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Hello Charlie:<br>
<br>
Thanks for the update. I'd like to participate, if the slides etc that
I've made for GIS seminars are up to scratch. <br>
However I'd want to be sure that the material can be shared further,
and that it would be attributed to me. So, for example, the creative
commons cc-by-sa licence would be acceptable. Does the framework you
outlined for publishing the GIS-edu material allow for this?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Micha <br>
<br>
On 01/12/2010 05:01 PM, Charlie Schweik wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4B4C8EDB.8080105@pubpol.umass.edu" type="cite">Hi
edu folks,
<br>
<br>
Happy New Year all! I'm hoping we all can commit ourselves to making
some great progress as a group over the next six months in advance of
the next FOSS4Geo conference, related to developing a framework for
organizing OSGeo-related curriculum and educational material, and
continue to strive for a working system where we share content and
build on each other's content. As you forge ahead in your own work in
2010, please think about how that work might relate to what we are
doing and you try and contribute to our joint efforts...
<br>
<br>
On my end, I just wanted to report in that I've been working on my end
to get permission for us to possibly use the University Consortium for
Geographic Information Science and Association for American
Geographer's GI S&T Body of Knowledge [1] as an overarching
framework for guiding our future curriculum efforts. The framework is
under copyright by both UCGIS and AAG, but *I've received permission by
the UCGIS folks to use this material*. I'm now contacting AAG to get
their permission since it is under joint copyright.
<br>
<br>
I struggle a little bit with this because of the copyright issues and
the philosophy of openness and sharing. But this seems to be, in my
view, a very good guiding framework for us to follow. I'm thinking that
somehow we would connect this to the discussions we've had about
material that demonstrates how to do some particular function or
process using open technologies.
<br>
<br>
If anyone has any objections to this direction I am taking, let me
know, or let me know if we need to open this up to a vote.
<br>
<br>
Finally, two other things:
<br>
<br>
1) Don't forget about adding new educational content to our inventory
page [2] through the submit function [3]. The last postings were
September of 2009 -- someone surely has other material developed since
then.
<br>
<br>
2) We need people to start building on what Helena has done related to
the process of putting material in Subversion so we can continue to
move toward a "new derivatives" type system of sharing content. Can
somebody step up and build on Helena's work to get that process
documented for others to use? Here's what we have linked on our group
education/curriculum page [4]. What we want, I think, is to more
clearly connect this process to our submit function [3].
<br>
<br>
Cheers
<br>
Charlie
<br>
<br>
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ucgis.org/priorities/education/modelcurriculaproject.asp">http://www.ucgis.org/priorities/education/modelcurriculaproject.asp</a>
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[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content">http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content</a>
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[3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content">https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content</a>
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[4] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Subversion_edu_instructions">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Subversion_edu_instructions</a>.
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