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OSGeoUS

2018-05-31T15:56:52Z

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

== Mission ==

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

==Goals==

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

==Meetings==

Please join us at foss4gna for our first f2f meeting!

==Activities==

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

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

==Membership==

[[user:rjhale1971|Randal Hale]]

[[user:Kurt_Menke|Kurt Menke]]

[[user:Micheletobias|Michele Tobias]]

[[user:kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]]

[[user:gsteinmon|Guido Stein]]

[[user:jrosenthal|Josh Rosenthal]]

[[user:paylakatel|Kayla Patel]]

[[user:Chrismarx|Chris Marx]]

[[user:erikfriesen|Erik Friesen]]

[[user:candrsn|Carl Anderson]]

[[user:helena|Helena Mitasova]]

[[user: Gisn8|Nathan Saylor]]

David Bitner

Rachel Stevenson

[[user:MichaelTerner|Michael Terner]]

[[user:Bdollins|Bill Dollins]]

[[user:dnewcomb|Doug Newcomb]]

[[user:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]]

[[user:tmueller|Tom Mueller]]

UnitedNations Committee

2016-09-12T16:28:41Z

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== 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, NGO’s, 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."

== Goals ==

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

== Communication ==

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

== Activities ==

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

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

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

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

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo has been incorporated in it (Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board) and more OSGeo members is going to be incorporated in other governing committees.
* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

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

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

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

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

== Committee Meetings ==

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

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

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

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

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GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

2015-06-21T01:40:39Z

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'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart''''''. . .''''''Urban Resilience''''''

'''''CitySmart''''' will be a suite of tools to maximize effective government operations, such as management of infrastructure (utilities, traffic, services, etc.). '''''CitySmart''''' will combine continual advances in efficient operations with ultimate consideration for increasing sustainability and the quality of urban life.

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this theme, subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience. Your participation is appreciated and needed! All ideas are welcome.

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

Our intent here is that we soon will have one or a few '''core platform(s)''' each architected with an open API for functionalities (the menu system). This effort will benefit from friendly competition, with the best features of each 'competing' platform eventually residing in our collective decision for a '''core platform'''.

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

# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0 Chris Pettit], University of Melbourne,
## Participant categories:
## Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).
# [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik] and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov,
## Participant categories: R, E
## University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."
# [http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx Tom Mueller], California University of Pennsylvania
## Participant categories: E - Educator
## Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.
# [http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Jim Miller], University of Kansas, Computer Science
## Participant categories: D, E (also R in terms of computer science and visualization techniques)
## Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA.
## Participant categories: U
## Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck Ant Beck], University of Nottingham Research Fellow.
## Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b Phillip Davis], GeoAcademy.
## The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan Patrick Hogan], NASA World Wind Project Manager.
## Participant categories: D, R
## Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro Antoni Perez-Navarro], Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,
## Participant categories: R, E
## Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System. In the GIS subjects we use gvSIG and QGIS, and Geomedia as proprietary software. Our students have also developed projects using Open Layers, GeoServer, Google Maps and Open Street Maps.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti]
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938 Evangelos Mitsakis]
## Participant categories:
## Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey Gábor Remetey], Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI),
## Participant categories: R
## Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria A Brovelli], Politecnico di Milano
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ Citizen Science] and [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ collaborative multidimensional platforms].
#Ron Fortunato, President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning LLC]
## Participant categories: U, E
## Custom design and implement Project-Based Learning systems, networked region-wide and at the national scale, and guaranteed to provide a teacher-complimentary '''exciting learning experience''' for students, elementary through secondary education.
# [http://www.xinyueye.com/ Xinyue Ye], Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.
# Andrew Hunter, [http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca GIScience Group], University of Calgary
## Participant categories: R, E.
## Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.
# [http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/ Hande Demirel], Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
## Participant categories:
## Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.
# [http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ Lucy Bastin], University of Aston and [http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts Joint Research Centre of the European Commission]
## Participant categories:
## Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.
# [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center] for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University,
## Participant categories:
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).
# [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/sven-schade Sven Schade], [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/ Joint Research Centre] of the European Commission
## Participant categories:
## I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multidisciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good?
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537 Bob Basques], [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us City of Saint Paul], Mn. USA,
## Participant categories:
## My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer.
# [http://theconversation.com/profiles/tuong-thuy-vu-120016 Tuong-Thuy Vu], [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus].
## Participant categories:
## Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment
# [http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/mitasova/mitasova.html Helena Mitasova], [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics], OSGeo REL
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models
## The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ortelius Jeffrey Johnson], Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR,
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management
# [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=31094760 Serena Coetzee], [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], University of Pretora, South Africa, and [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=74999697 Chris Wray], [http://www.gcro.ac.za Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)], South Africa
## Participant categories: R (UP and GCRO), E (UP)
## Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos Dimitris Kotzinos], [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab], University of Cergy Pontoise, France
## Participant categories:
## Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management
# [http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li Xingong Li], Department of Geography, University of Kansas
## Participant categories:
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.
# [http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ Patricia Carbajales-Dale], [http://www.clemsongis.org/ Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies], Clemson University
## Participant categories:
## High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.
# [http://au.linkedin.com/pub/cameron-shorter/5/398/590 Cameron Shorter], Co-coordinator of http://live.osgeo.org, which packages up ~50 of the best Open Source GIS applications, along with data and quickstarts;
## Participant categories:
## Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html Rick Smith], [http://spatialquerylab.com/ Spatial {Query} Lab] at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html Michael Starek], Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in the application of emergent geo-sensing techniques for monitoring of the 3D build environment.
# [http://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno Rafael Moreno], Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Incorporation of FOSS4G in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning curricula. Land use planning, natural resources management, GIS science and Technology.
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/ArchitecturePlanning/facultystaff/directories/Pages/Individual%20Pages_Planning/Troy_Austin.aspx Austin Troy], Department of Planning and Design, College of Architecture and Plannig, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Land use policy, environmental planning, GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, land use change modeling and simulation?
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/Programs/Computer-Science-and-Engineering/faculty/Pages/FarnoushBanaeiKashani.aspx Farnoush Banaei-Kashani], Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Big data management and mining, database systems, data-driven decision-making systems
# [http://humanities.usm.my/index.php/discover-us/our-people/staff-directory/42-geography/31-ruslan-rainis Ruslan Rainis], Geoinformatic Unit, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
## Participant categories: R
## Urban big data, spatial/land use modelling.

