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Conceptualizing a Geospatial Software Institute (GSI)
Workshop 3: Strategic Plan and Governance of GSI

Dates: July 14-16, 2019
Workshop Location: SESYNC, Annapolis, MD, and The Westin Annapolis, Annapolis, MD

Hotel Location: The Westin Annapolis, Annapolis, MD

Position papers are available here.

Feel free to utilize our Live Discussions and Notes drive space for any comments, questions, or suggestions. For Charrette/Open Discussions take notes at https://go.illinois.edu/gsi-w3-disc. Presentations can be found here.

In the case, you will not be able to travel to the workshop, we will have a video conference option
(Meeting ID: https://psav.zoom.us/j/974645600) and Facebook Live Video will be available at https://www.facebook.com/pg/CyberGISCenter/videos/.

Our Twitter hashtag is #GSIfuture

Workshop Goal: Develop a strategic plan for GSI based on inclusive community inputs

GSI Vision, Mission, and Goals 

Vision

Mission

Goals

    1. Combine geospatial data and software at scale for scientists to harness the geospatial data revolution
    2. Increase the nation’s workforce capability and capacity for advancing geospatial software and related sciences
    3. Transform geospatial software contributed by communities into ethical and open software for sustainable geospatial-inspired discovery and innovation
    4. Establish structural guidance for computational reproducibility in scientific research and education that are dependent on geospatial software
    5. Advance high-performance geospatial software while making synergistic contributions to data-intensive and high-performance computing

 

AGENDA

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Attendees are invited to attend the working dinner at Fado’s Iris Pub. Dinner will begin at 6:00 pm.

Monday, July 15, 2019

 

TIME EVENTS LOCATION
7:00 – 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
8:00 – 8:10 am Welcome

  • Margaret Palmer, University of Maryland
 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
8:10 – 8:30 am Opening Remarks

  • Vipin Chaudhary, National Science Foundation
  • Cheryl Eavey, National Science Foundation

Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
8:30 – 9:10 am Keynote

Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
9:10 – 9:45 am Toward a sustainable social and technical ecosystem for geospatial-inspired innovation and discovery

  • Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (presentation)

Chair: Margaret Palmer, University of Maryland

 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
9:45 – 10:05 am Break Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
10:05 – 10:45 pm
 Invited Talk: 

 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
10:45 – 11:55 am Open Discussion/Charrette – What services should GSI provide to enable broad and impactful scientific advances?

Chair: Mary Shelley, University of Maryland (UMD)

Discussion Leads

  • Kumar Navulur, DigitalGlobe
  • Sri Vinay, Columbia University
  • Tad Slawecki, LimnoTech
  • Levi Wolf, University of Bristol
 SESYNC
11:55 – 12:15 pm Report back from Charrette groups SESYNC
12:15 – 1:15 pm Lunch SESYNC
1:15 – 2:30 pm Open Discussion/Charrette – How can GSI make significant contributions to workforce development for advancing geospatial software and related sciences?

  • Discuss challenges, opportunities, and strategies for achieving the second goal. 

Chair: Anand Padmanabhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Discussion Leads

  • Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama
  • Lionel D. Lyles, Southern University
  • David Haynes, University of Minnesota
  • Zhe Zhang, Texas A&M University
 SESYNC
2:30 – 2:50 pm Report back from Charrette groups SESYNC
2:50 – 3:15 pm  Break SESYNC
3:15 – 4:30 pm Open Discussion/Charrette – How should GSI be governed in a sustainable way? How can GSI provide pertinent communities with structured guidance for computational reproducibility?

Chair:  Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Discussion Leads

  • Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Coline Dony, American Association of Geographers
  • Tyson L. Swetnam, University of Arizona
  • Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation
 SESYNC
4:30 – 4:50 pm Report back from Charrette groups SESYNC
4:50 – 5:45 pm Panel: What are the key things GSI should do?

Chair: Margaret Palmer, University of Maryland (UMD)

Panelists:

  • Anne Bowser, Wilson Center (presentation)
  • Carol Song, Purdue University (presentation)
  • Ned English, NORC at the University of Chicago (presentation)
  • Gilbert Rochon, Tulane University (presentation)
  • John Wilson, Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
 SESYNC
6:00 – 8:00 pm Dinner   Level

 

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

 

 

TIME EVENTS LOCATION
7:00 – 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
8:00 – 8:05 am Reflection on the first-day’s progress

Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
8:05 – 8:45 am Keynote

Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
8:45 – 9:30 am  Invited Talks

Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
9:30 – 10:00 am Break Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
10:00 – 10:45 am Panel – Computational Reproducibility in the Context of Geospatial Research and Education

Chair: George Percival, Open Geospatial Consortium

Panelists:

  • Coline Dony, American Association of Geographers (presentation)
  • Karen K Kemp, University of Southern California
  • Eric Shook, University of Minnesota
  • Andrew Turner, ESRI
  • Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
10:45  – 11:30 am Panel – Workshop Synthesis – Discuss strategic plan structure and provide guidance for the next steps

Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Panelists:

  • Mike Goodchild, University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Dan Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (presentation)
  • Margaret Palmer, University of Maryland (UMD)
  • George Percival, Open Geospatial Consortium
 Annapolis Ballroom, Westin Hotel
11:30 – 1:00 pm Writing time for drafting the strategic plan

Working Lunch

 SESYNC
1:00 pm Adjourn  

 

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