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OSGeo Budget 2020

2019-12-14T17:21:59Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

'''DRAFT'''

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2019]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

Total Approved Budget for 2019: $230,150 USD

Total Approved Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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! Board
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Operational expenses including liability insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Travel to main FOSS4G and F2F meeting (15k), and regional/representative events (7k)
|-
| Partners
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Meetings with sponsors during events
|}

Total Board Budget for 2019: $29,000 USD

Total Board Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | 23,750
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | 6,100
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,600
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,051 euro + 6,000 $
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| Activities of the Committe available at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee
Budget 2019: the expenses are less because a Field Mission in South Sudan was cancelled;
Budget 2020: 2 OSGeo Challenges (6,000) + 3,000 for the Partecipation at the "6th International Symposium on Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping" 22-26 June 2020)
|-
| Incubation Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: $76,450 USD

Total Committees Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Initiatives are a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
* Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

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|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by Conference Committee. Seed money for 2020 will be allocated by the board when estimate numbers become available.
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| TGP, 50-50% for global event, rest for regional events (Previous years had a component of matching sponsor donations)
|-
| Events and Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board. Funding to help organize OSGeo Code Sprint and other events (e.g. QGIS User Conference, PostGIS Code Sprint, GRASS GIS Community Sprint etc.)
|-
| Community Projects
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board since community projects do not have an assigned officer to handle their budget. We have around 23-25 projects expected in 2020 (see list bellow). Budgeted 1000$ for each project.
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: $60,000 USD

Total Initiatives Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

= Projects =

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* We have reached out (2019) to the projects mailing list with a default suggestion of 2000 for any project that responds
* Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding
* This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2020 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.
* If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended

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! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 7,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2020 GRASS GIS Budget 2020]
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,500
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OTB
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PROJ
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [[Pycsw_budget_2020]]
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,200
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 8,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: $64,700 USD

Total Projects Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer. Board approved $TBD for each project (see Community Projects Initiative above)

* actinia
* FDO
* GC2/Vidi
* GeoExt
* GeoHealthCheck
* Geomajas
* GeoServer Client PHP
* GeoWebCache
* istSOS
* Loader
* MapGuide Open Source
* Mapfish
* Opticks
* OSGeo4W
* OSSIM
* OWSLib
* pgRouting
* PortableGIS
* Pronto Raster
* pygeoapi
* rasdaman
* TEAM Engine
* ZOO-Project

Some incubation projects are not yet set up as part of OSGeo community:

* Oskari

Some guidance is offered by individual projects below:

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! Community Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" | up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
|}

= Events =

== Community Events ==

We are considering setting aside a budget for community events in 2020:

* Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below
* We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)
* OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.
* Previously we have had requests to fund a "community day" or "community sprints" as part a larger event as distinct from sponsorship, the have been funded to the best of our ability

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! Event Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|-
| FOSS4G SotM Oceania Community Day
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
|
|}

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* Please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.

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! Sprint Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No financial request made yet, [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2020|event planning]] is well under way.
|-
| GeoServer Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS Community Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

= Approval and Amendments =

* Budget Meeting: [[Board Meeting 2019-01-21]]
* Loomio Motion: [https://www.loomio.org/d/xmEyfoPn/osgeo-budget-2019]
* Amendments: TBD

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2020

2019-12-14T17:19:56Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

'''DRAFT'''

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2019]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

Total Approved Budget for 2019: $230,150 USD

Total Approved Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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|-
! Board
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Operational expenses including liability insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Travel to main FOSS4G and F2F meeting (15k), and regional/representative events (7k)
|-
| Partners
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Meetings with sponsors during events
|}

Total Board Budget for 2019: $29,000 USD

Total Board Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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|-
! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | 23,750
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | 6,100
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,600
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,051 euro + 6,000 $
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| Budget 2019: the expenses are less because a Field Mission in South Sudan was cancelled; Budget 2020: 2 OSGeo Challenges (6,000) + 3,000 for the Partecipation at the "6th International Symposium on Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping" 22-26 June 2020)
|-
| Incubation Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: $76,450 USD

Total Committees Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Initiatives are a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
* Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

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|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by Conference Committee. Seed money for 2020 will be allocated by the board when estimate numbers become available.
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| TGP, 50-50% for global event, rest for regional events (Previous years had a component of matching sponsor donations)
|-
| Events and Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board. Funding to help organize OSGeo Code Sprint and other events (e.g. QGIS User Conference, PostGIS Code Sprint, GRASS GIS Community Sprint etc.)
|-
| Community Projects
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board since community projects do not have an assigned officer to handle their budget. We have around 23-25 projects expected in 2020 (see list bellow). Budgeted 1000$ for each project.
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: $60,000 USD

Total Initiatives Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

= Projects =

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* We have reached out (2019) to the projects mailing list with a default suggestion of 2000 for any project that responds
* Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding
* This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2020 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.
* If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended

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|-
! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 7,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2020 GRASS GIS Budget 2020]
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,500
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OTB
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PROJ
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [[Pycsw_budget_2020]]
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,200
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 8,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: $64,700 USD

Total Projects Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer. Board approved $TBD for each project (see Community Projects Initiative above)

* actinia
* FDO
* GC2/Vidi
* GeoExt
* GeoHealthCheck
* Geomajas
* GeoServer Client PHP
* GeoWebCache
* istSOS
* Loader
* MapGuide Open Source
* Mapfish
* Opticks
* OSGeo4W
* OSSIM
* OWSLib
* pgRouting
* PortableGIS
* Pronto Raster
* pygeoapi
* rasdaman
* TEAM Engine
* ZOO-Project

Some incubation projects are not yet set up as part of OSGeo community:

* Oskari

Some guidance is offered by individual projects below:

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|-
! Community Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" | up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
|}

= Events =

== Community Events ==

We are considering setting aside a budget for community events in 2020:

* Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below
* We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)
* OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.
* Previously we have had requests to fund a "community day" or "community sprints" as part a larger event as distinct from sponsorship, the have been funded to the best of our ability

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|-
! Event Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|-
| FOSS4G SotM Oceania Community Day
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
|
|}

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* Please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.

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|-
! Sprint Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No financial request made yet, [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2020|event planning]] is well under way.
|-
| GeoServer Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS Community Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

= Approval and Amendments =

* Budget Meeting: [[Board Meeting 2019-01-21]]
* Loomio Motion: [https://www.loomio.org/d/xmEyfoPn/osgeo-budget-2019]
* Amendments: TBD

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2020

2019-12-14T17:19:14Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

'''DRAFT'''

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2019]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

Total Approved Budget for 2019: $230,150 USD

Total Approved Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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|-
! Board
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Operational expenses including liability insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Travel to main FOSS4G and F2F meeting (15k), and regional/representative events (7k)
|-
| Partners
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Meetings with sponsors during events
|}

Total Board Budget for 2019: $29,000 USD

Total Board Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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|-
! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | 23,750
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | 6,100
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,600
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,051 euro + 6,000 $
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| Budget 2019: the expenses are less because a Field Mission in South Sudan was cancelled; Budget 2020: 2 OSGeo Challenges (6,000) + 3,000 for the Partecipation to the "6th International Symposium on Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping" 22-26 June 2020)
|-
| Incubation Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: $76,450 USD

Total Committees Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Initiatives are a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
* Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

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|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by Conference Committee. Seed money for 2020 will be allocated by the board when estimate numbers become available.
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| TGP, 50-50% for global event, rest for regional events (Previous years had a component of matching sponsor donations)
|-
| Events and Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board. Funding to help organize OSGeo Code Sprint and other events (e.g. QGIS User Conference, PostGIS Code Sprint, GRASS GIS Community Sprint etc.)
|-
| Community Projects
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board since community projects do not have an assigned officer to handle their budget. We have around 23-25 projects expected in 2020 (see list bellow). Budgeted 1000$ for each project.
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: $60,000 USD

Total Initiatives Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

= Projects =

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* We have reached out (2019) to the projects mailing list with a default suggestion of 2000 for any project that responds
* Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding
* This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2020 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.
* If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended

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|-
! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 7,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2020 GRASS GIS Budget 2020]
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,500
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OTB
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PROJ
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [[Pycsw_budget_2020]]
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,200
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 8,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: $64,700 USD

Total Projects Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer. Board approved $TBD for each project (see Community Projects Initiative above)

* actinia
* FDO
* GC2/Vidi
* GeoExt
* GeoHealthCheck
* Geomajas
* GeoServer Client PHP
* GeoWebCache
* istSOS
* Loader
* MapGuide Open Source
* Mapfish
* Opticks
* OSGeo4W
* OSSIM
* OWSLib
* pgRouting
* PortableGIS
* Pronto Raster
* pygeoapi
* rasdaman
* TEAM Engine
* ZOO-Project

Some incubation projects are not yet set up as part of OSGeo community:

* Oskari

Some guidance is offered by individual projects below:

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|-
! Community Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" | up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
|}

= Events =

== Community Events ==

We are considering setting aside a budget for community events in 2020:

* Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below
* We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)
* OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.
* Previously we have had requests to fund a "community day" or "community sprints" as part a larger event as distinct from sponsorship, the have been funded to the best of our ability

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|-
! Event Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|-
| FOSS4G SotM Oceania Community Day
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
|
|}

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* Please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.

