[OSGeo-Edu] OSGeo logo and educational material

[Daniel Ames]

I think this is moving in the right direction. That is, rather than having
the EDU committee thoroughly review the content - which could be daunting
and time consuming - we focus on the technicalities: 1) is the material
focused on open source geospatial software? 2) does the material carry a
compatible license?  3) does a brief review of the material suggest that it
is of good quality (by consensus of the reviewers)?  These three questions
could be answered very quickly - in a matter of minutes - at which point the
authors would be encouraged to use the logo with the brief disclaimer. This
places minimal burden on the EDU (sub?)-committee responsible for the
reviews so as not to create any bottlenecks, but ensures a few basic common
characteristics of the material. - Dan

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:32 PM, <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:

> Hi -- we reached a lull on this discussion. Given the importance of this,
> I've
> created a wiki page and tried to summarize - see
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_Licensing_and_Logo_Discussion
>
> I think Ned's suggestion was important, that the use of the OSGeo logo be a
> free-for-all. The suggestion by Ned and Puneet was we should develop a
> minimum
> set of guidelines to be able to use the OSGeo logo in their content:
>
> 1. An "as-is" disclaimer given that these will not be vetted through a
> peer-review process, and something stating the spirit of our effort (Dan's
> text
> is a good start - text on the above wiki page).
>
> 2. Specific guidelines: modules go in open access repository; follows one
> of a
> set of recommended licenses; open source geospatial technologies; what
> else?
>
> 3. We gratefully accept any content licensed in any way, but the ones with
> OSGeo
> logo would have to abide by the guidelines.
>
> If people agree, we need someone or subcommittee to take the text Dan
> proposed
> and tweak it, along with adding other guidelines (e.g., suggested
> licenses).
>
> Any volunteers? Can it be done in the next week or two so we can keep
> moving
> forward?
>
> Thanks all for a useful conversation...
>
> Charlie
>
>
> Quoting P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>:
>
> > On 6/24/08, cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:
> > > Quoting "Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)" <tmitchell at osgeo.org>:
> > >
> > >  > re: OSGeo branded teaching events.  Board had lots of discussion,
> but
> > >  > were asking the conference committee to come up with some policy.
> > >  > The direction EduCom takes may really help set the tone for how
> > >  > "bigger" issues of policy like this are handled.
> > >
> > >
> > > Tyler - should we in edu (A) continue this thread (or a subcommittee)
> to
> > come up
> > >  with our own suggested policy or (B) should an ad-hoc subcommittee
> between
> > edu
> > >  and the conference group be formed to develop a policy for both?
> > >
> > >  While I still think our edu group's primary issue is still getting
> *any*
> > (OSGeo
> > >  sanctioned or not) content up in our inventory so that people will
> come
> > and use
> > >  it, it probably is time for us to do this.
> >
> > I think EduCom should concentrate on getting the content developed,
> > and the OSGeo Board should figure out the right mechanism to brand and
> > license "official" OSGeo content, be it software, documentation or
> > data.
> >
> > Authors should be free to chose whatever license and mechanism they
> > want, but if they want the OSGeo imprimatur, they would be required to
> > use the OSGeo guidelines (if OSGeo branding were to require license A,
> > the authors would be required to use license A. If they decide to use
> > license B, OSGeo could still host and advertise the content, but it
> > wouldn't be branded OSGeo).
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >  Cheers
> > >
> > >  Charlie
> > >
> > >
> > >  >
> > >  > Tyler
> > >  >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Puneet Kishor
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-- 
Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE
Geospatial Software Lab
Department of Geosciences
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
amesdani at isu.edu
www.hydromap.com
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