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

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

== Key Research Questions ==

* How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* How can we empower citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in solving the problems our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will '''''share''''' something they need yet each will also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

==Urban Resilience ''''''The Road Map'''''' ==

* We owe this 'first cut' for our Urban Nirvana CitySmart app to OGC's "[http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/ Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework]"

* We also heap a world of praise upon Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this [http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html CitySmart] app idea into action! We need to help more cities step forward like this, lead by example!

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

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

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

* '''Technical Challenges''' - there are many, here are just a few: raw data made useable, data dating, accurate georeference conversion, unit conversion (i.e., metric to standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.

* '''Yet to be discussed:'''

# '''Legal challenges''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protect IP and copyrights.
# '''Economic challenges''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures (RI) for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships (PPP).
# '''Social challenges''' e.g. fostering public engagement in Big Data, participation in related debates, evaluation of current practices, data gathering, analysis and privacy issues.

*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap'''
Any serious roadmap on urban science should certainly consider the social dimension. In this respect, we would need a subsequent actions such as:
# Identify in our Who's Who here what categories of participants we are and what are their incentives or barriers for participation. How can we organize to meet the needs of the participants involved? For instance, for academics, it might be how to utilize or create peer-review publication venues for contributed work. For practitioners, can we define their key or most pressing needs? For developers, are they in situations where their employer will see contributions to a global effort something they should be doing?
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries (aka users, customers, consumers) - instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructures, software and services. Possible beneficiaries might be: urban planners, scientists/academia, city councils and majors, citizen, young people (pupil and students), etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.
# Identify and get into contact with some representatives of the intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation and open minded individuals, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.
# Engaging with these people in order to identify '''their real needs for city analytics''', in order to first of all get their requirements, but also to co-develop products, get direct feedback (e.g. be including them in review panels for the NASA WW Challenge), etc.
# Expand from few collaborations into a wider network in which solutions are replicated or adopted for one city after the other - each time customized to the individual needs.
* A couple important topics here that might be useful in future grant proposals.
** First, the idea that we as a group are undertaking "transdisciplinary research around urban science" (Dedeurwaerdere, 2014). According to Dedeurwaerdere (2014: 138): 'Transdisciplinary implies that the precise nature of the problem... needs to be defined cooperatively by actors from science and the life-world.'
** Second, perhaps we should focus on topics related to '''urban sustainability and resilience''' and the geospatial analytical processes and tools needed to support decision-makers in that capacity? Dedeurwaerdere (2014: 139) defines sustainability as the 'maintenance of capital," and is often used in the context of "environmental sustainability" -- the maintenance or non-declining of natural capital. So one question for our group might be what areas of "urban sustainability" might we want to focus our efforts on?

* '''Key City Analytic Needs or Needs by our Community above'''. (Add topic entries or your name under existing entries)
** Crime mapping analytics
*** Tom Mueller

* '''Use-Case: Urban Planning and Site Review''' – Municipalities need to evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. This typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters of the state. These data most often include:
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery Imagery]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre Cadastral]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model Elevation]
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* [http://goworldwind.org/ NASA World Wind] (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way)
* [http://geomoose.org/ GeoMoose]
* [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS]
* [http://i-locate.eu/ i-Locate]
* [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ Policrowd2.0]
* Europa Challenge Open Source Projects [http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2013 2013], [http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2014 2014], [http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015 2015]
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design [http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]
* [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench]
* Arizona State University (ASU) [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software GeoDa]
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.
* [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS]
** Multitemporal, full 3D GIS research platform with many processing, analytical, modeling and visualization tools relevant to Urban Science and city analytics (lidar-based models, solar energy, viewsheds, networks, water resources, full 3D visualization with animations and many others in the core package, with additional tools, including civil engineering design in add-ons)

== Potential Partners ==

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

== Urban Resilience ''''''The App'''''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop a '''''CitySmart Urban Resilience App''''' with your idea for the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like, and will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section.

