASPRS until rather late, the 24th of August in 2011. At that time ESRI was not a significant "player" in the LiDAR market given they did not have much support for LiDAR in any of their products. That was to change soon as they were planning to add LAS as a native data type in ArcGIS 10.1.

: Shortly before that, in June 2011, Martin Isenburg received a personal message from the ESRI development team: "I have a question about LAS compression. I’m evaluating some potential enhancements and support for [LAS and] LAZ is one of them. Compression time and amount is impressive." When inquiring two months later about the status of [http://laszip.org LAZ] integration Martin was told: "We’re in beta and working to finish the current release. I very much doubt LAZ will make it in because it’s too big a change at this time. So, we’ll be considering, for the following release, [for] what we want to do regarding compression and spatial indexing."

: '''June 2012: ArcGIS 10.1 includes [proprietary] LAS Dataset file'''

: In June 2012 ESRI released ArcGIS 10.1 and introduced the proprietary "LAS Dataset file (*.lasd)" that groups collections of files into one logical unit. This format of this useful LAS container file was not shared with others despite several private and eventually [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/jwHpi0efUgA/discussion public] requests.

: '''2012/2013: Collaboration Discussions'''

: There were encouraging follow-ups from the ESRI team about adopting the open LAZ format in January 2012: "I would be interested in having a more in depth meeting with you to better understand the great work you are doing with LAS and how we can possibly better partner on this." and again in December 2012: "If you have time, I'd like to set some time aside Tuesday afternoon to meet with <an important person> at the ESRI booth. Does 2pm sound okay?" The meeting went well and it looked as if ESRI was going to embrace the LAZ format because shortly after the meeting Martin got word that: "I hear from <an important person> that it was a success and that he had a good meeting with you. I wanted to see if we can have a telephone discussion on Wednesday or Thursday this week related to the potential of incorporating LAZ into ArcGIS."

: Then the first signs of hesitation showed. First there were legal issues raised in February 2013: "Currently the legal aspects are being reviewed. They were having some issues separating the LPGL aspects from LASzip from the remainder of LAStools etc." and then in April 2013 concerns about the code were made: "We have started to look into the integration of LAZ, but came across some issues. We don’t want to copy files from the other package, mix and match or hack around. We were hoping for an API to stream points out of a LAZ file as well as write LAZ files. There should be a simple code sample for that?" and - following up on that - in June 2013 Martin was told "I see value in LASzip becoming a de-facto standard that provides compression to the LAS format. If this is to happen then it needs to be bundled together with appropriate reference implementations, examples and documentation as a standard and so ensure that issues as defined earlier in email do not occur."

: '''June 2013: ESRI asked to sponsor clean LASzip DLL'''

: At that time [http://laszip.org LASzip] was an open source project without sponsorship. The original funding from [http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/ColdRegionsResearchandEngineeringLaboratory.aspx USACE] that had turned [http://laszip.org LASzip] from an academic prototype into an industry strength compression engine had long run out. So Martin asked ESRI to become a sponsor to create the clean [http://laszip.org LASzip] API that ESRI was after. The answer was: "ESRI often helps in the financing of Open Source projects and I could foresee ESRI possibly helping in LASzip. [...] If you are interested in promoting LASzip as such a standard and doing the required work then I would recommend you put together a proposal and I can look to get ESRI as a sponsor."

: Immediately Martin proposed to ESRI: "I hereby propose to write an easy to use open source DLL wrapper for LASzip that will make it easier to integrate LASzip in a standardized manner into other software products such as ArcGIS, LP 360, or Terrasolid. This will come with example code on how to use the DLL for reading and writing LAZ files and include a few compressed example files. I hereby ask ESRI to provide funding for this effort without imposing any limitations on the produced DLL API."

: '''July 2013: ArcGIS 10.2 includes [proprietary] LAS indexing '''

: With the release of ArcGIS 10.2 in July 2013, ESRI introduced spatial indexing to speed up area-of-interest queries. Their new proprietary *.lasx files were seemingly identical in functionality to the open *.lax files that had been [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/j0qA8NBMHJs/discussion announced] two years earlier - in May 2011 - and were [http://rapidlasso.com/2012/12/03/lasindex-spatial-indexing-of-lidar-data/ presented] at ELMF in November 2012.

: '''July 2013: Open LASzip API released'''

: After more requests for an easier interface to [http://laszip.org LASzip] (in particular for [http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/fusion/fusionlatest.html USDA's FUSION]), Martin [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/oplsDhhnhDQ/discussion released] a clean, well-documented, and easy-to-use LASzip DLL (without ESRI funding). Martin expected that developers at ESRI would now use it to add read and write support for [http://laszip.org LAZ] to their next release of ArcGIS.

: '''December 2013 : ESRI discovered to be secretly developing proprietary LAS format'''

: In December of 2013, several LAStools users contacted Martin with suspicions that ESRI may be creating a proprietary LAS compression. Martin [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ broke the news] as soon as it became evident that ESRI had used the time it needed to resolve "legal issues" and "code problems" to put together their own proprietary compressed format with near-identical performance and functionality to [http://laszip.org LASzip]. A few days later ESRI released an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214/ official FAQ] to confirming this was the case.

: From day one, Martin has worked with stakeholders, including ESRI, to avoid format fragmentation. Martin's core argument for resolving this to everybody's benefit was that - coincidentally - a natural break was happening in the LAS format with the introduction of the new LAS 1.4 point types. Martin outlined a detailed plan for how a joint development of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for LAS 1.4 between rapidlasso and ESRI could exploit this natural break in the LAS format to accomplish two things at once:
:# Add the unspecified technical additions that ESRI had hinted at desiring, and
:# Extend the [http://laszip.org LASzip] compression scheme to handle the new point types introduced with the LAS 1.4 specification. As there was no pressing need at the time to handle LAS 1.4 Martin had delayed the extension of [http://laszip.org LASzip] to the new LAS 1.4 point types to make sure a cooperation with ESRI would remain a viable option.

: '''1 April 2014: Positive reception to "Optimized LAS" / LASzip collaboration April Fools announcement'''

: In an attempt to convince ESRI management of the community desire for an open standard, Martin released an April Fools' Day [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ prank press release] pretending that ESRI had already agreed to the envisioned collaboration to develop a joint LiDAR compressor. Community [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ jubilant reactions (see comments)] left no doubt about the sentiment on this issue within the LiDAR community.

: '''October 2014: Announcement of [open] LAS Compatibility mode'''

: [http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/ Digital Coast, NOAA Coastal Services Center] became a Gold Sponsor of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for the development of the [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/10/06/rapidlasso-announces-laszip-compatibility-mode-for-las-1-4/ LAS 1.4 compatibility mode] that was [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/nUFMkKSz53g/discussion beta-released] in November 2014. This allowed support for the new point types in [http://laszip.org LASzip] without closing the door on a potential cooperation with ESRI for a joint LAS 1.4 compressor.

: '''November 2014: ESRI announces proprietary extension to LAS 1.4'''

: In November 2014 [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated ESRI announced] that they had added their [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated own extension] for the new LAS 1.4 point types to "Optimized LAS", dismissing the opportunity to develop a joint compressor and avoid format fragmentation by exploiting this "natural break" in the LAS format as Martin had suggested.

