[OSGeo-Edu] New OSGeo education web pages and meeting summary

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Charlie,

Thanks for your quick recap of the discussions
at BOF. It was a pleasure to meet you and discuss
with you at and outside the BOF.

As I mentioned at the BOD we had on 25-26 Sept 2007,
we need to take things forward with you as a
coordinator for the edu_material mission. I am willing
to help in anyway I can to support this mission.

I sincerely hope that with the cooperation of all
those present at the FOSS4G2007-EDU-BOF we will
be able to work out ways and means to bring out
at least the first in OSGeo/FOSS4G text book series
well in time before the FOSS4G2008.

Great meeting you all at the wonderful FOSS4G2007.

Regards

Venka

cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu wrote:
> Greetings OSGeo edu colleagues,
> 
> Apologies in advance for a long email.
> 
> It was great meeting many of you at FOSS4Geo. (Puneet, we missed you,
> but understood why you couldn't make it. We've tried to move forward
> and, I think, have made some significant steps.) Here's a status:
> 
> 1) MEETING MINUTES. For those who weren't there, we had 27 people show
> up and ~85% of them were new edu members. Lot's of energy, enthusiasm! There are
> minutes to the first BOF which can be found at:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_Education_BOF_minutes. Thanks
> to Scott Mitchell at Carlton U. for his note taking.
> 
> 2) WEB PAGE WRITING. In the second BOF, we did a "wiki sprint" to get
> the edu pages updated and fresh. About 8 people were there. Since we only had an
> hour, I used my
> time tonight to make further changes and have done some pretty extensive
> edits. See what you think and feel free to adjust where necessary.
> 
> The main page on the OSGeo site (that Tyler has control over) is here:
> http://www.osgeo.org/education
> 
> The entry point to our pages on the OSGeo wiki is here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee
> 
> 3) TO DOS. We came up with todos for the next 3 months. The list is at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Education_Committee_Work_Program. Our
> goal should be substantial progress beyond this for reporting a year from now in
> the South Africa FOSS4Geo conference.
> 
> 4) ADD YOUR INFORMATION! Finally, please follow the directions on our
> main page and enter relevant information for yourself or your
> organization (participant list, educational inventory page). Let's see
> how fast we can get an inventory built of existing educational content!
> Eventually, our hope is to get it into some kind of content management
> system, but just getting a list is the first step.
> 
> I'll try and follow up early next week with a page describing the task
> for the subcommittee on deciding the right platform for content. I'll
> also try and encourage people who are not on this mailing list but who
> attended the BOF to post information about their content on the
> inventory page.
> 
> Cheers
> Charlie Schweik
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