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FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:58:29Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|250px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* [[User:peteris|Peteris Brūns]] (Chair)
* [[User:Codrina|Codrina Ilie]] (Head of Programme Committee)
* [[User:Marco_Minghini|Marco Minghini]] (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* [[User:Astrid_Emde|Astrid Emde]] (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* [[User:Marisn|Māris Nartišs]] (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Community Sprint ==

[[FOSS4G-Europe_2020_Community_Sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2028 Community Sprint]]

== "Social" Media ==

* [https://twitter.com/foss4ge https://twitter.com/foss4ge]
* [https://www.facebook.com/foss4ge2020valmiera https://www.facebook.com/foss4ge2020valmiera]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/company/foss4ge-2020-valmiera/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/foss4ge-2020-valmiera/]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:57:40Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|250px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* [[User:peteris|Peteris Brūns]] (Chair)
* [[User:Codrina|Codrina Ilie]] (Head of Programme Committee)
* [[User:Marco_Minghini|Marco Minghini]] (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* [[User:Astrid_Emde|Astrid Emde]] (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* [[User:Marisn|Māris Nartišs]] (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Community Sprint ==

[[FOSS4G-Europe_2020_Community_Sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2028 Community Sprint]]

== "Social" Media ==

* [https://twitter.com/foss4ge|https://twitter.com/foss4ge]
* [https://www.facebook.com/foss4ge2020valmiera|https://www.facebook.com/foss4ge2020valmiera]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/company/foss4ge-2020-valmiera/|https://www.linkedin.com/company/foss4ge-2020-valmiera/]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:55:05Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|250px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* [[User:peteris|Peteris Brūns]] (Chair)
* [[User:Codrina|Codrina Ilie]] (Head of Programme Committee)
* [[User:Marco_Minghini|Marco Minghini]] (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* [[User:Astrid_Emde|Astrid Emde]] (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* [[User:Marisn|Māris Nartišs]] (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Community Sprint ==

[[FOSS4G-Europe_2020_Community_Sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2028 Community Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:45:03Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|50px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Community Sprint ==

[[FOSS4G-Europe_2020_Community_Sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2028 Community Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:43:47Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|50px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Community Sprint ==

[[FOSS4G-Europe_2020_Community_Sprint FOSS4G-Europe 2028 Community Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:41:59Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|50px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Community Sprint ==

* [[FOSS4G-Europe_2020_Community_Sprint FOSS4G-Europe 2028 Community Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:41:05Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|50px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Community Sprint ==

* [[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-Europe_2020_Community_Sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2028 Community Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

Foss4g-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:38:43Z

Fjbehr: Fjbehr moved page Foss4g-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia to FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia: Uppercase FOSS4G

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FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:38:43Z

Fjbehr: Fjbehr moved page Foss4g-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia to FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia: Uppercase FOSS4G

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|50px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Code sprint ==

* [[FOSS4G-Europe_2018_Code_sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2018 Code Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

Foss4g-Europe-2020

2020-02-23T10:37:22Z

Fjbehr: Fjbehr moved page Foss4g-Europe-2020 to Foss4g-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia: Uniform indication of place

#REDIRECT [[Foss4g-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:37:22Z

Fjbehr: Fjbehr moved page Foss4g-Europe-2020 to Foss4g-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia: Uniform indication of place

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|50px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Code sprint ==

* [[FOSS4G-Europe_2018_Code_sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2018 Code Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:36:48Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|50px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Valmiera, Latvia

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Code sprint ==

* [[FOSS4G-Europe_2018_Code_sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2018 Code Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:34:22Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|50px|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Guimarães, Portugal

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Code sprint ==

* [[FOSS4G-Europe_2018_Code_sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2018 Code Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T10:03:13Z

Fjbehr:

[[Image:foss4geurope2020logo.png|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Guimarães, Portugal

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Code sprint ==

* [[FOSS4G-Europe_2018_Code_sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2018 Code Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

File:Foss4geurope2020logo.png

2020-02-23T10:02:32Z

Fjbehr: Logo for the FOSS4G Europe Conference 2020

Logo for the FOSS4G Europe Conference 2020

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T09:51:57Z

Fjbehr:

[[Media:https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Logo_Web.svg|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Guimarães, Portugal

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Code sprint ==

* [[FOSS4G-Europe_2018_Code_sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2018 Code Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe-2020 Valmiera, Latvia

2020-02-23T09:49:54Z

Fjbehr: Created page with "link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/ == Date == From July 13 to 18, 2020 == Place == Guimar..."

[[File:https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Logo_Web.svg|link=https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/]]

== Date ==
From July 13 to 18, 2020

== Place ==

Guimarães, Portugal

[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.5405/25.4257 Show on OpenStreetMap]

== Committee ==

* Peteris Brūns (Chair)
* Codrina Ilie (Head of Programme Committee)
* Marco Minghini (Co-chair Scientitic Committee)
* Ernersts Gabrāns (Head of Marketing | Sponsorship Committee)
* Astrid Emde (Head of Communication Committee)
* Tõnis Kärdi (Head of Travel Grant Committee)
* Māris Nartišs (Head of Volunteer Coordination Committee)
* Līga Vecā (Head of Local Organising Grant Committee)

== Travel Hints ==

[https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/getting-to-valmiera/ Getting to Valmiera]

== Code sprint ==

* [[FOSS4G-Europe_2018_Code_sprint|FOSS4G-Europe 2018 Code Sprint]]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G 2018 OSGeo Booth

2018-08-29T03:13:36Z

Fjbehr:

Placeholder for organizing the OSGeo Booth at [[FOSS4G 2018]] in Dar Es Salaam. http://2018.foss4g.org/

Similar to previous years: [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth | FOSS4G 2016 Bonn]], [[FOSS4G2015_OSGeo_Booth]] Seoul, [[FOSS4G2014 OSGeo Booth]] Portland.

== Event contact ==
* [[User:Astrid_Emde | Astrid Emde]]

== Floor Plan ==
* plan will follow soon.
* booth size 10m x 10m

== Volunteers ==

* [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:Maria | Maria Brovelli]]
* Devotha Laurent
* [[User:Silli | Silvia Franceschi]]
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]]
* [[Victoria Rautenbach]]
* [[Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:Adamsteer | Adam Steer]]
* Add your name

== Schedule ==
See the schedule for the event. The hours may still change a bit.

Please sign up. Everyone is welcome.

{|class=wikitable border="1"
! Day !! Hours !! What !! Booth Team (2-3/slot) !! Special activity
|-
| Wednesday August 29 || 7:00-08:00 || '''Move in / Set up''' || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] (I will arrive about 07:20 a.m. and have to support the registration at 08:00) ||
|-
| Wednesday August 29 || 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings / registration || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]||
|-
| || 9:00-10:40 || conference opening || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 10:40-11:00 || break || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 11:00-12:30 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 12:30-13:30 || Lunch || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 13:30-15:00 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 15:00-16:00 end day 1 || Regular hours then travel to Gala Party || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| Thurs August 30 || 8:00-9:00 || OSGeo AGM (Annual General meeting) || ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]], [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 10:00-11:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]], [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 11:00-11:30 || Tea Breack || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 11:30-12:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 12:30-13:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]], [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 13:30-14:00 || Lunch || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]], [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 14:00-15:30 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 15:30-16:00 || Tea Break || [[Victoria Rautenbach]], [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 16:00-17:00 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 17:00-18:00 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 18:30-20:00 || Sundowner || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| Fri August 31|| 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings || ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:30 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] || ||
|-
| || 10:30-11:00 || Tea Break || [[Victoria Rautenbach]], [[Serena Coetzee]] ||
|-
| || 11:00-12:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]], [[Serena Coetzee]] ||
|-
| || 12:00-13:30 || Regular hours || [[Victoria Rautenbach]], [[Serena Coetzee]] ||
|-
| || 13:30-14:30 || Lunch || ||
|-
| || 14:30-15:30 || Regular hours|| ||
|-
| || 15:30-16:30 || Regular hours|| ||
|-
| || 16:30-17:00 || Regular hours & Take down|| [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|}

conference program: http://2018.foss4g.org/

== Equipment ==
* Roll-Up
* Flyer console
* 1 high table, 2 stools/chairs
* OSGeo flyer, OSGeoLive Postcards
* OSGeo stickers - printed
* OSGeo Flyer - printed
* Banners
* Brochures
* Table runner
* OSGeoLive 12 on USB (16GB, USB 3)

== Presentations & Activities==

=== Self-Running ===
* OSGeo Live overview [http://osgeo.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/ presentation]

== Other Considerations ==

* Good reading: Running [http://fromtheinsidelookingin.blogspot.com/2008/10/conference-booths.html Conference Booths]
* [[Operate OSGeo Booth]]

== Impressions ==
[[Category: FOSS4G2018]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: Marketing]]

User:Fjbehr

2018-08-21T16:46:15Z

Fjbehr:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Franz-Josef Behr
|JobTitle=Professor
|Company=Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
|Country=Germany
|City=Stuttgart
|Coordinate=48.780177, 9.172677
|LocalChapter=FOSSGIS
|Email=franz-josef.behr AT hft-stuttgart DOT de
|Phone=+49 721 45 39 80-1, +49 173 895 7311
|InstantMessaging=Skype: fjbehr;
|Website=http://www.gis-management.de/
|Photo=FJ_Behr_Portrait.jpg
|Languages=German; English;
|Info=Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

He joined Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences as a full time professor of spatial information processing in 2002. He is teaching software development, Internet Technology and Internet GIS as well as Database design, XML technologies and scientific writing.

Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research.

He published two GIS text books, more than 60 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education. He conducted workshops in India (IIITM-K, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Anna University, Tirunelveli) and Egypt (National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo) and organised scientific conferences in Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012), Ahmedaba, India (2013), Stuttgart, Germany (2014) and Kish, Iran (2017).

He is head of the Laboratory for interoperable, and open-source Geospatial Software, Data and Standards ([https://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Vermessung/Einrichtungen-Labore/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en HFT ICA-OSGeo-Lab]). He is co-founder and head of the Applied Geoonformatics for Society and Environment conferences which will take place in Windhoek this year.

He is member of the German Organisation for Standardization (DIN-Board NA 005-03-03 AA „Kartographie und Geoinformation“, comparable to CEN/TC 287 and ISO/TC 211). In the field of cartography he serves as co-chair of the ‘Commission on SDIs and Standards' of the International Cartographic Association (ICA).

In 2013 and 2016 he was co-chairing the Academic Track of the international FOSS4G conferences. Since 2016 he is Member of the SDI Advisory Board, State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In spring 2018 he was Erudite-Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India.

}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
===Franz-Josef Behr===

Full time Professor of spatial information processing at [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/?set_language=en&cl=en) Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences].

[[File:FJ_Behr_Portrait.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Franz-Josef Behr]]

Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.

;OSGeo Experience
:
:* Founder of the open SUAS MapServer project, and some more open web services, i. e. [http://geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de/ geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de], [http://opencts.org/ opencts.org] and [http://opengeocoding.org/ opengeocoding.org].
:* Co-founder [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]
:* 2013: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Nottingham
:* 2014: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Portland.
:* Member of the LOC for FOSS4G 216, Bonn, Germany, chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G.

;Contact:
: Email: franz-josef.behr AT hft-stuttgart DOT de
: Phone (work): +49 721 45 39 80-1
: Skype: fjbehr

He is member of the German Organisation for Standardization and active supporter of Open Source and Open Data and co-founder of the [[AGSE]] conferences, an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge about the application of Geoinformatics with focus on application and on developing countries, and inititated [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]. AGSE took place in Stuttgart (2009), Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012), Ahmedaad, India (AGSE 2013), Stuttgart, Germany (AGSE 2014).

;Further information:
: [http://www.gis-management.de/ gis-management.de]
: [http://www.gis-news.de/ gis-news.de]
: [http://applied-geoinformatics.org/ Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment]

;Spoken Language(s): English, German

;Profile last updated: 19 Oct 2016

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Fjbehr

2018-08-21T14:19:17Z

Fjbehr:

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|City=Stuttgart
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|Info=Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.
He is head of the Laboratory for interoperable, and open-source Geospatial Software, Data and Standards ([https://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Vermessung/Einrichtungen-Labore/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en HFT ICA-OSGeo-Lab]).
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
===Franz-Josef Behr===

Full time Professor of spatial information processing at [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/?set_language=en&cl=en) Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences].

[[File:FJ_Behr_Portrait.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Franz-Josef Behr]]

Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.

;OSGeo Experience
:
:* Founder of the open SUAS MapServer project, and some more open web services, i. e. [http://geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de/ geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de], [http://opencts.org/ opencts.org] and [http://opengeocoding.org/ opengeocoding.org].
:* Co-founder [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]
:* 2013: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Nottingham
:* 2014: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Portland.
:* Member of the LOC for FOSS4G 216, Bonn, Germany, chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G.

;Contact:
: Email: franz-josef.behr AT hft-stuttgart DOT de
: Phone (work): +49 721 45 39 80-1
: Skype: fjbehr

He is member of the German Organisation for Standardization and active supporter of Open Source and Open Data and co-founder of the [[AGSE]] conferences, an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge about the application of Geoinformatics with focus on application and on developing countries, and inititated [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]. AGSE took place in Stuttgart (2009), Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012), Ahmedaad, India (AGSE 2013), Stuttgart, Germany (AGSE 2014).

;Further information:
: [http://www.gis-management.de/ gis-management.de]
: [http://www.gis-news.de/ gis-news.de]
: [http://applied-geoinformatics.org/ Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment]

;Spoken Language(s): English, German

;Profile last updated: 19 Oct 2016

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

FOSS4G 2018 OSGeo Booth

2018-08-21T14:17:47Z

Fjbehr: /* Schedule */

Placeholder for organizing the OSGeo Booth at [[FOSS4G 2018]] in Dar Es Salaam. http://2018.foss4g.org/

Similar to previous years: [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth | FOSS4G 2016 Bonn]], [[FOSS4G2015_OSGeo_Booth]] Seoul, [[FOSS4G2014 OSGeo Booth]] Portland.

