<div dir="ltr">I guess the question is- what's going to get the interest of/be relevant to third year undergrads? While licensing is important, it's not, if you're a student. What you're interested in, is being able to do your work, figure out what's going to help you get a job etc.<div>
<br></div><div>So I'd focus on the daft limitations of Acme Proprietary GIS- the license that means you can't use it at home, or anywhere if you come from particular countries, and the skills that are required in the workplace these days.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Barry Rowlingson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk" target="_blank">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A colleague who lectures on GIS at the university asked me if I'd give<br>
him some advice on open-source geospatial so he could at least<br>
introduce his third year geography & environmental science<br>
undergraduates to the idea. Thanks to the joy of site licenses the<br>
students get to use ACME Proprietary GIS System without having to<br>
worry about the cost.<br>
<br>
So anyway, I offered to teach the lecture for him. What can I do in 50<br>
minutes (and possibly a workshop) for 90 undergraduates? Here's a<br>
brain dump:<br>
<br>
Compare and contrast: Free/Open/Proprietary/Closed/Commercial.<br>
Copyright/Licensing/GPL/Copyleft etc.<br>
<br>
Open Standards: formation and importance - talk about the OGC,<br>
general goodness of interoperability<br>
<br>
Open source development advantages/perceived disadvantages and<br>
rejoinders to those.<br>
<br>
Commercialising Open Source, open source in industry.<br>
<br>
Open Source in Education - reproducible science, 'climategate' as a<br>
failure of openness?<br>
<br>
Case Studies: Open source in government - global deployments as case studies<br>
<br>
Open source in the UK: Ordnance Survey/Met Office case studies<br>
<br>
- thats probably enough for 50 minutes. If I can do a workshop I'd<br>
probably just get them to boot up OSGeo Live and play with QGIS for an<br>
hour, maybe try and duplicate one of their GIS exercises from an<br>
earlier module (load layers, buffer, overlay, report...).<br>
<br>
Any thoughts?<br>
<br>
Barry<br>
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