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

[Helena Mitasova]

I can certainly help with the GRASS part, both the basic and the  
advanced course.
We are just about to start the work on the third edition of our book  
with Markus so
I will have to go through entire GRASS6 anyway (not just the tools I  
use for everyday work).
We are also planning to replace the Spearfish data set with something  
more modern
so this could be used for the course too.

Helena


Helena Mitasova
Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atm. Sciences
1125 Jordan Hall, NCSU Box 8208,
Raleigh NC 27695
http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/



On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Charlie Schweik wrote:

> 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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