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|-
! Sprint Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No financial request made yet, [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2020|event planning]] is well under way.
|-
| GeoServer Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS Community Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

= Approval and Amendments =

* Budget Meeting: [[Board Meeting 2019-01-21]]
* Loomio Motion: [https://www.loomio.org/d/xmEyfoPn/osgeo-budget-2019]
* Amendments: TBD

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2020

2019-12-14T17:18:14Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

'''DRAFT'''

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2019]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

Total Approved Budget for 2019: $230,150 USD

Total Approved Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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|-
! Board
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Operational expenses including liability insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Travel to main FOSS4G and F2F meeting (15k), and regional/representative events (7k)
|-
| Partners
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Meetings with sponsors during events
|}

Total Board Budget for 2019: $29,000 USD

Total Board Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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|-
! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | 23,750
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | 6,100
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,600
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,051 euro + 6,000 $
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| Budget 2019: the expenses are less because a Field Mission in South Sudan was cancelled; Budget 2020: 2 OSGeo Challenges (6,000) + 3,000 Partecipation to the "6th International Symposium on Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping" 22-26June 2020)
|-
| Incubation Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: $76,450 USD

Total Committees Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Initiatives are a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
* Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

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|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by Conference Committee. Seed money for 2020 will be allocated by the board when estimate numbers become available.
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| TGP, 50-50% for global event, rest for regional events (Previous years had a component of matching sponsor donations)
|-
| Events and Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board. Funding to help organize OSGeo Code Sprint and other events (e.g. QGIS User Conference, PostGIS Code Sprint, GRASS GIS Community Sprint etc.)
|-
| Community Projects
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board since community projects do not have an assigned officer to handle their budget. We have around 23-25 projects expected in 2020 (see list bellow). Budgeted 1000$ for each project.
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: $60,000 USD

Total Initiatives Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

= Projects =

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* We have reached out (2019) to the projects mailing list with a default suggestion of 2000 for any project that responds
* Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding
* This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2020 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.
* If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended

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|-
! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 7,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2020 GRASS GIS Budget 2020]
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,500
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OTB
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PROJ
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [[Pycsw_budget_2020]]
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,200
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 8,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: $64,700 USD

Total Projects Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer. Board approved $TBD for each project (see Community Projects Initiative above)

* actinia
* FDO
* GC2/Vidi
* GeoExt
* GeoHealthCheck
* Geomajas
* GeoServer Client PHP
* GeoWebCache
* istSOS
* Loader
* MapGuide Open Source
* Mapfish
* Opticks
* OSGeo4W
* OSSIM
* OWSLib
* pgRouting
* PortableGIS
* Pronto Raster
* pygeoapi
* rasdaman
* TEAM Engine
* ZOO-Project

Some incubation projects are not yet set up as part of OSGeo community:

* Oskari

Some guidance is offered by individual projects below:

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|-
! Community Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" | up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
|}

= Events =

== Community Events ==

We are considering setting aside a budget for community events in 2020:

* Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below
* We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)
* OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.
* Previously we have had requests to fund a "community day" or "community sprints" as part a larger event as distinct from sponsorship, the have been funded to the best of our ability

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|-
! Event Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|-
| FOSS4G SotM Oceania Community Day
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
|
|}

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* Please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.

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|-
! Sprint Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No financial request made yet, [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2020|event planning]] is well under way.
|-
| GeoServer Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS Community Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

= Approval and Amendments =

* Budget Meeting: [[Board Meeting 2019-01-21]]
* Loomio Motion: [https://www.loomio.org/d/xmEyfoPn/osgeo-budget-2019]
* Amendments: TBD

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2020

2019-12-14T17:16:58Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

'''DRAFT'''

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2019]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

Total Approved Budget for 2019: $230,150 USD

Total Approved Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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|-
! Board
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Operational expenses including liability insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Travel to main FOSS4G and F2F meeting (15k), and regional/representative events (7k)
|-
| Partners
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Meetings with sponsors during events
|}

Total Board Budget for 2019: $29,000 USD

Total Board Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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|-
! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | 23,750
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | 6,100
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,600
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,051 euro + 6,000 $
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| 2 OSGeo Challenges (6,000) + 3,000 Partecipation to the "6th International Symposium on Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping" 22-26June 2020)
|-
| Incubation Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: $76,450 USD

Total Committees Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Initiatives are a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
* Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

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|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by Conference Committee. Seed money for 2020 will be allocated by the board when estimate numbers become available.
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| TGP, 50-50% for global event, rest for regional events (Previous years had a component of matching sponsor donations)
|-
| Events and Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board. Funding to help organize OSGeo Code Sprint and other events (e.g. QGIS User Conference, PostGIS Code Sprint, GRASS GIS Community Sprint etc.)
|-
| Community Projects
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board since community projects do not have an assigned officer to handle their budget. We have around 23-25 projects expected in 2020 (see list bellow). Budgeted 1000$ for each project.
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: $60,000 USD

Total Initiatives Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

= Projects =

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* We have reached out (2019) to the projects mailing list with a default suggestion of 2000 for any project that responds
* Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding
* This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2020 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.
* If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended

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|-
! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 7,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2020 GRASS GIS Budget 2020]
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,500
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OTB
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PROJ
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [[Pycsw_budget_2020]]
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,200
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 8,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: $64,700 USD

Total Projects Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer. Board approved $TBD for each project (see Community Projects Initiative above)

* actinia
* FDO
* GC2/Vidi
* GeoExt
* GeoHealthCheck
* Geomajas
* GeoServer Client PHP
* GeoWebCache
* istSOS
* Loader
* MapGuide Open Source
* Mapfish
* Opticks
* OSGeo4W
* OSSIM
* OWSLib
* pgRouting
* PortableGIS
* Pronto Raster
* pygeoapi
* rasdaman
* TEAM Engine
* ZOO-Project

Some incubation projects are not yet set up as part of OSGeo community:

* Oskari

Some guidance is offered by individual projects below:

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|-
! Community Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" | up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
|}

= Events =

== Community Events ==

We are considering setting aside a budget for community events in 2020:

* Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below
* We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)
* OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.
* Previously we have had requests to fund a "community day" or "community sprints" as part a larger event as distinct from sponsorship, the have been funded to the best of our ability

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|-
! Event Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|-
| FOSS4G SotM Oceania Community Day
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
|
|}

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* Please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! Sprint Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No financial request made yet, [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2020|event planning]] is well under way.
|-
| GeoServer Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS Community Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

= Approval and Amendments =

* Budget Meeting: [[Board Meeting 2019-01-21]]
* Loomio Motion: [https://www.loomio.org/d/xmEyfoPn/osgeo-budget-2019]
* Amendments: TBD

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2020

2019-12-14T17:11:21Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

'''DRAFT'''

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2019]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

Total Approved Budget for 2019: $230,150 USD

Total Approved Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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! Board
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Operational expenses including liability insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Travel to main FOSS4G and F2F meeting (15k), and regional/representative events (7k)
|-
| Partners
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Meetings with sponsors during events
|}

Total Board Budget for 2019: $29,000 USD

Total Board Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | 23,750
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | 6,100
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,600
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| 2 OSGeo Challenges (6,000 + 3,000 Partecipation to the "6th International Symposium on Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping" 22-26June 2020)
|-
| Incubation Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: $76,450 USD

Total Committees Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Initiatives are a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
* Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

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! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by Conference Committee. Seed money for 2020 will be allocated by the board when estimate numbers become available.
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| TGP, 50-50% for global event, rest for regional events (Previous years had a component of matching sponsor donations)
|-
| Events and Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board. Funding to help organize OSGeo Code Sprint and other events (e.g. QGIS User Conference, PostGIS Code Sprint, GRASS GIS Community Sprint etc.)
|-
| Community Projects
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Managed by the board since community projects do not have an assigned officer to handle their budget. We have around 23-25 projects expected in 2020 (see list bellow). Budgeted 1000$ for each project.
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: $60,000 USD

Total Initiatives Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

= Projects =

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* We have reached out (2019) to the projects mailing list with a default suggestion of 2000 for any project that responds
* Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding
* This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2020 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.
* If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended

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! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 7,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2020 GRASS GIS Budget 2020]
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,500
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OTB
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PROJ
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | N/A
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| [[Pycsw_budget_2020]]
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,200
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 8,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: $64,700 USD

Total Projects Budget for 2020: $TBD USD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer. Board approved $TBD for each project (see Community Projects Initiative above)

* actinia
* FDO
* GC2/Vidi
* GeoExt
* GeoHealthCheck
* Geomajas
* GeoServer Client PHP
* GeoWebCache
* istSOS
* Loader
* MapGuide Open Source
* Mapfish
* Opticks
* OSGeo4W
* OSSIM
* OWSLib
* pgRouting
* PortableGIS
* Pronto Raster
* pygeoapi
* rasdaman
* TEAM Engine
* ZOO-Project

Some incubation projects are not yet set up as part of OSGeo community:

* Oskari

Some guidance is offered by individual projects below:

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! Community Project
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" | up to 4,000 (need specific requests to board and incubation committee)
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
|}

= Events =

== Community Events ==

We are considering setting aside a budget for community events in 2020:

* Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below
* We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)
* OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.
* Previously we have had requests to fund a "community day" or "community sprints" as part a larger event as distinct from sponsorship, the have been funded to the best of our ability

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! Event Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|-
| FOSS4G SotM Oceania Community Day
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500
|
|}

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* Please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.