== Event contact ==
* [[User:Astrid_Emde | Astrid Emde]]

== Floor Plan ==
* plan will follow soon.
* booth size 10m x 10m

== Volunteers ==

* [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:Maria | Maria Brovelli]]
* Devotha Laurent
* [[User:Silli | Silvia Franceschi]]
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]
* Add your name

== Schedule ==
See the schedule for the event. The hours may still change a bit.

Please sign up. Everyone is welcome.

{|class=wikitable border="1"
! Day !! Hours !! What !! Booth Team (2-3/slot) !! Special activity
|-
| Wednesday August 29 || 7:00-08:00 || '''Move in / Set up''' || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] ||
|-
| Wednesday August 29 || 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings / registration || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]||
|-
| || 9:00-10:40 || conference opening || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 10:40-11:00 || break || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 11:00-12:30 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 12:30-13:30 || Lunch || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 13:30-15:00 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 15:00-16:00 end day 1 || Regular hours then travel to Gala Party || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| Thurs August 30 || 8:00-9:00 || OSGeo AGM (Annual General meeting) || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 10:00-11:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 11:00-11:30 || Tea Breack || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 11:30-12:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 12:30-13:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 13:30-14:00 || Lunch || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 14:00-15:30 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 15:30-16:00 || Tea Break || ||
|-
| || 16:00-17:00 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 17:00-18:00 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 18:30-20:00 || Sundowner || ||
|-
| Fri August 31|| 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings || ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:30 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 10:30-11:00 || Tea Break || ||
|-
| || 11:00-12:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] ||
|-
| || 12:00-13:30 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 13:30-14:30 || Lunch || ||
|-
| || 14:30-15:30 || Regular hours|| ||
|-
| || 15:30-16:30 || Regular hours|| ||
|-
| || 16:30-17:00 || Regular hours & Take down|| [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|}

conference program: http://2018.foss4g.org/

== Equipment ==
* Roll-Up
* Flyer console
* 1 high table, 2 stools/chairs
* OSGeo flyer, OSGeoLive Postcards
* OSGeo stickers - printed
* OSGeo Flyer - printed
* Banners
* Brochures
* Table runner
* OSGeoLive 12 on USB (16GB, USB 3)

== Presentations & Activities==

=== Self-Running ===
* OSGeo Live overview [http://osgeo.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/ presentation]

== Other Considerations ==

* Good reading: Running [http://fromtheinsidelookingin.blogspot.com/2008/10/conference-booths.html Conference Booths]
* [[Operate OSGeo Booth]]

== Impressions ==
[[Category: FOSS4G2018]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: Marketing]]

FOSS4G 2018 OSGeo Booth

2018-08-05T20:18:35Z

Fjbehr: /* Schedule */

Placeholder for organizing the OSGeo Booth at [[FOSS4G 2018]] in Dar Es Salaam. http://2018.foss4g.org/

Similar to previous years: [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth | FOSS4G 2016 Bonn]], [[FOSS4G2015_OSGeo_Booth]] Seoul, [[FOSS4G2014 OSGeo Booth]] Portland.

== Event contact ==
* [[User:Astrid_Emde | Astrid Emde]]

== Floor Plan ==
* plan will follow soon.
* booth size 10m x 10m

== Volunteers ==

* [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:Maria | Maria Brovelli]]
* Devotha Laurent
* [[User:Silli | Silvia Franceschi]]
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]
* Add your name

== Schedule ==
See the schedule for the event. The hours may still change a bit.

Please sign up. Everyone is welcome.

{|class=wikitable border="1"
! Day !! Hours !! What !! Booth Team (2-3/slot) !! Special activity
|-
| Wednesday August 29 || 7:00-08:00 || '''Move in / Set up''' || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| Wednesday August 29 || 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings / registration || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:40 || conference opening || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 10:40-11:00 || break || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 11:00-12:30 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 12:30-13:30 || Lunch || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 13:30-15:00 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 15:00-16:00 end day 1 || Regular hours then travel to Gala Party || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| Thurs August 30 || 8:00-9:00 || OSGeo AGM (Annual General meeting) || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 10:00-11:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 11:00-11:30 || Tea Breack || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 11:30-12:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 12:30-13:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 13:30-14:00 || Lunch || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 14:00-15:30 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 15:30-16:00 || Tea Break || ||
|-
| || 16:00-17:00 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 17:00-18:00 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 18:30-20:00 || Sundowner || ||
|-
| Fri August 31|| 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings || ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:30 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 10:30-11:00 || Tea Break || ||
|-
| || 11:00-12:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] ||
|-
| || 12:00-13:30 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 13:30-14:30 || Lunch || ||
|-
| || 14:30-15:30 || Regular hours|| ||
|-
| || 15:30-16:30 || Regular hours|| ||
|-
| || 16:30-17:00 || Regular hours & Take down|| [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|}

conference program: http://2018.foss4g.org/

== Equipment ==
* Roll-Up
* Flyer console
* 1 high table, 2 stools/chairs
* OSGeo flyer, OSGeoLive Postcards
* OSGeo stickers - printed
* OSGeo Flyer - printed
* Banners
* Brochures
* Table runner
* OSGeoLive 12 on USB (16GB, USB 3)

== Presentations & Activities==

=== Self-Running ===
* OSGeo Live overview [http://osgeo.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/ presentation]

== Other Considerations ==

* Good reading: Running [http://fromtheinsidelookingin.blogspot.com/2008/10/conference-booths.html Conference Booths]
* [[Operate OSGeo Booth]]

== Impressions ==
[[Category: FOSS4G2018]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: Marketing]]

FOSS4G 2018 OSGeo Booth

2018-08-05T20:10:46Z

Fjbehr: /* Volunteers */

Placeholder for organizing the OSGeo Booth at [[FOSS4G 2018]] in Dar Es Salaam. http://2018.foss4g.org/

Similar to previous years: [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth | FOSS4G 2016 Bonn]], [[FOSS4G2015_OSGeo_Booth]] Seoul, [[FOSS4G2014 OSGeo Booth]] Portland.

== Event contact ==
* [[User:Astrid_Emde | Astrid Emde]]

== Floor Plan ==
* plan will follow soon.
* booth size 10m x 10m

== Volunteers ==

* [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:Maria | Maria Brovelli]]
* Devotha Laurent
* [[User:Silli | Silvia Franceschi]]
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]
* Add your name

== Schedule ==
See the schedule for the event. The hours may still change a bit.

Please sign up. Everyone is welcome.

{|class=wikitable border="1"
! Day !! Hours !! What !! Booth Team (2-3/slot) !! Special activity
|-
| Wednesday August 29 || 7:00-08:00 || '''Move in / Set up''' || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| Wednesday August 29 || 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings / registration || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:40 || conference opening || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 10:40-11:00 || break || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 11:00-12:30 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 12:30-13:30 || Lunch || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 13:30-15:00 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| || 15:00-16:00 end day 1 || Regular hours then travel to Gala Party || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|-
| Thurs August 30 || 8:00-9:00 || OSGeo AGM (Annual General meeting) || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 10:00-11:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 11:00-11:30 || Tea Breack || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 11:30-12:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 12:30-13:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 13:30-14:00 || Lunch || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] ||
|-
| || 14:00-15:30 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 15:30-16:00 || Tea Break || ||
|-
| || 16:00-17:00 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 17:00-18:00 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 18:30-20:00 || Sundowner || ||
|-
| Fri August 31|| 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings || ||
|-
| || 9:00-10:30 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 10:30-11:00 || Tea Break || ||
|-
| || 11:00-12:00 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 12:00-13:30 || Regular hours || ||
|-
| || 13:30-14:30 || Lunch || ||
|-
| || 14:30-15:30 || Regular hours|| ||
|-
| || 15:30-16:30 || Regular hours|| ||
|-
| || 16:30-17:00 || Regular hours & Take down|| [[Jeff McKenna]] ||
|}

conference program: http://2018.foss4g.org/

== Equipment ==
* Roll-Up
* Flyer console
* 1 high table, 2 stools/chairs
* OSGeo flyer, OSGeoLive Postcards
* OSGeo stickers - printed
* OSGeo Flyer - printed
* Banners
* Brochures
* Table runner
* OSGeoLive 12 on USB (16GB, USB 3)

== Presentations & Activities==

=== Self-Running ===
* OSGeo Live overview [http://osgeo.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/ presentation]

== Other Considerations ==

* Good reading: Running [http://fromtheinsidelookingin.blogspot.com/2008/10/conference-booths.html Conference Booths]
* [[Operate OSGeo Booth]]

== Impressions ==
[[Category: FOSS4G2018]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: Marketing]]

UnitedNations Committee

2016-10-23T19:56:01Z

Fjbehr: /* August 2016 */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of the committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani, Scott Hatcher, Ivana Ivanova, Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez, Paolo Corti, Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee, and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Committee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses will be:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who will be involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* planned for November 2016, date and time to be decided

; Previous meetings:
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

UnitedNations Committee

2016-10-23T19:50:13Z

Fjbehr: /* Members */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of the committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani, Scott Hatcher, Ivana Ivanova, Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez, Paolo Corti, Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Commitee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses will be:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who will be involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* planned for November 2016, date and time to be decided

; Previous meetings:
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

UnitedNations Committee

2016-10-23T19:49:05Z

Fjbehr:

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of the committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani, Scott Hatcher, Ivana Ivanova, Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez, Paolo Corti, Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Commitee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses will be:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who will be involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* planned for November 2016, date and time to be decided

; Previous meetings:
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]
* [[User:FjBehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

User:Fjbehr

2016-10-23T19:46:50Z

Fjbehr:

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|Info=Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.
He is head of the Laboratory for interoperable, and open-source Geospatial Software, Data and Standards ([https://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Vermessung/Einrichtungen-Labore/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en HFT ICA-OSGeo-Lab]).
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===Franz-Josef Behr===

Full time Professor of spatial information processing at [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/?set_language=en&cl=en) Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences].

[[File:FJ_Behr_Portrait.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Franz-Josef Behr]]

Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.

;OSGeo Experience
:
:* Founder of the open SUAS MapServer project, and some more open web services, i. e. [http://geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de/ geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de], [http://opencts.org/ opencts.org] and [http://opengeocoding.org/ opengeocoding.org].
:* Co-founder [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]
:* 2013: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Nottingham
:* 2014: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Portland.
:* Member of the LOC for FOSS4G 216, Bonn, Germany, chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G.

;Contact:
: Email: franz-josef.behr AT hft-stuttgart DOT de
: Phone (work): +49 721 45 39 80-1
: Skype: fjbehr

He is member of the German Organisation for Standardization and active supporter of Open Source and Open Data and co-founder of the [[AGSE]] conferences, an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge about the application of Geoinformatics with focus on application and on developing countries, and inititated [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]. AGSE took place in Stuttgart (2009), Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012), Ahmedaad, India (AGSE 2013), Stuttgart, Germany (AGSE 2014).

;Further information:
: [http://www.gis-management.de/ gis-management.de]
: [http://www.gis-news.de/ gis-news.de]
: [http://applied-geoinformatics.org/ Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment]

;Spoken Language(s): English, German

;Profile last updated: 19 Oct 2016

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Fjbehr

2016-10-23T19:44:34Z

Fjbehr:

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At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.
He is head of the Laboratory for interoperable, and open-source Geospatial Software, Data and Standards ([https://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Vermessung/Einrichtungen-Labore/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en HFT ICA-OSGeo-Lab]).
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===Franz-Josef Behr===

Full time Professor of spatial information processing at [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/?set_language=en&cl=en) Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences].

[[File:FJ_Behr_Portrait.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Franz-Josef Behr]]

Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.

;OSGeo Experience
:
:* Founder of the open SUAS MapServer project, and some more open web services, i. e. [http://geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de/ geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de], [http://opencts.org/ opencts.org] and [http://opengeocoding.org/ opengeocoding.org].
:* Co-founder [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]
:* 2013: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Nottingham
:* 2014: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Portland.
:* Member of the LOC for FOSS4G 216, Bonn, Germany, chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G.

;Contact:
: Email: franz-josef.behr AT hft-stuttgart DOT de
: Phone (work): +49 721 45 39 80-1
: Skype: fjbehr

He is member of the German Organisation for Standardization and active supporter of Open Source and Open Data and co-founder of the [[AGSE]] conferences, an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge about the application of Geoinformatics with focus on application and on developing countries, and inititated [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]. AGSE took place in Stuttgart (2009), Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012), Ahmedaad, India (AGSE 2013), Stuttgart, Germany (AGSE 2014).

;Further information:
: [http://www.gis-management.de/ gis-management.de]
: [http://www.gis-news.de/ gis-news.de]
: [http://applied-geoinformatics.org/ Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment]

;Spoken Language(s): English, German

;Profile last updated: 19 Oct 2016

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Fjbehr

2016-10-23T19:40:10Z

Fjbehr:

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At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.
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===Franz-Josef Behr===

Full time Professor of spatial information processing at [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/?set_language=en&cl=en) Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences].

[[File:FJ_Behr_Portrait.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Franz-Josef Behr]]

Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.

;OSGeo Experience
:
:* Founder of the open SUAS MapServer project, and some more open web services, i. e. [http://geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de/ geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de], [http://opencts.org/ opencts.org] and [http://opengeocoding.org/ opengeocoding.org].
:* Co-founder [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]
:* 2013: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Nottingham
:* 2014: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Portland.
:* Member of the LOC for FOSS4G 216, Bonn, Germany, chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G.

