[OSGeo-Edu] Reactions?

[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]

Excellent Markus - thanks for the feedback and effort to build on it!

Charlie

Quoting Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:

> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:05 PM,  <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm curious if anyone had any reactions to the Subversion-Wiki arrangement
> we
> > set up for managing educational "source code".
>
> [see  http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/education]
>
> > A while back it seemed that
> > people thought the wiki was the best/easiest way to have people find our
> > documents. I think listing things at the finer module level (instead of the
> > course level) is important so people can construct their own lessons
> perhaps
> > using material from multiple available courses.
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> > 1) Do people think we are moving in the right direction? Is there anything
> we
> > should do differently?
>
> I think that it looks good!
> We need to get used to it probably, so good examples will help to show
> how it works (indeed, it's rather easy!).
>
> > 2) Does anyone else think they might add their own educational material to
> > Subversion and to the Wiki over the next month or two (once we get
> instructions
> > to you on using it)?
>
> Maria Brovelli and me are working on rewriting a series of lectures
> from proprietary GIS to FOSS4G. We'll upload as soon as we have
> a reasonable draft.
>
> > 3) Is there anyone from specific OSGeo software projects lurking on this
> mailman
> > list, and if so, does your project have any instructional material you'd be
> > willing to add to this repository?
>
> Hints could be recycled from
>  http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/HowToSVN
>
> Best
> Markus
>