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     <li><a HREF="minutes_04_13_2006.html" TITLE="meeting minutes">April 13, 2006</a></li>
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+MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE EDUCATION AND CURRICULUM COMMITTEE OF THE OPEN 
+SOURCE GEOSPATIAL FOUNDATION
+
+On May 12, 2006, at 8:00 am GMT-6, pursuant to notice duly given, the 
+Education and Curriculum Committee (the "Committee") of the Open Source 
+Geospatial Foundation (the "Foundation" or "OSGeo") held a meeting by 
+Internet Relay Chat (#osgeo on irc.freenode.net). 
+
+Present at the meeting were the following members of the "Committee": 
+Helena Mitasova
+Ari Jolma
+Tyler Mitchell
+Markus Neteler
+Puneet Kishor
+Venkatesh Raghavan
+
+Additionally, the following were observing/"lurking" --
+Frank Warmerdam, Programmer
+Allan Doyle, EOGEO
+jmckenna
+mlucas
+ticheler
+dpatton
+
+The meeting was called to order. The following meeting agenda was agreed upon --
+
+1. How we want to present our 'project' at Where 2.0;
+
+The main item for discussion was developing material that could be used to 
+represent the edu Committee at the Where 2.0 conference in ?? in ??. Helena 
+mentioned that Dylan Beaudette will be presenting GRASS at Where 2.0, 
+and might be able to assist in promoting the edu Committee. Venkatesh asked 
+about the possibility of distributing the FOSS4G training 
+CD at Where2.0. Markus asked who from the edu Committee Education_Contributors 
+will be at Where 2.0. Tyler said that he will use the edu Committee mission 
+statement for the brochure and see how it looks and let everyone else review it.
+
+Puneet mentioned that he is writing a paper on open source GIS, and might 
+be collecting information for it. Ari Jolma suggested a paper titled "Free 
+and Open Source Geospatial Tools for Environmental Modeling and Management" 
+that he co-authored with various other edu Committee members for a workshop.
+
+ticheler wanted to know how to plan an incubation process for GeoNetwork 
+opensource. Markus pointed him to <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Incubation_Committee">wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Incubation_Committee</a>.
+
+Ari Jolma mentioned that he want to develop a "spatial hydrology" course on 
+wiki, and eventually would be interested in the dataset Markus and Helena 
+mentioned creating on the discussion list. <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina">The dataset doesn't yet exist</a>. 
+Markus is looking for a local dataset, not a regional one. Puneet suggested 
+that Markus and Helena look at the Itasca dataset that has traditionally 
+been packaged with MapServer for demo purposes. Several folks opined that 
+the Itasca dataset may be too simple for developing educational material.
+
+Raghavan reiterated Charlie Schweik's concerns; chiefly -- 
+1. Suitable formats for course material;
+Wiki was the most popular suggestion for developing course material. Markus 
+pointed out that there is a <a href="http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/w2x.php">MediaWiki-to-XML-to-stuff converter available</a> 
+once a Wiki document is ready. OpenOffice Open Document Text (ODT) was also 
+suggested especially for final documents. SVN/CVS was suggested for 
+version management, particularly when working with text-based file formats 
+such as Latex (or plain text). One advantage would be that OSGeo has its 
+own SVN server, and that may be possibly leveraged.
+
+2. The kind of open content licensing; 
+Markus suggested Creative Commons for licensing documentation.
+
+3. A mechanism for tracking author contribution.
+Again, it was suggested that a wiki or a versioning system would do this 
+automatically.
+
+There was a discussion on the text books that edu Committee could bring out.
+Book 1: Something generic, providing a good overview of the available tools 
+in OSGeo. Perhaps taking something existing, and critiquing/improving on it.
+Perhaps starting with the GRASS book and adding some more examples for human, 
+social and natural sciences it it. Target intro text for graduate or postgrad.
+
+Raghavan suggested something like an OSGEO Textbook and/or Workbook Series. 
+Possible titles
+  Book1: Using Open Source GIS.
+  Book2: Developing Geospatial Solutions using Open Source.
+  Book3: Developing Web Mapping Solutions Using Open Source.
+
+Ari Jolma mentioned that he would need a book for a course called: "GIS 
+software development"
+
+Helena asked about the wiki <a href="http://www.eogeo.org/Projects/projects_wiki/FreeGISBook">freeGIS book</a> started by Alan Doyle.
+There was a suggestion for possibly migrating/merging the freegisbook at lists.eogeo.org 
+list to OSGeo.
+
+Some alternative titles for the above mentioned books, and names for the 
+"task forces" to start work on them were suggested. The book working titles, 
+content, audience, and task forces will have to be finalized.
+
+Ari Jolma offered to create the wiki pages for the books.
+
+The next meeting was set for 8:00 am GMT-6, Friday, June 9, 2006 via IRC.
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