;Contact:
: Email: franz-josef.behr AT hft-stuttgart DOT de
: Phone (work): +49 721 45 39 80-1
: Skype: fjbehr

He is member of the German Organisation for Standardization and active supporter of Open Source and Open Data and co-founder of the [[AGSE]] conferences, an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge about the application of Geoinformatics with focus on application and on developing countries, and inititated [[FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia]]. AGSE took place in Stuttgart (2009), Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012), Ahmedaad, India (AGSE 2013), Stuttgart, Germany (AGSE 2014).

;Further information:
: [http://www.gis-management.de/ gis-management.de]
: [http://www.gis-news.de/ gis-news.de]
: [http://applied-geoinformatics.org/ Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment]

;Spoken Language(s): English, German

;Profile last updated: 19 Oct 2016

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

UnitedNations Committee

2016-10-23T19:37:01Z

Fjbehr: /* May - June - July 2016 */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of the committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani, Scott Hatcher, Ivana Ivanova, Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez, Paolo Corti, Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Commitee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses will be:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who will be involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* planned for November 2016, date and time to be decided

; Previous meetings:
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

UnitedNations Committee

2016-10-23T19:35:31Z

Fjbehr: /* Communication */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of the committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani,Scott Hatcher,Ivana Ivanova,Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez ,Paolo Corti,Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Commitee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses will be:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who will be involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* planned for November 2016, date and time to be decided

; Previous meetings:
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

UnitedNations Committee

2016-10-23T19:29:09Z

Fjbehr: /* UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft) */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of this committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani,Scott Hatcher,Ivana Ivanova,Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez ,Paolo Corti,Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Commitee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses will be:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who will be involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* planned for November 2016, date and time to be decided

; Previous meetings:
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

UnitedNations Committee

2016-10-23T19:11:13Z

Fjbehr:

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGO’s, private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agree with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of this committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani,Scott Hatcher,Ivana Ivanova,Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez ,Paolo Corti,Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Commitee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses will be:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who will be involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* planned for November 2016, date and time to be decided

; Previous meetings:
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

Opencitysmart

2016-04-27T10:56:03Z

Fjbehr: /* Who's Who Here? */

'''Welcome to OpenCitySmart for Urban Infrastructure Management'''

'''''OpenCitySmart''''' will be a suite of tools to benefit city operations, such as management of urban infrastructure (utilities, traffic, services, etc.). The purpose will be to continually add and advance functionalities serving urban management, for more efficient operations and with ultimate consideration for increasing sustainability and quality of urban life.

* Chairs: All Cities (on Earth), Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this global enterprise, please subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opencitysmart. Your participation is welcome! Bring a city along with you.

* We support the 'Open Source Guiding Principles:'
** All material created is made available for all under an Open License
** All material is designed to be extended by others, API-centric, modular componentry.
** All participants aim to reuse, optimize, extend and add new components (in that order :-)

Our intent here is that we have one powerful '''open platform''' that's easy to add functionalities to and that are easy to share.

===What's an '''OpenCitySmart''' ''''''platform'''''' look like?===
[http://nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support_files/SDI-Now_v01.pdf A rough draft!] Thank you City of Springfield Oregon, a brilliant guidepost for navigating the OpenCitySmart terrain.

== Who's Who Here? ==
*Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.
*Please identify yourself in one or more categories: '''U''': User/practitioner; '''D''': Developer; '''R''': Researcher/Scientist; '''E''': Educator.

# [http://www.peter-baumann.org Peter Baumann], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems Research Group]
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Providing the [http:/www.rasdasman.org rasdaman] Array Database which enables flexible, scalable analysis on massive spatio-temporal sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data based on the open OGC "Big Geo Data" standards suite, WCS (of which rasdaman is Reference Implementation), plus WMS and WPS, and interfacing with a series of clients, such as OpenLayers, QGIS, NASA WorldWind.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0 Chris Pettit], UNSW,
## Participant categories:
## Build and use planning support systems for empowering planners, policy-makers and communities in exploring city scale what if scenarios of sustainable, productive and resilient land use futures.
# [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik] and [http://advanced.jhu.edu/about-us/faculty/alexander-stepanov-phd/ Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov],
## Participant categories: R, E
## University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."
# [http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx Tom Mueller], California University of Pennsylvania
## Participant categories: E - Educator
## Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.
# [http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Jim Miller], University of Kansas, Computer Science
## Participant categories: D, E (also R in terms of computer science and visualization techniques)
## Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA.
## Participant categories: U
## Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck Ant Beck], University of Nottingham Research Fellow.
## Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b Phillip Davis], GeoAcademy.
## The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan Patrick Hogan], NASA World Wind Project Manager.
## Participant categories: D, R
## Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro Antoni Perez-Navarro], Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,
## Participant categories: R, E
## Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System. In the GIS subjects we use gvSIG and QGIS, and Geomedia as proprietary software. Our students have also developed projects using Open Layers, GeoServer, Google Maps and Open Street Maps.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti]
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938 Evangelos Mitsakis]
## Participant categories:
## Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey Gábor Remetey], ''Former'' Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI),
## Participant categories: R
## Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria A Brovelli], Politecnico di Milano
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ Citizen Science] and [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ collaborative multidimensional platforms].
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronfortunato Ron Fortunato], President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning LLC]
## Participant categories: U, E
## Custom design and implement Project-Based Learning systems, networked region-wide and at the national scale, and guaranteed to provide a teacher-complimentary '''exciting learning experience''' for students, elementary through secondary education.
# [http://www.xinyueye.com/ Xinyue Ye], Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.
# Andrew Hunter, [http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca GIScience Group], University of Calgary
## Participant categories: R, E.
## Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.
# [http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/ Hande Demirel], Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
## Participant categories:
## Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.
# [http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ Lucy Bastin], University of Aston and [http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts Joint Research Centre of the European Commission]
## Participant categories:
## Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.
# [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center] for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University,
## Participant categories:
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).
# [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/sven-schade Sven Schade], [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/ Joint Research Centre] of the European Commission
## Participant categories:
## I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multidisciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good?
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537 Bob Basques], [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us City of Saint Paul], Mn. USA,
## Participant categories:
## My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer.
# [http://theconversation.com/profiles/tuong-thuy-vu-120016 Tuong-Thuy Vu], [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus].
## Participant categories:
## Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment
# [http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/mitasova/mitasova.html Helena Mitasova], [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics], OSGeo REL
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models
## The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ortelius Jeffrey Johnson], Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR,
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management
# [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=31094760 Serena Coetzee], [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], University of Pretora, South Africa, and [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=74999697 Chris Wray], [http://www.gcro.ac.za Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)], South Africa
## Participant categories: R (UP and GCRO), E (UP)
## Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos Dimitris Kotzinos], [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab], University of Cergy Pontoise, France
## Participant categories:
## Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management
# [http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li Xingong Li], Department of Geography, University of Kansas
## Participant categories:
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.
# [http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ Patricia Carbajales-Dale], [http://www.clemsongis.org/ Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies], Clemson University
## Participant categories:
## High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.
# [http://au.linkedin.com/pub/cameron-shorter/5/398/590 Cameron Shorter], Co-coordinator of http://live.osgeo.org, which packages up ~50 of the best Open Source GIS applications, along with data and quickstarts;
## Participant categories:
## Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html Rick Smith], [http://spatialquerylab.com/ Spatial {Query} Lab] at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html Michael Starek], Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in the application of emergent geo-sensing techniques for monitoring of the 3D build environment.
# [http://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno Rafael Moreno], Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Incorporation of FOSS4G in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning curricula. Land use planning, natural resources management, GIS science and Technology.
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/ArchitecturePlanning/facultystaff/directories/Pages/Individual%20Pages_Planning/Troy_Austin.aspx Austin Troy], Department of Planning and Design, College of Architecture and Plannig, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Land use policy, environmental planning, GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, land use change modeling and simulation?
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/Programs/Computer-Science-and-Engineering/faculty/Pages/FarnoushBanaeiKashani.aspx Farnoush Banaei-Kashani], Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Big data management and mining, database systems, data-driven decision-making systems
# [http://humanities.usm.my/index.php/discover-us/our-people/staff-directory/42-geography/31-ruslan-rainis Ruslan Rainis], Geoinformatic Unit, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
## Participant categories: R
## FOSS4G in social sciences & liberal arts curricula, Urban big data, urban spatial modelling.
# [http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/winter/ Stephan Winter], Geomatics, The University of Melbourne
## Participant categories: R, E
## Coordinating the Melbourne Urban Connectedness research cluster.
# [http://de.linkedin.com/pub/ingo-simonis/3/145/701 Ingo Simonis], OGC
## Participant categories: U, R, E
## Standardization needs and solutions for Urban Science.
# [http://kr.linkedin.com/pub/junyoung-choi/54/308/986 Junyoung Choi], Spatial Information Office of Korea Land and Housing Corp(Public company) and Spatial Big Data Center at MOLIT, Republic of Korea.
## Participant categories: U, R
## Spatial Big Data for the Smart Cities in Developing Countries, Urban Spatial Measures for UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs); UN SDG 11. Making Cities and Human Settlement.
# [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/?People:Dr._Rizwan_Bulbul Rizwan Bulbul], Director of [http://grel.ist.edu.pk Geospatial Research and Education Lab], Institute of space technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
## Participant categories: R, E
## 3D city modeling, 3D reconstruction, Spatio-temporal databases for cities, NSDI
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-strong-2490728a Emma Strong], Southern Mississippi Planning and Development District (SMPDD)
## Participant categories: U
## I work with the southern 15 counties of Mississippi and all cities and towns contained within. A few cities and counties have advanced GIS, mostly proprietary, but much of the area is rural with little to no GIS budget, so I plan to train myself so I can train others and spread GIS to more areas in the public sector. I think this project can help me to do that.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaisen Jaisen Nedumpala], Koorachundu Village Panchayat, Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Free and open-source spatial analytics and GIS Development, SDIs suitable for rural local authorities etc.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhira Sudhira HS], [http://gubbilabs.in Gubbi Labs], Gubbi, Karnataka, India.
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Spatial Planning Support Systems, Modelling and Analytics for Urban Planning and Decision-making, Urban Land-use/Land Cover change using Satellite Remote Sensing
# [https://ie.linkedin.com/in/gavin-mcardle-a2666415 Gavin McArdle], [http://www.csi.ucd.ie/ School of Computer Science, University College Dublin], [http://www.dublindashboard.ie/ Dublin Dashboard].
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Urban Dashboards, Urban Dynamics, Spatial Data Analysis, Human Mobility, Lead Developer of the Dublin Dashboard project working with Dublin City Council.
# [http://gis-management.de Franz-Josef Behr], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Strategic consultancy in geospatial IT, utility sector, interoperability, open education, FOSS certification.

== Global Drivers for 'OpenCitySmart' ==

* EC '''Infrastructure for Spatial Information''' in the European Community, [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ INSPIRE]
* US National '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]
* UN '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi UNSDI]
* UNSDI '''[http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi Visualization]''' for UN Member State briefing
* UN '''[http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs Sustainable Development Goals]''' (SDG)
* UN “Urban Goal” ([http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11 SDG #11]): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and '''sustainable''',
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''[http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas Sustainable Development Goals]'''
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''[http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]'''

== Key Research Questions ==

* How can we transform cities to be more sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Facilitate the ability for cities to work together in addressing issues all cities must face.
* How can we empower cities, their citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in addressing the issues our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?
** We build an app whose functionalities '''''all''''' cities can '''''share''''' and every city will also own.
** If cities have a way to share solutions they generate for themselves, we address our own needs yet end up serving the interest of all. That's compound interest!

=='''''The Road Map''''' ==

* We can thank OGC's "[http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/ Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework]" for a good start on defining the problem.

* We can thank Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this [http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html OpenCitySmart] app idea into action! Will your city step forward to help lead our shared effort to make cities more productive and more livable?

* ''' 'OpenCitySmart' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7 INSPIRE Data Specifications]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning Urban Planning]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system Intelligent Transportation]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care Health & Medical Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service Public Safety & Emergency Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection Environmental Protection]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation Intelligent Buildings]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc.]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service Location-Based Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system Indoor Positioning System]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'']

* '''Data sharing''' – Cities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. These data sets most often include:

# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels INSPIRE Data Models]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery Imagery] Resolution, 3-inch pixel is preferred, 1-foot pixel less so, 1-meter much less so
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre Cadastral] Information: parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class
# Address Information: house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information
# Jurisdictional boundaries: incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc., urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model Elevation] Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Infrastructure/utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot-prints, complexes, monuments, etc., facility contacts, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# LiDAR, invaluable data, needing the tools to put it to good use. The City of Springfield has high resolution LiDAR, 8 points per meter. Though they put it to good use, they want even better tools to work with it (i.e., our OpenCitySmart app).

* '''Challenges'''

# '''Technical''' e.g. raw data made usable, data dating, accurate geo-reference conversion, unit conversion (i.e., metric/standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.
# '''Legal''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protecting IP and copyrights.
# '''Economic''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships.
# '''Social''' e.g. fostering public engagement in 'Big Data,' community participation in evaluation of current practices, data gathering, analysis and privacy issues.

*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap''' - Any serious roadmap on urban management must consider the social dimension. In this respect, we need to:

# Identify necessary incentives and natural barriers for participation. How can we organize to meet the needs of the citizens affected? For instance, for academics, it might be how to utilize or create peer-review publication venues for contributed work that can reach the community. For practitioners, can we define the city's key or most pressing needs? For commercial developers, are they in situations where their employer will see contributions to a global effort something they should be doing?
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries, such as the users, customers, consumers, instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructure, software and services. Beneficiaries might be: urban planners, city councils, citizens, teachers and students, scientists, and academia, etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.
# Identify and get into contact with representatives of an intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.
# Engage with these people in order to identify '''their real needs for city analytics.''' This will help to accurately identify requirements, and acquire direct feedback. this should also include them in continuously active review panels.
# Evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. For city development this typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters.

