[OSGeo-Edu] reminder -- meeting in approx 13 hours

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi all,

I unfortunately won't be able to participate because I'll be in class 
teaching. I'm trying to get a research assistant to take my place, but 
at this point it is unclear whether I'll have someone participating or 
not. I am new to IRC and it turns out our university's virus protection 
software is blocking the IRC channel. When I turn it off, the university 
system automatically blocks the IRC ports again. I'll have this worked 
out for the next meeting and hope for sure I can attend that one.

Since I can't attend, I'll post here what I would say if I were on IRC.

Regarding key threads (#2 below) -- As I've said, I've made a commitment 
to teach an online Intro to GIS course using FOSS software for Spring 
2007. To that end, we are working on material for that now. I've taught 
an Intro to GIS for 6 years with good student feedback and have a decent 
course in place using ArcGIS. I'm trying to move all that over to FOSS 
-- mainly Quantum as an easier front end (like an ArcView) and then 
GRASS for more complicated stuff. We're making progress with the Quantum 
material, but I am new to GRASS so have a learning curve there. But what 
I should do (as someone suggested) is put our current outline for the 
course as it stands on the wiki. If someone wanted to work with us on 
the GRASS material, that would be great.

In short, *please list me down for whatever subcommittee that plans to 
develop an Intro to FOSS GIS course for undergrads/grads*. I hope that 
subcommittee might be willing to develop material that could be licensed 
under a creative commons license (new derivatives OK). If you need a 
chair for that subcommittee, I might be willing to take that on.

The Intro course we are developing is intended to reach people in two 
fields: (1) natural resources conservation/management, and (2) students 
in public administration. I'm hoping to make it more internationally 
relevant, so, for example, we've got some material already on getting 
GIS data from the web that lists some international repositories or US 
repositories that house international data.

We're also interested in developing a second more advanced course that 
might be a spatial analysis course with GRASS, or another idea is a 
course on how to implement a MapServer application. But we'd turn to 
that probably a year from now.

Cheers and apologies in advance for not making the IRC discussion.

Charlie Schweik
UMass Amherst



Puneet Kishor wrote:
>  Meeting
>
> The first meeting takes place via IRC #osgeo. Meeting time Thursday,
> April 13, 2006 at 8:00 AM Chicago time
>
> Agenda (as posted by Puneet and extended by Ari)
>
>    1. To introduce ourselves and our interests (sort of a repeat of what
> is there on the wiki already, but it will help get everyone know each
> other).
>    2. To try and identify a few key threads in the variety of interests
> that we want to pursue.
>    3. To attempt to aggregate ourselves into sub-committees that would
> pursue the various threads separately. We can't all be everything to
> everyone, so we have to break up our goals into sub-goals, and try and
> accomplish those -- from higher research, to curriculum, to pre-packaged
> tools, to evangelism... lets begin to identify them consensually.
>    4. Organize Wiki pages
>
> anything else.
>
> I will be using Chatzilla. I will come on a few mins early just to make
> sure the dang thing works (first time for me), so drop by and say "hello".
>
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