Dear All,
After discussing with our lab members, i am pleased to inform that we now have the official name and also short acronym (to be used for mailing list, domain name etc) which is easy to remember for the network.
"ICA-OSGeo Lab Network" is the official title of the network and OSGL for "Open Source Geospatial Labs" as the acronym for the url, domain name etc.
The Official full title brings and highlights two communities , the ICA (International Cartographic Association) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) together in our common aim to support the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centers across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. We started establishing the network of labs globally with the ICA-OSGeo MoU initiative http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA
Individual labs (those already established and those in future) are free to select the names they wish. For example, Lab in UNMC is called Open-source Geospatial Research Lab, at North Carolina State University it is OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory (OSGeoREL), it is Open Source Geospatial Lab in Newcastle University etc. That will also give individual nodes the flexibility to select the name for their lab that they want under a joint lab network umbrella.
We are also working to create a dedicated website at osgl.osgeo.org and mailing list at [log in to unmask]
The pace of growth has been much beyond our dreams and with more applications for establishing research labs from universities across the world, we are in target to establish over 100 research labs in the next three years globally. This is the biggest growth area in Geospatial Science discipline and will have direct benefit of thousands of students across the world. Each of these research labs will keep expanding over the years with more staff and students.
We would like to thank the whole OSGeo and ICA community for the strong support and helping spreading the message of our education initiative.
Best wishes,
Suchith
Dr Suchith Anand
Nottingham Geospatial Institute
Nottingham Geospatial Building
University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU
Tel: (0)115 82 32750
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx
http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/
http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/
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