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* [http://webworldwind.org/ NASA Web World Wind] (JavaScript)
* [http://goworldwind.org/ NASA World Wind] (Java, iOS and Android)
* [http://aurin.org.au/projects/portal-and-infrastructure/what-if/ Online What If?] Planning Support System (Web version is now available)
* [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS]
* [http://i-locate.eu/ i-Locate]
* [http://geomoose.org/ GeoMoose]
* [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ Policrowd2.0]
* Europa Challenge Open Source Projects [http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015 2015]
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design [http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]
* [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench]
* Arizona State University (ASU) [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software GeoDa]
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.
* [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS]
** Multi-temporal, full 3D GIS research platform with many processing, analytical, modeling and visualization tools relevant to Urban Science and city analytics (lidar-based models, solar energy, viewsheds, networks, water resources, full 3D visualization with animations and many others in the core package, with additional tools, including civil engineering design in add-ons)

== Natural Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, [http://www.unsdi.nl/ United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure] (UNSDI)
* [http://fossgeo.org/ GeoAcademy] (Phil Davis)
* [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ University of Massachusetts at Amherst]
* [http://aworldbridge.com/ Trillium Learning - A World Bridge Projects]
* [http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/ IBM Smarter Cities]
* [http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB UBM Future Cities]
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, [http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/ Sustainable Cities] Master Programme
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for [http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/ Sustainable Connected Cites]
* ISET Building [http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html Urban Resilience to Climate Change]
* [http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge 100 Resilient Cities Challenge]
* Rockefeller Foundation [http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/our-work/initiatives/global-resilience-partnership/ Global Resilience Partnership] [http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/ funding transformative solutions]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/19/cities-arent-great-with-data-could-mike-bloomberg-change-that/ Bloomberg to give $42 million to help cities do more with data]
* University of Toronto [http://news.utoronto.ca/u-ts-patricia-mccarney-launches-open-city-data-portal Launches Open City Data Portal]
* University of Toronto [http://www.globalcitiesinstitute.org/ Global Cities Institute]
* University of Toronto [http://www.dataforcities.org/ World Council on City Data]
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis]
* [http://aurin.org.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN]
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software Arizona State University (ASU) GeoD]
* [http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc HAROSA Knowledge Community (KC)] An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.
* Politecnico di Milano, [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en GEO Lab] (Geomatics and Earth Observations)
* ETIS Lab, University of Cergy Pontoise, France. [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab - MIDI team]

== OpenCitySmart ''''''The App'''''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop an '''''OpenCitySmart App''''' based on the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section.

The City of [http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html Springfield Oregon] has already shown us the way forward.

Some basic requirements:
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices
* Imagery & Elevation Import
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Deﬁned
* Open Street Map (OSM) Placenames, Boundaries and Roads
* Picking and Decluttering
* Shapeﬁle and KML Import
* Measurement Tools
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation
* Subsurface Visualization
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving

This OpenCitySmart app needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for easy-to-add functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the OpenCitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

We ask academic and other community oriented organizations, such as those listed as [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#Natural_Partners Natural Partners], to help us with the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#The_Road_Map Road Map].

'''Why Do This?'''

Because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter the city. If you are brave and good, just build it and be a lightning rod for our brighter future. The Region and Theme Chairs will evaluate self-identifying contributions, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.'''

'''Understanding our Changing Planet.'''

# Historical tracks of hurricanes.
## SLOSH http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/slosh.php
# LiDAR - local communities are using [http://aworldbridge.com/real-time-projects/unmanned-aircraft-systems---2.html UAVs to generate their own LiDAR maps]. Plus several states have LiDAR datasets.
# Biodiversity
## Datasets include:
### Landfire http://www.landfire.gov/
### Crop Scape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/
### VegScape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/VegScape/
# Vulnerability Issues
## Social Vulnerability Index: http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/products/sovi.aspx
## Data sources:
### http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=store
### http://openweathermap.org/
# Possible indexes, include -
## Risk Terrain Model http://rutgerscps.weebly.com/rtm.html
## Flash Flood Potential Index http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/hydro/FFPI/FFPI_WriteUp.pdf
## Crisis Mapping and Ushashidid - http://www.ushahidi.com/

== Lab nearest city and vulnerability threats, lat/long coordinates ==
* Colleagues, please list (1) your name, (2) the city your lab is closest to, (3) the possible threats that city might face in future years related to population growth and/or the effects of climate change (e.g., coastal storm surge, hurricanes, heat islands, inland lack of water, etc.) and (4) your city's lat\long. I'm hoping to map all the cities in our network for a figure for future grant proposals.
** Charlie Schweik, Springfield, MA, hurricanes, heat islands, 42.393578, -72.524696
** Thomas Mueller, Pittsburgh, PA, heat island, increased flooding due to climate change, 40.440625, -79.995886
** Patrick Hogan, Moffett Field, CA, drought, sea-level-rise, 37.42, -122.06
** Antoni Perez-Navarro, Barcelona, Spain, lack of water, drought, flooding, sea-level-rise, 2.173403, 41.385064
** Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Warsaw, Poland, heat island, flooding and flash floods, 21.020, 52.259
** Hande Demirel, Istanbul, Turkey, drought, flash flood, heat island, sea storm surge, 41.0136, 28.9550
** Helena Mitasova, Raleigh, NC, population growth, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, 35.7818,-78.6764

== OpenCitySmart - important journals ==
* Colleagues, I'm trying to build a list of possible publishing venues for academics on this group for a grant proposal. Please list below any relevant journals our group should be aware of -- especially ones of high impact factor or open access. Thanks - [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik]
** Urban Geography - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/current
** PLOS One (open access) - http://www.plosone.org/
** Journal of Spatial Information Sciences (open access) - http://www.josis.org/index.php/josis
** International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (open access) - http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/ijsdir/index
** The Environment and Planning family of journals - http://www.envplan.com/index.html
** '''Colleagues, please add others''', especially ones that are relevant to geo-crowdsourcing, volunteer geographic information, geospatial sensors, geo-analytics, modeling, visualization or decision-support. Also any relevant to open geospatial science education. Thanks!

== Reference Material ==

* Lane County, Oregon, Lane Livability Consortium, Data Inventory and Next Steps Report
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/files/Data-Plan.pdf
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* Dedeurwaerdere, T. 2014. Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing.
** http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/dedeurwaerdere/book_Sustainability%20Science_EE.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Veeckman, C. and van der Graaf, 2015. The City as Living Laboratory: Empowering Citizens with the Citadel Toolkit
** Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review). http://timreview.ca/issue/2015/march

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/

* Open government, open source city
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual
** http://allthingsopen.org

[[Category: GeoForAll]]

Opencitysmart

2016-04-27T10:55:07Z

Fjbehr: /* Who's Who Here? */

'''Welcome to OpenCitySmart for Urban Infrastructure Management'''

'''''OpenCitySmart''''' will be a suite of tools to benefit city operations, such as management of urban infrastructure (utilities, traffic, services, etc.). The purpose will be to continually add and advance functionalities serving urban management, for more efficient operations and with ultimate consideration for increasing sustainability and quality of urban life.

* Chairs: All Cities (on Earth), Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this global enterprise, please subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opencitysmart. Your participation is welcome! Bring a city along with you.

* We support the 'Open Source Guiding Principles:'
** All material created is made available for all under an Open License
** All material is designed to be extended by others, API-centric, modular componentry.
** All participants aim to reuse, optimize, extend and add new components (in that order :-)

Our intent here is that we have one powerful '''open platform''' that's easy to add functionalities to and that are easy to share.

===What's an '''OpenCitySmart''' ''''''platform'''''' look like?===
[http://nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support_files/SDI-Now_v01.pdf A rough draft!] Thank you City of Springfield Oregon, a brilliant guidepost for navigating the OpenCitySmart terrain.

== Who's Who Here? ==
*Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.
*Please identify yourself in one or more categories: '''U''': User/practitioner; '''D''': Developer; '''R''': Researcher/Scientist; '''E''': Educator.

# [http://www.peter-baumann.org Peter Baumann], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems Research Group]
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Providing the [http:/www.rasdasman.org rasdaman] Array Database which enables flexible, scalable analysis on massive spatio-temporal sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data based on the open OGC "Big Geo Data" standards suite, WCS (of which rasdaman is Reference Implementation), plus WMS and WPS, and interfacing with a series of clients, such as OpenLayers, QGIS, NASA WorldWind.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0 Chris Pettit], UNSW,
## Participant categories:
## Build and use planning support systems for empowering planners, policy-makers and communities in exploring city scale what if scenarios of sustainable, productive and resilient land use futures.
# [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik] and [http://advanced.jhu.edu/about-us/faculty/alexander-stepanov-phd/ Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov],
## Participant categories: R, E
## University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."
# [http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx Tom Mueller], California University of Pennsylvania
## Participant categories: E - Educator
## Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.
# [http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Jim Miller], University of Kansas, Computer Science
## Participant categories: D, E (also R in terms of computer science and visualization techniques)
## Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA.
## Participant categories: U
## Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck Ant Beck], University of Nottingham Research Fellow.
## Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b Phillip Davis], GeoAcademy.
## The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan Patrick Hogan], NASA World Wind Project Manager.
## Participant categories: D, R
## Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro Antoni Perez-Navarro], Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,
## Participant categories: R, E
## Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System. In the GIS subjects we use gvSIG and QGIS, and Geomedia as proprietary software. Our students have also developed projects using Open Layers, GeoServer, Google Maps and Open Street Maps.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti]
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938 Evangelos Mitsakis]
## Participant categories:
## Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey Gábor Remetey], ''Former'' Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI),
## Participant categories: R
## Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria A Brovelli], Politecnico di Milano
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ Citizen Science] and [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ collaborative multidimensional platforms].
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronfortunato Ron Fortunato], President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning LLC]
## Participant categories: U, E
## Custom design and implement Project-Based Learning systems, networked region-wide and at the national scale, and guaranteed to provide a teacher-complimentary '''exciting learning experience''' for students, elementary through secondary education.
# [http://www.xinyueye.com/ Xinyue Ye], Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.
# Andrew Hunter, [http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca GIScience Group], University of Calgary
## Participant categories: R, E.
## Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.
# [http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/ Hande Demirel], Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
## Participant categories:
## Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.
# [http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ Lucy Bastin], University of Aston and [http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts Joint Research Centre of the European Commission]
## Participant categories:
## Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.
# [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center] for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University,
## Participant categories:
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).
# [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/sven-schade Sven Schade], [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/ Joint Research Centre] of the European Commission
## Participant categories:
## I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multidisciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good?
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537 Bob Basques], [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us City of Saint Paul], Mn. USA,
## Participant categories:
## My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer.
# [http://theconversation.com/profiles/tuong-thuy-vu-120016 Tuong-Thuy Vu], [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus].
## Participant categories:
## Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment
# [http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/mitasova/mitasova.html Helena Mitasova], [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics], OSGeo REL
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models
## The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ortelius Jeffrey Johnson], Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR,
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management
# [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=31094760 Serena Coetzee], [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], University of Pretora, South Africa, and [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=74999697 Chris Wray], [http://www.gcro.ac.za Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)], South Africa
## Participant categories: R (UP and GCRO), E (UP)
## Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos Dimitris Kotzinos], [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab], University of Cergy Pontoise, France
## Participant categories:
## Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management
# [http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li Xingong Li], Department of Geography, University of Kansas
## Participant categories:
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.
# [http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ Patricia Carbajales-Dale], [http://www.clemsongis.org/ Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies], Clemson University
## Participant categories:
## High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.
# [http://au.linkedin.com/pub/cameron-shorter/5/398/590 Cameron Shorter], Co-coordinator of http://live.osgeo.org, which packages up ~50 of the best Open Source GIS applications, along with data and quickstarts;
## Participant categories:
## Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html Rick Smith], [http://spatialquerylab.com/ Spatial {Query} Lab] at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html Michael Starek], Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in the application of emergent geo-sensing techniques for monitoring of the 3D build environment.
# [http://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno Rafael Moreno], Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Incorporation of FOSS4G in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning curricula. Land use planning, natural resources management, GIS science and Technology.
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/ArchitecturePlanning/facultystaff/directories/Pages/Individual%20Pages_Planning/Troy_Austin.aspx Austin Troy], Department of Planning and Design, College of Architecture and Plannig, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Land use policy, environmental planning, GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, land use change modeling and simulation?
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/Programs/Computer-Science-and-Engineering/faculty/Pages/FarnoushBanaeiKashani.aspx Farnoush Banaei-Kashani], Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Big data management and mining, database systems, data-driven decision-making systems
# [http://humanities.usm.my/index.php/discover-us/our-people/staff-directory/42-geography/31-ruslan-rainis Ruslan Rainis], Geoinformatic Unit, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
## Participant categories: R
## FOSS4G in social sciences & liberal arts curricula, Urban big data, urban spatial modelling.
# [http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/winter/ Stephan Winter], Geomatics, The University of Melbourne
## Participant categories: R, E
## Coordinating the Melbourne Urban Connectedness research cluster.
# [http://de.linkedin.com/pub/ingo-simonis/3/145/701 Ingo Simonis], OGC
## Participant categories: U, R, E
## Standardization needs and solutions for Urban Science.
# [http://kr.linkedin.com/pub/junyoung-choi/54/308/986 Junyoung Choi], Spatial Information Office of Korea Land and Housing Corp(Public company) and Spatial Big Data Center at MOLIT, Republic of Korea.
## Participant categories: U, R
## Spatial Big Data for the Smart Cities in Developing Countries, Urban Spatial Measures for UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs); UN SDG 11. Making Cities and Human Settlement.
# [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/?People:Dr._Rizwan_Bulbul Rizwan Bulbul], Director of [http://grel.ist.edu.pk Geospatial Research and Education Lab], Institute of space technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
## Participant categories: R, E
## 3D city modeling, 3D reconstruction, Spatio-temporal databases for cities, NSDI
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-strong-2490728a Emma Strong], Southern Mississippi Planning and Development District (SMPDD)
## Participant categories: U
## I work with the southern 15 counties of Mississippi and all cities and towns contained within. A few cities and counties have advanced GIS, mostly proprietary, but much of the area is rural with little to no GIS budget, so I plan to train myself so I can train others and spread GIS to more areas in the public sector. I think this project can help me to do that.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaisen Jaisen Nedumpala], Koorachundu Village Panchayat, Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Free and open-source spatial analytics and GIS Development, SDIs suitable for rural local authorities etc.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhira Sudhira HS], [http://gubbilabs.in Gubbi Labs], Gubbi, Karnataka, India.
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Spatial Planning Support Systems, Modelling and Analytics for Urban Planning and Decision-making, Urban Land-use/Land Cover change using Satellite Remote Sensing
# [https://ie.linkedin.com/in/gavin-mcardle-a2666415 Gavin McArdle], [http://www.csi.ucd.ie/ School of Computer Science, University College Dublin], [http://www.dublindashboard.ie/ Dublin Dashboard].
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Urban Dashboards, Urban Dynamics, Spatial Data Analysis, Human Mobility, Lead Developer of the Dublin Dashboard project working with Dublin City Council.
# [http://gis-management.de Franz-Josef Behr], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Strategic consultancy in geospatial IT, utility sector, interoperability.

