[OSGeo-Edu] Academic event?

[Alex Mandel]

On 10/19/2011 01:13 AM, Jorge Gustavo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Em 19-10-2011 07:46, Ari Jolma escreveu:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I'm interested in a academic workshop, which could be composed the way
>> Tyler suggests. My main interest for the workshop is to plan and develop
>> an OSGeo edu virtual machine / live system - i.e., not a single system
>> but mainly develop the method, procedure and capabilities for making
>> packages that are used to compose such systems.
>>
>
> +1. We talked about some open and collaborative life cycle that could
> start on git, and then from git to some ubuntu-edu ppa, and then to
> student's machines. Daniel Kastl also showed interest in this approach.
>
>> I already presented this idea to Charlie and Suchith and offered to
>> organize it in Finland some time in the early spring (February would be
>> best for me). University facilities for me at least are free and I could
>> even have some small support for it to pay the food for example. Atlanta
>> (Georgia Tech) would also be possible but it is of course expensive for
>> me to travel to USA and bringing my students is problematic.
>>
>
> +1 for Europe. But we could also do at the same time a workshop in the
> US. Phill might help us to create a good video connection between the
> two meetings.
> So, in fact, I'm voting for 1 simultaneous event in US and EU.
>
>> European funding for this kind of thing is COST - the next collection
>> date is 30 March - so if we have a meeting in Feb, we could also plan
>> for a COST action. I think we could have a nice group for a COST action
>> if we get Nottingham, Girona, Trento and possibly some others (what do
>> you say?). I've not been in a COST before so I have only superficial
>> knowledge of it.
>>
>
> The mentioned COST program, cf
> http://www.cost.esf.org/participate/open_call seems to me a very good idea.
>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ari
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge Gustavo

Dual meetings via the web sounds quite intriguing. As my work on OSGeo 
Live is actually part of my Phd Dissertation I highly encourage any uses 
in education.

Hopefully my experience as the build manager of osgeo live and an 
assistant on ubuntugis will help get this going. I will do my best to 
try and make the meeting on the US side (need figure out where solict 
funding from).

This is good reminder for me to write up a case study where I used OSGeo 
Live to teach a 2 hour workshop on GIS use in Climate Change management, 
where I loaded custom data and the tutorial before burning the DVD.

Thanks,
Alex Mandel
Geography Graduate Group
University of California, Davis