<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Just wanted to say -- these pages in the below email are a really great start, in my humble opinion. Nice work!</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to circle back to what I was trying to jumpstart when I did my GeoForAll webinar on Commons-based Peer Production [0]. <b>What we need to do is self-identify GeoForAll labs, willing to collaborate on some educational topic (or research agenda), and start collaborating.</b> </div><div><br></div><div>For example, my colleagues and I at UMass are working on a set of exercises for an Applications in Unmanned Aerial Systems class for higher education. As we get initial exercises done, we will plan to make them available, somehow, under "In your classroom" [1] with Creative Commons licenses that allow sharing and permit new derivatives. We're in dialog with Michael Starek and Phil Davis about this with the goal of collaboration between our two GeoForAll labs. </div><div><br></div><div>Version control is still a question. </div><div><br></div><div>GeoAcademy uses Github to store their content which is great. I just worry that for some that might be too technical for some. There are a number of other options. GitBook [2] is one, Rice U's OpenStax [3], or even something as simple as shared, read only, Google Drive folders. I'm going to take this collaboration opportunity to work on this more. What we want, I believe, is something very simple, with few rules or standards that be a negative force slowing down collaboration. </div><div><br></div><div>In short: </div><div><br></div><div>I encourage other Geoforall labs working in education to identify two-lab collaboration opportunities to develop and share GeoForAll educational content in some area that <u>you need for your own teaching</u>, and let's try and build a content library moving toward open access to educational "source" and version control, as a community. Let's see what new stuff we can have under [1] by the end of summer 2018! </div><div><br></div><div>If anyone takes up this challenge -- let us know! </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Charlie</div><div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVCDME7cxUA&t=994s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVCDME7cxUA&t=994s</a></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/<wbr>initiatives/geo-for-all/in-<wbr>your-classroom/</a> </div><div>[2] <a href="https://www.gitbook.com/">https://www.gitbook.com/ </a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://cnx.org/">https://cnx.org/</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:02 AM, Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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We now have a new website for GeoForAll [1] and we are happy to share the teaching and research resources we have with everyone. It is work in progress and we will be adding more resources over time.<br>
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<b>For your Teaching</b> <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/" class="m_6844231942415966359x_OWAAutoLink" id="m_6844231942415966359LPlnk475437" target="_blank">
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<b>For your Research</b> <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-research/" class="m_6844231942415966359x_OWAAutoLink" id="m_6844231942415966359LPlnk203275" target="_blank">
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We have democratized GIS so everyone and our future generations are now owners of these resources. Every one of you are also the owners of all these software and you have full freedom to use as you wish for your education needs and also donate it to your
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We thank all colleagues for their selfless efforts over many years which has helped us to make this possible. I will always be grateful to every one of them.<br>
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