<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">Hi Charles,</span><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">thank you so much for your feedback.</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">This is an extract from the GSoC proposal :</div><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Discuss with mentors about the topic oriented notebooks, the idea will be to build the notebooks in section and subsections like a book. So i need to spend the first and perhaps second week to organize a precise outline. The following is a first attempt to make a list of possible main topics (dedicating up to 12 days for each topic) : <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><span class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• data types : vector, raster, I/O & subsetting (include sql basic)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><span class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• datum and projections : work on coordinates conversion and datum transformation (simple points), reprojection of geospatial data (use of EPSG code and custom defined projection)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><span class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• raster algebra : first simple examples based on numerical array; last more complex example based on real use case (filtering, masking, general statistics) - working with satellite data can be a good topic (a full section dedicated to landsat 8 processing, depending on time/resources this can be extended to modis data as well)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><span class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• web data access: define what OGC standards are, and study a solution to access web based resources (focus on OGC std, only mention netcdf which will have it's own section)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><span class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• time series of gridded and ungridded data (this section will be dedicated to netcdf data access and processing)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><span class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• intro to geostatistic (combined use of R, GRASS and Python) (simple statistic, bivariate statistic, interpolation, time series analysis)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><span class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• use of the notebook to process raw data and publish the results in simple web-gis projects based on mapserver and js libraries<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><span class="">*note: the list above is a list of topics I identified as possible candidate to be included in this GSoC. With the mentor advise, based on the time frame and complexity we want reach for each topic, I will identify the ones to implement (if not all)<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class="">I’m planning to dedicate the first two weeks (along with other tasks) to work with my mentors to identify the topics and content to focus on.</span><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"> I have already an idea on how to develop each topic but I<span class="">’ll need help and guidance from expert educators in choosing the right “topic oriented notebooks”.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"> </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Of course I’ll be happy to implement part of those notebooks adapting existent documentation.</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">For this Idea i’ll try to make use of the dataset already installed on the live, however i consider the use of data available as web resource if needed. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Please let me know if the list of topics make sense for you.</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">I attach here few example usage of the notebook.</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><div class="">but maybe useful to give you an idea about the notebook approach.</div></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">*Note: this is not educational material which will have a different form (more theory and better structure [introduction, numbered sections, references and appendix])</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">essentially in a notebook is possible to render anything that a browser can render (images, video, latex, hyperlink etc ..)</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><span class="">Examples:<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• notebook using GRASS GIS <br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• An example notebook based on a presentation I gave at AGU 2014 :<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• this is a raw json file (an Ipython notebook)<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://gist.github.com/epifanio/349e64e982f6ce295825" class="">https://gist.github.com/epifanio/349e64e982f6ce295825</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• which can be rendered in html :<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/epifanio/349e64e982f6ce295825" class="">http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/epifanio/349e64e982f6ce295825</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• or as a slide show : <a href="http://slideviewer.herokuapp.com/urls/gist.githubusercontent.com/epifanio/349e64e982f6ce295825" class="">http://slideviewer.herokuapp.com/urls/gist.githubusercontent.com/epifanio/349e64e982f6ce295825</a>/raw/e3304d45ad745e6588faa8072f2f6c0774fce388/AGU-2013-H52E02-MDS?create=1#/<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• (note it is the same file rendered in different ways)<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Notebook showing axcess to netcdf:<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="http://epinux.com/shared/The_Perfect_Storm_1991.html" class="">http://epinux.com/shared/The_Perfect_Storm_1991.html</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• My Ocean acoustic report:<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• html output <a href="http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/epifanio/7455aa1d43b9b467aa04" class="">http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/epifanio/7455aa1d43b9b467aa04</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• pdf output <a href="http://epinux.com/shared/Ocean_Measurments_SONAR.pdf" class="">http://epinux.com/shared/Ocean_Measurments_SONAR.pdf</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• very basic openlayers example output generated by running notebook where raw data were processed to generate new layers<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="http://epinux.com/shared/oceanmapping/index.html" class="">http://epinux.com/shared/oceanmapping/index.html</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="http://epinux.com/shared/index.html" class="">http://epinux.com/shared/index.html</a><br class=""></div><br class="">I'll provide to each mentor an account on my personal server where i have all the software infrastructure installed. This will replicate the same software environment present on the OSGeo-Live. Each user will have a clone of the github repository where the code for this idea will be developed. this will speed-up testing and debugging. Moreover, each notebook can be simply shared as html link and made publicly available.<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Please let me know your thoughts, </span><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="">Cheers,</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="">Massimo.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 21, 2015, at 6:22 AM, Charles Schweik <<a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu" class="">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">I'm not against saying that, but I think it would be good to find someone to advise who will be teaching the topic/content in the next year.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Massimo, do you know what specific topics/content you are going to focus on?</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Charlie</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Charlie,<br class="">
Thanks for your feedback.<br class="">
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Is there any chance you could strengthen your statement to say:<br class="">
"I hope to be co-teaching a web-GIS class at UMass next spring.
Details haven't been finalised yet. However, in anticipation, I am
offer to commit some of my time to help advise Massimo in creating
content which will likely be of use to GIS trainers such as myself."<br class="">
<br class="">
Regards, Cameron<br class="">
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<div class="">1) One connection returns to our ongoing quest to build a
working educational content inventory system for education
that is on the web. So connecting that idea to the material
that Cameron and others have been maintaining on the Live DVD
production process is important. This will be an important
issue we take on at FOSS4G EU in Como in July. So Massimo, you
could help us in this context, potentially.</div>
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<div class="">On my end, *I may* be co-teaching a web-GIS class at UMass
next spring. Not yet sure, and my collaborators and I aren't
sure what technologies we would use for student projects. But
if open source web-GIS is something you might do, and if I do
end up designing a course, I could potentially help review
your material.</div>
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<div class="">Others? I agree with Cameron -- a nice opportunity here
potentially.</div>
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Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi OSGeo
Education folk and Massimo,<br class="">
<br class="">
Massimo, I think your Google Summer Of Code education idea
is very compelling. As you are aware, I've volunteered to
mentor from an OSGeo-Live perspective.<br class="">
<br class="">
What I find incredibly compelling about your idea is that
you are proposing to provide technical material to be used
directly by OSGeo Educators. However, what is missing is
endorsement from a number of educators validating that the
material created will be used.<br class="">
<br class="">
OSGeo educators, please do step up if you can, and say:<br class="">
"This proposal will result in material that I expect to use
within my OSGeo training course(s) XXX. I volunteer to help
Massimo define the scope of material to cover."<br class="">
<br class="">
Regards,<br class="">
Cameron<br class="">
<br class="">
On 19/03/2015 8:17 pm, Suchith Anand wrote:<br class="">
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Hi Massimo,<br class="">
<br class="">
Thank you for informing this excellent project idea. I
really hope this project will be successful as i can see
the potential for expanding this by other educators.
Please do keep us updated. Thanks.<br class="">
<br class="">
Best wishes,<br class="">
<br class="">
Suchith<br class="">
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sorry for any cross-posting,<br class="">
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I’m applying as Google Summer of Code student for the
OSgeo-Live project.<br class="">
My idea, described here [1], focus on free and open source
software for education, so i thought it can be of interest
to this list.<br class="">
<br class="">
Thanks for your valuable feedback,<br class="">
<br class="">
Massimo.<br class="">
<br class="">
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