[OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial

[Alex Mandel]

Here are my slides that I've remixed a few times for various guest
lectures in College GIS courses.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/172165387/Introduction-to-Geospatial-The-open-source-method

I mostly cover how the license makes it different, but students
shouldn't be afraid of it - then how you can do all the same things you
would expect, sometimes easier and sometimes harder than any other
software option.

Enjoy,
Alex

On 09/30/2013 08:05 AM, Barry Rowlingson 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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