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Public Geospatial Data Project

2011-06-01T08:02:22Z

Wiki-Awasekhirni:

There is an official [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|official foundation committee]] page which provides more detail on meetings and discussions.

== Mission ==

=== Promote the use of open geospatial formats ===
Providing best-practise guidelines and examples for use of open and free standards for data (GML, WMS, WFS-T) and metadata (Dublin Core, RDF, ISO19115 through ISO19139).

=== Promote public access to state-collected geodata ===

Lead by example in demonstrating economic value and research activity generated by open access to public geographic information.

=== Run a repository of open geodata ===
A [[Geodata_Repository]] shall be hosted by the PGDP.
Additionally, links to other open data repostories shall be collected.

=== Present and explain licenses for public geodata ===
The PGDP aims to collect licenses suitable for the publishing of public geodata. The license shall be presented along with a summary of its benefits and focus.

== Approach ==

After a [[Public Geospatial Data Committee Definition Phase|Definition phase]] this has become an official [[Committees|committee]] within [[Main Page|OSGeo]].

=== Working Groups ===

At the [[Geodata Committee Meeting 20060322|first meeting of the geodata committee]] we decided to focus interest through three [[Working Groups]]:

* A [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]] which would focus on indexing and search of data and metadata repositories.
* A [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]] to look at creation and maintanance of really high quality and rich data packages to offer for educational purposes with software packages, with [[GRASS GIS]] in particular.
* A [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]] to look into parallel licensing developments and to consult on guidelines for open licenses for geodata.

=== Mailing List ===

There is a public mailing list and [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geodata/ archive] for discussion of geodata activities within OSGeo at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata.

=== Meetings ===

This group is having regular meetings on IRC on the #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.net. At the moment this is happening on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC. [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=4&hour=16&min=0&sec=0 fixed time]

See the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|Geodata Committee]] page for more details on past meetings and upcoming agendas.

=== People interested in participating ===

*'''Awase Khirni Syed''' - awasekhirni at gmail.com
*David Bitner
*Allan Doyle
*Florian Kindl
*Pericles S. Nacionales
*Markus Neteler
*[[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
*[[User:Uchoa|Helton Uchoa]]
*Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org
*Daniel Brookshier
*Schuyler Erle
*Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions)
*Steve Coast
*Mikel Maron
*Alessandro Frigeri
*David Blasby
*[[User:Kevinyam|Kevin Yam]]
*[[User:Putler|Dan Putler]]
*[[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]]
*Ned Horning
*[[User:Nhv|Norman Vine]]
*Colin Gowens
*[[User:Smaffulli|Stefano Maffulli]]
*[[User:Fbiasi|Frank Biasi]]
*[[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
*Stefan Keller
*[[User:Dsampson|Dave Sampson]]
*[[User:Kablukiw|Kevin Ward]]
*[[User:JoCook|Jo Cook]]
*Nick Black
*[[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]
*[[User:Mspott|Martin Spott]]
*David Jonglez
*[[User:Dandye|Daniel Dye]]
*[[User:MaksimS|Maksim Sestic]]
*[[User:Milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]]
*[[User:Ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi]]
*[[User:Rduivenvoorde|Richard Duivenvoorde]]
*Artem Pavlenko
*[[User:Kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]]
*[[User:Chorner|Cory Horner]]
*[[User:Vdb|François Van Der Biest]]
*[[User:Fsc7|Felipe Costa]]
*Brent Wood
*[http://comchatter.com Ivan Gan]
*[[User:Gignacnic|Nicolas Gignac]]
*[[User:Huwer|Rafal Wawer]]
*Hans-Jörg Stark
*Paul Brous
*[[User:Ahunter|Andrew Hunter]]
*Nikos Alexandris
*[[User:Dcampbell|David Campbell]]
*''Please add yourself''

=== Organizations to beneficially connect with ===

* [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.openaddresses.ch/ OpenAddresses Project]
* [http://www.gsdi.org GSDI Association]
* [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project]
* [http://www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee]
* [http://www.opengeospatial.org Open Geospatial Consortium]
* [http://www.upct.org/ Un point c'est tout]
* [http://civicaccess.ca/ CivicAccess]

=== Events ===

Events where we can either promote our positions or are likely to run into like-minded individuals.