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

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

This CitySmart app needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. After the Road Map, then what? Then we challenge Earth's FOSSy development community to provide their solution in response to the Road Map. 'Twoud be fine if we could gather a nice award package for that.

After we (the OSGEO community) evaluate these ‘solutions,’ some will be asked to mashup until in the end we have one OSGEO/FOSS4G/GeoForAll CitySmart app. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for drag-n-drop of functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the CitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize old functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

Whoever wants to! We ask academic and other organizations to first help us with the Road Map (the ''Requirements doc''), such as those listed as Potential Partners, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Potential_Partners'''.''' Or just build it! All are welcome!

'''Why Do This?'''

Because we can! And more importantly, because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter what urban location we are in. For a little encouragement, how about a NASA crystal bull for the best Road Map, just like for the Europa Challenge, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/''',''' and of course NASA T-shirts. We need YOU (whoever you are) to design the requirements doc and build the for the CitySmart app.

If you are brave and good, just build it and be a lighthouse guiding our future. If you do this, and no one else does, you get the crystal bull. If others do theirs along with you, then we vote and that winner gets to mash-up the best from what's in the ‘other’ CitySmart apps. We will ask the Region and Theme Chairs to do the voting, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.'''
'''
Understanding''' the Changing Planet.''''''

# Historical tracks of hurricanes.
## SLOSH http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/slosh.php
# Geodesign. I know that ESRI has used this term a lot. It might be something that we examine in the Open Source world
# LiDAR - people are using UAV for LiDAR now. Plus several states have LiDAR datasets.
# The question I thought about is - can we create citizen scientists to properly gather some of this information.
# Biodiversity
## They discussed the issues of Land Cover and using coarse remote sensing images (LandSat)
### There is a program that will be starting up soon via USGS called Adopt a Pixel - which is to help with that fuzziness
### This might also be able to help with the National Land Cover Dataset.
### They discussed creating a Gap Analysis to understand issues of biodiversity, etc.
## Datasets include:
### Landfire http://www.landfire.gov/
### Crop Scape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/
### VegScape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/VegScape/
# Vulnerability Issues
## Social Vulnerability Index - we might want to examine it: http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/products/sovi.aspx
## Another study O'Brien 2004 discussed vulnerability
## Data to grab as reading. I thought of these two sources
### http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=store
### http://openweathermap.org/
# Quite a few people have created indexes on health care coverage and access. These studies might be helpful to examine. These really sounded interesting to me. So if we are going to use this variable I would like to examine these topics. p.72 in study
## Lou and Wang 2003
## Wang et al 2008
## McLafferty and Wang 2009
## Rushton et al 2004
# Movement
## Traffic flow data
# Inequality
## Issues of Digital Divide
## Maps that show hot spot areas of concern
# Geodemographics
## In USA, a lot of this type of data is in the hands of private companies, so it may be difficult to access this data. ESRI Tapestry, etc.
# Possible indexes, include -
## Risk Terrain Model http://rutgerscps.weebly.com/rtm.html
## Flash Flood Potential Index http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/hydro/FFPI/FFPI_WriteUp.pdf
## Crisis Mapping and Ushashidid - http://www.ushahidi.com/

== Reference Material ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== Lab nearest city and vulnerability threats, lat/long coordinates ==
* Colleagues, please list your name, the city your lab s closest to, and the possible threats that city might face in future years related to population growth and/or the effects of climate change (e.g., coastal storm surge, hurricanes, heat islands, inland lack of water, etc.)
** Charlie Schweik, Springfield, MA, hurricanes, heat islands, -72.524696, 42.393578
** Thomas Mueller, Pittsburgh, PA, heat island, increased flooding due to climate change, -79.995886, 40.440625
[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

2015-04-08T01:16:24Z

Wiki-Tmueller:

'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart''''''

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this theme, subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience. Your participation is appreciated and needed! All ideas are welcome.

* We support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.'
** All material created is made available for all under an Open License
** All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others
** All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)

Our intent here is that we soon will have one or a few '''core platform(s)''' each architected with an open API for functionalities (the menu system). This effort will benefit from a healthy collegial competition, with the best features of each 'competing' platform eventually residing in our collective's decision for a single '''core platform'''.

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

* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0
** Participant categor(ies):
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."

* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx
** Participant categor(ies): E - Educator
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.

* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/
** Participant categor(ies): D, E (also R in terms of computer science and visualization techniques)
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.

* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
** Participant categor(ies):
** Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.

* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.

* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b
** The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.

* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan
** Participant categor(ies): U, D, R
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.

* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System. In the GIS subjects we use gvSIG and QGIS, and Geomedia as proprietary software. Our students have also developed projects using Open Layers, GeoServer, Google Maps and Open Street Maps.

* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti
** Participant categor(ies):
** Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.

* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938
** Participant categor(ies):
** Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.

* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey
** Participant categor(ies):
** Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.

* Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
** Participant categor(ies): D, R, E
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, Citizen Science (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/) and collaborative multidimensional platforms (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/).

