[OSGeo-Discuss] UN training material

Mon Apr 18 13:14:19 PDT 2016

Many thanks for your precious suggestions!
Maria

Il 14/04/2016 22:35, Cameron Shorter ha scritto:
> Hi Maria,
> I'd like to suggest that the second step in generating training 
> material (after sourcing existing material) is to define a template 
> and development process for UN Training material. The following list 
> is based on what we have learned from building OSGeo-Live material.
>
> Considerations:
> * Structural Guidelines: What headings should be included. Should 
> pictures be included, size of pictures, quality of pictures.
> * Writing guidelines: What voice to use, the level of detail to go into.
> * Translation guidelines: How should the documents be structured to 
> allow easy translation? How do you know if a translation is up to date?
> * Storage guidelines: Should it be stored in git?
> * Maintenance guidelines: How often are the docs expected to be 
> updated. How do you write documents such that they are timeless? How 
> can people report errors or improvements in documentation? What is the 
> plan for updating the documentation when an application is updated. 
> How is this resourced.
> * License guidelines: What license should material be published under?
> * Target Audience: What level is the target audience.
> * Flow between courses: Assuming students will do multiple courses, 
> how to you avoid overlap between courses? What are prerequisites or 
> assumed knowledge before attempting a course. How will material trace 
> back to a qualification, learning goals? This leads to setting exams 
> based on learning goals and material contents.
> * Editorial control: Assuming you crowd source some material, will you 
> have an editor on staff to ensure guidelines above to ensure quality 
> and above guidelines are followed.
> * Distribution format: How is documentation, sample data, and software 
> to be distributed to the classroom? Note, classroom might be a MOOC 
> run from someone's home. OSGeo-Live might be one way? Setting up on a 
> cloud based virtual machine that people can log into is another.
>
> Once the above has been defined, it will facilitate the OSGeo 
> Community to maintain this documentation very efficiently at a very 
> high level of quality.
>
> It might be worth adding this list above into the training material 
> wiki? And others may have more suggestions to add to this list.
>
> On 12/04/2016 5:30 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Thanks, I have added in a few links. We will need to watch this page 
>> as content is added - as new content is being added based on 
>> sometimes incomplete earlier examples. Thus far nobody has provided 
>> data references for example as requested.
>>
>> Maria is a point-of-contact needed? In what circumstances would 
>> contact be made?
>>
>> Bob - can I ask you to link to training material for GeoMOOSE? This 
>> wiki is gathering up training material for use in an open education 
>> context (so something that is free to be re-mixed into an academic 
>> course).
>>
>> Jeff - GeoNode has been added as a project - but also lacks education 
>> material, and a point of contact?
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 11 April 2016 at 08:51, Maria Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it 
>> <mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>> wrote:
>>
>>     Yes, that could be repurposed...
>>     Maria
>>
>>
>>     Il 11/04/2016 17:26, Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>>>     Any restrictions on license Maria? I understood this initiative
>>>     was trying to gather material that could be repurposed for open
>>>     education use.
>>>
>>>     --
>>>     Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>     On 11 April 2016 at 03:36, Maria Brovelli
>>>     <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Dear All
>>>         as many of you know, OSGeo and G4A started a volunteer
>>>         initiative for evaluating a possible migration of UN
>>>         geospatial applications from proprietary to FOS S.
>>>         I'm there the representative of G4A and I'm in charge of
>>>         leading, together with Prof. Ki-Joune Li, the capacity
>>>         building program of this UN OpenGIS Initiative.
>>>         I'm kindly asking all of you, if you have short courses or
>>>         workshops (for instance those held at FOSS4G Conferences) about
>>>
>>>         QGIS, PostreSQL, PostGIS, Geoserver, OpenLayers, Geonode
>>>
>>>         of referencing them at this wiki page
>>>
>>>         <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining>_https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining_
>>>
>>>         If you have any doubt please contact directly me or Ki-Joune.
>>>
>>>         Thank you in advance.
>>>         Best regards.
>>>
>>>         Maria
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         -- 
>>>
>>>         Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>>>         Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
>>>         Politecnico di Milano
>>>
>>>         ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
>>>         Sol Katz Award 2015
>>>           
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>>
>>     -- 
>>
>>     Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>>     Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
>>     Politecnico di Milano
>>
>>     ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
>>     Sol Katz Award 2015
>>       
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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
Sol Katz Award 2015

Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
e-mail1: maria.brovelli at polimi.it
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