: Since then, ESRI has been [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/ promoting] "Optimized LAS". By including the term "LAS" in "Optimized LAS" and "zLAS", the distinction between the open LAS format and proprietary format is blurred. This is likely to mislead novice and future users, thereby endangering many years of standardization work. To date, [April 2014], the [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/committees/standards/LAS_1_4_r13.pdf custodians of the LAS format], the LAS Working Group (LWG) of the ASPRS has [http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/ yet to make an official statement] regarding use of the "LAS" name in promoting a proprietary LiDAR format.

=Value of Standards=

The importance of Open Standards is described in most government IT policies. For instance, the United Kingdom policy states:
: … Government assets should be interoperable and open for re-use in order to maximise return on investment, avoid technological or supplier lock-in, reduce operational risk in ICT projects and provide responsive services for citizens and business. This should also lower barriers to entry for more diverse sources of IT services, including citizens and SMEs. <ref>All about Open Source – [http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78959/All_About_Open_Source_v2_0.pdf An Introduction to Open Source Software for Government IT], Version 2.0, United Kingdom Cabinet Office</ref>

The value of Open Standards has been described in numerous national studies on the effects of standards on economic growth.

: ... the national studies demonstrate that standards have a positive influence on economic growth due to the resulting improved diffusion of knowledge. The contribution of standards to the growth rate in each country is equivalent to 0.9% in Germany, 0.8% in 0.3% in the UK and 0.2% in Canada. <ref>Prof. Dr. Knut Blind, Prof. Dr. Andre Jungmittag, Dr. Axel Mangelsdorf [http://www.din.de/sixcms_upload/media/2896/DIN_GNN_2011_engl_akt_neu.pdf "The Economic Benefits of Standardization"], ''DINN, 2000''. Retrieved March 2015.</ref>

=Further Reading=

# [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ Paul Ramsey provides background to LAS vs Optimised LAS]
# [http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/ Running commentary by Martin Isenburg, author of LASlib]
# [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/ Earlier comment from Martin Isenburg]
# [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ First call-to-action by Martin Isenburg]
# [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-announces-las-compression/ ESRI Announces "Optimised LAS"]
# [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214 ESRI description of "Optimised LAS"]
# [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-March/001225.html Discussion background on this topic at Geo for All list]
# [http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/esris-claim-at-being-good-standards.html Refuting ESRI's response and claim to be good Open Standards citizens]

News coverage:
# [http://www.itnews.com.au/News/402914,open-source-devs-in-uproar-over-esri-las-lock-in-plans.aspx IT News]
# [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/LIDAR-offenes-Dateiformat-LAS-in-Bedraengnis-2609710.html Heise Online] - German speaking IT news.
# [http://www.spatialsource.com.au/2015/04/21/os-developers-concerned-over-new-esri-lidar-format/ Spatial Source]

=References=

<references />

Southeast US

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== Mission ==
The mission of the Southeast US OSGEO Group is to build upon the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html Mission and Goals] of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) by providing local networking and support opportunities and by advocating for Open Source GIS software and OSGeo initiatives through regional groups and conferences.

==Near Term Goals==
*Start to hold near quarterly meetings
*Advocate for the use of Open Source GIS at regional and state levels
*Develop an OSGeo presence at conferences

==Membership==

As of 1st Quarter 2015 we have several people from Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina with an interest in forming a chapter. Contact [[user:rjhale1971|Randal Hale]] for information on joining, or add yourself to the following list of interested persons:

* [[user:dnewcomb|Doug Newcomb]]
* [[User:TomRoche|Tom Roche]]
* [[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]]
* [[User:clavicon|Calvin Harmin (NC)]]
* [[User:ljsox|Leslie John Sox]]
* [[User:tobinbradley|Tobin Bradley]]
* [[User:smkinane|Stephen Kinane]]
* [[User:Annakrat|Anna Petrasova]]
* [[User:wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]]

Edu current initiatives

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== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites
* [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

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! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
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| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
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| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
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| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
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| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
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| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
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| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
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| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| [[User: helena|Helena Mitasova]]
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/osgeolab The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
| cpettit at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://insight.glos.ac.uk/FACULTIES/AS/OSGEOLAB/Pages/default.aspx/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| Active
| Dr Robert Berry
| osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/sig/geoforall.html University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| (published 2014-07-24)
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.515647, 50.456936
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.996707, 40.567811
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY]
| New York
| US
| North America
| -73.964831, 40.768703
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/ Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH]
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.961498, 40.627516
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 13.039586, 47.823711
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/ka/e?kid=5 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| Laboratory website is under construction
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) OSGeo Research and Education Lab, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology]
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.4752782, 50.3825971
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|-
| 82.
| [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]
| Denver, CO
| USA
| North America
| -105.0019444, 39.0122222
| 2014-08-17
|http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/
| Rafael Moreno
| Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
|-
| 83.
| French Space Agency CNES
| Toulouse
| France
| Europe
| 1.481608, 43.561984
| 2014-07-17
| in the process of being established
| [[User:Grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]]
| manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
|-
| 84.
| Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.203617, -34.905912
| 2014-08-15
| [http://batovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi]
| Sergio Acosta Y Lara
| sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy
|-
| 85.
| [http://www.agt.bme.hu/index_e.html Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054403, 47.481916
| 2014-08-19
| in/outdoor positioning, sensor integration, QGIS plugins, [http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki at agt.bme.hu
|-
| 86.
| Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
| Cambridge MA
| USA
| North America
|
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, [http://worldmap.harvard.edu WorldMap]
| Ben Lewis
| blewis at cga.harvard.edu
|-
| 87.
| Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College
| Poultney, VT
| USA
| North America
| -73.240679, 43.515866
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50
| John Van Hoesen
| vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
|-
| 88.
| [http://nemac.unca.edu/ National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)], UNC Asheville
| Asheville, NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.55149, 35.59506
| 2014-09-18
| in process of being established
| John Derek Morgan
| jdmorgan at unca.edu
|-
| 89.
| Birds Eye View GIS
| Albuquerque, NM
| USA
| North America
| -106.60893, 35.068353
| 2014-09-18
| [http://foss4geo.org/ FOSS4G Academy development]
| Kurt Menke
| kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
|-
| 90.
| [http://gis.blog.ryerson.ca/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], Department of Geography, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source development of Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| [[User:Crinner| Claus Rinner]]
| crinner at ryerson dot ca
|-
| 91.
| [http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management ], University of Queensland
| Brisbane
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2014-12-12
| Website under construction
| David Pullar
| d.pullar at uq.edu.au
|-
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