*Ron Fortunato, President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning LLC]
** Participant categor(ies): U, E
** Custom design and implement Project-Based Learning systems, networked region-wide and at the national scale, and guaranteed to provide a teacher-complimentary '''exciting learning experience''' for students, elementary through secondary education.

* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/
** Participant categor(ies): D, R, E
** My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.

* Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca
** Participant categor(ies): R, E.
** Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.

* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/
** Participant categor(ies):
** Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.

* Lucy Bastin, University of Aston http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ and Joint Research Centre of the European Commission http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts
** Participant categor(ies):
** Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.

* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
** Participant categor(ies):
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).

* Sven Schade, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sven-schade/10/9bb/735, https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/sven-schade
** Participant categor(ies):
** I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multi-disciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good? https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/

* Bob Basques, City of Saint Paul, Mn. USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537
** Participant categor(ies):
** My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer. http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us

* Tuong-Thuy Vu, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus, https://theconversation.com/profiles/tuong-thuy-vu-120016 (http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography).
** Participant categor(ies):
** Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment

* Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, OSGeo REL http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/, http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/mitasova/mitasova.html
** Participant categor(ies):
** Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models
** The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/

* Jeffrey Johnson, Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR
** Participant categor(ies):
** Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management

* Serena Coetzee, Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretora, South Africa, https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=31094760 (http://www.up.ac.za/cgis) and Chris Wray, Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO), South Africa, https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=74999697 (http://www.gcro.ac.za)
** Participant categor(ies): R (UP and GCRO), E (UP)
** Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning

* Dimitris Kotzinos, ETIS Lab, University of Cergy Pontoise, France, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos (http://www-etis.ensea.fr)
** Participant categor(ies):
** Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management

* Xingong Li, Department of Geography, University of Kansas (http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li)
** Participant categor(ies):
** My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.

* Patricia Carbajales-Dale, Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies, Clemson University, http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ (http://www.clemsongis.org/)
** Participant categor(ies):
** High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.

* Cameron Shorter, Co-coordinator of http://live.osgeo.org, which packages up ~50 of the best Open Source GIS applications, along with data and quickstarts.
** Participant categor(ies):
** Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.

* Rick Smith, Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html http://spatialquerylab.com/
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.

* Michael Starek, Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in the application of emergent geo-sensing techniques for monitoring of the 3D build environment.

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

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

== Key Research Questions ==

* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?
** The data simply awaits our gracious intelligence to do good things with, not for profit, but ''''''for the benefit of all'''''' per NASA's motto, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
* 3. How can we empower citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in solving the problems our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

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

* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/

* We also heap a world of praise upon Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this CitySmart app idea into action! We need to help more cities step forward like this, lead by example!
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''

* We consider a dual push-pull approach: a technology push and an application pull. The push is "People of city X, see this open source app we developed for all of us!"). The pull is "Urban Science and City Analytics experts (Houston), we have a problem! We need your help to design the solution."

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

* '''Data sharing''' – Municipalities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. The following information is requested on a regular basis for a wide variety of location-based solutions, namely (ESRI products, Autodesk products and MSFT Office products such as Excel, Access, etc.). These data sets most often include:

# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# Lidar, everyone wants it, yet few understand how to put Lidar to good use. The City of Springfield is spoiled with 8 points per meter, and they know what to do with it. Though they still want for better tools to work with it (i.e., our CitySmart app).

* '''Technical Challenges''' - there are many, here are just a few: raw data made useable, data dating, accurate georeference conversion, unit conversion (metric to standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.

* '''Yet to be discussed:'''
** '''Legal challenges''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protect IPR and copyrights.
** '''Economic challenges''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures (RI) for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships (PPP).
** '''Social challenges''' e.g. fostering public engagement in Big Data (theory, i.e. participation in related debates, and practice, i.e. data gathering and analysis).

*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap'''
Any serious roadmap on urban science should certainly consider the social dimension. In this respect, we would need a subsequent actions such as:
# Identify in our Who's Who here what categories of participants we are and what are their incentives or barriers for participation. How can we organize to meet the needs of the participants involved? For instance, for academics, it might be how to utilize or create peer-review publication venues for contributed work. For practitioners, can we define their key or most pressing needs? For developers, are they in situations where their employer will see contributions to a global effort something they should be doing?
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries (aka users, customers, consumers) - instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructures, software and services. Possible beneficiaries might be: urban planners, scientists/academia, city councils and majors, citizen, young people (pupil and students), etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.
# Identify and get into contact with some representatives of the intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation and open minded individuals, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.
# Engaging with these people in order to identify '''their real needs for city analytics''', in order to first of all get their requirements, but also to co-develop products, get direct feedback (e.g. be including them in review panels for the NASA WW Challenge), etc.
# Expand from few collaborations into a wider network in which solutions are replicated or adopted for one city after the other - each time customized to the individual needs.
* A couple important topics here that might be useful in future grant proposals.
** First, the idea that we as a group are undertaking "transdisciplinary research around urban science" (Dedeurwaerdere, 2014). According to Dedeuwaerdere (2014: 138): 'Transdisciplinarity implies that the precise nature of the problem... needs to be defined coorperatively by actors from science and the life-world.'
** Second, perhaps we should focus on topics related to '''urban sustainability and resilience''' and the geospatial analytical processes and tools needed to support decision-makers in that capacity? Dedeuwaerdere (2014: 139) defines sustainability as the 'maintenance of capital," and is often used in the context of "environmental sustainability" -- the maintenance or non-declining of natural capital. So one question for our group might be what areas of "urban sustainability" might we want to focus our efforts on?

