[OSGeo-Edu] Education committee/ BoF meeting/workshop in FOSS4G2006

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Tyler,

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 12:18 -0700, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> Just a quick note as well.  I also won't be at FOSS4G.  And I've also  
> spoken with 1-2 others who have had some sort of contact with Mellon  
> foundation staff and who have talked about following up with them. I  
> have also emailed a fair bit with Chris and come to similar  
> conclusions as you have below.  It would be good if we could have a  
> single point of contact for them, since soon we will start to drive  
> them crazy.  

I agree totally on coordination and having one point person leading this
and communicating with Mellon. I have no concerns here other than
wanting to see OSgeo.edu getting more funding and resources to move
forward. If someone wants to take the lead on this that is fine with me.
But it seems like an opportunity that should not be passed up. 

> If someone is closer to them than others, please let me  
> know.  I just don't want them to see us a too disorganised :)  If I  
> had more time I'd volunteer to pursue this and have drive it.  I  
> think Ned mentioned he (and you?) was too close to the fire because  
> you have past proposals, etc.  Or perhaps that was only relating to  
> the award nomination?
> 
> But I think we should pursue a proposal and from the Edu angle it  
> might be the easiest.  I'm also interested in what kinds of other  
> proposals (from OSGeo) that might be valuable.

Well, there certainly are two angles here: education material and
scholarly communication around "open content" curriculum, and then also
probably a software development angle. And maybe something unique in
terms of how some of the software represented in Osgeo recruit and
develop further developers?

Cheers
Charlie