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== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites
* [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| [[User: helena|Helena Mitasova]]
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/osgeolab The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
| cpettit at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://insight.glos.ac.uk/FACULTIES/AS/OSGEOLAB/Pages/default.aspx/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| Active
| Dr Robert Berry
| osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/sig/geoforall.html University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| (published 2014-07-24)
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.515647, 50.456936
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY]
| New York
| US
| North America
| -73.964831, 40.768703
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/ Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH]
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.961498, 40.627516
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 13.039586, 47.823711
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/ka/e?kid=5 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| Laboratory website is under construction
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) OSGeo Research and Education Lab, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology]
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.4752782, 50.3825971
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|-
| 82.
| [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]
| Denver, CO
| USA
| North America
| -105.0019444, 39.0122222
| 2014-08-17
|http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/
| Rafael Moreno
| Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
|-
| 83.
| French Space Agency CNES
| Toulouse
| France
| Europe
| 1.481608, 43.561984
| 2014-07-17
| in the process of being established
| [[User:Grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]]
| manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
|-
| 84.
| Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.203617, -34.905912
| 2014-08-15
| [http://batovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi]
| Sergio Acosta Y Lara
| sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy
|-
| 85.
| [http://www.agt.bme.hu/index_e.html Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054403, 47.481916
| 2014-08-19
| in/outdoor positioning, sensor integration, QGIS plugins, [http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki at agt.bme.hu
|-
| 86.
| Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
| Cambridge MA
| USA
| North America
|
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, [http://worldmap.harvard.edu WorldMap]
| Ben Lewis
| blewis at cga.harvard.edu
|-
| 87.
| Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College
| Poultney, VT
| USA
| North America
| -73.240679, 43.515866
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50
| John Van Hoesen
| vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
|-
| 88.
| [http://nemac.unca.edu/ National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)], UNC Asheville
| Asheville, NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.55149, 35.59506
| 2014-09-18
| in process of being established
| John Derek Morgan
| jdmorgan at unca.edu
|-
| 89.
| Birds Eye View GIS
| Albuquerque, NM
| USA
| North America
| -106.60893, 35.068353
| 2014-09-18
| [http://foss4geo.org/ FOSS4G Academy development]
| Kurt Menke
| kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
|-
| 90.
| [http://gis.blog.ryerson.ca/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], Department of Geography, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source development of Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| [[User:Crinner| Claus Rinner]]
| crinner at ryerson dot ca
|-
| 91.
| [http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management ], University of Queensland
| Brisbane
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2014-12-12
| Website under construction
| David Pullar
| d.pullar at uq.edu.au
|-
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2014-12-23T01:46:56Z

Annakrat: /* Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network */ fixing coordinates and links

== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites
* [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| [[User: helena|Helena Mitasova]]
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/osgeolab The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
| cpettit at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://insight.glos.ac.uk/FACULTIES/AS/OSGEOLAB/Pages/default.aspx/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| Active
| Dr Robert Berry
| osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/sig/geoforall.html University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| (published 2014-07-24)
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.515647, 50.456936
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY]
| New York
| US
| North America
| -73.964831, 40.768703
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/ Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH]
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.961498, 40.627516
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 47.823711, 13.039586
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/ka/e?kid=5 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| Laboratory website is under construction
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) OSGeo Research and Education Lab, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology]
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.4752782, 50.3825971
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|-
| 82.
| [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]
| Denver, CO
| USA
| North America
| -105.0019444, 39.0122222
| 2014-08-17
|http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/
| Rafael Moreno
| Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
|-
| 83.
| French Space Agency CNES
| Toulouse
| France
| Europe
| 1.481608, 43.561984
| 2014-07-17
| in the process of being established
| [[User:Grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]]
| manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
|-
| 84.
| Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.203617, -34.905912
| 2014-08-15
| [http://batovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi]
| Sergio Acosta Y Lara
| sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy
|-
| 85.
| [http://www.agt.bme.hu/index_e.html Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054403, 47.481916
| 2014-08-19
| in/outdoor positioning, sensor integration, QGIS plugins, [http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki at agt.bme.hu
|-
| 86.
| Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
| Cambridge MA
| USA
| North America
|
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, [http://worldmap.harvard.edu WorldMap]
| Ben Lewis
| blewis at cga.harvard.edu
|-
| 87.
| Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College
| Poultney, VT
| USA
| North America
| -73.240679, 43.515866
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50
| John Van Hoesen
| vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
|-
| 88.
| [http://nemac.unca.edu/ National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)], UNC Asheville
| Asheville, NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.55149, 35.59506
| 2014-09-18
| in process of being established
| John Derek Morgan
| jdmorgan at unca.edu
|-
| 89.
| Birds Eye View GIS
| Albuquerque, NM
| USA
| North America
| -106.60893, 35.068353
| 2014-09-18
| [http://foss4geo.org/ FOSS4G Academy development]
| Kurt Menke
| kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
|-
| 90.
| [http://gis.blog.ryerson.ca/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], Department of Geography, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source development of Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| [[User:Crinner| Claus Rinner]]
| crinner at ryerson dot ca
|-
| 91.
| [http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management ], University of Queensland
| Brisbane
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2014-12-12
| Website under construction
| David Pullar
| d.pullar at uq.edu.au
|-
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

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== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites
* [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| [[User: helena|Helena Mitasova]]
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/osgeolab The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
| cpettit at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://insight.glos.ac.uk/FACULTIES/AS/OSGEOLAB/Pages/default.aspx/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| Active
| Dr Robert Berry
| osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/sig/geoforall.html University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| (published 2014-07-24)
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.515647, 50.456936
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org] Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY
| New York
| US
| North America
|
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/] Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.627516, 22.961498
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 47.823711, 13.039586
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/ka/e?kid=5 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| Laboratory website is under construction
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) OSGeo Research and Education Lab, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology]
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.4752782, 50.3825971
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|-
| 82.
| [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]
| Denver, CO
| USA
| North America
| -105.0019444, 39.0122222
| 2014-08-17
|http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/
| Rafael Moreno
| Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
|-
| 83.
| French Space Agency CNES
| Toulouse
| France
| Europe
| 1.481608, 43.561984
| 2014-07-17
| in the process of being established
| [[User:Grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]]
| manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
|-
| 84.
| Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.203617, -34.905912
| 2014-08-15
| [http://batovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi]
| Sergio Acosta Y Lara
| sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy
|-
| 85.
| [http://www.agt.bme.hu/index_e.html Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054403, 47.481916
| 2014-08-19
| in/outdoor positioning, sensor integration, QGIS plugins, [http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki at agt.bme.hu
|-
| 86.
| Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
| Cambridge MA
| USA
| North America
|
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, [http://worldmap.harvard.edu WorldMap]
| Ben Lewis
| blewis at cga.harvard.edu
|-
| 87.
| Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College
| Poultney, VT
| USA
| North America
| -73.240679, 43.515866
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50
| John Van Hoesen
| vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
|-
| 88.
| [http://nemac.unca.edu/ National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)], UNC Asheville
| Asheville, NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.55149, 35.59506
| 2014-09-18
| in process of being established
| John Derek Morgan
| jdmorgan at unca.edu
|-
| 89.
| Birds Eye View GIS
| Albuquerque, NM
| USA
| North America
| -106.60893, 35.068353
| 2014-09-18
| [http://foss4geo.org/ FOSS4G Academy development]
| Kurt Menke
| kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
|-
| 90.
| [http://gis.blog.ryerson.ca/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], Department of Geography, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source development of Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| [[User:Crinner| Claus Rinner]]
| crinner at ryerson dot ca
|-
| 91.
| [http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management ], University of Queensland
| Brisbane
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2014-12-12
| Website under construction
| David Pullar
| d.pullar at uq.edu.au
|-
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

