[OSGeo-Edu] Getting back to "Mapping Math" - Removal From Free GIS Book

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Landon,

My personal take on this is we have to embrace the needs/desires of the
authors. It's your content so you have a right to do what you want with
it. I think the only way we'll build a repository that gains momentum is
by taking this policy. 

The other option is to talk to Victor (see participant list) who is
organizing the Spanish FreeGIS book and see if your chapters might fit
in their outline/template. The first cut might be multi-lingual and then
we'd have the issue of translations (a nice problem).

But you as an author I think have the right to decide.

If others disagree, weigh in, or we can schedule an IRC to take up this
issue. 

But if the group tends to agree, let me encourage you Landon to continue
developing your content and inventory it (at least as work in progress
with no links yet) on our inventory page for now. I'd also encourage you
to develop it in as modular way as you can since we (I think) are moving
in that direction.

Cheers
Charlie





On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:48 -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
> OSGeo Educators,
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> I was talking to Tyler a couple of days ago about getting back on the
> ball with my “Math for Maps” chapter of the Free GIS Book.
> (edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org) 
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> I would like to “move” the material so far out of the Free GIS Book
> umbrella. The main reason I would like to do this is so that I can
> expand the chapter into a short book. I want to add some material
> covering basic math concepts. I also want to include programming
> exercises and lab/field exercises that would be suitable for a
> classroom setting. I think this is too big to really fit in a single
> chapter of the Free GIS Book. 
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> It will also allow me to avoid conflicts with the Spanish efforts on
> the Free GIS Book.
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> I would still like to keep my material under the OSGeo umbrella, and
> on the OSGeo wiki if possible. Are there any objections to this? I
> don’t think it will be a problem because Tyler said the Education
> Committee was going to focus on existing material, not new material,
> but he suggested that I ask here first.
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> I am more than willing to do whatever the group thinks is best.
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> Landon Blake (The Sunburned Surveyor)
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