* [http://www.asia-commons.net/ Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/ FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]

== References ==

=== Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects ===
* [http://www.findgis.com FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.openaddresses.ch/ OpenAddresses Project]
* [http://freeearthfoundation.com/ Free Earth Foundation]
* [http://geobase.ca/ Canadian Base Data]
* [http://geotorrent.org/ Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent]
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/ GeodataCommons project at U. Maine]
* [http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi Global Map] - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
* [http://www.geonames.org Geonames.org] - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources
* [http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/ Geospatial One Stop]
* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html Global Change Master Directory]
* [http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/cons.geo.portal Conservation GeoPortal]
* [http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ USDA:NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway] - Lots of good imagery
* [http://www.fao.org/geonetwork FAO-UN GeoNetwork portal to spatial data and information]
* [http://geodata.grid.unep.ch UNEP GEO Data Portal] - more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets
* [http://www.landcover.org/ Global Land Cover Facility] - Global SRTM, Landsat, MODIS, and AVHRR datasets
* [http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/ CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information] - Global SRTM data

=== Geo Data Repository & Policy Research ===

* [http://www.findgis.com FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites]
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/CGDPlone University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data]
* [http://www.metrogis.org MetroGIS] [http://datafinder.org Datafinder] Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort (includes section on benefits/testimonials from public geodata)
* [http://www.gis.state.mn.us MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information]
* [http://www.oasisnyc.org New York City Open Accessible Space Information System]
* [http://www.mass.gov/mgis Massachusetts GIS]

On the [[Geodata Repository]] page, a draft outline for OSGeo's own repository project is being prepared.

=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy ===
* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/ Public Geodata Project] (IRC: [irc://freenode/publicgeodata publicgeodata]) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
* [http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto]
* [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them] (United Kingdom)

=== Open Access ===
There are also more general open access movements, often aimed at scientific data, that could provide a venue for broadening awareness of the geo-specific issues.

* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany]
* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
* [http://www.conservationcommons.org/ Conservation Commons] - "The Conservation Commons is characterized by an underlying set of Principles which supports open access to, and in particular the fair use of, data and information related to the conservation of biodiversity."
* [http://www.locusforums.org/forum/ The Locus Forum] - "The Locus Association is a trade association of private organisations working to increase opportunities and reduce barriers to fair trade between the public and private sector, particularly in the use of Public Sector Information."
* [http://ppgis.iapad.org/ Public Participation GIS] - "

=== Geodata formats ===
* [[Geodata formats]] Discussion

== Further Reading ==
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1736751,00.html Ordnance Survey challenged to open up] - 2006-03-23 article in the Guardian
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html Give us back our crown jewels] - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2107&trv=1 Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata ] by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
* [http://www.systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata] by Richard Fairhurst, a critique of GPL-like licensing situations with suggested LGPL-like model for distribution.
* "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU. [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/papers/sdic_call_fossdi.pdf PDF with layout] | [http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/sdic_view_step1_only.cfm?id=2163 HTML without layout]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/270/ Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology] - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons
* [http://www.metrogis.org/documents/articles/index.shtml Articles] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/testimonials/index.shtml Testimonials] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/studies/index.shtml Studies] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/perf_measure/index.shtml Performance Measures] about [http://www.metrogis.org Metrogis], a collaboration for GIS data sharing in the Twin Cities, MN, USA

[[Category:Public Geospatial Data Committee]]

Contacts

2011-06-01T07:50:31Z

Wiki-Awasekhirni: /* Local Chapters */

OSGeo Projects are freestanding entities, handled by their own Project Steering Committees. Each project has been asked to provide a representative to help coordinate OSGeo involvement. These volunteers are listed by project below:

== General ==
* General Foundation Info - info@osgeo.org - [mailto:info@osgeo.org]
* [[Board of Directors]] - Arnulf Christl - arnulf at osgeo.org
* Treasurer (AC/AP) - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* Executive Director - [[User:Tmitchell |Tyler Mitchell]] - tmitchell at osgeo.org

== Software Projects ==
* [http://www.osgeo.org/deegree deegree] - Jens Fitzke - fitzke at lat-lon.de
* [http://fdo.osgeo.org/ FDO] - Greg Boone - greg.boone at autodesk.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/gdal_ogr GDAL/OGR] - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* [http://geos.refractions.net GEOS] - Paul Ramsey - pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
* [http://geomajas.org Geomajas] - Pieter Degraef - pieter.degraef at geosparc.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork GeoNetwork opensource] - Jeroen Ticheler - Jeroen.Ticheler at geocat.net
* [http://www.geoserver.org GeoServer] - Jody Garnett - jody.garnett at gmail.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/geotools GeoTools] - Jody Garnett - jody.garnett at gmail.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/grass GRASS GIS] - Markus Neteler - neteler at osgeo.org
* [http://www.gvsig.gva.es/gvSIG gvSIG] - Jorge Sanz - jsanz at gvsig.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] Christoph Baudson - christoph at osgeo.org
* [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbuilder MapBuilder] - Cameron Shorter - cameron AT shorter.net
* [http://www.mapfish.org MapFish] - Cédric Moullet - cedric.moullet AT camptocamp.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source] - Robert Bray - robert.bray at autodesk.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver MapServer] - Steve Lime - sdlime at comcast.net
* [http://metacrs.osgeo.org MetaCRS] - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/openlayers OpenLayers] - Tim Schaub - tschaub at opengeo.org
* [http://www.osgeo.org/ossim OSSIM] - Mark Lucas - mlucas at radiantblue.com
* [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS] - Paul Ramsey - pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
* [http://www.osgeo.org/qgis QGIS] - Gary Sherman - sherman at mrcc.com