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== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites
* [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52.178478, 21.013407
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| [[User: helena|Helena Mitasova]]
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/osgeolab The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
| cpettit at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://insight.glos.ac.uk/FACULTIES/AS/OSGEOLAB/Pages/default.aspx/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| Active
| Dr Robert Berry
| osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/sig/geoforall.html University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| (published 2014-07-24)
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.515647, 50.456936
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org] Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY
| New York
| US
| North America
|
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/] Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.627516, 22.961498
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 47.823711, 13.039586
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/ka/e?kid=5 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| Laboratory website is under construction
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) OSGeo Research and Education Lab, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology]
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.4752782, 50.3825971
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|-
| 82.
| [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]
| Denver, CO
| USA
| North America
| -105.0019444, 39.0122222
| 2014-08-17
|http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/
| Rafael Moreno
| Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
|-
| 83.
| French Space Agency CNES
| Toulouse
| France
| Europe
| 1.481608, 43.561984
| 2014-07-17
| in the process of being established
| [[User:Grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]]
| manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
|-
| 84.
| Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.203617, -34.905912
| 2014-08-15
| [http://batovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi]
| Sergio Acosta Y Lara
| sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy
|-
| 85.
| [http://www.agt.bme.hu/index_e.html Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054403, 47.481916
| 2014-08-19
| in/outdoor positioning, sensor integration, QGIS plugins, [http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki at agt.bme.hu
|-
| 86.
| Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
| Cambridge MA
| USA
| North America
|
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, [http://worldmap.harvard.edu WorldMap]
| Ben Lewis
| blewis at cga.harvard.edu
|-
| 87.
| Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College
| Poultney, VT
| USA
| North America
| -73.240679, 43.515866
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50
| John Van Hoesen
| vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
|-
| 88.
| [http://nemac.unca.edu/ National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)], UNC Asheville
| Asheville, NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.55149, 35.59506
| 2014-09-18
| in process of being established
| John Derek Morgan
| jdmorgan at unca.edu
|-
| 89.
| Birds Eye View GIS
| Albuquerque, NM
| USA
| North America
| -106.60893, 35.068353
| 2014-09-18
| [http://foss4geo.org/ FOSS4G Academy development]
| Kurt Menke
| kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
|-
| 90.
| [http://gis.blog.ryerson.ca/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], Department of Geography, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source development of Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| [[User:Crinner| Claus Rinner]]
| crinner at ryerson dot ca
|-
| 91.
| [http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management ], University of Queensland
| Brisbane
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2014-12-12
| Website under construction
| David Pullar
| d.pullar at uq.edu.au
|-
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

OSGeo Advocate

2014-08-09T20:51:28Z

Annakrat: /* United States */ new member

__FORCETOC__

= Introduction =

OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo foundation]. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.

= Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate =

Anyone fitting one of the [[OSGeo_Advocate#Understanding_OSGeo_roles|OSGeo Advocate categories]], may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:
* Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
* Add a portrait photo of yourself using the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Upload Upload file] link in left margin in each page.
* Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per [[User:Template]], (copy and paste from the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Template&action=edit source] so that you see comments in the template).
* You can then add your profile on [[OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Advocates|this wiki page]], under your Region:Country, names ordered alphabetically by First name, using the following:
{{User:<YourOSGeoWikiUserName>}}

= Annual Refresh of Advocate list =
* The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section.

= Advocates =

== Advocate Map ==


{{#umAllUserMap:}}

== Africa:Ghana ==
{{User:Eyedol}}

== Africa:South Africa ==
=== Gavin Fleming ===
{{User:Gfleming}}
{{User:Sokolic}}
{{User:Timlinux}}

== Asia:India ==
{{User:ravivundavalli}}
{{User:Chaitanya}}

== Asia:Japan ==
{{User:Yoichi}}
{{User:danielkastl}}
{{User:Tosseto}}

===[http://cse.niaes.affrc.go.jp/niwasaki/ Nobusuke Iwasaki]===

[[File:Iwasaki.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Nobusuke Iwasaki]]

Senior Researcher, [http://www.niaes.affrc.go.jp/index_e.html National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences]

Location: Tsukuba, Japan

Nobusuke Iwasaki is researcher of land use change and rural planning and extensively using FOSS4G. Also, he is one of the main organizers of FOSS4G-Japan event and proactively commits promotion and dissemination of FOSS4G, especially academic sector. He strongly contributes [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g-mext/ some academic project which aims utilization of satellite image and FOSS4G for beginners and non-specialist user].
The major his product is [http://habs.dc.affrc.go.jp Historical Agro-Environmental Browsing System (HABS)], which is commended [http://psgsv2.gsi.go.jp/koukyou/G-award/list_award1.html the first Cyber Japan Award].

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]:
:* [http://www.osgeo.jp/ OSGeo Japan Chapter] Board member since 2008
:* member of [http://www.gisa-japan.org/ GIS Assosiation of JAPAN]
:* member of [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gsig/ FOSS4G special interest group] in GIS Assosiation of JAPAN

;Contact:
: Email: wata909 AT gmail DOT com
: Skype: wata909

;Profile last updated
:2013-07-11

== Asia:Korea ==
{{User:Sanghee}}

==Asia:Philippines==
{{User:Maning}}

== Asia:Malaysia ==
{{User:Thuygeo}}

== Asia:Sri Lanka ==
{{User:Nimalika}}

== Australia ==
{{User:camerons}}
{{User:NathanW}}
{{User:jive}}

== Canada ==
{{User:Dmorissette}}
{{User:Aross}}
{{User:Gzeiss}}
{{User:Mdavis}}
{{User:Pwramsey3}}
{{User:Simonmercier}}

== Europe:Belgium ==
{{User:Dirkf}}
{{User:Johanvdw}}
{{User:Pieterdg}}

== Europe:Czech Republic ==
{{User:Jachym}}
{{User:KarelCharvat}}
{{User:Martinl}}

== Europe:France ==
{{User:Djay}}
{{User:JRM}}
{{User:grizonnetm}}
{{User:NBozon}}
{{User:volaya}}

== Europe:Germany ==
{{User:Aghisla}}
{{User:Arnulf Christl}}
{{User:Astrid_Emde}}
{{User:GeoFootballer}}
{{User:misev}}
{{User:olt}}
{{User:Pebau}}
{{User:Stefan_A._Tzeggai}}
{{User:Thomas_Baschetti}}

== Europe:Greece ==
{{User:Kalxas}}
{{User:ArArgyridis}}
{{User:kotzino}}
{{User:Nikos}}
{{User:Chiossif}}

== Europe:Hungary ==
=== [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]] ===

[[File:siki.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Zoltan Siki]]

Teacher at the Budapset University of Technology.

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Zoltan Siki graduated in Surveying and Geoinformatics MSc. He gained his dr univ in Traffic simulation and modelling in GIS.

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_translate.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_translator]]

: QGIS Hungarian translator
: Hungarian tutorials (QGIS, GRASS, OpenLayers, PostGIS, MapServer, GDAL/OGR) http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis
: Organizer of Hungarian OSGeo meetings http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop, http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop2
:teaching QGIS, GRASS, PostGIS
:maintener of open source based GIS sytems at local municipalities (MapServer, p.mapper, OpenLayers)
:main developer of Ulyxes open source project http://www.agt.bme.hu/ulyxes

;Spoken languages:
English; Hungarian.

