<div dir="ltr">Hi Ela,<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">See my thoughts below in-line:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ela@gridw.pl" target="_blank">ela@gridw.pl</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p><br>There are two main options:<br><br>No. 1 – <strong>conference</strong> itself (24-26th of August)<br><br>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.<br>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”.<br>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 ;-)<br></p></div></blockquote><div>I think this is a good idea. </div><div><br></div><div>In Como, you'll 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?</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p>No. 2 – <strong>pre-conference, education workshop</strong> (23rd of August )<br><br>We have a chance to organise pre-conference workshop! </p></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p>In Como we talked about two options: a) having workshop for German school teachers on use of FOSS4G (e.g. QGIS) in education, b) having workshop for teacher trainers to show them how they can motivate and attract teachers to open GIS. </p></div></blockquote><div>I think these are both good ideas too. </div><div><br></div><div>One update on my end. The GeoForAll urban thematic has a grant proposal under review right now. Like all grant proposals -- It's a long shot -- but if funded it would provide funding to support a US GeoForAll scholar to go to Bonn to offer a training workshop at FOSS4G 2016. The topic would be either a 'Research Methods' workshop or a 'Train the Trainer' workshop - probably targeting university researchers and educators. I don't know when we will hear about the funding, but my guess is that it will be in early 2016, and if it comes in, we'll have a call for workshop topics. So I'll let you know if it comes in.</div><div><br></div><div>I encourage others in our community to go after funds like this that would help fund/support these kinds of educational or research workshops to happen in future FOSS4G global or regional events!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Charlie</div></div>
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