== Global Drivers for 'OpenCitySmart' ==

* EC '''Infrastructure for Spatial Information''' in the European Community, [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ INSPIRE]
* US National '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]
* UN '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi UNSDI]
* UNSDI '''[http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi Visualization]''' for UN Member State briefing
* UN '''[http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs Sustainable Development Goals]''' (SDG)
* UN “Urban Goal” ([http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11 SDG #11]): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and '''sustainable''',
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''[http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas Sustainable Development Goals]'''
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''[http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]'''

== Key Research Questions ==

* How can we transform cities to be more sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Facilitate the ability for cities to work together in addressing issues all cities must face.
* How can we empower cities, their citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in addressing the issues our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?
** We build an app whose functionalities '''''all''''' cities can '''''share''''' and every city will also own.
** If cities have a way to share solutions they generate for themselves, we address our own needs yet end up serving the interest of all. That's compound interest!

=='''''The Road Map''''' ==

* We can thank OGC's "[http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/ Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework]" for a good start on defining the problem.

* We can thank Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this [http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html OpenCitySmart] app idea into action! Will your city step forward to help lead our shared effort to make cities more productive and more livable?

* ''' 'OpenCitySmart' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7 INSPIRE Data Specifications]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning Urban Planning]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system Intelligent Transportation]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care Health & Medical Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service Public Safety & Emergency Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection Environmental Protection]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation Intelligent Buildings]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc.]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service Location-Based Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system Indoor Positioning System]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'']

* '''Data sharing''' – Cities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. These data sets most often include:

# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels INSPIRE Data Models]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery Imagery] Resolution, 3-inch pixel is preferred, 1-foot pixel less so, 1-meter much less so
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre Cadastral] Information: parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class
# Address Information: house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information
# Jurisdictional boundaries: incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc., urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model Elevation] Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Infrastructure/utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot-prints, complexes, monuments, etc., facility contacts, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# LiDAR, invaluable data, needing the tools to put it to good use. The City of Springfield has high resolution LiDAR, 8 points per meter. Though they put it to good use, they want even better tools to work with it (i.e., our OpenCitySmart app).

* '''Challenges'''

# '''Technical''' e.g. raw data made usable, data dating, accurate geo-reference conversion, unit conversion (i.e., metric/standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.
# '''Legal''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protecting IP and copyrights.
# '''Economic''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships.
# '''Social''' e.g. fostering public engagement in 'Big Data,' community participation in evaluation of current practices, data gathering, analysis and privacy issues.

*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap''' - Any serious roadmap on urban management must consider the social dimension. In this respect, we need to:

# Identify necessary incentives and natural barriers for participation. How can we organize to meet the needs of the citizens affected? For instance, for academics, it might be how to utilize or create peer-review publication venues for contributed work that can reach the community. For practitioners, can we define the city's key or most pressing needs? For commercial developers, are they in situations where their employer will see contributions to a global effort something they should be doing?
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries, such as the users, customers, consumers, instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructure, software and services. Beneficiaries might be: urban planners, city councils, citizens, teachers and students, scientists, and academia, etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.
# Identify and get into contact with representatives of an intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.
# Engage with these people in order to identify '''their real needs for city analytics.''' This will help to accurately identify requirements, and acquire direct feedback. this should also include them in continuously active review panels.
# Evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. For city development this typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters.

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* [http://webworldwind.org/ NASA Web World Wind] (JavaScript)
* [http://goworldwind.org/ NASA World Wind] (Java, iOS and Android)
* [http://aurin.org.au/projects/portal-and-infrastructure/what-if/ Online What If?] Planning Support System (Web version is now available)
* [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS]
* [http://i-locate.eu/ i-Locate]
* [http://geomoose.org/ GeoMoose]
* [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ Policrowd2.0]
* Europa Challenge Open Source Projects [http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015 2015]
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design [http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]
* [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench]
* Arizona State University (ASU) [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software GeoDa]
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.
* [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS]
** Multi-temporal, full 3D GIS research platform with many processing, analytical, modeling and visualization tools relevant to Urban Science and city analytics (lidar-based models, solar energy, viewsheds, networks, water resources, full 3D visualization with animations and many others in the core package, with additional tools, including civil engineering design in add-ons)

== Natural Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, [http://www.unsdi.nl/ United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure] (UNSDI)
* [http://fossgeo.org/ GeoAcademy] (Phil Davis)
* [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ University of Massachusetts at Amherst]
* [http://aworldbridge.com/ Trillium Learning - A World Bridge Projects]
* [http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/ IBM Smarter Cities]
* [http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB UBM Future Cities]
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, [http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/ Sustainable Cities] Master Programme
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for [http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/ Sustainable Connected Cites]
* ISET Building [http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html Urban Resilience to Climate Change]
* [http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge 100 Resilient Cities Challenge]
* Rockefeller Foundation [http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/our-work/initiatives/global-resilience-partnership/ Global Resilience Partnership] [http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/ funding transformative solutions]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/19/cities-arent-great-with-data-could-mike-bloomberg-change-that/ Bloomberg to give $42 million to help cities do more with data]
* University of Toronto [http://news.utoronto.ca/u-ts-patricia-mccarney-launches-open-city-data-portal Launches Open City Data Portal]
* University of Toronto [http://www.globalcitiesinstitute.org/ Global Cities Institute]
* University of Toronto [http://www.dataforcities.org/ World Council on City Data]
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis]
* [http://aurin.org.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN]
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software Arizona State University (ASU) GeoD]
* [http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc HAROSA Knowledge Community (KC)] An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.
* Politecnico di Milano, [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en GEO Lab] (Geomatics and Earth Observations)
* ETIS Lab, University of Cergy Pontoise, France. [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab - MIDI team]

== OpenCitySmart ''''''The App'''''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop an '''''OpenCitySmart App''''' based on the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section.

The City of [http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html Springfield Oregon] has already shown us the way forward.

Some basic requirements:
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices
* Imagery & Elevation Import
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Deﬁned
* Open Street Map (OSM) Placenames, Boundaries and Roads
* Picking and Decluttering
* Shapeﬁle and KML Import
* Measurement Tools
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation
* Subsurface Visualization
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving

This OpenCitySmart app needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for easy-to-add functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the OpenCitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

We ask academic and other community oriented organizations, such as those listed as [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#Natural_Partners Natural Partners], to help us with the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#The_Road_Map Road Map].

'''Why Do This?'''

Because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter the city. If you are brave and good, just build it and be a lightning rod for our brighter future. The Region and Theme Chairs will evaluate self-identifying contributions, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.'''

'''Understanding our Changing Planet.'''

# Historical tracks of hurricanes.
## SLOSH http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/slosh.php
# LiDAR - local communities are using [http://aworldbridge.com/real-time-projects/unmanned-aircraft-systems---2.html UAVs to generate their own LiDAR maps]. Plus several states have LiDAR datasets.
# Biodiversity
## Datasets include:
### Landfire http://www.landfire.gov/
### Crop Scape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/
### VegScape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/VegScape/
# Vulnerability Issues
## Social Vulnerability Index: http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/products/sovi.aspx
## Data sources:
### http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=store
### http://openweathermap.org/
# Possible indexes, include -
## Risk Terrain Model http://rutgerscps.weebly.com/rtm.html
## Flash Flood Potential Index http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/hydro/FFPI/FFPI_WriteUp.pdf
## Crisis Mapping and Ushashidid - http://www.ushahidi.com/

== Lab nearest city and vulnerability threats, lat/long coordinates ==
* Colleagues, please list (1) your name, (2) the city your lab is closest to, (3) the possible threats that city might face in future years related to population growth and/or the effects of climate change (e.g., coastal storm surge, hurricanes, heat islands, inland lack of water, etc.) and (4) your city's lat\long. I'm hoping to map all the cities in our network for a figure for future grant proposals.
** Charlie Schweik, Springfield, MA, hurricanes, heat islands, 42.393578, -72.524696
** Thomas Mueller, Pittsburgh, PA, heat island, increased flooding due to climate change, 40.440625, -79.995886
** Patrick Hogan, Moffett Field, CA, drought, sea-level-rise, 37.42, -122.06
** Antoni Perez-Navarro, Barcelona, Spain, lack of water, drought, flooding, sea-level-rise, 2.173403, 41.385064
** Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Warsaw, Poland, heat island, flooding and flash floods, 21.020, 52.259
** Hande Demirel, Istanbul, Turkey, drought, flash flood, heat island, sea storm surge, 41.0136, 28.9550
** Helena Mitasova, Raleigh, NC, population growth, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, 35.7818,-78.6764

== OpenCitySmart - important journals ==
* Colleagues, I'm trying to build a list of possible publishing venues for academics on this group for a grant proposal. Please list below any relevant journals our group should be aware of -- especially ones of high impact factor or open access. Thanks - [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik]
** Urban Geography - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/current
** PLOS One (open access) - http://www.plosone.org/
** Journal of Spatial Information Sciences (open access) - http://www.josis.org/index.php/josis
** International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (open access) - http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/ijsdir/index
** The Environment and Planning family of journals - http://www.envplan.com/index.html
** '''Colleagues, please add others''', especially ones that are relevant to geo-crowdsourcing, volunteer geographic information, geospatial sensors, geo-analytics, modeling, visualization or decision-support. Also any relevant to open geospatial science education. Thanks!

== Reference Material ==

* Lane County, Oregon, Lane Livability Consortium, Data Inventory and Next Steps Report
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/files/Data-Plan.pdf
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* Dedeurwaerdere, T. 2014. Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing.
** http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/dedeurwaerdere/book_Sustainability%20Science_EE.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Veeckman, C. and van der Graaf, 2015. The City as Living Laboratory: Empowering Citizens with the Citadel Toolkit
** Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review). http://timreview.ca/issue/2015/march

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/

* Open government, open source city
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual
** http://allthingsopen.org

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== 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

* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the "Geo for All" initiative ===

This initiative is led by Suchith Anand.

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 across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014. The motto of ICA-OSGeo Lab initiative is "Geo For All".Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

All interested organisations must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs 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.

There are two tables, the first one for university/education/schools members ; second table for Industry ,Government and NGO partners of "Geo for All" mission, please select one accordingly.All interested organisations joining as "labs" or "partners"must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

To add a new member copy an existing table entry (uses Mediawiki syntax) and input your information. The coordinates are '''WGS84 decimal coordinates''' in format '''longitude, latitude'''; if you don't add the coordinates following this rule your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map].

