[Ica-osgeo-labs] Education at FOSS4G 2016

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi Charlie,

sounds great! How about asking OSGeo directly for funding? I also may 
take this into our next FOSSGIS board meeting and discuss a funding for 
the education track from our side - if I have some base facts for a 
discussion. Could you deliver some detailed ideas about for what you 
need a funding?

Till




Am 2015-10-25 13:33, schrieb Charles Schweik:
> Hi Ela,
>
> See my thoughts below in-line:
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
> <ela at gridw.pl [1]> wrote:
>
>> There are two main options:
>>
>> No. 1 – CONFERENCE itself (24-26th of August)
>>
>> Education will be mentioned as one of the special topics in the
>> General track. So during the general program selection a special
>> focus will be put on education-related presentations. The idea was
>> not to make these presentations too much research-oriented (as in
>> acadeic track) but really practical.
>> As Volker (chair of program committee) mentioned:"My plan is to give
>> the slots (3 talks in a row) some kind of topic. Those would be then
>> be “education”.
>> I really like this idea – it would help to make this topic more
>> visible and help people who are interested to find proper time and
>> room ;-)
>
> I think this is a good idea. 
>
> In Como, youll recall there was a paper by the NCSU team about their
> educational material and how they made datasets generic, or perhaps
> people could consider presenting issues such as how they are teaching
> various topics like geocrowdsourcing, Volunteer geographic
> information, geo-sensor webs, geo-temporal visualization, modeling, 
> or
> some other area. Maybe there could be a call for papers?
>
>> No. 2 – PRE-CONFERENCE, EDUCATION WORKSHOP (23rd of August )
>>
>> We have a chance to organise pre-conference workshop! 
>
>
> Links:
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> [1] mailto:ela at gridw.pl