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! Sprint Request
! 2019
! 2019 Actual
! 2020
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No financial request made yet, [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2020|event planning]] is well under way.
|-
| GeoServer Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| GRASS GIS Community Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
|
|}

= Approval and Amendments =

* Budget Meeting: [[Board Meeting 2019-01-21]]
* Loomio Motion: [https://www.loomio.org/d/xmEyfoPn/osgeo-budget-2019]
* Amendments: TBD

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T17:01:46Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 28-31 May 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

=== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

=== 2 December 2019 ===

Meeting between UN Open GIS Initiative representatives (Kyoung-Soo Eom, and the International Association QGIS.ORG, represented by the chair Paolo Cavallini.

Participants:
1) International Association QGIS.ORG (hereinafter, QGIS.org) : Paolo Cavallini (Chair)
2) UN Open GIS Initiative (hereinafter, UN Open GIS): Maria Antonia Brovelli (Co-Chair, Prof. Politecnico Di Milano/OSGeo), Hae-Kyong Kang (Secretary & Chair WG-3, Research Fellow of the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements), Kyoung-Soo Eom (Co-Chair, Chief UNGIS) and Gakumin Kato (GIS Officer of UNGIS)

Summary of the meeting:

1. QGIS.org and UN Open GIS expressed mutual interests for establishing a partnership in order to create synergy through cooperation/collaboration towards the achievement of the common goal for a better world. (Action) QGIS.org and UN Open GIS will jointly prepare 1) scope of cooperation/ collaboration and 2) Letter of Intent

2. QGIS.org expressed its interest to participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative as a member. (Action) UN Open GIS will discuss with its Strategic Board on the partnership with QGIS.org and QGIS.org joining the membership of UN Open GIS.

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

=== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details ===

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T17:01:13Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 2 December 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

=== 2 December 2019 ===

Meeting between UN Open GIS Initiative representatives (Kyoung-Soo Eom, and the International Association QGIS.ORG, represented by the chair Paolo Cavallini.

Participants:
1) International Association QGIS.ORG (hereinafter, QGIS.org) : Paolo Cavallini (Chair)
2) UN Open GIS Initiative (hereinafter, UN Open GIS): Maria Antonia Brovelli (Co-Chair, Prof. Politecnico Di Milano/OSGeo), Hae-Kyong Kang (Secretary & Chair WG-3, Research Fellow of the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements), Kyoung-Soo Eom (Co-Chair, Chief UNGIS) and Gakumin Kato (GIS Officer of UNGIS)

Summary of the meeting:

1. QGIS.org and UN Open GIS expressed mutual interests for establishing a partnership in order to create synergy through cooperation/collaboration towards the achievement of the common goal for a better world. (Action) QGIS.org and UN Open GIS will jointly prepare 1) scope of cooperation/ collaboration and 2) Letter of Intent

2. QGIS.org expressed its interest to participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative as a member. (Action) UN Open GIS will discuss with its Strategic Board on the partnership with QGIS.org and QGIS.org joining the membership of UN Open GIS.

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

=== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details ===

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:59:48Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 26-30 August 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== 2 December 2019 ==

Meeting between UN Open GIS Initiative representatives (Kyoung-Soo Eom, and the International Association QGIS.ORG, represented by the chair Paolo Cavallini.

Participants:
1) International Association QGIS.ORG (hereinafter, QGIS.org) : Paolo Cavallini (Chair)
2) UN Open GIS Initiative (hereinafter, UN Open GIS): Maria Antonia Brovelli (Co-Chair, Prof. Politecnico Di Milano/OSGeo), Hae-Kyong Kang (Secretary & Chair WG-3, Research Fellow of the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements), Kyoung-Soo Eom (Co-Chair, Chief UNGIS) and Gakumin Kato (GIS Officer of UNGIS)

Summary of the meeting:

1. QGIS.org and UN Open GIS expressed mutual interests for establishing a partnership in order to create synergy through cooperation/collaboration towards the achievement of the common goal for a better world. (Action) QGIS.org and UN Open GIS will jointly prepare 1) scope of cooperation/ collaboration and 2) Letter of Intent
2. QGIS.org expressed its interest to participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative as a member. (Action) UN Open GIS will discuss with its Strategic Board on the partnership with QGIS.org and QGIS.org joining the membership of UN Open GIS.

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

=== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details ===

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:59:14Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 2 December 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

=== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details ===

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:58:45Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 2 December 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== 2 December 2019 ==

Meeting between UN Open GIS Initiative representatives (Kyoung-Soo Eom, and the International Association QGIS.ORG, represented by the chair Paolo Cavallini.

Participants:
1) International Association QGIS.ORG (hereinafter, QGIS.org) : Paolo Cavallini (Chair)
2) UN Open GIS Initiative (hereinafter, UN Open GIS): Maria Antonia Brovelli (Co-Chair, Prof. Politecnico Di Milano/OSGeo), Hae-Kyong Kang (Secretary & Chair WG-3, Research Fellow of the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements), Kyoung-Soo Eom (Co-Chair, Chief UNGIS) and Gakumin Kato (GIS Officer of UNGIS)

Summary of meeting:

1. QGIS.org and UN Open GIS expressed mutual interests for establishing a partnership in order to create synergy through cooperation/collaboration towards the achievement of the common goal for a better world. (Action) QGIS.org and UN Open GIS will jointly prepare 1) scope of cooperation/ collaboration and 2) Letter of Intent
2. QGIS.org expressed its interest to participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative as a member. (Action) UN Open GIS will discuss with its Strategic Board on the partnership with QGIS.org and QGIS.org joining the membership of UN Open GIS.

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

=== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details ===

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:57:25Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 2 December 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== 2 December 2019 ==

Meeting between UN Open GIS Initiative representatives (Kyoung-Soo Eom, and the International Association QGIS.ORG, represented by the chair Paolo Cavallini.

Participants:
1) International Association QGIS.ORG (hereinafter, QGIS.org) : Paolo Cavallini (Chair)
2) UN Open GIS Initiative (hereinafter, UN Open GIS): Maria Antonia Brovelli (Co-Chair, Prof. Politecnico Di Milano/OSGeo), Hae-Kyong Kang (Secretary & Chair WG-3, Research Fellow of the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements), Kyoung-Soo Eom (Co-Chair, Chief UNGIS) and Gakumin Kato (GIS Officer of UNGIS)

Summary of meeting:

1. QGIS.org and UN Open GIS expressed mutual interests for establishing a partnership in order to create synergy through cooperation/collaboration towards the achievement of the common goal for a better world. (Action) QGIS.org and UN Open GIS will jointly prepare 1) scope of cooperation/ collaboration and 2) Letter of Intent
2. QGIS.org expressed its interest to participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative as a member. (Action) UN Open GIS will discuss with its Strategic Board on the partnership with QGIS.org and QGIS.org joining the membership of UN Open GIS.

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

=== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details ===

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:56:41Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 26-30 August 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== 2 December 2019 ==

Meeting between UN Open GIS Initiative representatives (Kyoung-Soo Eom, and the International Association QGIS.ORG, represented by the chair Paolo Cavallini.

Participants:
1) International Association QGIS.ORG (hereinafter, QGIS.org) : Paolo Cavallini (Chair)
2) UN Open GIS Initiative (hereinafter, UN Open GIS): Maria Antonia Brovelli (Co-Chair, Prof. Politecnico Di Milano/OSGeo), Hae-Kyong Kang (Secretary & Chair WG-3, Research Fellow of the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements), Kyoung-Soo Eom (Co-Chair, Chief UNGIS) and Gakumin Kato (GIS Officer of UNGIS)

Summary of meeting:

1. QGIS.org and UN Open GIS expressed mutual interests for establishing a partnership in order to create synergy through cooperation/collaboration towards the achievement of the common goal for a better world. (Action) QGIS.org and UN Open GIS will jointly prepare 1) scope of cooperation/ collaboration and 2) Letter of Intent
2. QGIS.org expressed its interest to participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative as a member. (Action) UN Open GIS will discuss with its Strategic Board on the partnership with QGIS.org and QGIS.org joining the membership of UN Open GIS.

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

=== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details ===

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:45:04Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Committee Meetings */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

=== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details ===

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:43:58Z

Wiki-Maria: /* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

''' We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details '''

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:43:11Z

Wiki-Maria: /* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details ==

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:41:38Z

Wiki-Maria: /* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

==''We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Interested people, please, contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) for details''==

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:40:39Z

Wiki-Maria: /* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

==''We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)''==

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:38:19Z

Wiki-Maria: /* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) ==

;Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:37:05Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Committee Meetings */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

== We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena) ==

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:36:06Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 26-30 August 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

Presentations of the outcome of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2018.