== Project Steering Committees ==
'''Web Mapping'''
* deegree [http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/StructuresAndProcedures PSC] - Contact: [[User:JensFitzke | Jens Fitzke]]
* Geomajas [http://www.geomajas.org/community/project-steering-committee PSC] - Chair: Pieter De Graef
* Mapbender [http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Category:PSC PSC] - Chair: [[User:Christoph | Christoph Baudson]]
* MapBuilder [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Contributers+Guide PSC] - Chair: Cameron Shorter
* MapFish [http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/Community/PSC PSC] - Chair: not defined, ongoing creation
* MapGuide Open Source [http://mapguide.osgeo.org/psc.html PSC] - Chair: Robert Bray
* MapServer [http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html PSC] - Chair: Stephen Lime
* OpenLayers [http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SteeringCommittee PSC] - Chair: [[User:Tschaub | Tim Schaub]]

'''Desktop Applications'''
* GRASS GIS [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/PSC PSC] - Chair: Markus Neteler
* OSSIM [http://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/wiki/ossimgovernance PSC] - Chair: Garrett Potts
* Quantum GIS [http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Project_Organigram PSC] - Chair: Gary Sherman
* gvSIG - [[GvSIG Technical Project Committee|PSC]] - Chair: [[Jorge Sanz]]

'''Geospatial Libraries'''
* FDO [http://fdo.osgeo.org/psc.html PSC] - Chair: Greg Boone
* GDAL/OGR [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GovernanceAndCommunity PSC] - Chair: Frank Warmerdam
* GeoTools [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOT/4+Project+Management+Committee PSC] - Chair: Jody Garnett
* GEOS [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/PSC PSC] - Chair: Paul Ramsey
* MetaCRS [http://metacrs.osgeo.org PSC] - Chair: Frank Warmerdam

'''Metadata Catalog'''
* GeoNetwork opensource [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/PSC PSC] - Chair: Jeroen Ticheler

== Committees ==
* [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] - Charlie Schweik - cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
* [[Finance Committee]] - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* [[Incubation Committee]] - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] - David William Bitner - bitner at dbspatial.com
* [[Marketing Committee]] - Tyler Mitchell - tmitchell at osgeo.org
* [[SAC|System Administration Committee]] - Howard Butler - hobu at hobu.net
* [[Website Committee]] - Christopher Schmidt - crschmidt at metacarta.com
* [[Conference Committee]] - Jeff McKenna - jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
* OSGeo [[Journal]] - Tyler Mitchell - tmitchell at osgeo.org

== Local Chapters ==

* [[Ottawa Chapter]] - Scott Mitchell / Philippe Vachon - smitch at mac.com / philippe at cowpig.ca
* [[China]] - Chen Rongguo - chenrg at lreis.ac.cn
* [[Japan]] - Mr. Mori Toru - moritoru at orkney.co.jp
* [[KSA Chapter]] - Awase Khirni Syed - awasekhirni at gmail.com
* [[India]] - P.S. Roy - psr at nrsa.gov.in
* [[Brazil]] - Helton Uchoa - engenheiro.uchoa at gmail.com
* [[Taiwan]] - Sander Borghuis - s.borghuis at geo.uu.nl
* [[Spanish]] - [[Pedro-Juan Ferrer]] - vehrka at gmail.com
* [[Aust-NZ]] - Australia and New Zealand Chapter- tim.bowden _at_ westnet.com.au
* [[Finland]] - Ari Jolma - ajolma at osgeo.org
* [[Francophone]] - [[User:Yjacolin|yjacolin]]
* [[D-A-CH]] (German language) - [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]]
* [[Dutch]] - Jeroen Ticheler - Jeroen.Ticheler at geocat.net
* [[California]] - Landon Blake - sunburned.surveyor at gmail dot com
* [[Quebec]] - Daniel Morissette - dmorissette at mapgears dot com

== Infrastructure ==

* [[SAC:Primary Administrators]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Incubation]]
[[Category:Infrastructure]]
[[Category:PSC]]

India

2011-06-01T07:47:41Z

Wiki-Awasekhirni: /* Initial Membership */

Find more information on the '''[http://osgeo.in India Chapter of OSGeo]''' web site.

== '''About India OSGeo Chapter''' ==

Geographical Information Systems were seen as very special and very complex domain in India. There is a lot of hype attached with it and with that obviously high cost. So far such systems were seen as something to be used for high level planning and complex scientific operations by large corporates and Govt research agencies or departments only. Also the older mapping policy of India prevented virtually anybody except governments to possess any map data. The picture is however changing fast.