;Contacts:

* [http://www.agt.bme.hu/staff_e/siki.htm '''Personal Web page''']
* Email: [mailto:siki@agt.bme.hu siki@agt.bme.hu]

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:Hungary]]
[[Category:Translator]]

== Europe:Italy ==
{{User:Madi}}
{{User:Lucadelu}}
{{User:Aaime}}
{{User:Maxi71}}
{{User:epifanio}}
{{User:Moovida}}
{{Talk:Markus_Neteler}}

== Europe:The Netherlands ==
{{User:Just}}
{{User:bartvde}}
{{User:Genuchten}}
{{User:BarendKobben}}
{{User:Milovanderlinden}}
{{User:pmeems}}
{{User:Ticheler}}

== Europe:Portugal ==
{{User:Lutra}}
{{User:Alexneto}}
{{User:Santos}}

== Europe:Romania ==
{{User:Vasile}}

== Europe:Spain ==
{{User:Lluís}}
{{User:vehrka}}
{{User:Michogar}}
{{User:Delawen}}
{{User:Adiez}}
{{User:Jsanz}}

== Europe:Switzerland ==
{{User:Maxi71}}
{{User:Mbernasocchi}}
{{User:Pirmin_Kalberer}}

== Europe:Ukraine ==
{{User:Alexbruy}}

== Europe:United Kingdom ==
{{User:Ian}}
{{User:JoCook}}
{{User:Ianturton}}
{{User:Stevenfeldman}}
{{User:Sanand}}

== Latin America:Argentina ==
{{User:Maurimiranda}}

== Latin America:Brazil ==
{{User:Fsc7}}

== Latin America:Chile ==
{{User:Perriger}}

== Latin America:Colombia ==
{{User:ingenieroariel}}

== Latin America:Ecuador ==
{{User:Eamado}}

== Latin America:Mexico ==
{{User:Aborrell}}

== United States ==
{{User:EliL}}
{{User:Alex Mandel}}
{{User:Annakrat}}
{{User:Brian Hamlin}}
{{User:Dnewcomb}}
{{User:Amyonthemap}}
{{User:warmerda}}
{{User:Helena}}
{{User:Wonderchook}}
{{User:Surveyor}}
{{User:Mark Lucas}}
{{User:msmitherdc}}
{{User:mpg}}
{{User:pmbatty}}
{{User:Rburhum}}
{{User:Sdlime}}
{{User:Woodbri}}

=== [http://www.redefinedhorizons.com/printingpress/landon-blakes-bio/ Landon Blake] (AKA - The Sunburned Surveyor) ===

[[File:landon_blake_portrait.jpg|100px|thumb|right|Landon Blake]]

Owner, [http://www.redefinedhorizons.com Redefined Horizons]

Location: Stockton, California, United States of America

Landon Blake is a land surveyor and GIS programmer with a focus on OpenJUMP and CAD customization.

* Web Page: [http://www.redefinedhorizons.com]
* Blog: [http://www.redefinedhorizonsblog.com]
* Twitter: [https://twitter.com/mapit4u]
* LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/landonblake]

;OSGeo Experience
* Volunteer Editor of the OSGeo Journal
* Board Representative for the OSGeo California Chapter

;Contact:
: Email: sunburned dot surveyor at gmail dot com
: Phone (Home): 209-464-2612
: Phone (Cell): 209-298-7521
: Skype:

;Profile last updated: 07 14 2013

= Past OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists prior listed Advocates who have not recently updated their profiles.

= Understanding OSGeo roles =

Below is an explanation of roles which Advocates might have been involved in as part of OSGeo:

====[[File:OSGeo_board.png]] [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png]] OSGeo Board Members====
: We only have 9 active OSGeo board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.

====[[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] OSGeo Charter Members====
: Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.

==== [[File:SolKatz.png]] Sol Katz Award ====
: Every year, OSGeo presents the prestigious [http://www.osgeo.org/solkatz Sol Katz Award] to one individual who has demonstrated leadership and contributed significantly to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm.

====[[File:OSGeo_chair.png]] [[File:OSGeo_psc.png]] Voted position in an OSGeo community====
: These people hold a position of responsibility within one of the OSGeo sub-communities. This may be a chair of an OSGeo committee or board member of a Regional Chapter, or a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).

====[[File:OSGeo_coder.png]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png]] Developers and Committee Members====
: This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.

====[[File:OSGeo_user.png]] OSGeo Community Members====
: These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.

====[[File:OSGeo_translate.png]] OSGeo Translators====
: These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.

= Expenses =

This OSGeo Advocate list has been designed to help event organisors find local authoritative speakers. Events wishing to import keynote speakers should anticipate covering expenses of these speakers. Note that OSGeo is a volunteer driven organisation without paid positions of authority and OSGeo doesn't budget to cover travel expenses. Note also that unlike proprietary companies, a company promoting Open Source software don't earn license fees when a delegate is convinced to start using the free software.

When budgeting for keynote speakers expect to cover the following expenses:
* Travel, typically including:
** airfare
** visa
** travel insurance (including overseas medical, trip disruption, lost luggage, etc)
** meals during travel
** transit costs to local and host airports
* Accommodation
** standard 3 or 4 star hotel within walking distance of the event
** high speed internet
* Per diem costs
** 3 meals a day
* Speakers fee
** typically $US 1000 per day. (Note that OSGeo volunteer speakers usually have a full time job and will be loosing wages for the duration of the event)

For a rough guide of travel costs refer to the [http://aoprals.state.gov/web920/per_diem.asp US Department of State costs]

Individual speakers may waive any of these costs if attracted to the event for other reasons, and final costs are to be negotiated with the selected speaker.

= Other Resources =
Links to other organizations running a similar process.
* http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585

Anna Petrasova

2014-08-09T20:43:50Z

Annakrat: /* Anna Petrasova */

=== Anna Petrasova ===
[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[File:Anna_Petrasova_photo.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Anna Petrasova]]

PhD student at North Carolina State University

Location: Raleigh, NC, USA

Previous location: Prague, Czech Republic

Anna is an active GRASS GIS developer since 2011. As a PhD student, she promotes free and open source geospatial software for research and education among other students and colleagues and supports its users both in person and on mailing lists.

;OSGeo Experience
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]

:
:* Member of [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ NCSU OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory]
:* Former member of [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Research_and_Education_Laboratory OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory at FCE CTU in Prague]
:* GRASS GIS user and developer
:** GUI testing, maintenance and development of new GUI features
:** participated in GSoC [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WxNviz_GSoC_2011 2011] and [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014/ImplementationOf3DRasterFlowLine 2014]
:** development [https://www.openhub.net/accounts/annakrat statistics]

;Contact:
: Email: kratochanna AT gmail DOT com

;Spoken Language(s): Czech, English

;Profile last updated: August 2, 2014

Anna Petrasova

2014-08-09T20:39:25Z

Annakrat: /* Anna Petrasova */ added badge charter member

=== Anna Petrasova ===
[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[File:Anna_Petrasova_photo.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Anna Petrasova]]

PhD student at North Carolina State University

Location: Raleigh, NC, USA

Previous location: Prague, Czech Republic

Anna is an active GRASS GIS developer since 2011. As a PhD student, she promotes free and open source geospatial software for research and education among other students and colleagues and supports its users both in person and on mailing lists.

