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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear Puneet and EduCom members,

I am afraid that I may not be able to join todays meeting due
to some unexpected work at the university. I do not know
how long todays Edu Committee meeting is expected to go on,
but will try to join in late.

I will put some of my thoughts by e-mail tonight.

Kind regards

Venka




Helena Mitasova wrote:
> 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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