With recent developments in the areas of right-to-information and National Map Policy (http://dst.gov.in/whats_new/press_releases05/cabinet-approves.htm), there is a sudden increased awareness towards GIS based information systems. National Urban Renewal Mission (http://pmindia.nic.in/lspeech.asp?id=235), a well funded initiative has made use of GIS in urban local bodies mandatory. A large portion of geodata will now be freely available.All goverement departments are now trying to find easier ways to manage, update and publish information for the public. There are also large number of NGOs and citizen organisation which are working in areas like ubran poverty, town planning, solid waste management,rural development, school education,environmental issues etc. and they have started understanding and appreciating the importance of community GIS systems.

However growth of GIS is hindered by highly priced proprietory softwares and unavailability of public geodata. Many of such licenced softwares remain unutilized in various government offices because they require either extensive training or easy availability on multiple locations. All this can be changed by the use of Free/Opensource software tools. There is hardly any proprietory GIS software that can show text in Unicode standard in maps . This is significant since all governmet data and most educational institutions work in local language media . FOSS GIS has already shown this solution. Thus, Free/Opensource Geospatial softwares which are much more powerful and usable can be used for developing systems where more and more public participation is sought.

The India OSGeo Chapter is formed to fulfill the mission
and objectives described in this document. India OSGeo Chapter will earnestly follow the Local Chapter Guidelines stipulated by OSGeo and cooperate closely with OSGeo Board in promoting the use and development of OSGeo projects in India. The India OSGeo Chapter will strive to serve anyone interested in Open Source Geospatial Solutions and related issues, and to cover all the activities associated with the application, development and promotion of Open Source Geospatial solutions in India.

=== Mission ===

* Promoting Free/Opensource GIS tools and publicly available Geodata
* Advocacy of and promoting Localized GIS
* Act as a bridge between various groups like Developers, Application Users, NGOs, Government departments
* mentor various FOSS GIS miniprojects by providing resources such as technical guidence, webspace etc.
=== Objectives ===

Development:
* follow up on indian language support in various free/opensource GIS tools like GRASS, MapServer etc.
* initiative for standardisation of publicly available geodata
* setting up WMS/WFS based geodata servers using publicly available geodata
* toolkit for localised GIS including with special focus on schools, governments , public causes such as child malnutririon, mass education.

POCs ('''P'''roof '''O'''f '''C'''oncept demos):
* free/opensource based GIS demos
* localized GIS (interface and maps)
* Collaborative platforms for participatory governance

Regional Events:
* Workshops and Training sessions for
** comp science students/teachers
** geo-informatics/geology/geography/civil engineering students and teachers
** others
* Special Lectures
* Demonstrations

Communication:
* Networking Local Communities related to geo-issues
* Mailing Lists
* Wiki

=== Legal status ===

OSGeo India Chapter is, presently, a voluntary organization, and has not been registered as a legal body. At present, OSGeo legal status is similar to other Open Source related organizations in India such as "Linux India" (http://www.linux-india.org/), "gnomebangalore"(http://www.gnomebangalore.org/) or "KDE India" (http://in.kde.org/). Recently, "Free Software Foundation India" (FSF India) was registered as company and been granted the 80G status under Income Tax Act. India OSGeo Chapter is still a
nascent voluntary organization and will consider the modalities to
register as a legal body at some stage in the future. The India OSGeo Chapter will consult a certified tax cosultant when necessary to ensure compliance with the Indian tax laws.

The activities are managed by the '''Office''' located at 
International Institute of Information Technology 
Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032, Andhra Pradesh, India 
Contact E-mail: rajan at iiit dot ac dot in

== '''India OSGeo Chapter Officers''' ==

India OSGeo Representative 
Dr P.S.Roy 
Deputy Director (RS&GIS-AA) 
National Remote Sensing Agency 
(Deptartment of Space, Government of India) 
Balanagar, Hyderabad-500 037 
Telephone :+91-40-23884255
Fax: +91-40-23875932 
E-Mail: psr at nrsa dot gov dot in

India OSGeo Chapter Coordinator 
Dr. Yashodhan Joshi 
CEO Relatioware 
Pune, India 
yyj at relationware dot in 

India OSGeo Treasurer 
Dr K.S.Rajan 
Associate Professor 
International Institute of Information Technology 
Gachibowli, Hyderabad-500 032, India 
E-Mail: rajan at iiit dot ac dot in

OSGeo Software Development Committee 
Chairpersons 
(Prototyping, Localization, Proof of Concepts etc.) 
Prof. Jitendra Shah 
VJTI Mumbai, India 
jituviju at gmail dot com 

Dr. T.V. Ramachandra 
Indian Institute of Science 
Bangalore, India 
cestvr at ces dot iisc dot ernet dot in 

Regional Events Committee 
Chairpersons 
Mr. V. Ravi Kumar* 
Joint Secretory of the OSGeo India registered body and 
Director (Retired*) 
Centre for Geoinformation Management and Training 
Training Inistitute 
Geological Survey of India 
Bandalaguda,
Hyderabad 500068 
India 
ravivundavalli at yahoo dot com 