;OSGeo Experience
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]

:
:* Member of [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ NCSU OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory]
:* Former member of [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Research_and_Education_Laboratory OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory at FCE CTU in Prague]
:* GRASS GIS user and developer
:** GUI testing, maintenance and development of new GUI features
:** participated in GSoC [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WxNviz_GSoC_2011 2011] and [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014/ImplementationOf3DRasterFlowLine 2014]
:** development [https://www.openhub.net/accounts/annakrat statistics]

;Contact:
: Email: kratochanna AT gmail DOT com

;Spoken Language(s): Czech, English

;Profile last updated: August 2, 2014

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2014-08-02T19:51:06Z

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=== Anna Petrasova ===
[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[File:Anna_Petrasova_photo.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Anna Petrasova]]

PhD student at North Carolina State University

Location: Raleigh, NC, USA

Previous location: Prague, Czech Republic

Anna is an active GRASS GIS developer since 2011. As a PhD student, she promotes free and open source geospatial software for research and education among other students and colleagues and supports its users both in person and on mailing lists.

;OSGeo Experience
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]

:
:* Member of [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ NCSU OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory]
:* Former member of [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Research_and_Education_Laboratory OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory at FCE CTU in Prague]
:* GRASS GIS user and developer
:** GUI testing, maintenance and development of new GUI features
:** participated in GSoC [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WxNviz_GSoC_2011 2011] and [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014/ImplementationOf3DRasterFlowLine 2014]
:** development [https://www.openhub.net/accounts/annakrat statistics]

;Contact:
: Email: kratochanna AT gmail DOT com

;Spoken Language(s): Czech, English

;Profile last updated: August 2, 2014

User:Annakrat

2014-08-02T19:44:56Z

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#REDIRECT [[Anna_Petrasova]]

Anna Petrasova

2014-08-02T14:31:40Z

Annakrat:

=== Anna Petrasova ===

[[File:Anna_Petrasova_photo.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Anna Petrasova]]

PhD student at North Carolina State University

Location: Raleigh, NC, USA

Previous location: Prague, Czech Republic

Anna is an active GRASS GIS developer since 2011. As a PhD student, she promotes free and open source geospatial software for research and education among other students and colleagues and supports its users both in person and on mailing lists.

;OSGeo Experience
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]

:
:* Member of [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ NCSU OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory]
:* Former member of [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Research_and_Education_Laboratory OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory at FCE CTU in Prague]
:* GRASS GIS user and developer
:** GUI testing, maintenance and development of new GUI features
:** participated in GSoC [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WxNviz_GSoC_2011 2011] and [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014/ImplementationOf3DRasterFlowLine 2014]
:** development [https://www.openhub.net/accounts/annakrat statistics]

;Contact:
: Email: kratochanna AT gmail DOT com

;Spoken Language(s): Czech, English

;Profile last updated: August 2, 2014

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2014-08-02T14:31:04Z

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=== Anna Petrasova ===

[[File:Anna_Petrasova_photo.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Anna Petrasova]]

PhD student at North Carolina State University

Location: Raleigh, NC, USA

Previous location: Prague, Czech Republic

More to come ...

;OSGeo Experience
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]


:
:* Member of [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ NCSU OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory]
:* Former member of [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Research_and_Education_Laboratory OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory at FCE CTU in Prague]
:* GRASS GIS developer: GUI development and maintenance

;Contact:
: Email: kratochanna AT gmail DOT com

;Spoken Language(s): Czech, English

;Profile last updated: August 1st, 2014

File:Anna Petrasova photo.jpg

2014-08-01T21:47:07Z

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2014-08-01T21:45:46Z

Annakrat:

FOSS4G 2014 Code Sprint

2014-07-30T19:34:18Z

Annakrat: /* GRASS GIS */

== Code Sprint - what's that? ==

A code sprint is about getting a group together to work on Open Source software, sitting around a table and sharing ideas. It's not just about writing code, as you know a project has many needs including documentation, testing, and providing feedback. What a better way to give feedback and give back to the project that you love than to spend a day with the project's developers. There are roles needed to be filled, no matter what your expertise.

With such a short timeframe (one day) you should probably use this page to set a specific goal for your project. But don't worry, if all you get done is actually sitting at the same table with the project's developers and talking about the next release, that is also great :)

== Where & When ==

The day after the main conference ('''Saturday, September 13th''' 2014) has been set aside for the Code Sprint.

The sprint will be in the [http://eliotcenterportland.org Eliot Center] ([http://osm.org/go/WIDlUtpOQ-?m=&relation=186579 OSM]) along side [http://wherecamppdx.org WhereCampPDX].

== What to Bring ==

== How to get there ==

TBD

== Sponsor ==

== Questions/Comments/Ideas ==

*ask on the foss4g2014 mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2014 subscribe])

== Additional Interested People ==

The following people are potentially interested in participating in sprinting activities though have not yet established a Workgroup.

* ''Your name: project(s)''

= Workgroups =

To participate, copy a project skeleton and start a section below for your project.

== Project-name ==

'''Attending:'''

*user
*user

'''Goals:'''

*your goals

 

== GRASS GIS ==

'''Attending:'''

* Luca Delucchi
* Markus Neteler
* Anna Petrasova
* Vaclav Petras

'''Goals:'''

* prepare for GRASS GIS 8

== MapServer ==

'''Attending:'''

* Michael Smith
* Jeff McKenna
* Steve Lime
* Daniel Morissette
* Thomas Bonfort
* Bob Basques

'''Goals:'''

*7.0 Release Fixes

 

[[Category:FOSS4G2014]] [[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:Code_Sprints]]

Edu current initiatives

2014-07-17T04:06:06Z

Annakrat: /* Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network */ update NCSU OSGeoREL website URL

== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites
* [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52.178478, 21.013407
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| Helena Mitasova
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| The University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
|
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://geospecial.wordpress.com/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| In process of being established
| Dr Robert Berry
| rberry at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/environnement University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| In process of being established
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 50.456936, 30.515647
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org] Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY
| New York
| US
| North America
|
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/] Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.627516, 22.961498
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 47.823711, 13.039586
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/ka/e?kid=5 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| Laboratory website is under construction
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://www.univ.kiev.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology]
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.5238000, 50.4546600
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; new website is under development
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2014-07-17T04:02:45Z

Annakrat: /* Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network */ fix Kyiv coordinates

== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites
* [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52.178478, 21.013407
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| Helena Mitasova
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| The University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
|
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://geospecial.wordpress.com/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| In process of being established
| Dr Robert Berry
| rberry at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/environnement University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| In process of being established
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 50.456936, 30.515647
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org] Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY
| New York
| US
| North America
|
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/] Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.627516, 22.961498
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 47.823711, 13.039586
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/ka/e?kid=5 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| Laboratory website is under construction
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://www.univ.kiev.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology]
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.5238000, 50.4546600
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; new website is under development
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-11-08T04:08:50Z

Annakrat: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */ fix missing column

== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org'''''

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

[[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].