=== University/Higher Education/Schools members ===

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / 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
|
|
| Didier Leibovici
| Didier dot Leibovici 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
| Geospatial analysis and geovisualization, Geo Big Data, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ VGI and citizen science]
| Marco Minghini
| marco.minghini at 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://gridw.pl/en/areas-of-competence/179-open-source-geolab UNEP/GRID Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
| 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://osgl.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.karto.ethz.ch/ Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionut Iosifescu Enescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| Teaching Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Rossella Nocera
| rossella.nocera at unimol.it
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
|
| Prof. Dr. Marek Baranowski
| Marek.Baranowski@igik.edu.pl
|-
| 13.
| [http://geo.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
|
|
| 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
| [https://www.fossgis.de/wiki/FOSS@HFT FOSS@HFT: Open Source Group at University of Applied Sciences]; Open Source based geospatial education; OSGEo Certification framework
| 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
| silvanacamboim at gmail.com
|-
| 17.
| [http://geografia.science.upjs.sk/index.php/en/ Institute of Geography, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University]
| Kosice
| Slovakia
| Europe
| 48.7288883, 21.2460432
| 2016-04-25
| Open source GIS course, development and applications of GRASS GIS; R; MapServer; LAStools; MeshLab; CloudCompare; Blender
| Jaroslav Hofierka
| jaroslav.hofierka@upjs.sk
|-
| 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://www.universidad.edu.uy/ Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| [http://geografia.fcien.edu.uy/ltaat/ Laboratorio de Técnicas Aplicadas al Análisis del Territorio]
| Virginia Fernandez
| vivi@fcien.edu.uy
|-
| 20.
| [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/ University of Trento]
| Trento
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.139053, 46.064827
|
|[http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/documents.html Tutorials in the Italian and English languages]
|[[User: clara |Clara Tattoni]]
|clara.tattoni at unitn.it
|-
| 21.
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html University of Heidelberg]
| Heidelberg
| Germany
| Europe
| 49.41739, 8.67024
| 2016-02-08
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html Heidelberg GIScience]
|Alexander Zipf and Bernhard Hofle
|
|-
| 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, [https://github.com/ncsu-osgeorel course 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
| Developing a Web-GIS class; Working on grants to support GeoForAll's activities; Collaboration on open educational materials
| 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://fght.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| Website under construction. Teaching GIS software using QGIS and other OSGEO products. Introduce web based mapping tools using MapGuide Open Source and QGIS.
|Nurul Hawani Idris
|hawani at utm.my
|-
| 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
| nctiglao at gmail.com
|-
| 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(at)grel(dot)ist(dot)edu(dot)pk
|-
| 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
|
|
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
|
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Jack Barton
| jack.barton at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://spatialquerylab.com/projects/open-source-gis/ Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| FOSS4G curriculum development focusing on QGIS and GRASS. Curriculum available on [http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/ our website].
| 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
|
| 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
| Reviewing our actual formation portfolio and research interests.
| 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
| Use opensource GIS for basic GIS courses. Had done research on use opensource GIS for secondary schools. http://campusgis.usm.my/
| Ruslan Rainis
| rruslan at usm.my
|-
| 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
|Spatial processing on the web using open standards and open source software
| 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
| Active
| 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.
| [http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/ Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo]
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| VGI and Neocartography studies @ Divisions of Research Initiative for Geospatially Enabled Society, [http://udct-data.aigid.jp/ Urban Data Challenge]
| Dr. Toshikazu Seto
| tosseto 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
|http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ http://www.auth.gr/en/units/19861
| 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
| in the process of being established
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/la/e?lid=15 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/
| 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 (TSNUK) 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/ PostGIS tutorials and spatial analysis with PostGIS
| 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
| [https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi] [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/docentes/gvsigbatoviresumen gvSIG Batoví-Ceibal]
| 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, MapServer, GRASS GIS, PostGIS, OSGeo Live, ... [http://www.agt.bme.hu/osgeolab/?lang=en http://www.agt.bme.hu/osgeolab/?lang=en]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki.zoltan at epito.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
| FOSS4G Educator at Central New Mexico Community College, Del Mar College and the University of New Mexico. Co-author Mastering QGIS [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 and Environmental Studies, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source 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
|-
| 92.
| [http://www-etis.ensea.fr/ ETIS Lab ENSEA UCP CNRS UMR 8051 ], University of Cergy Pontoise
| Cergy Pontoise
| France
| Europe
| 2.085741, 49.043274
| 2015-03-10
| Website under construction
| [[User:kotzino | Dimitris Kotzinos]]
| kotzino at gmail.com
|-
| 93.
| Department of Global Studies, Warren Wilson College
| Asheville NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.4420794, 35.6115585
| 2015-04-19
| Website under construction
| David Abernathy
| dabernathy@warren-wilson.edu
|-
| 94.
| The Spatial Lab, Dept of Geography & Environmental Studies Wilfrid Laurier University
| Waterloo, ON
| Canada
| North America
| -80.529557, 43.474073
| 2015-05-01
|
| Colin Robertson
| crobertson at wlu.ca
|-
| 95.
| National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences
| Cairo
| Egypt
| Africa
| 30.0500, 31.2333
| 2015-05-01
| Improving the quality of Education/Vocational Education using Geospatial Technology based on FOSS
| Rania Elsayed
| ranyaalsayed at gmail.com
|-
| 96.
| [http://sgugit.ru/en/collaboration/international-cooperation/siberian-opensource-geospatial-lab/ Geomatics and Virtual Reality Research Group], Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies
| Novosibirsk
| Russian Federation
| Europe
| 82.863503, 54.986816
| 2015-05-18
| In process of being established
| Alexey Kolesnikov, Pavel Kikin
| alekseykw at gmail.com, it-technologies at yandex.ru
|-
| 97.
| [http://smart.uow.edu.au/osgeo/index.html SMART Open Source Geospatial Laboratory], University of Wollongong
| Wollongong
| Australia
| Australia
| 150.87889, -34.40596
| 2014-10-17
|
| Dr Tomas Holderness
| tomas at uow.edu.au
|-
| 98.
| [http://www.fmt.bme.hu/ Department of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054717, 47.481911
| 2015-06-29
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, Curriculum development on QGIS
| Dr. Gyorgy Szabo
| szabo.gyorgy at epito.bme.hu
|-
|99.
| [http://www.etsu.edu/cas/geosciences/ Geospatial Exploration Lab, Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University]
| Johnson City, Tennessee
| USA
| North America
| -82.3700950, 36.3000590
| 2015-06-18
| Research and Applied Geospatial Projects; Research includes Hydrological Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GRP), Hazard/Disaster Modeling and Mapping, Climatological Modeling and Mapping, and Species Distribution Modeling; Applied Geospatial Projects include server- and app-based solutions for campus, local cities and counties, micro UAV (drone) videography and photo imaging, and community GIS support; Website: http://etsugeos.weebly.com/gel.html (Partially constructed)
| Dr. Andrew Joyner
| joynert@mail.etsu.edu
|-
|100.
| [http://www.geoinformatics.upol.cz/eosgeo Dept. of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc]
| Olomouc
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 17.26551,49.593812
| 2015-06-29
| Courses with open source products
| Dr. Rostislav Nétek
| rostislav.netek@upol.cz
|-
|101.
| [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/gis/OSGeo/osgeolablaunch University College London]
| London
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -0.133427,51.524773
| 2015-07-07
| Courses and research making extensive use of open source products and open data, run across UCL including Geomatic Engineering, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Geography and Archaeology.
| Dr. Claire Ellul
| c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk
|-
|102.
| [http://aworldbridge.com/ A World Bridge]
| Kodiak, Alaska
| USA
| North America
| -152.396023, 57.781399
| 2015-07-07
| Building advanced curriculum through the design and implementation of real-time, real-world, project-based learning environments.
| Ron Fortunato
| ron@trilliumlearning.com
|-
|103.
| [http://www.irea.cnr.it/en/ IREA-CNR]
| Via Edoardo Bassini, Milano
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.23434,45.48046
| 2015-10-05
| Activities of IREA in FOSS are mainly related to research in the management of geo-based data and information, and in the development of free and open software to enable storage, management, view and access to geodata.
| Alessandro Oggioni
| oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it
|-
|104.
| [http://g2c.heig-vd.ch/en/presentation/labs/geoinformatics-and-gis HEIG-VD GIS-Lab] University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland at Yverdon
| Route de Cheseaux 1, 1401 Yverdon-les-Bains
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.65950,46.77938
| 2015-10-08
| Key competences: spatial databases, modeling, data infrastructures, interoperability, webmapping, spatial webservices, spatial analysis, GIS project management, geovisualization, human-computer interaction and interface design
| Prof. Dr. Jens Ingensand
| jens.ingensand@heig-vd.ch
|-
|105.
| [http://www.gsc.aoyama.ac.jp/ Global Studies and Collaboration(GSC)], Aoyama Gakuin University
| Fuchinobe 5-10-1, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.4030, 35.5664
| 2015-11-05
| Courses with open source products and open data. In addition, There is OpenStreetMap basecamp/CrisisMappers Japan base.
| Prof. Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at gsc.aoyama.ac.jp
|-
|106.
| [http://rsgis.ait.ac.th/ Remote Sensing & GIS], Asian Institute of
Technology
| 58 Moo 9, Km. 42, Paholyothin Highway, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120
| Thailand
| Asia
| 100.612086, 14.079753
| 2015-11-24
| Open-source Web mapping, LBS, crowd sourcing, Sensor Web, OGC Web
Services and QGIS plugins; research, teaching, and consulting using OGS
Web Services,QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
| sarawutn at ait.ac.th
|-
|107.
| [http://www.aun.edu.ng/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], School of Information Technology and Computing, American University of Nigeria
| 98 Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola By-Pass, P.M.B. 2250,Yola, Adamawa State
| Nigeria
| Africa
| 12.4996909, 9.1911318
| 2015-11-25
| Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Prof. Kalum Priyanath Udagepola
| kalum.udagepola at aun.edu.ng
|-
|108.
|[http://geographydept.um.ac.ir/ Department of Geography]
| Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashad
| Iran
| Asia
| 59.534125,36.306903
| 2016-02-01
|
| Dr. Masoud Minaei
| minaei.masoud at gmail.com
|-
|109.
| [http://ladestlab.it Laboratorio Dati Economici Storici Territoriali] University of Siena
| Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 10 - 53100 Siena
| Italy
| Europe
| 43.312688,11.332129
| 2016-23-04
| Key competences: GIS; data collection; spatial analysis; territorial data mapping; agent-based spatial modelling; volunteered geographic information; social media analysis
| Prof. Cristina Capineri; Stefano Picascia
| {cristina,stefano}@ladestlab.it
|}

=== "Geo for All" Government, Industry and NGO Partners ===

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!
! Organisation
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / Announced
! Notes (specify category etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
|1.
| [http://www.sourcepole.com Sourcepole]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.528522,47.370273
| 2015-07-03
| Partnership with [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Pirmin Kalberer
| info at sourcepole dot com
|-
|2.
| [http://www.attivarti.org Attivarti.org]
| Torniella
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.15382,43.07390
| 2015-07-12
| incubation phase (various links to OSGEO Community and to other geospatial players in Italy and internationally). Focus on VGI and participatory methods.
| Andrea Giacomelli
| mappare at attivarti dot org
|-
|3.
| [http://www.hunagi.hu HUNAGI]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.05561,46.48147
| 2015-08-12
| Free data, geodatabases, resource analysis, geospatial modelling and programming. (OSM, SRTM, QGIS, PyQGIS, Qt, GRASS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS)
| Ervin Wirth
| wirth dot ervin at hunagi dot hu
|-
|4.
| [http://www.wat-tube.it Wat-TUBE (spin-off University of Basilicata)]
| Potenza
| Italy
| Europe
| 15.807793,40.645470
| 2015-09-07
| Open-source and free (FOSS) software development in the field of flood and landslide risk, flood prediction and analysis, water resources management, hydrology.
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Raffalba Raffaele Albano]
| raffaele dot albano85 at gmail dot com
|-
|}

== Interested in joining or supporting the "Geo for All" initiative? ==

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

# North America - Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
# South America - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
# Europe - Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)
# Asia (including Australia)- Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
# Africa - Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Email the regonial mailing lists and contact the region chairs to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process. The full criteria at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

=== Key requirements for joining the "ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs" initiative ===

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(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 other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS 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 and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
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 and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

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

; Past Meetings:
* [[FOSS4G EU Como 2015 Preconference meeting]]
* [[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

== ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
<br>
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

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

Edu current initiatives

2016-04-27T09:39:00Z

Fjbehr: /* University/Higher Education/Schools members */

== 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

* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the "Geo for All" initiative ===

This initiative is led by Suchith Anand.

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 across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014. The motto of ICA-OSGeo Lab initiative is "Geo For All".Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

All interested organisations must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs 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.

There are two tables, the first one for university/education/schools members ; second table for Industry ,Government and NGO partners of "Geo for All" mission, please select one accordingly.All interested organisations joining as "labs" or "partners"must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

To add a new member copy an existing table entry (uses Mediawiki syntax) and input your information. The coordinates are '''WGS84 decimal coordinates''' in format '''longitude, latitude'''; if you don't add the coordinates following this rule your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map].

