[Geo4All] Fwd: Re: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session: Sustaining a training documentation pipeline

Sun Nov 18 18:35:32 PST 2018

Yes, Victoria and I are building a catalogue of education material. It is a project funded by the ISPRS. However, the plan is to have a catalogue only, i.e. searchable metadata and links to the education material. The plan is not to host the material. 

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> On 18 Nov 2018, at 16:43, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Cameron, GeoforAll
> 
> Happy to contribute here as well - and I’ll come say hi at the BoF Although. In Dar Es Salaam Maria and Victoria (if I recall correctly) discussed a global network of training materials - is there an update on that concept/idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam
> 
>> On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 18:50, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> QGIS MOOC http://pacgeo.org/edu/  is really good idea to build up . I couldn't find   Jonah Sullivan email to contact .  Can you please invite Jonah Sullivan and others interested in this to GeoforAll list so we can discuss ideas globally. Thanks.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Suchith
>> 
>> 
>> From: Suchith Anand
>> Sent: 18 November 2018 07:28
>> To: Cameron Shorter; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Fwd: Re: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session: Sustaining a training documentation pipeline
>>  
>> Hi Cameron,
>> 
>> Thank you for this excellent information.  May I also request you to invite representatives from universities and educational organisations at the conference to join GeoForAll through our website form. Really hoping we get more educational organisations from the region joining us and building momentum.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Suchith
>> 
>> 
>> From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
>> Sent: 17 November 2018 20:40
>> To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: [Geo4All] Fwd: Re: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session: Sustaining a training documentation pipeline
>>  
>> Geoforall community,
>> 
>> FYI: At FOSS4G Oceania this coming week we plan to discuss the possibility of creating universally maintained QGIS material, with an eye to eventually building this the cover all OSGeo training material. 
>> 
>> If there are initiates already in place that we should be aware of, and should be aligning with, then please let us know so that we can include them in our discussion. 
>> 
>> (See below for our local discussion so far)
>> 
>> Warm regards, Cameron
>> 
>> 
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>> Subject:	Re: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session: Sustaining a training documentation pipeline
>> Date:	Sun, 18 Nov 2018 06:23:16 +1100
>> From:	Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
>> To:	australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com
>> CC:	foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
>> 
>> 
>> Johan, great to hear of your interest and ability to bring material to the project. A challenge of funded open source (and open training) is sustainability after the funding drys up. I'm hoping we can help address sustainability by spreading maintenance across multiple community members and funding sources.
>> 
>> Brad, you are asking some really good questions which I'm hoping we can collectively discuss. I personally don't have an agenda for format or delivery mechanisms. I think we should be thinking about big vision, determine who wants to contribute and what their priorities are, and then focus on what we can sustainable build to address immediate needs and material we can already make use of, and also do our best to attract an active, international community of maintainers. Feel free to share your suggestions.
>> 
>> Cheers, Cameron
>> 
>>> On 17/11/18 9:43 am, bradh at frogmouth.net wrote:
>>> Cameron,
>>> 
>>> Are you anticipating this being a training course or a set of training material (e.g. some overview presentations and tutorials) that could be used in a course? What kind of delivery mechanisms do you anticipate (e.g. face-to-face, self-paced, etc)? Who do you anticipate the training audience to be? What would the training outcome(s) / competencies be? Would this include assessment?
>>> 
>>> Brad
>> 
>>> On 17/11/18 7:47 am, Jonah Sullivan wrote:
>>> I'm looking forward to this session. Thanks for organising it.
>>> I helped set up a QGIS MOOC with content created by, and created for, Pacific Islanders.
>>> The project that got it going is winding down; it would be nice to see it continue.
>>> Here is the link: http://pacgeo.org/edu/
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com <australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
>>> Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2018 7:24 AM
>>> To: Andrew Jeffrey <aljeffrey83 at gmail.com>;  australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com; foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Cc: Sarah Maddox <sarahmaddox at google.com>
>>> Subject: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session: Sustaining a training documentation pipeline
>>> 
>>> Hi QGIS and FOSS4G folks,
>>> 
>>> I think a number of things are serendipitously coming together to create the perfect opportunity to establish collaborative building and maintaining OSGeo training material in general, and QGIS in particular.
>>> (Templates, processes, tool chains developed for QGIS could be rolled out to other projects in future releases).
>>> 
>>> I was talking with Andrew Jeffrey and Chris Milne yesterday about setting up a Birds of a Feather session at the FOSS4G conference in Melbourne next week to discuss this. Andrew and Chris mentined that their employer, Chartis Technology is keen to collaboratively build QGIS training.
>>> 
>>> Sarah Maddox, tech writer from Google, is launching a "Google Season of Docs" [1], from which we might be able to tap into experienced tech writer resources.
>>> 
>>> I'm hoping that once we get momentum going, we could draw in universities from Geo4All. Some universities already have good training material we can start from.
>>> 
>>> I'm interested from an OSGeoLive perspective - drawing from our existing community and extending our established documentation pipeline to also include training material.
>>> 
>>> If you are interested to be involved, then speak up (and/or look for details of the BoF session once we find a venue and timeslot).
>>> 
>>> [1]
>>> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ABqCc5uAoQv9aqGCxmNqOJ9S_Tst-adNV3fcWQ2Quwc/edit#slide=id.g42b115f18c_0_0
>>> 
>>> 
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