[OSGeo-Edu] "OSGeo Teach-in" event proposal

[Clara Tattoni]

Dear edu fellows,

I like too Daniel's disclaimer.

>> "The authors of this tutorial believe that its content is consistent with
>> goal of the OSGeo foundation to create a global, open access repository of
>> educational material related to open source geospatial theory and
>> technologies. Any mistakes, misrepresentations, or inaccuracies are the
>> authors' alone."

And I am very interested in the comment made by Charlie  about the
student review. I think the user feedback is very important in this kind
of documents.
I and my co-authors of educational materials, have always updated the
tutorial according to students comment but we didn't keep track of the
history and author of the commentary. This is not always obvious because
usually the same "bug" is discovered by more than one student  during
the same session.
In my opinion it would be nice if we could find a small phrase to add to
the disclaimer. Something like "This material as been tested by N
students and improved by their comments" (Some native english speaker
can make it sounds better)

We could start by Charlie experience: do you put all the attendees name
as reviewers or do you put just the name of the bug-reporter? how can we
count the online users?

If we agree on this issue it will be possible for the user to compare
the tutorials.


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:15 PM, <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:
>In the tutorials I put up, we have a section heading of "Reviewed By" 
>which
>lists a student in my shop who did this. It might be a good social 
norm >to do
>this in any tutorials we host, following the user-driven innovation 
>concept:
>Let peer-review happen simply when someone uses the tutorial.

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