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

[Charlie Schweik]

Thanks Landon for your reactions to my proposed list of group tasks for
2008-09.

If others have comments/reactions to what I sent please send them (either to
the group or to me specifically) and I will aggregate and send out to the
group.

 

Cheers

Charlie

 

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From: Landon Blake [mailto:lblake at ksninc.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:41 AM
To: Charlie Schweik; edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Edu] New list of OSGeo education (potential)
groupinitiatives for 2008-09

 

 

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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From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Schweik
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:23 AM
To: edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Edu] New list of OSGeo education (potential)
groupinitiatives for 2008-09

 

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 (
<http://www.masspolicy.org> 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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