* '''Key City Analytic Needs or Needs by our Community above'''. (Add topic entries or your name under existing entries)
** Crime mapping analytics
*** Tom Mueller

* '''Use-Case: Urban Planning and Site Review''' – Municipalities need to evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. This typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters of the state. These data most often include:
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

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

== Potential Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
* UBM Future Cities, http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en
** An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.

== CitySmart ''''''The App'''''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop a '''''CitySmart App''''' with your idea for the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like, and will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section.

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

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

This CitySmart app needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. After the Road Map, then what? Then we challenge Earth's FOSSy development community to provide their solution in response to the Road Map. 'Twoud be fine if we could gather a nice award package for that.

After we (the OSGEO community) evaluate these ‘solutions,’ some will be asked to mashup until in the end we have one OSGEO/FOSS4G/GeoForAll CitySmart app. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for drag-n-drop of functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the CitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize old functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

Whoever wants to! We ask academic and other organizations to first help us with the Road Map (the ''Requirements doc''), such as those listed as Potential Partners, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Potential_Partners'''.''' Or just build it! All are welcome!

'''Why Do This?'''

Because we can! And more importantly, because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter what urban location we are in. For a little encouragement, how about a NASA crystal bull for the best Road Map, just like for the Europa Challenge, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/''',''' and of course NASA T-shirts. We need YOU (whoever you are) to design the requirements doc and build the for the CitySmart app.

If you are brave and good, just build it and be a lighthouse guiding our future. If you do this, and no one else does, you get the crystal bull. If others do theirs along with you, then we vote and that winner gets to mash-up the best from what's in the ‘other’ CitySmart apps. We will ask the Region and Theme Chairs to do the voting, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.'''
'''
Understanding''' the Changing Planet.''''''
1) They generally discuss studying historical tracks of hurricanes to better prepare for future hits. I thought of SLOSH http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/slosh.php
A) This program has those capabilitieis.

2) They discussed Geodesign. I know that ESRI has used this term a lot. It might be something that we examine in the Open Source world

3) They discussed the use of LIDAR - I do know that people are using UAV for LIDAR now. Plus several states have LIDAR datasets.

4) The question I thought about is - can we create citizen scientists to properly gather some of this information.

5) Biodiversity
A) They discussed the issues of Land Cover and using coarse remote sensing images (LandSat)
i) There is a program that will be starting up soon via USGS called Adopt a Pixel - which is to help with that fuzziness
ii) This might also be able to help with the National Land Cover Dataset.
iii) They discussed creating a Gap Analysis to understand issues of biodiversity, etc.

B) I thought of certain datasets including (I believe they all use LandSat):
i) Landfire http://www.landfire.gov/
ii) Crop Scape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/
iii) VegScape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/VegScape/

6) Vulnerability Issues
A) Social Vulnerability Index - we might want to examine it: http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/products/sovi.aspx
B) Another study O'Brien 2004 discussed vulnerability

C) Data to grab as reading. I thought of these two sources
i) http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=store
ii) http://openweathermap.org/

7) Quite a few people have created indexes on health care coverage and access. These studies might be helpful to examine. These really sounded interesting to me. So if we are going to use this variable I would like to examine these topics. p.72 in study
A) Lou and Wang 2003
B) Wang et al 2008
C) McLafferty and Wang 2009
D) Rushton et al 2004
There is a lot in this section that I would really like to read up on and tackle.

8) Movement
A) Traffic flow data

9) Inequality
A) Issues of Digitial Divide
B) I was thinking - I know there are maps that show public hot spots in areas so that might be an avenue.

10) Geodemographics
A) I know that in this country a lot of this type of data is in the hands of private companies, so it may be difficult to access this data. ESRI Tapestry, etc.

11) After reading through the text, I thought of all the possible indexes, including -
A) Risk Terrain Model http://rutgerscps.weebly.com/rtm.html
B) Flash Flood Potential Index http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/hydro/FFPI/FFPI_WriteUp.pdf

also thought of Crisis Mapping and Ushashidid - http://www.ushahidi.com/

== Reference Material ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America Regional

2012-12-23T02:06:42Z

Wiki-Tmueller: /* People */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

==Update 20 Feb 2012==
At the recent f2f OSGeo Board meeting (Seattle, Washington, 4,5 Feb 2012). We discussed the best way to proceed with regional conferences. The board officially recognized and supports the foss4g North American conference at the Washington Convention center April 10-12, 2012. http://foss4g-na.org/
Furthermore, we have recognized that there is pent up demand for annual regional conferences in different regions of the world. For annual regional conferences, the board will establish specific conference committees for each regional conference. (note, local chapters are free to organize and plan independent events within their local areas). The goal is to establish annual regional conferences managed by volunteers and leaders in those areas. The regional conferences will contribute back to OSGeo giving us more resources to fund startup conferences in new regions, fund code sprints, etc.