=== University/Higher Education/Schools members ===

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / 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
|
|
| Didier Leibovici
| Didier dot Leibovici 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
| Geospatial analysis and geovisualization, Geo Big Data, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ VGI and citizen science]
| Marco Minghini
| marco.minghini at 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://gridw.pl/en/areas-of-competence/179-open-source-geolab UNEP/GRID Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
| 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://osgl.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.karto.ethz.ch/ Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionut Iosifescu Enescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| Teaching Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Rossella Nocera
| rossella.nocera at unimol.it
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
|
| Prof. Dr. Marek Baranowski
| Marek.Baranowski@igik.edu.pl
|-
| 13.
| [http://geo.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
|
|
| 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
| [https://www.fossgis.de/wiki/FOSS@HFT FOSS@HFT: Open Source Group at Unitversity of Applied Sciences]; Open Source based geospatial education; OSGEo Certification framework
| 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
| silvanacamboim at gmail.com
|-
| 17.
| [http://geografia.science.upjs.sk/index.php/en/ Institute of Geography, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University]
| Kosice
| Slovakia
| Europe
| 48.7288883, 21.2460432
| 2016-04-25
| Open source GIS course, development and applications of GRASS GIS; R; MapServer; LAStools; MeshLab; CloudCompare; Blender
| Jaroslav Hofierka
| jaroslav.hofierka@upjs.sk
|-
| 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://www.universidad.edu.uy/ Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| [http://geografia.fcien.edu.uy/ltaat/ Laboratorio de Técnicas Aplicadas al Análisis del Territorio]
| Virginia Fernandez
| vivi@fcien.edu.uy
|-
| 20.
| [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/ University of Trento]
| Trento
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.139053, 46.064827
|
|[http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/documents.html Tutorials in the Italian and English languages]
|[[User: clara |Clara Tattoni]]
|clara.tattoni at unitn.it
|-
| 21.
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html University of Heidelberg]
| Heidelberg
| Germany
| Europe
| 49.41739, 8.67024
| 2016-02-08
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html Heidelberg GIScience]
|Alexander Zipf and Bernhard Hofle
|
|-
| 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, [https://github.com/ncsu-osgeorel course 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
| Developing a Web-GIS class; Working on grants to support GeoForAll's activities; Collaboration on open educational materials
| 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://fght.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| Website under construction. Teaching GIS software using QGIS and other OSGEO products. Introduce web based mapping tools using MapGuide Open Source and QGIS.
|Nurul Hawani Idris
|hawani at utm.my
|-
| 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
| nctiglao at gmail.com
|-
| 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(at)grel(dot)ist(dot)edu(dot)pk
|-
| 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
|
|
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
|
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Jack Barton
| jack.barton at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://spatialquerylab.com/projects/open-source-gis/ Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| FOSS4G curriculum development focusing on QGIS and GRASS. Curriculum available on [http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/ our website].
| 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
|
| 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
| Reviewing our actual formation portfolio and research interests.
| 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
| Use opensource GIS for basic GIS courses. Had done research on use opensource GIS for secondary schools. http://campusgis.usm.my/
| Ruslan Rainis
| rruslan at usm.my
|-
| 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
|Spatial processing on the web using open standards and open source software
| 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
| Active
| 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.
| [http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/ Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo]
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| VGI and Neocartography studies @ Divisions of Research Initiative for Geospatially Enabled Society, [http://udct-data.aigid.jp/ Urban Data Challenge]
| Dr. Toshikazu Seto
| tosseto 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
|http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ http://www.auth.gr/en/units/19861
| 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
| in the process of being established
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/la/e?lid=15 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/
| 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 (TSNUK) 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/ PostGIS tutorials and spatial analysis with PostGIS
| 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
| [https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi] [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/docentes/gvsigbatoviresumen gvSIG Batoví-Ceibal]
| 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, MapServer, GRASS GIS, PostGIS, OSGeo Live, ... [http://www.agt.bme.hu/osgeolab/?lang=en http://www.agt.bme.hu/osgeolab/?lang=en]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki.zoltan at epito.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
| FOSS4G Educator at Central New Mexico Community College, Del Mar College and the University of New Mexico. Co-author Mastering QGIS [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 and Environmental Studies, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source 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
|-
| 92.
| [http://www-etis.ensea.fr/ ETIS Lab ENSEA UCP CNRS UMR 8051 ], University of Cergy Pontoise
| Cergy Pontoise
| France
| Europe
| 2.085741, 49.043274
| 2015-03-10
| Website under construction
| [[User:kotzino | Dimitris Kotzinos]]
| kotzino at gmail.com
|-
| 93.
| Department of Global Studies, Warren Wilson College
| Asheville NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.4420794, 35.6115585
| 2015-04-19
| Website under construction
| David Abernathy
| dabernathy@warren-wilson.edu
|-
| 94.
| The Spatial Lab, Dept of Geography & Environmental Studies Wilfrid Laurier University
| Waterloo, ON
| Canada
| North America
| -80.529557, 43.474073
| 2015-05-01
|
| Colin Robertson
| crobertson at wlu.ca
|-
| 95.
| National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences
| Cairo
| Egypt
| Africa
| 30.0500, 31.2333
| 2015-05-01
| Improving the quality of Education/Vocational Education using Geospatial Technology based on FOSS
| Rania Elsayed
| ranyaalsayed at gmail.com
|-
| 96.
| [http://sgugit.ru/en/collaboration/international-cooperation/siberian-opensource-geospatial-lab/ Geomatics and Virtual Reality Research Group], Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies
| Novosibirsk
| Russian Federation
| Europe
| 82.863503, 54.986816
| 2015-05-18
| In process of being established
| Alexey Kolesnikov, Pavel Kikin
| alekseykw at gmail.com, it-technologies at yandex.ru
|-
| 97.
| [http://smart.uow.edu.au/osgeo/index.html SMART Open Source Geospatial Laboratory], University of Wollongong
| Wollongong
| Australia
| Australia
| 150.87889, -34.40596
| 2014-10-17
|
| Dr Tomas Holderness
| tomas at uow.edu.au
|-
| 98.
| [http://www.fmt.bme.hu/ Department of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054717, 47.481911
| 2015-06-29
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, Curriculum development on QGIS
| Dr. Gyorgy Szabo
| szabo.gyorgy at epito.bme.hu
|-
|99.
| [http://www.etsu.edu/cas/geosciences/ Geospatial Exploration Lab, Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University]
| Johnson City, Tennessee
| USA
| North America
| -82.3700950, 36.3000590
| 2015-06-18
| Research and Applied Geospatial Projects; Research includes Hydrological Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GRP), Hazard/Disaster Modeling and Mapping, Climatological Modeling and Mapping, and Species Distribution Modeling; Applied Geospatial Projects include server- and app-based solutions for campus, local cities and counties, micro UAV (drone) videography and photo imaging, and community GIS support; Website: http://etsugeos.weebly.com/gel.html (Partially constructed)
| Dr. Andrew Joyner
| joynert@mail.etsu.edu
|-
|100.
| [http://www.geoinformatics.upol.cz/eosgeo Dept. of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc]
| Olomouc
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 17.26551,49.593812
| 2015-06-29
| Courses with open source products
| Dr. Rostislav Nétek
| rostislav.netek@upol.cz
|-
|101.
| [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/gis/OSGeo/osgeolablaunch University College London]
| London
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -0.133427,51.524773
| 2015-07-07
| Courses and research making extensive use of open source products and open data, run across UCL including Geomatic Engineering, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Geography and Archaeology.
| Dr. Claire Ellul
| c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk
|-
|102.
| [http://aworldbridge.com/ A World Bridge]
| Kodiak, Alaska
| USA
| North America
| -152.396023, 57.781399
| 2015-07-07
| Building advanced curriculum through the design and implementation of real-time, real-world, project-based learning environments.
| Ron Fortunato
| ron@trilliumlearning.com
|-
|103.
| [http://www.irea.cnr.it/en/ IREA-CNR]
| Via Edoardo Bassini, Milano
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.23434,45.48046
| 2015-10-05
| Activities of IREA in FOSS are mainly related to research in the management of geo-based data and information, and in the development of free and open software to enable storage, management, view and access to geodata.
| Alessandro Oggioni
| oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it
|-
|104.
| [http://g2c.heig-vd.ch/en/presentation/labs/geoinformatics-and-gis HEIG-VD GIS-Lab] University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland at Yverdon
| Route de Cheseaux 1, 1401 Yverdon-les-Bains
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.65950,46.77938
| 2015-10-08
| Key competences: spatial databases, modeling, data infrastructures, interoperability, webmapping, spatial webservices, spatial analysis, GIS project management, geovisualization, human-computer interaction and interface design
| Prof. Dr. Jens Ingensand
| jens.ingensand@heig-vd.ch
|-
|105.
| [http://www.gsc.aoyama.ac.jp/ Global Studies and Collaboration(GSC)], Aoyama Gakuin University
| Fuchinobe 5-10-1, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.4030, 35.5664
| 2015-11-05
| Courses with open source products and open data. In addition, There is OpenStreetMap basecamp/CrisisMappers Japan base.
| Prof. Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at gsc.aoyama.ac.jp
|-
|106.
| [http://rsgis.ait.ac.th/ Remote Sensing & GIS], Asian Institute of
Technology
| 58 Moo 9, Km. 42, Paholyothin Highway, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120
| Thailand
| Asia
| 100.612086, 14.079753
| 2015-11-24
| Open-source Web mapping, LBS, crowd sourcing, Sensor Web, OGC Web
Services and QGIS plugins; research, teaching, and consulting using OGS
Web Services,QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
| sarawutn at ait.ac.th
|-
|107.
| [http://www.aun.edu.ng/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], School of Information Technology and Computing, American University of Nigeria
| 98 Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola By-Pass, P.M.B. 2250,Yola, Adamawa State
| Nigeria
| Africa
| 12.4996909, 9.1911318
| 2015-11-25
| Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Prof. Kalum Priyanath Udagepola
| kalum.udagepola at aun.edu.ng
|-
|108.
|[http://geographydept.um.ac.ir/ Department of Geography]
| Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashad
| Iran
| Asia
| 59.534125,36.306903
| 2016-02-01
|
| Dr. Masoud Minaei
| minaei.masoud at gmail.com
|-
|109.
| [http://ladestlab.it Laboratorio Dati Economici Storici Territoriali] University of Siena
| Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 10 - 53100 Siena
| Italy
| Europe
| 43.312688,11.332129
| 2016-23-04
| Key competences: GIS; data collection; spatial analysis; territorial data mapping; agent-based spatial modelling; volunteered geographic information; social media analysis
| Prof. Cristina Capineri; Stefano Picascia
| {cristina,stefano}@ladestlab.it
|}

=== "Geo for All" Government, Industry and NGO Partners ===

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!
! Organisation
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / Announced
! Notes (specify category etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
|1.
| [http://www.sourcepole.com Sourcepole]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.528522,47.370273
| 2015-07-03
| Partnership with [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Pirmin Kalberer
| info at sourcepole dot com
|-
|2.
| [http://www.attivarti.org Attivarti.org]
| Torniella
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.15382,43.07390
| 2015-07-12
| incubation phase (various links to OSGEO Community and to other geospatial players in Italy and internationally). Focus on VGI and participatory methods.
| Andrea Giacomelli
| mappare at attivarti dot org
|-
|3.
| [http://www.hunagi.hu HUNAGI]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.05561,46.48147
| 2015-08-12
| Free data, geodatabases, resource analysis, geospatial modelling and programming. (OSM, SRTM, QGIS, PyQGIS, Qt, GRASS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS)
| Ervin Wirth
| wirth dot ervin at hunagi dot hu
|-
|4.
| [http://www.wat-tube.it Wat-TUBE (spin-off University of Basilicata)]
| Potenza
| Italy
| Europe
| 15.807793,40.645470
| 2015-09-07
| Open-source and free (FOSS) software development in the field of flood and landslide risk, flood prediction and analysis, water resources management, hydrology.
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Raffalba Raffaele Albano]
| raffaele dot albano85 at gmail dot com
|-
|}

== Interested in joining or supporting the "Geo for All" initiative? ==

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

# North America - Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
# South America - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
# Europe - Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)
# Asia (including Australia)- Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
# Africa - Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Email the regonial mailing lists and contact the region chairs to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process. The full criteria at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

=== Key requirements for joining the "ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs" initiative ===

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(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 other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS 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 and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
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 and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

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

; Past Meetings:
* [[FOSS4G EU Como 2015 Preconference meeting]]
* [[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

== ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
<br>
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

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

Edu current initiatives

2016-04-27T09:36:20Z

Fjbehr:

== 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

* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the "Geo for All" initiative ===

This initiative is led by Suchith Anand.

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 across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014. The motto of ICA-OSGeo Lab initiative is "Geo For All".Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

All interested organisations must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs 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.

There are two tables, the first one for university/education/schools members ; second table for Industry ,Government and NGO partners of "Geo for All" mission, please select one accordingly.All interested organisations joining as "labs" or "partners"must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

To add a new member copy an existing table entry (uses Mediawiki syntax) and input your information. The coordinates are '''WGS84 decimal coordinates''' in format '''longitude, latitude'''; if you don't add the coordinates following this rule your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map].