Paper:
OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/49/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-49-2019.pdf

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:31:44Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 28-31 May 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 14 June 2019 ===

Participation at the ISPRS GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019 Enschede, The Netherlands | June 10-14, 2019 and presentation of the outcome of the OSGEo UN Challenge 3 "Monitoring SDG 9 with Global Open Data and Open Software - A Case Study from Rural Tanzania"

Paper: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W13/1551/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1551-2019.pdf

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:24:59Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 31 July 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 2 August 2019 ===

Presentation of the OSGeo UN Challenge 3 (Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals) of 2018 at the UN‐GGIM: Academic Network Side Event “Resilience and Sustainability” - New York.
The outcome of the challenge is presented in a chapter of the book "Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma"(available here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1005177). Title of the chapter: Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maria Ilie Codrina, and Serena Coetzee.

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:16:12Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 26-30 August 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with FOSS4G Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-12-14T16:15:26Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 28-31 May 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

=== 31 July 2019 ===

Announcement of the OSGeo UN Challenge:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update. The winner is Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci from Columbia
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions. The winner is Berg Ambarouglu from Turkey

The winners start work under the mentorship of Ivana Ivánová ivaiva3@gmail.com, Oliva Martin Sanchez martinsanchez@un.org and Paolo Corti pcorti@gmail.com (challenge 1) and Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli@polimi.it, Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee@up.ac.za and Timur Obukhov obukhov@un.org (challenge 2).
Results of their work will be available by the end of the year

=== 26-30 August 2019 ===
Participation at the FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest: UN staff (17 people) + UN Open GIS (None-UN: 19 people) = Total 38

Keynote by Kyoung-Soo Eom "Open Source GIS Technology for United Nations".

Meetings with OS Communities: GeoNode (Alessio Fabiani)

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

FOSS4G 2019 BirdsOfAFeather

2019-08-17T14:33:25Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OPEN SCIENCE AND NEW TECHNOLOGY FORUM AT IPSRS 2020 CONGRESS */

= Introduction =

Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

== General Information ==

During the [[FOSS4G 2019]] conference in Bucharest, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [https://2019.foss4g.org/schedule/outline/ https://2019.foss4g.org/schedule/outline/].

=== How to organize a BOF ===

BoF sessions are informal gatherings of people around a specific topic. BoF's can be held in: BoF rooms or taken off-site for breakfast, lunch or dinner!

While FOSS4G is provide space, but the setting up a bird-of-feather meetup is done informally using this wiki, twitter, or on site BoF board.

=== Capacities ===

The BoF sessions rooms are available after regular parallel session times (setup theater style) in the InterContinental Hotel.

* Ronda Ballroom;
* Fortuna Vest;
* Fortuna Est;
* Rapsodia Ballroom;
* Opera;
* Opereta;
* Simfonia;
* Bolero;
* Hora;
* Concerto.

We will put a BoF organizing board next to the lounge for on site organization.

== FOSS4G Contact ==

Reach out to https://twitter.com/foss4g on twitter, or mailto:foss4g2019@lists.osgeo.org via email.

= Wednesday 28 August (18:00 - 19:30) =

== Ronda Ballroom ==

=== OSGeo Charter Member ===

* Description: Are you a charter member? Then come to this BoF to talk about what we do as Charter Members!
* Person to contact: Vicky Vergara
Who is coming:
* Vicky Vergara

== Fortuna Vest ==

=== GeoServer Flock (18:00-19:00) ===

* Description: Meet GeoServer enthusiasts from all backgrounds for stories, discussion, and GeoServer Q&A.
* Person to contact: [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]

Who is coming:
* Jody Garnett

=== GeoServer Demos (19:00-19:30) ===

* Description: Got a great GeoServer example? Share and learn ...
* Person to contact: [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]

Who is coming:
* Jody Garnett

== Fortuna Est ==

=== OPEN SCIENCE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES FORUM AT IPSRS 2020 CONGRESS ===

* Description: The BOF is aimed at organizing the OSGeo Forum that will held at the ISPRS Congress 2020 (http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/) in June 2020
* Persons to contact: Maria Antonia Brovelli (maria.brovelli@polimi.it) and Serena Coetzee (serena.coetzee@up.ac.za)

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Rapsodia Ballroom ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Opera ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Opereta ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Simfonia ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Bolero ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Hora ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Concerto ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

= Thursday 29 August (18:00 - 19:30) =

== Ronda Ballroom ==

=== OSGeo Members ===

* Description: Are you a member of OSGeo, come and talk about what members do in OSGeo
* Person to contact: Vicky Vergara

Who is coming:
* Vicky Vergara

== Fortuna Vest ==

=== Open Source Cartography and Mapping (18:00-19:30) ===

* Description: Making open source look good with QGIS, GeoStyler, GeoServer and more ...
* Person to contact: [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]

Who is coming:
* Jody Garnett

== Fortuna Est ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Rapsodia Ballroom ==

=== Women in Geospatial ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Julia Wagemann

Who is coming:
* Julia Wagemann
* Malen Libman
* Ilie Codrina

== Opera ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Opereta ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Simfonia ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Bolero ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Hora ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Concerto ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

FOSS4G 2019 BirdsOfAFeather

2019-08-17T14:16:48Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Add BoF name */

= Introduction =

Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

== General Information ==

During the [[FOSS4G 2019]] conference in Bucharest, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [https://2019.foss4g.org/schedule/outline/ https://2019.foss4g.org/schedule/outline/].

=== How to organize a BOF ===

BoF sessions are informal gatherings of people around a specific topic. BoF's can be held in: BoF rooms or taken off-site for breakfast, lunch or dinner!

While FOSS4G is provide space, but the setting up a bird-of-feather meetup is done informally using this wiki, twitter, or on site BoF board.

=== Capacities ===

The BoF sessions rooms are available after regular parallel session times (setup theater style) in the InterContinental Hotel.

* Ronda Ballroom;
* Fortuna Vest;
* Fortuna Est;
* Rapsodia Ballroom;
* Opera;
* Opereta;
* Simfonia;
* Bolero;
* Hora;
* Concerto.

We will put a BoF organizing board next to the lounge for on site organization.

== FOSS4G Contact ==

Reach out to https://twitter.com/foss4g on twitter, or mailto:foss4g2019@lists.osgeo.org via email.

= Wednesday 28 August (18:00 - 19:30) =

== Ronda Ballroom ==

=== OSGeo Charter Member ===

* Description: Are you a charter member? Then come to this BoF to talk about what we do as Charter Members!
* Person to contact: Vicky Vergara
Who is coming:
* Vicky Vergara

== Fortuna Vest ==

=== GeoServer Flock (18:00-19:00) ===

* Description: Meet GeoServer enthusiasts from all backgrounds for stories, discussion, and GeoServer Q&A.
* Person to contact: [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]

Who is coming:
* Jody Garnett

=== GeoServer Demos (19:00-19:30) ===

* Description: Got a great GeoServer example? Share and learn ...
* Person to contact: [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]

Who is coming:
* Jody Garnett

== Fortuna Est ==

=== OPEN SCIENCE AND NEW TECHNOLOGY FORUM AT IPSRS 2020 CONGRESS ===

* Description: The BOF is aimed at organizing the OSGeo Forum that will held at the ISPRS Congress 2020 (http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/) in June 2020
* Persons to contact: Maria Antonia Brovelli (maria.brovelli@polimi.it) and Serena Coetzee (serena.coetzee@up.ac.za)

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Rapsodia Ballroom ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Opera ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Opereta ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Simfonia ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Bolero ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Hora ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Concerto ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

= Thursday 29 August (18:00 - 19:30) =

== Ronda Ballroom ==

=== OSGeo Members ===

* Description: Are you a member of OSGeo, come and talk about what members do in OSGeo
* Person to contact: Vicky Vergara

Who is coming:
* Vicky Vergara

== Fortuna Vest ==

=== Open Source Cartography and Mapping (18:00-19:30) ===

* Description: Making open source look good with QGIS, GeoStyler, GeoServer and more ...
* Person to contact: [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]

Who is coming:
* Jody Garnett

== Fortuna Est ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Rapsodia Ballroom ==

=== Women in Geospatial ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Julia Wagemann

Who is coming:
* Julia Wagemann
* Malen Libman
* Ilie Codrina

== Opera ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Opereta ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Simfonia ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Bolero ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Hora ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

== Concerto ==

=== Add BoF name ===

* Description: Add description
* Person to contact: Add contact person

Who is coming:
* Add your name

OSGEO at ISPRS2020

2019-06-24T19:49:14Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress */

=== OSGeo participation at XXIVth ISPRS Congress ===

==== About ====

The [http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/ XXIVth ISPRS Congress] will be 14-20. June, 2020 in Nice, France. OSGeo has [[MOU_ISPRS|MoU]] with ISPRS which includes collaboration and participation in conferences.

