[OSGeo-Edu] New list of OSGeo education (potential) groupinitiatives for 2008-09

[Landon Blake]

Charlie,

 

I think the list you put together is very comprehensive.

 

I'm more than willing to write additional English chapters of the Free
GIS Book, but I won't be much use when it comes to translating existing
Spanish chapters. :] Do we have a list of new English chapters that are
needed? Did the Spanish team ever get my metadata chapter translated to
English?

 

I also hope to continue my contributions to the multi-language
dictionary. 

 

The curriculum project also sounds interesting, but I'm hesitant to
commit time to it. I wonder if our role in this area would be
better-suited to the development of courses that focus on using FOSS GIS
or on demonstrating GIS principles using FOSS, than it would be on GIS
curriculum in general.

 

I'm also wondering if we might benefit from having a couple of our
members form an "unofficial" sub-committee to tackle technical
challenges related to organizing, storing, and delivering educational
material. This group could tackle challenges like "search"  of OSGeo
educational material and Docbook conversion. Perhaps we could fill this
sub-committee from volunteers from local chapters with some tech-savvy?

 

Landon

 

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Subject: [OSGeo-Edu] New list of OSGeo education (potential)
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Hi OSGeo education folks-

 

I've revised our group's task page based on the Bird's of a Feather and
other discussions I had with people at FOSS4Geo South Africa. 

Please read the 2008-09 section of this page:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_Committee_Work_Program

 

What I'd like us to do is figure out whether this list represents our
group's interests (is some kind of vote in order?) and then solicit
volunteers for people to lead each initiative. Or we could schedule an
IRC to discuss this list and where we go from here.

 

Cheers and thanks for all people did last year to get us to where we are
currently!

 

Charlie Schweik

 

Associate Professor, Dept of Natural Resources Conservation
(http://nrc.umass.edu) and Center for Public Policy and Administration
(www.masspolicy.org <http://www.masspolicy.org> )

Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government
(www.ncdg.org)

Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik

Selected research available at:
http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/

Office phone: 413 545-1824

 



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