Mr. Neeraj Dixit 
Product Manager
Autodesk India Pvt. Ltd. 
Infrastructure Solutions Division (ISD) 
Neeraj dot Dixit at autodesk dot com 

Education and Training Committee 
Chairpersons 
Dr. N.J. Pawar 
Department of Geology,
Pune University 
Ganeshkhind Road 
Pune 411007, India 
njpawar at unipune dot ernet dot in

Dr. S.N. Prasad 
Sàlim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) 
Deccan Regional Station,
Secunderabad - 500 017, India 
Email: narendra_prasad at yahoo dot com 

Dr. H.S.Rai 
Professor of Civil Engineering 
Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College 
Ludhiana - 141006 
India 
Email: hardeep.rai at gmail dot com 
Web: [http://hs.raiandrai.com HS.RaiAndRai.com] 

Advisors 

Dr. S.S. Thigale (spathigale at rediffmail dot com) 
Dr. Rajendra Jagdale (rajendra dot jagdale at gmail dot com) 
Dr. Vishwas S.Kale (vskale at unipune dot ernet dot in) 
Mr. Ashok Saraf (saraf dot ashok at gmail dot com) 
Dr. Venkatesh Raghavan (venkat at osgeo dot org) 
Mr. Kiran Chandra (kiranfsf at gmail dot com) 
Mr. Achuthan Mohan (achuthanmohan at gmail dot com) 
..Add more Advisors here

== '''Initial Membership''' ==
* Dr. Gautam Talukdar
* Dr. Awase Khirni Syed
* Dr. Tarun P. Singh
* Amol A. Sale
* Anand Akmanchi
* Aneel Kumar.V
* Anil Kumar.K.V
* Anivar Aravind
* Ankur Mehrotra
* Gangavane
* Indrajit Patil
* Jayant Kirtane
* Kanhaiya K. Kale
* Mahalakshmi Narayanan
* Mahesh Jeevane
* Maneesh Prasad
* Mohan Patil
* N.R. Karmarkar
* Rahul Kaura
* Sajith
* Saroj Akiojam
* Shekhar Krishnan
* Swapnil K. Hajare
* Uttam Kumar
* B.N. Umrikar
* Vrishali Deosthali
* A.V.Satya Kumar
* Praveen Kumar Sinha
* [http://www.wetlandsofindia.org/santosh/index.html Santosh Gaikwad]
* C. Pattanaik
* [http://www.gndec.ac.in/~hsrai/ Hardeep Singh Rai]
* M.Surendranath
* Ditty Mathew
* N.Rajendran
* Srinivasan K
* Nageswaran B
* N.R.S.Reddy
* L.P.Singh
* [http://www.geocities.com/ajpnaveen/index.htm A.J.Prakash Naveen]
* S.Ramamurthy
* B.K. Sahu
* J.Simhachalam
* V.Hanumantha Rao
* S.Ananda Murty
* K.Seshayya
* N.Padmayya
* N.R.Ramesh
* U.S.N.Reddy
* R.M.Sundaram
* [http://5map.in Vimal Kumar]
* Narayana Aroori
* P M Bala Manikavelu
* RVN Srinivas
* M Arulraj
* Satya Prasad Sarilla
* Suresh Verma
* Kumar Parakram
* Pranav Kumar
* Harish Kumar Solanki

Temporary mailing list - http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/mailman/listinfo/osgeo_discuss

== '''Meetings of India OSGeo Chapter ''' ==

* 4th Oct 2006, Hyderabad [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Talk:India Meeting Minutes]

* 24th Jan 2006, Hyderabad 
We are Happy to ANNOUNCE that we had a very successful OSGeo Workshop at Map World Forum 2007 today, and thank all the participants for the same. We are also very grateful to our Sponsors OSGeo.org and our Donors thru GNOME Foundation for the financial support in hosting this event. 
Later in the day, the first meeting of the newly constituted Executive Council (Board) of OSGeo-India was held. 
Details will be posted soon.