OSGeo was invited to organize:

- a '''Forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and Geo-Open-Data'''. Our motivation is to encourage increasingly productive exchanges between academia, institutions, industry, and users on important Open Geo subjects. This OSGeo enterprise will necessarily cover *all* aspects of the OSGeo theme, promoting Open-Source and Open-Data policy issues, as well as promoting open science and open technology.

- an '''OSGeo Pavilion''', where companies supporting open-source will be given increased visibility to help strengthen their impact during the congress.

==== OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress ====

[[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]] - maria.brovelli@polimi.it

[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]]

[[User:Sanand| Suchith Anand]]

[[User:kotzino| Dimitris Kotzinos]]

[[User:Mlennert| Moritz Lennert]] - mlennert@club.worldonline.be

[[User:patrick.hogan| Patrick Hogan]]

[[User:Darshana Rawal| Darshana Rawal]]

[[User:Lene Fisher| Lene Fisher]]

[[User:serenacoetzee| Serena Coetzee]]

[[User:Cschweik| Charlie Schweik]]

[[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]]

[[User:Vrautenbach| Victoria Rautenbach]]

[[User:IvanaIvanova| Ivana Ivanova]]

[[User:Har Amrit Singh Sandhu| Har Amrit Singh Sandhu]] - haramritsingh.pec@gmail.com

[[Category:Conference]]
[[Category:2020]]

OSGEO at ISPRS2020

2019-06-20T12:13:42Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress */

=== OSGeo participation at XXIVth ISPRS Congress ===

==== About ====

The [http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/ XXIVth ISPRS Congress] will be 14-20. June, 2020 in Nice, France. OSGeo has [[MOU_ISPRS|MoU]] with ISPRS which includes collaboration and participation in conferences.

OSGeo was invited to organize:

- a '''Forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and Geo-Open-Data'''. Our motivation is to encourage increasingly productive exchanges between academia, institutions, industry, and users on important Open Geo subjects. This OSGeo enterprise will necessarily cover *all* aspects of the OSGeo theme, promoting Open-Source and Open-Data policy issues, as well as promoting open science and open technology.

- an '''OSGeo Pavilion''', where companies supporting open-source will be given increased visibility to help strengthen their impact during the congress.

==== OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress ====

[[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]

[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]]

[[User:Sanand| Suchith Anand]]

[[User:kotzino| Dimitris Kotzinos]]

[[User:Mlennert| Moritz Lennert]]

[[User:patrick.hogan| Patrick Hogan]]

[[User:Darshana Rawal| Darshana Rawal]]

[[User:Lene Fisher| Lene Fisher]]

[[User:serenacoetzee| Serena Coetzee]]

[[User:Cschweik| Charlie Schweik]]

[[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]]

[[User:Vrautenbach| Victoria Rautenbach]]

[[User:IvanaIvanova| Ivana Ivanova]]

[[Category:Conference]]
[[Category:2020]]

OSGEO at ISPRS2020

2019-06-18T18:38:33Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress */

=== OSGeo participation at XXIVth ISPRS Congress ===

==== About ====

The [http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/ XXIVth ISPRS Congress] will be 14-20. June, 2020 in Nice, France. OSGeo has [[MOU_ISPRS|MoU]] with ISPRS which includes collaboration and participation in conferences.

OSGeo was invited to organize:

- a '''Forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and Geo-Open-Data'''. Our motivation is to encourage increasingly productive exchanges between academia, institutions, industry, and users on important Open Geo subjects. This OSGeo enterprise will necessarily cover *all* aspects of the OSGeo theme, promoting Open-Source and Open-Data policy issues, as well as promoting open science and open technology.

- an '''OSGeo Pavilion''', where companies supporting open-source will be given increased visibility to help strengthen their impact during the congress.

==== OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress ====

[[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]

[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]]

[[User:Sanand| Suchith Anand]]

[[User:kotzino| Dimitris Kotzinos]]

[[User:Mlennert| Moritz Lennert]]

[[User:patrick.hogan| Patrick Hogan]]

[[User:Darshana Rawal| Darshana Rawal]]

[[User:Lene Fisher| Lene Fisher]]

[[User:serenacoetzee| Serena Coetzee]]

[[User:Cschweik| Charlie Schweik]]

[[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]]

[[User:Vrautenbach| Victoria Rautenbach]]

[[Category:Conference]]
[[Category:2020]]

UnitedNations Committee

2019-06-04T19:05:05Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 28-31 May 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Panel on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

The slides of the introduction to the Panel are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mariabrovelli/open-technologies-for-united-nations

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-05-26T19:53:31Z

Wiki-Maria: /* October 2018 - January 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Session on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-05-26T19:52:55Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 28-31 May 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Session on "Open Technologies for UN" https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-05-26T19:51:44Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 28-31 May 2019 */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Session on Open Technologies for UN https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/5th-international-symposium#c3

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-05-26T19:50:30Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Activities */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

=== January 2019 - May 2019 ===

Preparation of the New OSGeo UN Challenges.

The two Challenges are published on 18th May 2019 and are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update

Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and open institutions

==== 28-31 May 2019 ====

Participation at the 5th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, Chairing a Session on Open Technologies for UN

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-01-27T17:45:00Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Committee Meetings */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-01-27T17:43:51Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Committee Meetings */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

- Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

- Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

- The meeting is 29 January 9 am UTC.

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-01-25T09:46:45Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Committee Meetings */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

- Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Nils

- Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]], Bruce, Nils

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

OSGeo Budget 2019

2019-01-22T08:01:18Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2018]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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|-
! Board
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| Operational expenses including insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| Outreach focus
|-
| Partners and Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 20,500
| board responsible for handling code sprint requests, breakdown covered below
|-
| Events
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| Consider supporting events, to avoid confusing code sprint program above
|}

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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|-
! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | 23750
| [[SAC:Budget#2019]]
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | 6100
| pending request
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No operational budget requested, see TGP initiative below
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | 27,600
| Draft budget: [[Marketing Committee Budget 2019]]
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| $500 for six FOSS4G related events (coordinated by the chairs and LOCs)
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000
| UN Open GIS Initiative Meetings (one Pilot in South Sudan and one workshop in Kazakistan = 5,000 - part of this budget can be taken from the budget that was not spent in 2018) + 2 OSGeo UN Challenge (one for preparing PostGIS training material - 3,000 - and one for computing SDGs with FOSS4G and open data - 3,000). These Challenge are similar, in the modality, to those of 2018 (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1; https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3); https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData
|-
| OSGeo Incubation
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No operational budget requested, see Incubation initiative below.
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Iniativies a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
* Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* OSGeoLive - outreach initiative providing ready-to-run osgeo software experience
* Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

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|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Conference Committee
|-
| Incubation
| style="text-align:right;" | 18,000
| Managed by the incubation committee, requesting 3,000 per project to strictly be used towards incubation progress. , Note all projects in incubation have access to additional funding via the osgeo community project program.
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)
|-
| GSoC
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Previously had requests to help students attend events
|-
| Meta CRS
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Critical group for our interoperability goal, ask participants if they need any assistance
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Open Geo Science Committee
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Now an initiative of the OSGeoLive project
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| TGP, 50-60% for global event, rest for regional events (Previous years had a component of matching sponsor donations)
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: TBD

= Projects =

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* We have reached out to the projects mailing list with a default suggestion of 2000 for any project that responds
* Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding
* This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2019 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.
* If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended

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|-
! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| FDO
| style="text-align:right;" |
| PSC inactive, consider as community project?
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5000
| Renewal of Travis-CI plan for 11 parallel workers. Will also benefit to all other projects under the OSGeo github organization: homebrew-osgeo4mac, proj.4, libgeotiff, etc.
|-
| geomajas
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 7,000
| Budget focused on automating cite testing [[GeoServer Budget 2019]]
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
|
|-
| GRASS GIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| Budget focused on new Website redesign, details at https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2019
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3000
| Details of the budget at [[GvSIG Budget 2019]]
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" | 2000
| Details see [[Mapbender_Budget]]
|-
| MapFish
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapGuide Open Source
| style="text-align:right;" |
| PSC inactive, consider as community project?
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2500
| [https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/OSGeo-2019-Budget MapServer OSGeo 2019 Budget]
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| Detailled budget: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenLayers_Budget_2019
|-
| OSSIM
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| In support of project and travel for committer to PostGIS and other OSGeo code sprints.
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| PSC request
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | € 5,000 € 3,000
| QGIS Grant Programme Call 2019: bug fixing and polishing of existing features QGIS Server: improve WFS compliance from currently 50% to 100% (daily status reports at http://tests.qgis.org/ogc_cite/wfs_110/)
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| [[PyWPS budget 2019]]
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer.