It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the ICA-OSGeo Map) :

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
|
| Martin Landa
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
|
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionuț Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.012229, 52.229676
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| in process of being established; new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Pődör
|
|-
| 15.
| Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
| in process of being established
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez@presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|
| Helena Mitasova
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
| website: coming soon
| Charlie Schweik
|
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
| in process of being established
| Xingong Li
| lixi@ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| in process of being established
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel@ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro@zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5@kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| website in development
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah@rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| The University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
|
|-
| 39.
| [http://gisc.tamucc.edu Texas A&M University]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| CEPT University
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas@cept.ac.in rawalnet@cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui@unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| Arizona State University
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|in process of being established
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| Portland State University
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| In process of being established
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://geospecial.wordpress.com/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| 51.872215,-2.223409
| 2013-11-06
| In process of being established
| Dr Robert Berry
| rberry at glos.ac.uk
|-
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-11-08T04:07:26Z

Annakrat: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */ more precise coordinates

== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org'''''

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

[[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].


It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the ICA-OSGeo Map) :

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
|
| Martin Landa
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
|
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionuț Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.012229, 52.229676
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| in process of being established; new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Pődör
|
|-
| 15.
| Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
| in process of being established
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez@presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|
| Helena Mitasova
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
| website: coming soon
| Charlie Schweik
|
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
| in process of being established
| Xingong Li
| lixi@ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| in process of being established
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel@ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro@zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5@kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| website in development
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah@rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| The University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
|
|-
| 39.
| [http://gisc.tamucc.edu Texas A&M University]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| CEPT University
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas@cept.ac.in rawalnet@cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui@unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| Arizona State University
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|in process of being established
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| Portland State University
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| In process of being established
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://geospecial.wordpress.com/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| 51.872215,-2.223409
| 2013-11-06
| In process of being established
| Dr Robert Berry
| rberry at glos.ac.uk
|-
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-25T13:48:11Z

Annakrat: fix coordinates order

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/index.php#labsmap Updated Leaflet Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes by Vasek and Anna]

[http://lucadelu.org/ica-osgeo-lab/ Leaflet Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes by Luca Delucchi, June 2013],
and the related
[http://lucadelu.org/ica-osgeo-lab/ica-osgeo-lab.tar.gz application]


It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the ICA-OSGeo Map) :

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Announced
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
|
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| in process of being established; new website under development
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|-
| 17.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
|-
| 18.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
|-
| 19.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 20.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 21.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.66468, 35.789413
| 2012-10-18
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
| website: coming soon....
|-
| 23.
| University of Kansas
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
| in process of being established
|-
| 24.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| in process of being established
|-
| 25.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
|-
| 26.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
|
| 2013-08-30
|
|-
| 27.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/ Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
|-
| 28.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| website in development
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 30.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 31.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 32.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 34.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 36.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 37.
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://gisc.tamucc.edu Texas A&M University]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established
|-
| 39.
| CEPT University
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
|
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
|-
| 40.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
|
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-10T15:32:23Z

Annakrat: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */ fix sorting

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[http://labs.gatewaygeomatics.com/ica-osgeo-labs/ Leaflet Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes by Luca Delucchi, June 2013],
and the related
[http://labs.gatewaygeomatics.com/dl/ica-osgeo-lab.tar.gz application]

[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Google Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 The first Google Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are:

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates
! Announced
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| 53° 10′ 0″ N, 1° 0′ 0″ W
|
|
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
| 2012-09-10
|
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| 50.933882, -1.396658
| 2013-04-30
|
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 50°6'14.476"N, 14°23'17.045"E
| 2012-11-23
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| 54.981189, -1.614617
| 2013-01-17
|
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 45.802072, 9.095643
| 2013-02-25
|
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
|
| 2013-03-23
|
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52°11′57″N, 21°02′11″E
| 2013-03-18
|
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 46.028362, 8.961098
| 2013-09-03
|
|-
| 10.
| ETH Zurich
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 44°25′57″N 26°6′14″E
|
| in process of being established; new website under development
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 47°11'19.6"N, 18°25'07.8"E
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
| 2012-05-23
|
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
|
|-
| 17.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
|
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
|-
| 18.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
|-
| 19.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 20.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 21.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
| 2012-10-18
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| 42°23'35.88"N 72°31'49.97"W
| 2012-10-18
| website: coming soon....
|-
| 23.
| University of Kansas
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| 38°57'30.88"N, 95°15'4.72"W
| 2013-08-23
| in process of being established
|-
| 24.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| 38.5397, -121.7490
| 2013-02-04
| in process of being established
|-
| 25.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
|
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
|-
| 26.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
|
| 2013-08-30
|
|-
| 27.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/ Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
|
| 2013-09-05
| in process of being established
|-
| 28.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 2°56′46.03″N, 101°52′27.15″E
| 2012-01-09
| website in development
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 30.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 31.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 32.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 33.520060, 73.175045
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 34.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| -25.753609, 28.230346
| 2012-05-15
|
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 36.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 37.
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2013-07-22
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://gisc.tamucc.edu Texas A&M University]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
|
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established
|-
| 39.
| CEPT University
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
|
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
|-
| 40.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
|
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-09T19:49:11Z

Annakrat: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */ fix coordinates format

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[http://labs.gatewaygeomatics.com/ica-osgeo-labs/ Leaflet Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes by Luca Delucchi, June 2013],
and the related
[http://labs.gatewaygeomatics.com/dl/ica-osgeo-lab.tar.gz application]

[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Google Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 The first Google Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are:

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates
! Established
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| 53° 10′ 0″ N, 1° 0′ 0″ W
|
|
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
|
|
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| 50.933882, -1.396658
|
|
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 50°6'14.476"N, 14°23'17.045"E
|
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| 54.981189, -1.614617
|
|
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en Politecnico di Milano]
| Milano
| Italy
| Europe
| 45.802072, 9.095643
|
|
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52°11′57″N, 21°02′11″E
|
|
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 46.028362, 8.961098
|
|
|-
| 10.
| ETH Zurich
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 44°25′57″N 26°6′14″E
|
| in process of being established; new website under development
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 47°11'19.6"N, 18°25'07.8"E
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
|
|
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
|
|-
| 17.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 18.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W
|
| new website under development
|-
| 19.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 20.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 21.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
|42°23'35.88"N 72°31'49.97"W
|
| website: coming soon....
|-
| 23.
| University of Kansas
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| 38°57'30.88"N, 95°15'4.72"W
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 24.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| 38.5397, -121.7490
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 25.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 26.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
|
|
|
|-
| 27.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/ Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 28.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx UNMC]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 2°56′46.03″N, 101°52′27.15″E
|
| website in development
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 30.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 31.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 32.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 33.520060, 73.175045
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 34.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| -25.753609, 28.230346
|
|
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 36.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 37.
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
|
|
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://gisc.tamucc.edu Texas A&M University]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
|
|
|in process of being established
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-09T19:46:17Z

Annakrat: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */ column Established added

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[http://labs.gatewaygeomatics.com/ica-osgeo-labs/ Leaflet Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes by Luca Delucchi, June 2013],
and the related
[http://labs.gatewaygeomatics.com/dl/ica-osgeo-lab.tar.gz application]

[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Google Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 The first Google Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are:

