[Southeast-US] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #71826] FOSS fork of "GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences"

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Dear Tom,
Thank you for your comments about the "GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences".  This is only the first section in a larger suite of training materials we plan to develop. Future sections will focus on more advanced topics working with multidimensional data and the use of open source GIS tools, such as QGIS and GRASS.
Constructive feedback is helpful, to make sure the materials we develop are useful and appropriate for the intended audience.
Sincerely Jennifer

On Wed May 06 21:07:11 2015, Tom_Roche at pobox.com wrote:
> 
> I noted your recent announcement of your "GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric
>    Sciences"[1]. However, as a student of GIS and atmospheric science,
>    I was dismayed (though not surprised) by its reliance on a
>    proprietary OS/GIS stack, given increasing
> 
> * financial stress on higher education and its students
> * dominance of Linux in scientific computing (esp atmospheric
>    science), and the unavailability of ArcGIS on that OS
> * demands for open science and reproducible research, especially in
>    policy-relevant domains
> 
> That being said, I was pleased to note that
> 
> http://gis.ucar.edu/projects/course-introduction-gis
> > This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
>    course
> 
> https://gis.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/Exercise1_2015.pdf
> > © 2015 UCAR and UNC-Asheville. This is an open access article under
>    the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
>    Unported License, which permits all non-commercial use,
>    distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original
>    work is properly cited.
> 
> Just to be sure, I'd like to know if you (e.g., NCAR, UCAR, NSF) would
>    object to an open-source fork of your tutorial: i.e.,
> 
> 1. recreating your use cases (e.g., "Tornado Tracks") with your data,
>    but using a purely FOSS[2] stack (e.g., components of the OSGeo
>    stack[3] and Linux) rather than a proprietary stack (e.g.,
>    "Exploring ArcMap and ArcCatalog")
> 2. citing your original work
> 3. publishing with a similar CC license (e.g, CC BY-SA)
> 4. publishing to a public repository (e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab,
>    SourceForge)
> 
> TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
> 
> [1]: http://gis.ucar.edu/projects/course-introduction-gis
> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software
> [3]:
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation#Projects
>