* OSGeo4W
* Optics *
* Pronto Raster
* Porgy
* pgRouting
* GeoHealthCheck
* Portable GIS
* TEAM Engine *
* GC2/Vidi
* GeoWebCache
* ZOO-Project *
* istSOS *

Some incubation projects are not yet set up as part of OSGeo community:

* Oskar
* PROJ - MetaCRS changed to an initiative

Some guidance is offered by individual projects below:

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|-
! Community Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"|
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| 2,000
| Travel expenses to FOSS4G Romania
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
|}

Total Community Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

= Events =

== Community Events ==

We are considering setting aside a budget for community events in 2019:

* Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below
* We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)
* OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.
* Previously we have had requests to fund a "community day" or "community sprints" as part a larger event as distinct from sponsorship, the have been funded to the best of our ability

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|-
! Event Request
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | €3,000
| in March in A Coruna, Spain
|}

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* Please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.

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|-
! Sprint Request
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo annual code sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
| No financial request made, [[OSGeo Community Sprint 2019|event planning]] is well under way
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| Considering a CITE compliance sprint in Europe
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
|
|-
| Bolsena Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
| No financial request made
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
|
|}

Total Code Sprint Budget for 2019: TBD

These funds are approved as part of the board budget for 2018.

= Approval and Amendments =

* Budget Meeting: [[Board Meeting 2019-01-21]]
* Amendments: TBD

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2019

2019-01-21T11:28:01Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2018]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! Board
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| Operational expenses including insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| Outreach focus
|-
| Partners and Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 20,500
| board responsible for handling code sprint requests, breakdown covered below
|-
| Events
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| Consider supporting events, to avoid confusing code sprint program above
|}

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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|-
! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No operational budget requested, see TGP initiative below
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | 27,600
| Draft budget: [[Marketing Committee Budget 2019]]
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| $500 for six FOSS4G related events (coordinated by the chairs and LOCs)
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000 (tentative)
| UN Open GIS Initiative Meetings (one Pilot in South Sudan and one workshop in Kazakistan = 5,000 - part of this budget can be taken from the budget that was not spent in 2018) + 2 OSGeo UN Challenge (one for preparing PostGIS training material - 3,000 - and one for computing SDGs with FOSS4G and open data - 3,000). These Challenge are similar, in the modality, to those of 2018 (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1; https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3); https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData
|-
| OSGeo Incubation
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| No operational budget requested, see Incubation initiative below.
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Iniativies a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
* Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* OSGeoLive - outreach initiative providing ready-to-run osgeo software experience
* Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Conference Committee
|-
| Incubation
| style="text-align:right;" | 18,000
| Managed by the incubation committee, requesting 3,000 per project to strictly be used towards incubation progress. , Note all projects in incubation have access to additional funding via the osgeo community project program.
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)
|-
| GSoC
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Previously had requests to help students attend events
|-
| Meta CRS
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Critical group for our interoperability goal, ask participants if they need any assistance
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Open Geo Science Committee
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Now an initiative of the OSGeoLive project
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| TGP, 50-60% for global event, rest for regional events (Previous years had a component of matching sponsor donations)
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: TBD

= Projects =

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* We have reached out to the projects mailing list with a default suggestion of 2000 for any project that responds
* Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding
* This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2019 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.
* If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| FDO
| style="text-align:right;" |
| PSC inactive, consider as community project?
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5000
| Renewal of Travis-CI plan for 11 parallel workers. Will also benefit to all other projects under the OSGeo github organization: homebrew-osgeo4mac, proj.4, libgeotiff, etc.
|-
| geomajas
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| Budget focused on automating cite testing [[GeoServer Budget 2019]]
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
|
|-
| GRASS GIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000
| Budget focused on new Website redesign, details at https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2019
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3000
| Details of the budget at [[GvSIG Budget 2019]]
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapFish
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapGuide Open Source
| style="text-align:right;" |
| PSC inactive, consider as community project?
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| Detailled budget: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenLayers_Budget_2019
|-
| OSSIM
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| In support of project and travel for committer to PostGIS and other OSGeo code sprints.
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| PSC request
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | € 5,000 € 3,000
| QGIS Grant Programme Call 2019: bug fixing and polishing of existing features QGIS Server: improve WFS compliance from currently 50% to 100% (daily status reports at http://tests.qgis.org/ogc_cite/wfs_110/)
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer.

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|-
! Community Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"|
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| 2,000
| Travel expenses to FOSS4G Romania
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
|}

Total Community Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

= Events =

== Community Events ==

We are considering setting aside a budget for community events in 2019:

* Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below
* We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)
* OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.
* Previously we have had requests to fund a "community day" or "community sprints" as part a larger event as distinct from sponsorship, the have been funded to the best of our ability

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! Event Request
! 2019
! Notes
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| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
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| in March in A Coruna, Spain
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== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* Please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.

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| OSGeo annual code sprint
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| No financial request made, [[OSGeo Community Sprint 2019|event planning]] is well under way
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| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| Considering a CITE compliance sprint in Europe
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| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
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| Bolsena Code Sprint
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| No financial request made
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| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
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Total Code Sprint Budget for 2019: TBD

These funds are approved as part of the board budget for 2018.

= Approval and Amendments =

* Budget Meeting: [[Board Meeting 2019-01-21]]
* Amendments: TBD

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

UnitedNations Committee

2019-01-21T11:06:55Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Activities */

== 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenges
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug), Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) and Maria Ilie Codrina (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Codrina_Ilie) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang, Minpa Li, Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli for mentoring the projects.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

- Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]]

- Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]]

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-01-21T11:03:05Z

Wiki-Maria: /* 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 ===

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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenge 1 and 2
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug) and Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang and Minpa Li for mentoring the projects.

The material of last Challenge (Maria Ilie Codrina, mentors: Maria Brovelli and Serena Coetzee) will be available soon.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

- Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]]

- Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena, Pekka, [[User:simboss|Simone]]

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]
* [[User:Posiki|Pekka Sarkola]]

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

OSGeo Budget 2019

2019-01-19T21:31:22Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2018]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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! Board
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| Operational expenses including insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| Outreach focus
|-
| Partners and Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 20,500
| board responsible for handling code sprint requests, breakdown covered below
|-
| Events
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| Consider supporting events, to avoid confusing code sprint program above
|}

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| TGP, 50-60% for global event, rest for regional events
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request, not no active chair
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000 (tentative)
| UN Open GIS Initiative Meetings (one Pilot in South Sudan and one workshop in Kazakistan = 5,000 - part of this budget can be taken from the budget that was not spent in 2018) + 2 OSGeo UN Challenge (one for preparing PostGIS training material - 3,000 - and one for computing SDGs with FOSS4G and open data - 3,000). These Challenge are similar, in the modality, to those of 2018 (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1; https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3)
|-
| OSGeo Incubation
| style="text-align:right;" | 18,000
| Rough breakdown of 3,000 per incubation project to be used strictly towards progress on OSGeo incubation. Note all projects in incubation have access to additional funding via the osgeo community project program. Committee itself expects no appreciable expenses.
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Iniativies a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* Local Chapters - outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* OSGeoLive - outreach initiative providing
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Trave Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

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! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Conference Committee
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by board, no direct funding requests
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Open Geo Science Committee
|-
| GSoC
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Previously had requests to help students attend events
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Now an initiative of the OSGeoLive project
|-
| Meta CRS
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Critical group for our interoperability goal, ask participants if they need any assistance
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| Previous years used 10k commitment + 10k matching sponsor donations
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* Note this is a budget, representing planned spending in 2019 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.

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! 2019
! Notes
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| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| FDO
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5000
| Renewal of Travis-CI plan for 11 parallel workers. Will also benefit to all other projects under the OSGeo github organization: homebrew-osgeo4mac, proj.4, libgeotiff, etc.
|-
| geomajas
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000 USD
|
|-
| GRASS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3000 USD
| Details of the budget at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapFish
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapGuide Open Source
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSSIM
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | € 5,000 € 3,000
| QGIS Grant Programme Call 2019: bug fixing and polishing of existing features QGIS Server: improve WFS compliance from currently 50% to 100% (daily status reports at http://tests.qgis.org/ogc_cite/wfs_110/)
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer.

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! 2019
! Notes
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| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"|
|
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| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| 2,000
| Travel expenses to FOSS4G Romania
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
|}

Total Community Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Code sprint funding is setup to help carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* We had requests to fund sprints that were part of larger events, these escaped our 2017 planning but were still funded to the best of our abilities

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! 2019
! Notes
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| OSGeo annual code sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
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| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| In support of venue/event or travel for committer to other OSGeo code sprint
|-
| Bolsena Code Sprint
|
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
|
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | €3,000
| in March in A Coruna, Spain
|}

Total Code Sprint Budget for 2019: TBD

These funds are approved as part of the board budget for 2018.