These recent decisions have addressed the motives for setting up a North American regional chapter - primarily, organizing and running an annual conference.
Paul Ramsey is the conference chair for the upcoming conference in April. The conference will fill up quickly so please sign up if you plan on attending.

We'll leave the NA chapter information in place for a while in case anyone has any comments or wants to have further discussions. Please contact me directly or on the mailing list if you have any questions or comments. -- Mark Lucas

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

49 Subscribers as of 10 Dec 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin
* [[User:Rolandhardt|Roland W. Hardt]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[User:tmueller|Tom Mueller]]

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
''

''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

OSGeo education interested participants

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== Contributors by Interest ==

The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.

*[[User:Pimpaa|George R. C. Silva]] (TZ GMT-3)
*[[User:Punkish|Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
*[[User:Ajolma|Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
*[[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
*[[User:AwaseKhirni|'''Awase Khirni Syed''' ]] (TZ GMT+3) (undergraduate/ graduate level education MS, PhD; educational datasets, open source urban data systems, open source geospatial software developement and training, GIScience Certification Mechanisms, experience in International training, open source geospatial sensing platforms, academic research on source collaboration.)
*[[User:Venkat|Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
*[[User:Schweik|Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
*[[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
*Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
*[[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
*[[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
*[[User:Scw|Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
*[[User:Perrygeo|Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
*[[User:Ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
*[[User:Aaronr|Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
*[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
*[[User:Maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
*[[User:Volaya|Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
*[[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
*[[User:Rob.braswell|Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
*[[User:VincentP|Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
*[[User:Bwoodall|Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
*[[User:Mleslie|Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
*[[User:Mlennert|Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
*[[User:Nigeltrodd|Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
*[[User:Ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
*[[User:Martinweis|Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
*[[User:Smitch|Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
*[[User:Kevin1216|Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
*[[User:Marco|Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
*[[User:Clara|Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User:Mardresen|Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
*Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User:Dreamcon|Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User:Doktoreas|Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:Vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:Robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.
*[[User:Putler|Dan Putler]] (TZ GMT-8) (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, PSC member of PAGC). Interested in course materials for undergraduate and graduate instruction on both basic GIS understanding and skills, and the use of GIS to address business problems. Research on new methods to improve geospatial analysis to address business problems, particularly as they relate to marketing).
*[[User:Palousegeo|Rick Rupp]] (TZ GMT-8) (GIS/Remote Sensing instructor at Washington State University) I'm interested in geospatial teaching materials and methods for undergraduate and graduate education. My research interests are in natural resources and data infrastructures.
*[[User:Nimalika|Nimalika Fernando]] (TZ GMT+5.30) Interested and involved in developing teaching materiel on introductory level GIS,Basic web-GIS,lab worksheets based on QGIS/MapServer
*[[User:Ahunter|Andrew Hunter]] (TZ GMT-7) (Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary) General GIS training and education. Interests in open source and open data
*[[User:Camerons|Cameron Shorter]] (TZ GMT+10) One of the coordinators of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live DVD], and we at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft] are providing GeoSpatial Open Source training in Australia.
*[[User:GeoEducator|Benjamin Branch]] (TZ GMT+5) Educational researcher in spatial thinking & cost analysis delivery (k-12 & Higher Ed, workfrce traning)
*Amir Pourabdollah [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/people/amir.pourabdollah] (TZ GMT+0) from the Centre for Geospatial Science, The University of Nottingham, UK. Interested in collecting educational materials in open source GIS, location based services, posotioning technologies and mobile GIS.
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vanhoesenj John Van Hoesen] (TZ GMT-5) - Interested in undergraduate and graduate GIScience education, open source geospatial, and applications in earth and environmental sciences.<br>
*[[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]] from the GIS & Remote Sensing Center ([http://www.sigte.udg.edu SIGTE]), University of Girona. GIS Analyst and Educator at UNIGIS International MsC, and several other courses.
*[[User:Huwer|Rafal Wawer]] (TZ GMT+1)from the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute ([http://www.erozja.iung.pulawy.pl]), GIS Analyst, Project Manager and Educator at SADL, KULeuven R&D: 2007-2010. Environmental application of FOSS4G, OGC compliant online services.
*[[User:tmueller|Tom Mueller]] (TZ GMT-5) GIS Professor at California University of Pennsylvania - interested in GIS education

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== Contributors by Time Zones ==

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

* TZ GMT+10
** Cameron Shorter
*TZ GMT+9
**Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+3
** Awase Khirni Syed
*TZ GMT+2
**Ari Jolma
**Arnulf Christl
**Vasile Crăciunescu
*TZ GMT+1
**Markus Neteler
**Maria Antonia Brovelli
**Massimiliano Cannata
**Vincent Picavet
**Marco Ciolli
**Clara Tattoni
**Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
**Martin Dresen
**Luca Casagrande
**Robert Szczepanek
**Rafal Wawer
*TZ GMT+0
**Suchith Anand
**Nigel Trodd
*TZ GMT-3
**George R. C. Silva
*TZ GMT-5
**Ian Turton
**Ned Horning
**Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
** Tom Mueller
**Scott Mitchell
*TZ GMT-6
**Phillip Davis
**Puneet Kishor
**Pericles Nacionales
*TX GMT-7
**Andrew Hunter
**--[[User:Brylie|Brylie]] 21:51, 5 December 2011 (PST)
*TZ GMT-8
**Tyler Mitchell
**Shaun Walbridge
**Matthew Perry
**Aaron Racicot
**Bill Woodall
**Gerry James
**Dan Putler
**Rick Rupp

[[Category:Education]]

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== Contributors by Interest ==

The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.