== '''Links''' ==
* India OSGeo Chapter - http://osgeo.in/
* National Remote Sensing Agency - http://www.nrsa.gov.in/
* GIS based Village Information System - Maharashtra (Hosting Courtsey : Media Center, Osaka City) - http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/maha_map.dev/
* GIS based Village Information System - Maharashtra - http://indictrans.in/demos/maha_map.dev/
* Human Development Index (Jalna, Maharashtra)- http://www.indictrans.in/?q=projects/gis/ghdi
* Maharashtra Coverage - Neighbourhood Village - http://indictrans.in/demos/maha_map.coverage/village_search_k.php
* GIS based Slum Information System (Korba Slum, Mumbai) - http://indictrans.in/demos/chameleon/samples/htdocs/korba.phtml
* Mumbai Free Map - http://mumbai.freemap.in/ | http://www.crit.org.in/projects/gis
* Bangalore Free Map - http://bangalore.freemap.in/
* Vasai Virar Subregion Freemap - http://vvsr.freemap.in/
jaisuvyas
* Tamil Nadu Maps Online - http://tnmaps.tn.nic.in/?info1.htm
* Tamil Nadu Census 2001 - http://www.census.tn.nic.in/
* Tamil Nadu Animal Disease Infformation - http://www.animaldiseaseinfo.tn.nic.in
* GRASS GIS mirror India - http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/grass/index.php
* GRDSS (GRASS GUI) - http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/foss
* FOSS at IISc - http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/foss http://www.hayda.net/
* Visualisation of resource maps of Cheruvannur Grama Panchayat. Panchayats are 3rd stratum of administration in India. [Bilingual: English and Malayalam] - http://cheruvannur.web4all.in/resources/
* Free GIS India - http://freegis.gnu.org.in/
* ENVIS Wetland Ecosystems India - http://www.wetlandsofindia.org:8080/sacon/aboutus.jsp/
* GIS & Language Technology related Applications - http://indictrans.in/demos/GIS_Presentation_20061004.pdf

OSGeo education interested participants

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Wiki-Awasekhirni: /* Contributors by Time Zones */

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.
* [[User:pimpaa | George R. C. Silva]] (TZ GMT-3)
* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
* [[User:AwaseKhirni | '''Awase Khirni Syed''' ]] (TZ GMT+3) (undergraduate/ graduate level education MS, PhD; educational datasets, open source urban data systems, open source geospatial software developement and training, GIScience Certification Mechanisms, experience in International training, open source geospatial sensing platforms, academic research on source collaboration.)
* [[User:Venkat | Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
* [[User:volaya| Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
* [[User:rob.braswell | Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
* [[User:VincentP | Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
* [[User:Bwoodall | Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
* [[User:mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
* [[User:nigeltrodd | Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
* [[User:ominiverdi | Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
* [[User:Martinweis | Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
* [[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
* [[User:kevin1216 | Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
* [[User:Marco | Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
* [[User:clara | Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User: Mardresen | Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
* Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User: Dreamcon | Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User: doktoreas | Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.
*[[User: Putler | Dan Putler]] (TZ GMT-8) (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, PSC member of PAGC). Interested in course materials for undergraduate and graduate instruction on both basic GIS understanding and skills, and the use of GIS to address business problems. Research on new methods to improve geospatial analysis to address business problems, particularly as they relate to marketing).
*[[User: palousegeo | Rick Rupp]] (TZ GMT-8) (GIS/Remote Sensing instructor at Washington State University) I'm interested in geospatial teaching materials and methods for undergraduate and graduate education. My research interests are in natural resources and data infrastructures.
*[[User: Nimalika | Nimalika Fernando]] (TZ GMT+5.30) Interested and involved in developing teaching materiel on introductory level GIS,Basic web-GIS,lab worksheets based on QGIS/MapServer
*[[User:ahunter | Andrew Hunter]] (TZ GMT-7) (Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary) General GIS training and education. Interests in open source and open data
* [[User:camerons| Cameron Shorter]] (TZ GMT+10) One of the coordinators of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live DVD], and we at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft] are providing GeoSpatial Open Source training in Australia.
* [[User:GeoEducator|Benjamin Branch]] (TZ GMT+5) Educational researcher in spatial thinking & cost analysis delivery (k-12 & Higher Ed, workfrce traning)
'''Bold text'''

== Contributors by Time Zones ==

This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+10
** Cameron Shorter
*TZ GMT+9
**Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+3
** Awase Khirni Syed
*TZ GMT+2
**Ari Jolma
**Arnulf Christl
**Vasile Crăciunescu
*TZ GMT+1
**Markus Neteler
**Maria Antonia Brovelli
**Massimiliano Cannata
**Vincent Picavet
**Marco Ciolli
**Clara Tattoni
**Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
**Martin Dresen
**Luca Casagrande
**Robert Szczepanek
*TZ GMT+0
**Suchith Anand
**Nigel Trodd
*TZ GMT-3
**George R. C. Silva
*TZ GMT-5
**Ian Turton
**Ned Horning
**Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
**Scott Mitchell
*TZ GMT-6
**Phillip Davis
**Puneet Kishor
**Pericles Nacionales
*TX GMT-7
**Andrew Hunter
*TZ GMT-8
**Tyler Mitchell
**Shaun Walbridge
**Matthew Perry
**Aaron Racicot
**Bill Woodall
**Gerry James
**Dan Putler
**Rick Rupp

[[Category:Education]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2011-06-01T07:44:08Z