== Approval and Amendments ==

* Budget Meeting: Board_Meeting_2019-01-04
* Amendments:

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2019

2019-01-19T21:30:17Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2018]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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! Board
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| Operational expenses including insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| Outreach focus
|-
| Partners and Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 20,500
| board responsible for handling code sprint requests, breakdown covered below
|-
| Events
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| Consider supporting events, to avoid confusing code sprint program above
|}

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| TGP, 50-60% for global event, rest for regional events
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request, not no active chair
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,000 (tentative)
| UN Open GIS Initiative Meetings (one Pilot in South Sudan and one workshop in Kazakistan = 5,000 - part of this budget can be taken from the budget that was not spent in 2018) + 2 OSGeo UN Challenge (one for preparing PostGIS training material - 3,000 - and one for computing SDGs with FOSS4G software and open data - 3,000). These Challenge are similar, in the modality, to those of 2018 (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1; https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3)
|-
| OSGeo Incubation
| style="text-align:right;" | 18,000
| Rough breakdown of 3,000 per incubation project to be used strictly towards progress on OSGeo incubation. Note all projects in incubation have access to additional funding via the osgeo community project program. Committee itself expects no appreciable expenses.
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Iniativies a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* Local Chapters - outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* OSGeoLive - outreach initiative providing
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Trave Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Conference Committee
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by board, no direct funding requests
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Open Geo Science Committee
|-
| GSoC
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Previously had requests to help students attend events
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Now an initiative of the OSGeoLive project
|-
| Meta CRS
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Critical group for our interoperability goal, ask participants if they need any assistance
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| Previous years used 10k commitment + 10k matching sponsor donations
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* Note this is a budget, representing planned spending in 2019 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| FDO
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5000
| Renewal of Travis-CI plan for 11 parallel workers. Will also benefit to all other projects under the OSGeo github organization: homebrew-osgeo4mac, proj.4, libgeotiff, etc.
|-
| geomajas
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000 USD
|
|-
| GRASS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3000 USD
| Details of the budget at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapFish
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapGuide Open Source
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSSIM
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | € 5,000 € 3,000
| QGIS Grant Programme Call 2019: bug fixing and polishing of existing features QGIS Server: improve WFS compliance from currently 50% to 100% (daily status reports at http://tests.qgis.org/ogc_cite/wfs_110/)
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer.

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! Community Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"|
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| 2,000
| Travel expenses to FOSS4G Romania
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
|}

Total Community Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Code sprint funding is setup to help carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* We had requests to fund sprints that were part of larger events, these escaped our 2017 planning but were still funded to the best of our abilities

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! Sprint Request
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo annual code sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| In support of venue/event or travel for committer to other OSGeo code sprint
|-
| Bolsena Code Sprint
|
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
|
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | €3,000
| in March in A Coruna, Spain
|}

Total Code Sprint Budget for 2019: TBD

These funds are approved as part of the board budget for 2018.

== Approval and Amendments ==

* Budget Meeting: Board_Meeting_2019-01-04
* Amendments:

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2019

2019-01-19T21:27:27Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2018]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! Board
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| Operational expenses including insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| Outreach focus
|-
| Partners and Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 20,500
| board responsible for handling code sprint requests, breakdown covered below
|-
| Events
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| Consider supporting events, to avoid confusing code sprint program above
|}

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| TGP, 50-60% for global event, rest for regional events
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request, not no active chair
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11000 (tentative)
| UN Open GIS Initiative Meetings (one Pilot in South Sudan and one workshop in Kazakistan = 5000 - part of this budget can be taken from the budget that was not spent in 2018) + 2 OSGeo UN Challenge (one for preparing PostGIS training material - 3000 - and one for computing SDGs with FOSS4G software and open data - 3000). These Challenge are similar, in the modality, to those of 2018 (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1; https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3)
|-
| OSGeo Incubation
| style="text-align:right;" | 18,000
| Rough breakdown of 3,000 per incubation project to be used strictly towards progress on OSGeo incubation. Note all projects in incubation have access to additional funding via the osgeo community project program. Committee itself expects no appreciable expenses.
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Iniativies a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* Local Chapters - outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* OSGeoLive - outreach initiative providing
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Trave Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Conference Committee
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by board, no direct funding requests
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Open Geo Science Committee
|-
| GSoC
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Previously had requests to help students attend events
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Now an initiative of the OSGeoLive project
|-
| Meta CRS
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Critical group for our interoperability goal, ask participants if they need any assistance
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| Previous years used 10k commitment + 10k matching sponsor donations
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* Note this is a budget, representing planned spending in 2019 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| FDO
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5000
| Renewal of Travis-CI plan for 11 parallel workers. Will also benefit to all other projects under the OSGeo github organization: homebrew-osgeo4mac, proj.4, libgeotiff, etc.
|-
| geomajas
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000 USD
|
|-
| GRASS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3000 USD
| Details of the budget at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapFish
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapGuide Open Source
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSSIM
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | € 5,000 € 3,000
| QGIS Grant Programme Call 2019: bug fixing and polishing of existing features QGIS Server: improve WFS compliance from currently 50% to 100% (daily status reports at http://tests.qgis.org/ogc_cite/wfs_110/)
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer.

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! Community Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"|
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| 2,000
| Travel expenses to FOSS4G Romania
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
|}

Total Community Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Code sprint funding is setup to help carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* We had requests to fund sprints that were part of larger events, these escaped our 2017 planning but were still funded to the best of our abilities

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! Sprint Request
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo annual code sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| In support of venue/event or travel for committer to other OSGeo code sprint
|-
| Bolsena Code Sprint
|
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
|
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | €3,000
| in March in A Coruna, Spain
|}

Total Code Sprint Budget for 2019: TBD

These funds are approved as part of the board budget for 2018.

== Approval and Amendments ==

* Budget Meeting: Board_Meeting_2019-01-04
* Amendments:

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2019

2019-01-19T21:20:26Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2018]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! Board
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| Operational expenses including insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| Outreach focus
|-
| Partners and Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 20,500
| board responsible for handling code sprint requests, breakdown covered below
|-
| Events
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| Consider supporting events, to avoid confusing code sprint program above
|}

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| TGP, 50-60% for global event, rest for regional events
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request, not no active chair
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11000 (tentative)
| UN Open GIS Initiative Meetings (Pilot in South Sudan and workshop in Kazakistan = 5000; part can be taken from the budget that was not spent in 2018) + 2 OSGeo UN Challenge (one for preparing PostGIS training material - 3000 - and one for computing SDGs with FOSS4G software and open data - 3000).
|-
| OSGeo Incubation
| style="text-align:right;" | 18,000
| Rough breakdown of 3,000 per incubation project to be used strictly towards progress on OSGeo incubation. Note all projects in incubation have access to additional funding via the osgeo community project program. Committee itself expects no appreciable expenses.
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Iniativies a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* Local Chapters - outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* OSGeoLive - outreach initiative providing
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Trave Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Conference Committee
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by board, no direct funding requests
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Open Geo Science Committee
|-
| GSoC
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Previously had requests to help students attend events
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Now an initiative of the OSGeoLive project
|-
| Meta CRS
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Critical group for our interoperability goal, ask participants if they need any assistance
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| Previous years used 10k commitment + 10k matching sponsor donations
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* Note this is a budget, representing planned spending in 2019 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.

{|class="wikitable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|-
! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| FDO
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5000
| Renewal of Travis-CI plan for 11 parallel workers. Will also benefit to all other projects under the OSGeo github organization: homebrew-osgeo4mac, proj.4, libgeotiff, etc.
|-
| geomajas
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GRASS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3000 USD
| Details of the budget at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapFish
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapGuide Open Source
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSSIM
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | € 5,000 € 3,000
| QGIS Grant Programme Call 2019: bug fixing and polishing of existing features QGIS Server: improve WFS compliance from currently 50% to 100% (daily status reports at http://tests.qgis.org/ogc_cite/wfs_110/)
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer.

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! Community Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"|
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| 2,000
| Travel expenses to FOSS4G Romania
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
|}

Total Community Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Code sprint funding is setup to help carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* We had requests to fund sprints that were part of larger events, these escaped our 2017 planning but were still funded to the best of our abilities

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! Sprint Request
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo annual code sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| In support of venue/event or travel for committer to other OSGeo code sprint
|-
| Bolsena Code Sprint
|
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
|
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | €3,000
| in March in A Coruna, Spain
|}

Total Code Sprint Budget for 2019: TBD

These funds are approved as part of the board budget for 2018.

== Approval and Amendments ==

* Budget Meeting: Board_Meeting_2019-01-04
* Amendments:

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

OSGeo Budget 2019

2019-01-19T21:19:06Z

Wiki-Maria: /* OSGeo Committees */

Draft budget to be discussed in December board meeting, see [[OSGeo Budget 2018]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.

== OSGeo Board ==

OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

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! Board
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| Admin
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| Operational expenses including insurance, tax filing fees, accountant, bank fees.
|-
| Travel
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000
| Outreach focus
|-
| Partners and Sponsors
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000
| relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings
|-
| Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 20,500
| board responsible for handling code sprint requests, breakdown covered below
|-
| Events
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
| Consider supporting events, to avoid confusing code sprint program above
|}

== OSGeo Committees ==

The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.

