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

[maria.brovelli at diiar-topo.polimi.it]

Dear Charlie and Sasha
congratulations! and thanks for the good work!

Just few questions: I have the same problem of Helena (some equations  
into my documents) but in my case they are written with Office or  
OpenOffice. Is it possible to save the formulas or I have to rewrite  
them?

Me too, I would be pleased to try your template with my stuff in order  
to see the amount of work that is needed.

Yours sincerely.
Maria


Citando Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu>:

> Charlie, Sasha,
>
> thanks for working on the framework - I have a few questions:
>
> - I will be working on two graduate level courses and that will require
> to include equations (some may be complex) - I can see that DocBook supports
> equations, but given the fact that I have most of my texts written in latex
> and that the structure of DocBook actually resembles latex
> is there a latex <-> DocBook translator available?
>
> - I looked at the pdf example and the html files - do you also have the
> actual template
> that I could use to write a sample text to get some feeling for how it
> will work
> for the kind of material I need to write?
>
> - just a comment - using OSGeo svn is a good idea and it would be good
> to set it up
> ASAP so that we can try out the entire procedure (the svn repository
> could be used
> to handle also material written in latex that could follow the same structure
> and would be served as pdf).
>
> Tyler - can you arrange for the svn to be set up, or who should we contact ?
>
> Thanks a lot for all the hard work - it is great to see the progress
> and I hope
> that others will join the effort!
>
> Helena
>
> Helena Mitasova
> Associate Professor
> Department of Marine, Earth
> and Atmospheric Sciences
> 1125 Jordan Hall, Campus Box 8208
> North Carolina State University
> Raleigh NC 27695-8208
> http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/
>
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2008, at 12:43 PM, 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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