Charlie, <div><br></div><div>Thanks for sending this summary. <div><br></div><div>I suggested at the meeting that we might try to organize a special issue of a journal with a series of lab exercises using various open source geospatial tools. </div>
<div><br></div><div>One journal to consider for this is Journal of Geoscience Education (<a href="http://nagt-jge.org/">http://nagt-jge.org/</a>). </div><div><br></div><div>What do you all think? If there is any interest then could contact the journal and ask them if this is something they'd be interested in hosting. </div>
<div><div><br></div><div>- Dan</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------</div><div>Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE<br>Associate Professor, Geosciences<br>Idaho State University - Idaho Falls<br><a href="mailto:dan.ames@isu.edu" target="_blank">dan.ames@isu.edu</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Charlie Schweik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all (I sent this last week from a different email address and realize now it didn't go through...)<br>
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Here’s a quick summary of our Birds of a Feather discussion we had in Denver.<br>
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First, Suchith at the University of Nottingham gave a short summary of their activities. He provided a set of slides (Suchith, is there a way your slides can be posted for others not present to read?)<br>
Second, Phil Davis gave a summary of their GeoTech Center’s activities. They are focusing much of their attention toward developing an open source GIS curriculum for 2-year higher education schools (community colleges) in the US.<br>
Both of these groups are making substantial progress in the OS GIS education space and are bringing some new ideas and energy to our collective efforts.<br>
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Two concrete next steps came out of our open discussion::<br>
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1) To develop an educational version of the live DVD with a focus on educational needs that would be ready for next year’s FOSS4G conference. This would mean we should coordinate with the Live DVD folks and it provides us with something really tangible to work on as a group. A key issue will be identifying one or two people who would act like Cameron Shorter does in the coordination of the LiveDVD.<br>
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2) To work toward building a network of OS GIS labs in universities. (This idea was actually something Suchith suggested to me in an email, and I think it is a great goal.) I’d like to hear from people interested in trying to develop this. This is similar (or maybe overlaps) with the local OSGeo groups perhaps – I wonder how many of those are actually organized by people affiliated with educational institutions.<br>
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The group concluded with the idea that we would try to convene a meeting once a month meeting using a “virtual room.” Phil said he would help us get that established. Be on the look out for an email from me on that.<br>
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Finally two further thoughts:<br>
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1) I encourage people who have content to share them through the new University of Nottingham’s inventory system [1].<br>
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2) Is there any other way to make it easier for us to share information on what we are accomplishing individually? Ideas:<br>
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- - We could try and resurrect our group’s blog. I tried that before but didn’t get much information sent to me.<br>
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- - Might we try establishing a OSGeo edu group social networking page? Facebook? Or Linkedin?<br>
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If people have ideas let me know, or if there is someone who can act as an OSGeo edu “information broker” for us – that would be great.<br>
Thanks to all who attended the BOF and to Helena for reporting for us at the conference. More will follow on our first "virtual room" meeting -- sometime in October.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Charlie<br>
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[1] <a href="http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/" target="_blank">http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.<u></u>uk/xmlui/</a><br>
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