Wiki-Awasekhirni: /* Contributors by Time Zones */

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.
* [[User:pimpaa | George R. C. Silva]] (TZ GMT-3)
* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
* [[User:AwaseKhirni | '''Awase Khirni Syed''' ]] (TZ GMT+3) (undergraduate/ graduate level education MS, PhD; educational datasets, open source urban data systems, open source geospatial software developement and training, GIScience Certification Mechanisms, experience in International training, open source geospatial sensing platforms, academic research on source collaboration.)
* [[User:Venkat | Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
* [[User:volaya| Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
* [[User:rob.braswell | Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
* [[User:VincentP | Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
* [[User:Bwoodall | Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
* [[User:mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
* [[User:nigeltrodd | Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
* [[User:ominiverdi | Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
* [[User:Martinweis | Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
* [[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
* [[User:kevin1216 | Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
* [[User:Marco | Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
* [[User:clara | Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User: Mardresen | Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
* Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User: Dreamcon | Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User: doktoreas | Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.
*[[User: Putler | Dan Putler]] (TZ GMT-8) (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, PSC member of PAGC). Interested in course materials for undergraduate and graduate instruction on both basic GIS understanding and skills, and the use of GIS to address business problems. Research on new methods to improve geospatial analysis to address business problems, particularly as they relate to marketing).
*[[User: palousegeo | Rick Rupp]] (TZ GMT-8) (GIS/Remote Sensing instructor at Washington State University) I'm interested in geospatial teaching materials and methods for undergraduate and graduate education. My research interests are in natural resources and data infrastructures.
*[[User: Nimalika | Nimalika Fernando]] (TZ GMT+5.30) Interested and involved in developing teaching materiel on introductory level GIS,Basic web-GIS,lab worksheets based on QGIS/MapServer
*[[User:ahunter | Andrew Hunter]] (TZ GMT-7) (Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary) General GIS training and education. Interests in open source and open data
* [[User:camerons| Cameron Shorter]] (TZ GMT+10) One of the coordinators of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live DVD], and we at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft] are providing GeoSpatial Open Source training in Australia.
* [[User:GeoEducator|Benjamin Branch]] (TZ GMT+5) Educational researcher in spatial thinking & cost analysis delivery (k-12 & Higher Ed, workfrce traning)
'''Bold text'''

== Contributors by Time Zones ==

This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+10
** Cameron Shorter
* TZ GMT+3
** Awase Khirni Syed
*TZ GMT+9
**Venkatesh Raghavan
*TZ GMT+2
**Ari Jolma
**Arnulf Christl
**Vasile Crăciunescu
*TZ GMT+1
**Markus Neteler
**Maria Antonia Brovelli
**Massimiliano Cannata
**Vincent Picavet
**Marco Ciolli
**Clara Tattoni
**Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
**Martin Dresen
**Luca Casagrande
**Robert Szczepanek
*TZ GMT+0
**Suchith Anand
**Nigel Trodd
*TZ GMT-3
**George R. C. Silva
*TZ GMT-5
**Ian Turton
**Ned Horning
**Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
**Scott Mitchell
*TZ GMT-6
**Phillip Davis
**Puneet Kishor
**Pericles Nacionales
*TX GMT-7
**Andrew Hunter
*TZ GMT-8
**Tyler Mitchell
**Shaun Walbridge
**Matthew Perry
**Aaron Racicot
**Bill Woodall
**Gerry James
**Dan Putler
**Rick Rupp

[[Category:Education]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2011-06-01T07:43:19Z

Wiki-Awasekhirni: /* Contributors by Interest */

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.
* [[User:pimpaa | George R. C. Silva]] (TZ GMT-3)
* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
* [[User:AwaseKhirni | '''Awase Khirni Syed''' ]] (TZ GMT+3) (undergraduate/ graduate level education MS, PhD; educational datasets, open source urban data systems, open source geospatial software developement and training, GIScience Certification Mechanisms, experience in International training, open source geospatial sensing platforms, academic research on source collaboration.)
* [[User:Venkat | Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
* [[User:volaya| Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
* [[User:rob.braswell | Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
* [[User:VincentP | Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
* [[User:Bwoodall | Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
* [[User:mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
* [[User:nigeltrodd | Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
* [[User:ominiverdi | Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
* [[User:Martinweis | Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
* [[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
* [[User:kevin1216 | Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
* [[User:Marco | Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
* [[User:clara | Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User: Mardresen | Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
* Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User: Dreamcon | Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User: doktoreas | Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.
*[[User: Putler | Dan Putler]] (TZ GMT-8) (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, PSC member of PAGC). Interested in course materials for undergraduate and graduate instruction on both basic GIS understanding and skills, and the use of GIS to address business problems. Research on new methods to improve geospatial analysis to address business problems, particularly as they relate to marketing).
*[[User: palousegeo | Rick Rupp]] (TZ GMT-8) (GIS/Remote Sensing instructor at Washington State University) I'm interested in geospatial teaching materials and methods for undergraduate and graduate education. My research interests are in natural resources and data infrastructures.
*[[User: Nimalika | Nimalika Fernando]] (TZ GMT+5.30) Interested and involved in developing teaching materiel on introductory level GIS,Basic web-GIS,lab worksheets based on QGIS/MapServer
*[[User:ahunter | Andrew Hunter]] (TZ GMT-7) (Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary) General GIS training and education. Interests in open source and open data
* [[User:camerons| Cameron Shorter]] (TZ GMT+10) One of the coordinators of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live DVD], and we at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft] are providing GeoSpatial Open Source training in Australia.
* [[User:GeoEducator|Benjamin Branch]] (TZ GMT+5) Educational researcher in spatial thinking & cost analysis delivery (k-12 & Higher Ed, workfrce traning)
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== Contributors by Time Zones ==