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates
! Established
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| 53° 10′ 0″ N, 1° 0′ 0″ W
|
|
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
|
|
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| 50.933882, -1.396658
|
|
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 50°6'14.476"N, 14°23'17.045"E
|
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| 54.981189, -1.614617
|
|
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en Politecnico di Milano]
| Milano
| Italy
| Europe
| 45.802072, 9.095643
|
|
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52°11′57″N, 21°02′11″E
|
|
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 46.028362, 8.961098
|
|
|-
| 10.
| ETH Zurich
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 44°25′57″N 26°6′14″E
|
| in process of being established; new website under development
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| N 47° 11' 19.6", E 18° 25' 07.8"
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
|
|
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
|
|-
| 17.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 18.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W
|
| new website under development
|-
| 19.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 20.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 21.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
|42°23'35.88"N 72°31'49.97"W
|
| website: coming soon....
|-
| 23.
| University of Kansas
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| 38°57'30.88"N, 95°15'4.72"W
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 24.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| 38.5397, -121.7490
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 25.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 26.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
|
|
|
|-
| 27.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/ Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 28.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx UNMC]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 2°56′46.03″N, 101°52′27.15″E
|
| website in development
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 30.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 31.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 32.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 33.520060, 73.175045
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 34.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| -25.753609, 28.230346
|
|
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 36.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
|
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 37.
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
|
|
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://gisc.tamucc.edu Texas A&M University]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
|
|
|in process of being established
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-06T17:59:18Z

Annakrat: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */ fix Warsaw coords

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 Alternative Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are:

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| 53° 10′ 0″ N, 1° 0′ 0″ W
|
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
|
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| 50.933882, -1.396658
|
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 50°6'14.476"N, 14°23'17.045"E
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| 54.981189, -1.614617
|
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en Politecnico di Milano]
| Milano
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52°11′57″N, 21°02′11″E
|
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 46.028362, 8.961098
|
|-
| 10.
| ETH Zurich
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 13.
| University of Bucharest
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 14.
| University of West Hungary
| Sopron
| Hungary
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
|
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
|-
| 17.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 18.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W
| new website under development
|-
| 19.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 20.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 21.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
|
|
|-
| 23.
| University of Kansas
| Kansas City
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 24.
| [http://ice.ucdavis.edu/ University of California]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 25.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 26.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
|
|
|-
| 27.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/ Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 28.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx UNMC]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 2°56′46.03″N, 101°52′27.15″E
| website in development
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 30.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 31.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 32.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|-
| 33.
| Geospatial Research and Education Lab (GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 34.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| -25.753609, 28.230346
|
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 36.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 37.
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
|
|
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-06T16:31:05Z

Annakrat: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */ add space to coordinates

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 Alternative Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are:

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| 53° 10′ 0″ N, 1° 0′ 0″ W
|
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
|
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| 50.933882, -1.396658
|
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 50°6'14.476"N, 14°23'17.045"E
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| 54.981189, -1.614617
|
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en Politecnico di Milano]
| Milano
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21°02′11″N, 52°11′57″E
|
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 46.028362, 8.961098
|
|-
| 10.
| ETH Zurich
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 13.
| University of Bucharest
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 14.
| University of West Hungary
| Sopron
| Hungary
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
|
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
|-
| 17.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 18.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W
| new website under development
|-
| 19.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 20.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 21.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
|
|
|-
| 23.
| University of Kansas
| Kansas City
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 24.
| [http://ice.ucdavis.edu/ University of California]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 25.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 26.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
|
|
|-
| 27.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/ Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 28.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx UNMC]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 2°56′46.03″N, 101°52′27.15″E
| website in development
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 30.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 31.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 32.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|-
| 33.
| Geospatial Research and Education Lab (GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 34.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| -25.753609, 28.230346
|
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 36.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 37.
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
|
|
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-06T05:31:11Z

Annakrat: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */ add numbers to table

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 Alternative Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are:

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
|
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| 50.933882, -1.396658
|
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| 54.981189, -1.614617
|
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en Politecnico di Milano]
| Milano
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
|
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 10.
| ETH Zurich
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 13.
| University of Bucharest
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 14.
| University of West Hungary
|
| Hungary
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
|
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
|-
| 17.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
|
| Peru
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 18.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
|
| Uruguay
| South America
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W
| new website under development
|-
| 19.
| University of Campinas
|
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 20.
| Federal University of Alagoas
|
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 21.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh
| USA, NC
| North America
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://www.umasSão Paulos.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
|
|
|-
| 23.
| University of Kansas
|
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 24.
| [http://ice.ucdavis.edu/ University of California]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 25.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 26.
| Kent State University
|
| USA, Ohio
| North America
|
|
|-
| 27.
| Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina Charlotte
| Charlotte
| USA, NC
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 28.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx UNMC]
|
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
| website in development
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
|
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 30.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines
|
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 31.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
|
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 32.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|-
| 33.
| Geospatial Research and Education Lab (GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 34.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
|
|
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
|
| Kenya
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 36.
| University of Ghana
|
| Ghana
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 37.
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
|
|
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-06T04:21:51Z

Annakrat: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */ merge with previous changes

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 Alternative Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are:

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! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
|
|-
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| 50.933882, -1.396658
|
|-
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| 54.981189, -1.614617
|
|-
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en Politecnico di Milano]
| Milano
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
|
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
|
|-
| ETH Zurich
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of Bucharest
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of West Hungary
|
| Hungary
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
|
|-
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
|-
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
|
| Peru
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
|
| Uruguay
| South America
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W
| new website under development
|-
| University of Campinas
|
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| Federal University of Alagoas
|
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh
| USA, NC
| North America
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
|
|-
| [http://www.umasSão Paulos.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
|
|
|-
| University of Kansas
|
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://ice.ucdavis.edu/ University of California]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| Kent State University
|
| USA, Ohio
| North America
|
|
|-
| Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina Charlotte
| Charlotte
| USA, NC
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx UNMC]
|
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
| website in development
|-
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
|
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines
|
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
|
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|-
| Geospatial Research and Education Lab (GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
|
|
|-
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
|
| Kenya
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of Ghana
|
| Ghana
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
|
|
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-06T02:56:54Z

Annakrat: /* 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives */ change list to table

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 Alternative Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are:

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
|
|-
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| 50.933882, -1.396658
|
|-
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| 54.981189, -1.614617
|
|-
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en Politecnico di Milano]
| Milano
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
|
|-
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
|
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
|
|-
| ETH Zurich
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of Bucharest
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of West Hungary
|
| Hungary
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
|
|-
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
|-
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
|
| Peru
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
|
| Uruguay
| South America
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W
| new website under development
|-
| University of Campinas
|
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| Federal University of Alagoas
|
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh
| USA
| North America
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
|
|-
| [http://www.umasSão Paulos.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
|
|
|-
| University of Kansas
|
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://ice.ucdavis.edu/ University of California]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| Kent State University
|
| USA, Ohio
| North America
|
|
|-
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx UNMC]
|
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
| website in development
|-
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
|
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines
|
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
|
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|-
| Geospatial Research and Education Lab (GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
|
|
|-
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
|
| Kenya
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of Ghana
|
| Ghana
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
|
|
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]