[OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial

[Jo Cook]

I guess the question is- what's going to get the interest of/be relevant to
third year undergrads? While licensing is important, it's not, if you're a
student. What you're interested in, is being able to do your work, figure
out what's going to help you get a job etc.

So I'd focus on the daft limitations of Acme Proprietary GIS- the license
that means you can't use it at home, or anywhere if you come from
particular countries, and the skills that are required in the workplace
these days.

Jo


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> A colleague who lectures on GIS at the university asked me if I'd give
> him some advice on open-source geospatial so he could at least
> introduce his third year geography & environmental science
> undergraduates to the idea. Thanks to the joy of site licenses the
> students get to use ACME Proprietary GIS System without having to
> worry about the cost.
>
> So anyway, I offered to teach the lecture for him. What can I do in 50
> minutes (and possibly a workshop) for 90 undergraduates? Here's a
> brain dump:
>
>  Compare and contrast: Free/Open/Proprietary/Closed/Commercial.
> Copyright/Licensing/GPL/Copyleft etc.
>
>  Open Standards: formation and importance - talk about the OGC,
> general goodness of interoperability
>
>  Open source development advantages/perceived disadvantages and
> rejoinders to those.
>
>  Commercialising Open Source, open source in industry.
>
>  Open Source in Education - reproducible science, 'climategate' as a
> failure of openness?
>
>  Case Studies: Open source in government - global deployments as case
> studies
>
>  Open source in the UK:  Ordnance Survey/Met Office case studies
>
> - thats probably enough for 50 minutes. If I can do a workshop I'd
> probably just get them to boot up OSGeo Live and play with QGIS for an
> hour, maybe try and duplicate one of their GIS exercises from an
> earlier module (load layers, buffer, overlay, report...).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Barry
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