*[[User:Pimpaa|George R. C. Silva]] (TZ GMT-3)
*[[User:Punkish|Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
*[[User:Ajolma|Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
*[[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
*[[User:AwaseKhirni|'''Awase Khirni Syed''' ]] (TZ GMT+3) (undergraduate/ graduate level education MS, PhD; educational datasets, open source urban data systems, open source geospatial software developement and training, GIScience Certification Mechanisms, experience in International training, open source geospatial sensing platforms, academic research on source collaboration.)
*[[User:Venkat|Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
*[[User:Schweik|Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
*[[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
*Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
*[[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
*[[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
*[[User:Scw|Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
*[[User:Perrygeo|Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
*[[User:Ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
*[[User:Aaronr|Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
*[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
*[[User:Maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
*[[User:Volaya|Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
*[[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
*[[User:Rob.braswell|Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
*[[User:VincentP|Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
*[[User:Bwoodall|Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
*[[User:Mleslie|Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
*[[User:Mlennert|Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
*[[User:Nigeltrodd|Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
*[[User:Ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
*[[User:Martinweis|Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
*[[User:Smitch|Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
*[[User:Kevin1216|Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
*[[User:Marco|Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
*[[User:Clara|Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User:Mardresen|Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
*Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User:Dreamcon|Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User:Doktoreas|Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:Vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:Robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.
*[[User:Putler|Dan Putler]] (TZ GMT-8) (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, PSC member of PAGC). Interested in course materials for undergraduate and graduate instruction on both basic GIS understanding and skills, and the use of GIS to address business problems. Research on new methods to improve geospatial analysis to address business problems, particularly as they relate to marketing).
*[[User:Palousegeo|Rick Rupp]] (TZ GMT-8) (GIS/Remote Sensing instructor at Washington State University) I'm interested in geospatial teaching materials and methods for undergraduate and graduate education. My research interests are in natural resources and data infrastructures.
*[[User:Nimalika|Nimalika Fernando]] (TZ GMT+5.30) Interested and involved in developing teaching materiel on introductory level GIS,Basic web-GIS,lab worksheets based on QGIS/MapServer
*[[User:Ahunter|Andrew Hunter]] (TZ GMT-7) (Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary) General GIS training and education. Interests in open source and open data
*[[User:Camerons|Cameron Shorter]] (TZ GMT+10) One of the coordinators of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live DVD], and we at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft] are providing GeoSpatial Open Source training in Australia.
*[[User:GeoEducator|Benjamin Branch]] (TZ GMT+5) Educational researcher in spatial thinking & cost analysis delivery (k-12 & Higher Ed, workfrce traning)
*Amir Pourabdollah [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/people/amir.pourabdollah] (TZ GMT+0) from the Centre for Geospatial Science, The University of Nottingham, UK. Interested in collecting educational materials in open source GIS, location based services, posotioning technologies and mobile GIS.
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vanhoesenj John Van Hoesen] (TZ GMT-5) - Interested in undergraduate and graduate GIScience education, open source geospatial, and applications in earth and environmental sciences.<br>
*[[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]] from the GIS & Remote Sensing Center ([http://www.sigte.udg.edu SIGTE]), University of Girona. GIS Analyst and Educator at UNIGIS International MsC, and several other courses.
*[[User:Huwer|Rafal Wawer]] (TZ GMT+1)from the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute ([http://www.erozja.iung.pulawy.pl]), GIS Analyst, Project Manager and Educator at SADL, KULeuven R&D: 2007-2010. Environmental application of FOSS4G, OGC compliant online services.
*[[User:Tom Mueller]] (TZ GMT-5) GIS Professor at California University of Pennsylvania - interested in GIS education

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== Contributors by Time Zones ==

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

* TZ GMT+10
** Cameron Shorter
*TZ GMT+9
**Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+3
** Awase Khirni Syed
*TZ GMT+2
**Ari Jolma
**Arnulf Christl
**Vasile Crăciunescu
*TZ GMT+1
**Markus Neteler
**Maria Antonia Brovelli
**Massimiliano Cannata
**Vincent Picavet
**Marco Ciolli
**Clara Tattoni
**Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
**Martin Dresen
**Luca Casagrande
**Robert Szczepanek
**Rafal Wawer
*TZ GMT+0
**Suchith Anand
**Nigel Trodd
*TZ GMT-3
**George R. C. Silva
*TZ GMT-5
**Ian Turton
**Ned Horning
**Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
** Tom Mueller
**Scott Mitchell
*TZ GMT-6
**Phillip Davis
**Puneet Kishor
**Pericles Nacionales
*TX GMT-7
**Andrew Hunter
**--[[User:Brylie|Brylie]] 21:51, 5 December 2011 (PST)
*TZ GMT-8
**Tyler Mitchell
**Shaun Walbridge
**Matthew Perry
**Aaron Racicot
**Bill Woodall
**Gerry James
**Dan Putler
**Rick Rupp

[[Category:Education]]

OSGeo education interested participants

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== Contributors by Interest ==

The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.

