[OSGeo-Edu] Our proposed educational content and management standard!

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Just starting to chew on this very interesting proposal
* has anyone tried this docbook filter setup in openoffice
* have you already tried the OSGeo svn already?  For others who want  
to try it, there is now an education folder in there:
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/education
To commit to it you need an osgeo userid (same one used on  
www.osgeo.org) and you need to be added to the osgeo svn permissions  
"group".  Anyone already in the group can turn that on for you - I  
can help to begin with.

I'm interested in learning more about docbook in case we can use it  
to help with the Journal in the future as well.

More later, but thanks Charlie et al for thinking bout it,
Tyler

On 18-Jan-08, at 9:43 AM, cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu wrote:

> Greetings OSGeo Education list members:
>
> Happy New Year! 2008's going to be a great year for our group.  
> (Note: To keep
> this manageable, I'm going to send two emails out. This one is  
> about standardize
> content and its management, the other will be on broader edu  
> committee tasks.)
>
> Our proposal to standardize OSGeo educational content and version  
> control
> management is at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/3/3a/ 
> A_Proposal_for_OSGEO_Edu_Authoring_Summary.pdf
>
> The main benefits are (1) a structured writing approach and (2) the  
> ability to
> easily create multiple formats from a single source file. This  
> second benefit
> would allow relatively easy creation of, for example, a book from  
> various
> selected OSGeo edu modules, following a similar structure and format.
>
> This has taken significant research/work on our end. What we want  
> from you is:
>
> 1) Comments or a general vote of OK so that we can implement; and
> 2) A commitment from some who have edu material or are writing edu  
> material to
> follow this standard so we build a searchable database of standardized
> educational content over the next 6 months.
>
> Wouldn't it be **WONDERFUL**, if by October in South Africa we have  
> a searchable
> database of standardized content to present? This goal IS  
> achievable and would
> be a huge leap forward for our group.
>
> SO,
>
> - PLEASE REVIEW THE PROPOSAL. COMMENTS APPRECIATED.
> - IF IT LOOKS OK I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST A COMMITTEE VOTE TO MOVE  
> FORWARD TO
> IMPLEMENTATION.
>
> We want to move forward. Can we decide by Jan 23rd before I leave  
> email for 2
> weeks? If we need to set up an IRC to discuss, let me know.
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Charlie Schweik (UMass Amherst, education committee chair for any  
> new list
> members)
>
> for
>
> Ned Horning (American Museum of Natural History, edu committee co- 
> chair; Ned
> provided a lot of the initial thinking here)
> Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov (UMass Amherst. Sasha did much of the  
> research/hard
> work here)
> Maili Page (UMass Amherst; helping develop/test the tutorials)
>
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Tyler Mitchell
Executive Director
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
tmitchell at osgeo.org
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