* Code of Conduct Committee
* Conference Committee
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
* Open GeoScience Committee
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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! OSGeo Committees
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| SAC
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | 25.000
| TGP, 50-60% for global event, rest for regional events
|-
| Marketing
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request, not no active chair
|-
| GeoForAll
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| pending request
|-
| UN Committee
| style="text-align:right;" | 11000 $ (tentative)
| UN Open GIS Initiative Meetings (Pilot in South Sudan and workshop in Kazakistan = 5000 $) + 2 OSGeo UN Challenge (one for preparing PostGIS training material - 3000 $ - and one for computing SDGs with FOSS4G software and open data - 3000 $).
|-
| OSGeo Incubation
| style="text-align:right;" | 18,000
| Rough breakdown of 3,000 per incubation project to be used strictly towards progress on OSGeo incubation. Note all projects in incubation have access to additional funding via the osgeo community project program. Committee itself expects no appreciable expenses.
|}

Total Committees Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Initiatives ==

OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Iniativies a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.

* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
* Local Chapters - outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
* Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
* OSGeoLive - outreach initiative providing
* Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
* Trave Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

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! OSGeo Initiatives
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| FOSS4G
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Conference Committee
|-
| Local Chapters
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by board, no direct funding requests
|-
| Open GeoScience
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Managed by Open Geo Science Committee
|-
| GSoC
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Previously had requests to help students attend events
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| Now an initiative of the OSGeoLive project
|-
| Meta CRS
| style="text-align:right;" |
| Critical group for our interoperability goal, ask participants if they need any assistance
|-
| Travel Grant Program
| style="text-align:right;" | TBD
| Previous years used 10k commitment + 10k matching sponsor donations
|}

Total Initiatives Budget for 2019: TBD

== OSGeo Projects ==

OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:

* Note this is a budget, representing planned spending in 2019 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.

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! OSGeo Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| deegree
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| FDO
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GDAL/OGR
| style="text-align:right;" | 5000
| Renewal of Travis-CI plan for 11 parallel workers. Will also benefit to all other projects under the OSGeo github organization: homebrew-osgeo4mac, proj.4, libgeotiff, etc.
|-
| geomajas
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoMOOSE
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNetwork
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoNode
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GEOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoTools
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GRASS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| gvSIG
| style="text-align:right;" | 3000 USD
| Details of the budget at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019
|-
| Mapbender
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapFish
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapGuide Open Source
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| MapServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| Marble
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OpenLayers
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSSIM
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| pycsw
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| QGIS
| style="text-align:right;" | € 5,000 € 3,000
| QGIS Grant Programme Call 2019: bug fixing and polishing of existing features QGIS Server: improve WFS compliance from currently 50% to 100% (daily status reports at http://tests.qgis.org/ogc_cite/wfs_110/)
|-
| PyWPS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| OSGeoLive
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|}

Total Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Community Projects ==

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer.

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! Community Project
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| ZOO-Project
| style="text-align:right;"|
|
|-
| pgRouting
| style="text-align:right;"| 2,000
| Travel expenses to FOSS4G Romania
|-
| istSOS
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
|}

Total Community Projects Budget for 2019: TBD

== Code Sprints ==

We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:

* please note our [[Code Sprint Guidelines]] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
* Code sprint funding is setup to help carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
* We had requests to fund sprints that were part of larger events, these escaped our 2017 planning but were still funded to the best of our abilities

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! Sprint Request
! 2019
! Notes
|-
| OSGeo annual code sprint
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| GeoServer
| style="text-align:right;" |
|
|-
| PostGIS Code Sprint
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000
| In support of venue/event or travel for committer to other OSGeo code sprint
|-
| Bolsena Code Sprint
|
|
|-
| Small Code Sprints
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000
|
|-
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference
| style="text-align:right;" | €3,000
| in March in A Coruna, Spain
|}

Total Code Sprint Budget for 2019: TBD

These funds are approved as part of the board budget for 2018.

== Approval and Amendments ==

* Budget Meeting: Board_Meeting_2019-01-04
* Amendments:

[[Category:Budget]]
[[Category:Finance]]

UnitedNations Committee

2019-01-19T19:50:20Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Committee Meetings */

== 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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenge 1 and 2
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug) and Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang and Minpa Li for mentoring the projects.

The material of last Challenge (Maria Ilie Codrina, mentors: Maria Brovelli and Serena Coetzee) will be available soon.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

; Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

- Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena

- Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-01-19T19:48:57Z

Wiki-Maria: /* Committee Meetings */

== 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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenge 1 and 2
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug) and Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang and Minpa Li for mentoring the projects.

The material of last Challenge (Maria Ilie Codrina, mentors: Maria Brovelli and Serena Coetzee) will be available soon.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

* Meeting January 2019 (please put your preference and your gmail address. Serena and I are potentially available for both time slots. We will call you via google hangout)

- Proposal 1: 28 January 2 pm UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena

- Proposal 2: 29 January 9 am UTC
Attendees: Maria, Serena

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]

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

UnitedNations Committee

2019-01-19T19:41:49Z

Wiki-Maria: /* October 2018 - January 2019 */

== 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 start its 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 were:
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 was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

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

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

=== April 2017 ===
* '''Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017'''

The meeting was organized in two days and included
* the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution

*the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]

=== July 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G Europe'''

Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:

*Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by US DoD.

*Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress) have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.

*Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than 140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by OpenGDS (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than welcome.

*Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.

* I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations” [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.

I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate your interest to the chairs.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing

[2] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea

=== August 2017 ===
* '''Presentation of the UN Open GIS Initiative at FOSS4G in Boston'''

=== March 2018 ===

The Initiative "UN Open GIS" is going ahead regularly.

1) Jeff has started his activity as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (thanks to Sanghee for beinng the Chair before and for having done a wonderful work).

2) For those interested, there is a a regular VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative every month (the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm Italy time).

3) Serena and Maria have been working hard for preparing the Open Call "Capacity Building for UN". Unfortunately we didn't get from the OSGeo Board the whole budget for the three Calls we had in mind, but Maria and Serena were able to find a solution: Boundless will sponsor the first Call. The Calls are meant for (young) researchers and educators and the proposal, as said, is to produce training material similar to what is already available for other projects (like QGIS GeoAcademy or Boundless GIS, just to mention the two that we already used for the UN Open GIS Capacity Building).

The Open Call will be for producing Training Material for:

a) UN Open GIS Spiral 1 (The web geo platform of the project and the mobile app: GeoSHAPE Exchange and GeoSHAPE Anywhere)
[[Training Material for UN Open GIS Spiral 1]]

b) UN Open GIS Spiral 2 (specific functionalities developed following the requests of the UN staff and not yet available in OS products. They are now available as WPSs)

c) global open data (high resolution included) and open source GIS.

The three calls will be hopefully launched by the end of this month.

4) There are two important appointments for the UN Open GIS Initiative:
. Operational Demonstration of Spiral 1 in Entebbe (April 2018)
. 3rd UN Open GIS Workshop in Berlin (May 2018)

Due to economic restrictions (the small budget we have as Committee), only Maria will be able only to participate only to the former. Maria will report after the event about the progress in Spiral 1.

=== April 2018 ===

1 April 2018
Announcement of the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge. Details are available here:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

9-13 April 2018
Operational Demonstration of UN Open GIS Initiative (Spiral One): GeoSHAPE-Exchange │ GeoSHAPE-Anywhere at the UN Regional Support Centre – Entebbe (UNRSC-E) Entebbe, Uganda. Attending for OSGeo: Maria A Brovelli. Presentation available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu2I8cddZThC4hU688ZjNNs_miGsstvBrpgqCiPG_kE/edit?usp=sharing

=== 19 - 21 November 2018 ===

United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China.
Presentation "Open Science and Education" by Maria Brovelli and Ivana Ivanova: https://global.mofyi.com/201811/unwgic/05-Ivana%20Iva%CC%81nova%CC%81-Maria.pdf. In the speech the activities of OSGeo and GeoForAll were presented.

=== December 2018 ===

Ready the training material for UN Challenge 1 and 2
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_1
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3

Congratulations to Ketty Adoch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketty-adoch/?originalSubdomain=ug) and Silvia Franceschi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-franceschi-93909314/?trk=public-profile-join-page) for their work and thanks to Christina Hupy, HaeKyong Kang and Minpa Li for mentoring the projects.

The material of last Challenge (Maria Ilie Codrina, mentors: Maria Brovelli and Serena Coetzee) will be available soon.

=== October 2018 - January 2019 ===

Three sessions of QGIS (Chair of the course: Victoria Rautenbach; mentors: Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green)

Session 1 - October

Session 2 - November

Session 3 - December - mid January

Two sessions of PostGIS (Chair of the course: Ivana Ivanova; mentors: Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez, and Gregory Giuliani)

Session 1 - October-November

Session 2 - December - January

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=4&day=10&hour=7&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215 APRIL 10th, 7:30 am GMT]

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron.shorter at gmail X com .

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

* Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
* Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.
* Action: Cameron to create draft proposal for Resourcing Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations. Later created here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

; UN Open GIS Initiative:

* We have a monthly VTC meeting of the UN Open GIS Initiative every third Wednesday at 2 pm UTC. People interested please contact the chairs (Maria and/or Serena)

== Chairs ==

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:serena|Serena Coetzee]]

== 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]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Simod|Simone Dalmasso]]
* [[User:MapPlus|Minpa Lee]]

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