This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+10
** Cameron Shorter
*TZ GMT+9
**Venkatesh Raghavan
*TZ GMT+2
**Ari Jolma
**Arnulf Christl
**Vasile Crăciunescu
*TZ GMT+1
**Markus Neteler
**Maria Antonia Brovelli
**Massimiliano Cannata
**Vincent Picavet
**Marco Ciolli
**Clara Tattoni
**Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
**Martin Dresen
**Luca Casagrande
**Robert Szczepanek
*TZ GMT+0
**Suchith Anand
**Nigel Trodd
*TZ GMT-3
**George R. C. Silva
*TZ GMT-5
**Ian Turton
**Ned Horning
**Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
**Scott Mitchell
*TZ GMT-6
**Phillip Davis
**Puneet Kishor
**Pericles Nacionales
*TX GMT-7
**Andrew Hunter
*TZ GMT-8
**Tyler Mitchell
**Shaun Walbridge
**Matthew Perry
**Aaron Racicot
**Bill Woodall
**Gerry James
**Dan Putler
**Rick Rupp

[[Category:Education]]

OSGeo education interested participants

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== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.
* [[User:pimpaa | George R. C. Silva]] (TZ GMT-3)
* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
* [[User:AwaseKhirni | Awase Khirni Syed ]] (TZ GMT+1) (undergraduate/ graduate level education MS, PhD; educational datasets, open source urban data systems, open source geospatial software developement and training, GIScience Certification Mechanisms, experience in International training, open source geospatial sensing platforms, academic research on source collaboration.)
* [[User:Venkat | Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
* [[User:volaya| Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
* [[User:rob.braswell | Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
* [[User:VincentP | Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
* [[User:Bwoodall | Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
* [[User:mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
* [[User:nigeltrodd | Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
* [[User:ominiverdi | Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
* [[User:Martinweis | Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
* [[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
* [[User:kevin1216 | Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
* [[User:Marco | Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
* [[User:clara | Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User: Mardresen | Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
* Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User: Dreamcon | Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User: doktoreas | Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.
*[[User: Putler | Dan Putler]] (TZ GMT-8) (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, PSC member of PAGC). Interested in course materials for undergraduate and graduate instruction on both basic GIS understanding and skills, and the use of GIS to address business problems. Research on new methods to improve geospatial analysis to address business problems, particularly as they relate to marketing).
*[[User: palousegeo | Rick Rupp]] (TZ GMT-8) (GIS/Remote Sensing instructor at Washington State University) I'm interested in geospatial teaching materials and methods for undergraduate and graduate education. My research interests are in natural resources and data infrastructures.
*[[User: Nimalika | Nimalika Fernando]] (TZ GMT+5.30) Interested and involved in developing teaching materiel on introductory level GIS,Basic web-GIS,lab worksheets based on QGIS/MapServer
*[[User:ahunter | Andrew Hunter]] (TZ GMT-7) (Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary) General GIS training and education. Interests in open source and open data
* [[User:camerons| Cameron Shorter]] (TZ GMT+10) One of the coordinators of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live DVD], and we at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft] are providing GeoSpatial Open Source training in Australia.
* [[User:GeoEducator|Benjamin Branch]] (TZ GMT+5) Educational researcher in spatial thinking & cost analysis delivery (k-12 & Higher Ed, workfrce traning)

== Contributors by Time Zones ==

This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+10
** Cameron Shorter
*TZ GMT+9
**Venkatesh Raghavan
*TZ GMT+2
**Ari Jolma
**Arnulf Christl
**Vasile Crăciunescu
*TZ GMT+1
**Markus Neteler
**Maria Antonia Brovelli
**Massimiliano Cannata
**Vincent Picavet
**Marco Ciolli
**Clara Tattoni
**Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
**Martin Dresen
**Luca Casagrande
**Robert Szczepanek
*TZ GMT+0
**Suchith Anand
**Nigel Trodd
*TZ GMT-3
**George R. C. Silva
*TZ GMT-5
**Ian Turton
**Ned Horning
**Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
**Scott Mitchell
*TZ GMT-6
**Phillip Davis
**Puneet Kishor
**Pericles Nacionales
*TX GMT-7
**Andrew Hunter
*TZ GMT-8
**Tyler Mitchell
**Shaun Walbridge
**Matthew Perry
**Aaron Racicot
**Bill Woodall
**Gerry James
**Dan Putler
**Rick Rupp

[[Category:Education]]