=== University/Higher Education/Schools members ===

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / 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
|
|
| Didier Leibovici
| Didier dot Leibovici 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
| Geospatial analysis and geovisualization, Geo Big Data, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ VGI and citizen science]
| Marco Minghini
| marco.minghini at 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://gridw.pl/en/areas-of-competence/179-open-source-geolab UNEP/GRID Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
| 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://osgl.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.karto.ethz.ch/ Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionut Iosifescu Enescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| Teaching Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Rossella Nocera
| rossella.nocera at unimol.it
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
|
| Prof. Dr. Marek Baranowski
| Marek.Baranowski@igik.edu.pl
|-
| 13.
| [http://geo.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
|
|
| 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
| FOSS@HFT: Open Source Group at Unitversity of Applied Sciences; Open Source based geospatial education
| 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
| silvanacamboim at gmail.com
|-
| 17.
| [http://geografia.science.upjs.sk/index.php/en/ Institute of Geography, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University]
| Kosice
| Slovakia
| Europe
| 48.7288883, 21.2460432
| 2016-04-25
| Open source GIS course, development and applications of GRASS GIS; R; MapServer; LAStools; MeshLab; CloudCompare; Blender
| Jaroslav Hofierka
| jaroslav.hofierka@upjs.sk
|-
| 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://www.universidad.edu.uy/ Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| [http://geografia.fcien.edu.uy/ltaat/ Laboratorio de Técnicas Aplicadas al Análisis del Territorio]
| Virginia Fernandez
| vivi@fcien.edu.uy
|-
| 20.
| [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/ University of Trento]
| Trento
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.139053, 46.064827
|
|[http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/documents.html Tutorials in the Italian and English languages]
|[[User: clara |Clara Tattoni]]
|clara.tattoni at unitn.it
|-
| 21.
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html University of Heidelberg]
| Heidelberg
| Germany
| Europe
| 49.41739, 8.67024
| 2016-02-08
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html Heidelberg GIScience]
|Alexander Zipf and Bernhard Hofle
|
|-
| 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, [https://github.com/ncsu-osgeorel course 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
| Developing a Web-GIS class; Working on grants to support GeoForAll's activities; Collaboration on open educational materials
| 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://fght.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| Website under construction. Teaching GIS software using QGIS and other OSGEO products. Introduce web based mapping tools using MapGuide Open Source and QGIS.
|Nurul Hawani Idris
|hawani at utm.my
|-
| 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
| nctiglao at gmail.com
|-
| 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(at)grel(dot)ist(dot)edu(dot)pk
|-
| 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
|
|
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
|
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Jack Barton
| jack.barton at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://spatialquerylab.com/projects/open-source-gis/ Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| FOSS4G curriculum development focusing on QGIS and GRASS. Curriculum available on [http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/ our website].
| 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
|
| 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
| Reviewing our actual formation portfolio and research interests.
| 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
| Use opensource GIS for basic GIS courses. Had done research on use opensource GIS for secondary schools. http://campusgis.usm.my/
| Ruslan Rainis
| rruslan at usm.my
|-
| 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
|Spatial processing on the web using open standards and open source software
| 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
| Active
| 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.
| [http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/ Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo]
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| VGI and Neocartography studies @ Divisions of Research Initiative for Geospatially Enabled Society, [http://udct-data.aigid.jp/ Urban Data Challenge]
| Dr. Toshikazu Seto
| tosseto 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
|http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ http://www.auth.gr/en/units/19861
| 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
| in the process of being established
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/la/e?lid=15 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/
| 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 (TSNUK) 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/ PostGIS tutorials and spatial analysis with PostGIS
| 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
| [https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi] [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/docentes/gvsigbatoviresumen gvSIG Batoví-Ceibal]
| 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, MapServer, GRASS GIS, PostGIS, OSGeo Live, ... [http://www.agt.bme.hu/osgeolab/?lang=en http://www.agt.bme.hu/osgeolab/?lang=en]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki.zoltan at epito.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
| FOSS4G Educator at Central New Mexico Community College, Del Mar College and the University of New Mexico. Co-author Mastering QGIS [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 and Environmental Studies, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source 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
|-
| 92.
| [http://www-etis.ensea.fr/ ETIS Lab ENSEA UCP CNRS UMR 8051 ], University of Cergy Pontoise
| Cergy Pontoise
| France
| Europe
| 2.085741, 49.043274
| 2015-03-10
| Website under construction
| [[User:kotzino | Dimitris Kotzinos]]
| kotzino at gmail.com
|-
| 93.
| Department of Global Studies, Warren Wilson College
| Asheville NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.4420794, 35.6115585
| 2015-04-19
| Website under construction
| David Abernathy
| dabernathy@warren-wilson.edu
|-
| 94.
| The Spatial Lab, Dept of Geography & Environmental Studies Wilfrid Laurier University
| Waterloo, ON
| Canada
| North America
| -80.529557, 43.474073
| 2015-05-01
|
| Colin Robertson
| crobertson at wlu.ca
|-
| 95.
| National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences
| Cairo
| Egypt
| Africa
| 30.0500, 31.2333
| 2015-05-01
| Improving the quality of Education/Vocational Education using Geospatial Technology based on FOSS
| Rania Elsayed
| ranyaalsayed at gmail.com
|-
| 96.
| [http://sgugit.ru/en/collaboration/international-cooperation/siberian-opensource-geospatial-lab/ Geomatics and Virtual Reality Research Group], Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies
| Novosibirsk
| Russian Federation
| Europe
| 82.863503, 54.986816
| 2015-05-18
| In process of being established
| Alexey Kolesnikov, Pavel Kikin
| alekseykw at gmail.com, it-technologies at yandex.ru
|-
| 97.
| [http://smart.uow.edu.au/osgeo/index.html SMART Open Source Geospatial Laboratory], University of Wollongong
| Wollongong
| Australia
| Australia
| 150.87889, -34.40596
| 2014-10-17
|
| Dr Tomas Holderness
| tomas at uow.edu.au
|-
| 98.
| [http://www.fmt.bme.hu/ Department of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054717, 47.481911
| 2015-06-29
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, Curriculum development on QGIS
| Dr. Gyorgy Szabo
| szabo.gyorgy at epito.bme.hu
|-
|99.
| [http://www.etsu.edu/cas/geosciences/ Geospatial Exploration Lab, Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University]
| Johnson City, Tennessee
| USA
| North America
| -82.3700950, 36.3000590
| 2015-06-18
| Research and Applied Geospatial Projects; Research includes Hydrological Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GRP), Hazard/Disaster Modeling and Mapping, Climatological Modeling and Mapping, and Species Distribution Modeling; Applied Geospatial Projects include server- and app-based solutions for campus, local cities and counties, micro UAV (drone) videography and photo imaging, and community GIS support; Website: http://etsugeos.weebly.com/gel.html (Partially constructed)
| Dr. Andrew Joyner
| joynert@mail.etsu.edu
|-
|100.
| [http://www.geoinformatics.upol.cz/eosgeo Dept. of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc]
| Olomouc
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 17.26551,49.593812
| 2015-06-29
| Courses with open source products
| Dr. Rostislav Nétek
| rostislav.netek@upol.cz
|-
|101.
| [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/gis/OSGeo/osgeolablaunch University College London]
| London
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -0.133427,51.524773
| 2015-07-07
| Courses and research making extensive use of open source products and open data, run across UCL including Geomatic Engineering, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Geography and Archaeology.
| Dr. Claire Ellul
| c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk
|-
|102.
| [http://aworldbridge.com/ A World Bridge]
| Kodiak, Alaska
| USA
| North America
| -152.396023, 57.781399
| 2015-07-07
| Building advanced curriculum through the design and implementation of real-time, real-world, project-based learning environments.
| Ron Fortunato
| ron@trilliumlearning.com
|-
|103.
| [http://www.irea.cnr.it/en/ IREA-CNR]
| Via Edoardo Bassini, Milano
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.23434,45.48046
| 2015-10-05
| Activities of IREA in FOSS are mainly related to research in the management of geo-based data and information, and in the development of free and open software to enable storage, management, view and access to geodata.
| Alessandro Oggioni
| oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it
|-
|104.
| [http://g2c.heig-vd.ch/en/presentation/labs/geoinformatics-and-gis HEIG-VD GIS-Lab] University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland at Yverdon
| Route de Cheseaux 1, 1401 Yverdon-les-Bains
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.65950,46.77938
| 2015-10-08
| Key competences: spatial databases, modeling, data infrastructures, interoperability, webmapping, spatial webservices, spatial analysis, GIS project management, geovisualization, human-computer interaction and interface design
| Prof. Dr. Jens Ingensand
| jens.ingensand@heig-vd.ch
|-
|105.
| [http://www.gsc.aoyama.ac.jp/ Global Studies and Collaboration(GSC)], Aoyama Gakuin University
| Fuchinobe 5-10-1, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.4030, 35.5664
| 2015-11-05
| Courses with open source products and open data. In addition, There is OpenStreetMap basecamp/CrisisMappers Japan base.
| Prof. Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at gsc.aoyama.ac.jp
|-
|106.
| [http://rsgis.ait.ac.th/ Remote Sensing & GIS], Asian Institute of
Technology
| 58 Moo 9, Km. 42, Paholyothin Highway, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120
| Thailand
| Asia
| 100.612086, 14.079753
| 2015-11-24
| Open-source Web mapping, LBS, crowd sourcing, Sensor Web, OGC Web
Services and QGIS plugins; research, teaching, and consulting using OGS
Web Services,QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
| sarawutn at ait.ac.th
|-
|107.
| [http://www.aun.edu.ng/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], School of Information Technology and Computing, American University of Nigeria
| 98 Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola By-Pass, P.M.B. 2250,Yola, Adamawa State
| Nigeria
| Africa
| 12.4996909, 9.1911318
| 2015-11-25
| Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Prof. Kalum Priyanath Udagepola
| kalum.udagepola at aun.edu.ng
|-
|108.
|[http://geographydept.um.ac.ir/ Department of Geography]
| Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashad
| Iran
| Asia
| 59.534125,36.306903
| 2016-02-01
|
| Dr. Masoud Minaei
| minaei.masoud at gmail.com
|-
|109.
| [http://ladestlab.it Laboratorio Dati Economici Storici Territoriali] University of Siena
| Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 10 - 53100 Siena
| Italy
| Europe
| 43.312688,11.332129
| 2016-23-04
| Key competences: GIS; data collection; spatial analysis; territorial data mapping; agent-based spatial modelling; volunteered geographic information; social media analysis
| Prof. Cristina Capineri; Stefano Picascia
| {cristina,stefano}@ladestlab.it
|}

=== "Geo for All" Government, Industry and NGO Partners ===

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!
! Organisation
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / Announced
! Notes (specify category etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
|1.
| [http://www.sourcepole.com Sourcepole]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.528522,47.370273
| 2015-07-03
| Partnership with [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Pirmin Kalberer
| info at sourcepole dot com
|-
|2.
| [http://www.attivarti.org Attivarti.org]
| Torniella
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.15382,43.07390
| 2015-07-12
| incubation phase (various links to OSGEO Community and to other geospatial players in Italy and internationally). Focus on VGI and participatory methods.
| Andrea Giacomelli
| mappare at attivarti dot org
|-
|3.
| [http://www.hunagi.hu HUNAGI]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.05561,46.48147
| 2015-08-12
| Free data, geodatabases, resource analysis, geospatial modelling and programming. (OSM, SRTM, QGIS, PyQGIS, Qt, GRASS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS)
| Ervin Wirth
| wirth dot ervin at hunagi dot hu
|-
|4.
| [http://www.wat-tube.it Wat-TUBE (spin-off University of Basilicata)]
| Potenza
| Italy
| Europe
| 15.807793,40.645470
| 2015-09-07
| Open-source and free (FOSS) software development in the field of flood and landslide risk, flood prediction and analysis, water resources management, hydrology.
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Raffalba Raffaele Albano]
| raffaele dot albano85 at gmail dot com
|-
|}

== Interested in joining or supporting the "Geo for All" initiative? ==

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

# North America - Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
# South America - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
# Europe - Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)
# Asia (including Australia)- Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
# Africa - Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Email the regonial mailing lists and contact the region chairs to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process. The full criteria at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

=== Key requirements for joining the "ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs" initiative ===

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(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 other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS 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 and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
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 and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

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

; Past Meetings:
* [[FOSS4G EU Como 2015 Preconference meeting]]
* [[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

== ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
<br>
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

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

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-03-17T20:22:27Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Vipula Abeyratne, Seraphim Alvanides, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajit Govind, Ivana Ivánová, Ari Jolma, Stefan Keller, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Simone Lanucara, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Moses Murimi Ngigi, Venkatesh Raghavan, Darshana Rawal, Habitamu Taddese, Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes

** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Angelos Totsos
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Travel Grant Commissioner'''
** Christoph Baudson. CB was deeply involved in the early mapbender development.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Green Event Commissioner'''
** Astrid Emde
** We want to give at least some tips, how attendees can avoid garbage, where to compensate CO2 consumption etc.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Video Team'''
** Peter Körner

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-02-14T21:55:59Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Vipula Abeyratne, Seraphim Alvanides, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajit Govind, Ari Jolma, Stefan Keller, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Simone Lanucara, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Moses Murimi Ngigi, Venkatesh Raghavan, Darshana Rawal, Habitamu Taddese, Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes
** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Angelos Totsos
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Travel Grant Commissioner'''
** Christoph Baudson. CB was deeply involved in the early mapbender development.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Green Event Commissioner'''
** Astrid Emde
** We want to give at least some tips, how attendees can avoid garbage, where to compensate CO2 consumption etc.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Video Team'''
** Peter Körner

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-02-09T16:20:29Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Vipula Abeyratne, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajit Govind, Ari Jolma, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Simone Lanucara, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Moses Murimi Ngigi, Venkatesh Raghavan, Darshana Rawal, Habitamu Taddese, Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes
** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Angelos Totsos
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Travel Grant Commissioner'''
** Christoph Baudson. CB was deeply involved in the early mapbender development.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Green Event Commissioner'''
** Astrid Emde
** We want to give at least some tips, how attendees can avoid garbage, where to compensate CO2 consumption etc.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Video Team'''
** Peter Körner

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-02-04T18:09:12Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Vipula Abeyratne, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajit Govind, Ari Jolma, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Venkatesh Raghavan, Darshana Rawal, Habitamu Taddese, Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes
** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Angelos Totsos
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Travel Grant Commissioner'''
** Christoph Baudson. CB was deeply involved in the early mapbender development.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Green Event Commissioner'''
** Astrid Emde
** We want to give at least some tips, how attendees can avoid garbage, where to compensate CO2 consumption etc.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Video Team'''
** Peter Körner

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-01-26T16:06:03Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajit Govind, Ari Jolma, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Venkatesh Raghavan, Darshana Rawal, Habitamu Taddese, Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes
** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov and Marco Lechner

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-01-26T15:13:29Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajit Govind, Ari Jolma, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Venkatesh Raghavan, Darshana Rawal, Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes
** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov and Marco Lechner

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-01-26T15:07:43Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajit Govind, Ari Jolma, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Venkatesh Raghavan, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes
** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov and Marco Lechner

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-01-26T12:01:30Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajit Govind, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Venkatesh Raghavan, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes
** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov and Marco Lechner

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-01-26T08:23:59Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajith Govind, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Venkatesh Raghavan, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes
** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov and Marco Lechner

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-01-26T07:03:48Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajith Govind, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Venkatesh Raghavan, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo
** Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov and Marco Lechner

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-01-25T19:50:25Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Venkatesh Raghavan, Barend Köbben, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Serena Coetzee, Dimitris Kotzinos, Peter Mooney, Luciene S. Delazar, Antoni Pérez Navarro
** Reviewers: Please contact Franz-Josef if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov and Marco Lechner

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]

FOSS4G 2016 Teams

2016-01-25T19:47:09Z

Fjbehr:

=== Main topics where chairs/heads needed ===

* '''Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair'''
** Till Adams

* '''Program Committee'''
** Chair: Volker Mische
** Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

* '''Academic/scientific track (AT)'''
** Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
** Committee: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Venkatesh Raghavan, Barend Köbben, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Serena Coetzee, Dimitris Kotzinos, Peter Mooney
** Reviewers: Please contact Franz-Josef if you would like to support as reviewer!

* '''Workshop organization'''
** Carmen Tawalika
** Danilo Bretschneider
** Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov and Marco Lechner

* '''Financial Issues'''
** Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.

* '''Social-events-organizer'''
** Martin Arimont,
** frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
** This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.

* '''Sponsorship & Exhibition''' & * '''Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016'''
** Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
** Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.

* '''Public Relations'''
** Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
** I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
** Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_PR]]

* '''Code Sprint'''
** Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
** We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

* '''Scheduler'''
** Uli Rothstein, Till Adams

* '''Graphics and Design'''
** Anton Popov

* '''Technical Infrastructure'''
** Oliver Rudzick
** There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.

* '''Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO'''
** Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)

* '''Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn'''
** Athina Trakas

* '''Volunteer Chair'''
** nn
** Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
** strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible
**

* '''Homepage'''
** Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
** Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
** main page: [[FOSS4G_2016_Homepage]]

* '''Awareness Crew'''
** Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
** Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
** we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!

[[Category:FOSS4G2016]]