[OSGeo-Edu] [Fwd: Sorry can't make it]

[Helena Mitasova]

Charlie,

I use Mac and I have just installed Fedora5 at work and both have  
very nice GUI and are easy to use

Most students that I work with have no problems going from Windows to  
Linux or Mac (small kids are the best).
Just give it a try. If you want to pursue Open source I think you  
should give your students opportunity to use
open source all the way including the operating system,

Helena

Helena Mitasova
Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atm. Sciences
1125 Jordan Hall, NCSU Box 8208,
Raleigh NC 27695
http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/



On May 12, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Charlie Schweik wrote:

> I just wanted to add one more thing I am puzzling over:
>
> Over the summer we hope to start moving toward teaching material  
> using GRASS. I am an experienced ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine and ENVI  
> user, but am new with GRASS. I am also new with Linux. My research  
> assistant is looking into the GRASS plug-in for Quantum and I've  
> read that the next release should have more functionality than the  
> current release. I'm teaching undergrad and grad students in  
> natural resources conservation fields and in public policy and  
> administration. I'm trying to get them introduced to Linux and open  
> source. We have a lab here using Ubuntu and I've got some support  
> from IBM to maintain it. But I am finding some hesitation of  
> students (in non technical fields) toward using Linux.
>
> So one of the questions I am puzzling now is regarding platforms --  
> should we write course materials (specifically if this material is  
> being made available through this collaboration) for Wndows, Linux,  
> or both? Much of the material won't need to know this, other than  
> for file management. But the beginning of the course would need to  
> provide some information on this.
>
> So, the short question to the group, regarding curriculum that  
> might use QGIS or GRASS, any advice on this platform issue?
> I'm assuming globally, writing for Windows is probably important,  
> although I know Linux is gaining ground, particularly in Europe.
>
> Thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Charlie Schweik
>
> Puneet Kishor wrote:
>> Forwarding Charlie Schweik's regrets for tomorrow, and his  
>> concerns for
>> discussion/consideration.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Sorry can't make it
>> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:38:31 -0400
>> From: Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
>> To: P Kishor <punkish at eidesis.org>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I can't make tomorrow's IRC either. We're in the last week of classes
>> and finals.
>> If you could, just inform everyone that in the next month I will  
>> try and
>> post the beginnings of the
>>
>> "Intro to FOSS GIS" or possibly better named (I need to think this
>> through more) "Intro to FOSS GIS for Natural Resource Conservation  
>> and
>> Public Policy" course.
>>
>> Issues that needs to be discussed is
>>
>> - What format should course material (or modules) be developed in?  
>> Wiki
>> pages? Open Office documents?
>> - What kind of open content licensing should be used?
>> - How will author contribution be tracked?
>>
>> What I have right now is about a half a semester of first-draft  
>> material
>> using Quantum GIS. With modules on introduction, georeferencing,  
>> online
>> digitizing, mapping GPS points. Not much on the data base  
>> component yet.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Charlie Schweik
>> University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>>
>>
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