*[[User:Pimpaa|George R. C. Silva]] (TZ GMT-3)
*[[User:Punkish|Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
*[[User:Ajolma|Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
*[[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
*[[User:AwaseKhirni|'''Awase Khirni Syed''' ]] (TZ GMT+3) (undergraduate/ graduate level education MS, PhD; educational datasets, open source urban data systems, open source geospatial software developement and training, GIScience Certification Mechanisms, experience in International training, open source geospatial sensing platforms, academic research on source collaboration.)
*[[User:Venkat|Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
*[[User:Schweik|Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
*[[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
*Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
*[[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
*[[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
*[[User:Scw|Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
*[[User:Perrygeo|Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
*[[User:Ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
*[[User:Aaronr|Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
*[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
*[[User:Maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
*[[User:Volaya|Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
*[[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
*[[User:Rob.braswell|Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
*[[User:VincentP|Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
*[[User:Bwoodall|Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
*[[User:Mleslie|Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
*[[User:Mlennert|Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
*[[User:Nigeltrodd|Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
*[[User:Ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
*[[User:Martinweis|Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
*[[User:Smitch|Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
*[[User:Kevin1216|Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
*[[User:Marco|Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
*[[User:Clara|Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User:Mardresen|Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
*Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User:Dreamcon|Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User:Doktoreas|Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:Vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:Robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.
*[[User:Putler|Dan Putler]] (TZ GMT-8) (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, PSC member of PAGC). Interested in course materials for undergraduate and graduate instruction on both basic GIS understanding and skills, and the use of GIS to address business problems. Research on new methods to improve geospatial analysis to address business problems, particularly as they relate to marketing).
*[[User:Palousegeo|Rick Rupp]] (TZ GMT-8) (GIS/Remote Sensing instructor at Washington State University) I'm interested in geospatial teaching materials and methods for undergraduate and graduate education. My research interests are in natural resources and data infrastructures.
*[[User:Nimalika|Nimalika Fernando]] (TZ GMT+5.30) Interested and involved in developing teaching materiel on introductory level GIS,Basic web-GIS,lab worksheets based on QGIS/MapServer
*[[User:Ahunter|Andrew Hunter]] (TZ GMT-7) (Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary) General GIS training and education. Interests in open source and open data
*[[User:Camerons|Cameron Shorter]] (TZ GMT+10) One of the coordinators of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live DVD], and we at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft] are providing GeoSpatial Open Source training in Australia.
*[[User:GeoEducator|Benjamin Branch]] (TZ GMT+5) Educational researcher in spatial thinking & cost analysis delivery (k-12 & Higher Ed, workfrce traning)
*Amir Pourabdollah [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/people/amir.pourabdollah] (TZ GMT+0) from the Centre for Geospatial Science, The University of Nottingham, UK. Interested in collecting educational materials in open source GIS, location based services, posotioning technologies and mobile GIS.
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vanhoesenj John Van Hoesen] (TZ GMT-5) - Interested in undergraduate and graduate GIScience education, open source geospatial, and applications in earth and environmental sciences.<br>
*[[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]] from the GIS & Remote Sensing Center ([http://www.sigte.udg.edu SIGTE]), University of Girona. GIS Analyst and Educator at UNIGIS International MsC, and several other courses.
*[[User:Huwer|Rafal Wawer]] (TZ GMT+1)from the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute ([http://www.erozja.iung.pulawy.pl]), GIS Analyst, Project Manager and Educator at SADL, KULeuven R&D: 2007-2010. Environmental application of FOSS4G, OGC compliant online services.

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== Contributors by Time Zones ==

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

* TZ GMT+10
** Cameron Shorter
*TZ GMT+9
**Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+3
** Awase Khirni Syed
*TZ GMT+2
**Ari Jolma
**Arnulf Christl
**Vasile Crăciunescu
*TZ GMT+1
**Markus Neteler
**Maria Antonia Brovelli
**Massimiliano Cannata
**Vincent Picavet
**Marco Ciolli
**Clara Tattoni
**Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
**Martin Dresen
**Luca Casagrande
**Robert Szczepanek
**Rafal Wawer
*TZ GMT+0
**Suchith Anand
**Nigel Trodd
*TZ GMT-3
**George R. C. Silva
*TZ GMT-5
**Ian Turton
**Ned Horning
**Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
** Tom Mueller
**Scott Mitchell
*TZ GMT-6
**Phillip Davis
**Puneet Kishor
**Pericles Nacionales
*TX GMT-7
**Andrew Hunter
**--[[User:Brylie|Brylie]] 21:51, 5 December 2011 (PST)
*TZ GMT-8
**Tyler Mitchell
**Shaun Walbridge
**Matthew Perry
**Aaron Racicot
**Bill Woodall
**Gerry James
**Dan Putler
**Rick Rupp

[[Category:Education]]