[OSGeo-Edu] OSGeo in academia courses

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Helena,

Helena Mitasova wrote:
> If you would like to have your program or course included on the plenary
> talk slide please email me a link and a title of the course/program.
> We can post this information on the OSGEo Edu website too.
>   
Thanks for doing this inventory, Helena. In addition to this 
information, I encourage people to tell Helena whether you'd be willing 
to share the syllabus and some/all of the content. This could be great 
information for our educational curriculum effort. If the syllabus is 
online and you are willing, send a URL too please.

> In addition to NCSU, ASU and Milan I have so far found the folllowing
> (based on OSGEo edu materials, recent conferences and personal contacts):
>
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Intro to spatial technology undergrad with QGIS (Charlie you are comming I guess)
>   
My course syllabus and content is here: http://courses.umass.edu/nrc297s/

Unfortunately, I will not be coming to the FOSS4G conference. My 
proposed paper presentation, summarizing some of my just completed book 
manuscript entitled "Success and Abandonment of Open Source Commons" was 
only accepted as a poster, and I couldn't justify using my relatively 
limited travel funds to go to an event where I wasn't presenting a 
paper. I wish I was going to be there.

Helena, a couple other ideas:

1) If you could mention the "Workbook" effort (where the same exercises 
exist using different desktop systems, for example) we are trying start. 
I'm going to try and get a beginning wiki page up on that in the next 
day or two so you can at least point to that.

2) The other point I encourage you to make is that we need a stronger 
connection between the software groups and our efforts (e.g., better 
connection between what documents they produce and our inventory 
system).  We also need  stronger connections with local  OSGeo group 
activities.  If these teams want their software adopted, our educational 
efforts are key. I'd also like to figure out how we can do what was 
being asked last year --- have software groups do  webinars 
demonstrating their various technologies for government use as was being 
asked by folks in NY State.

If you want to talk over the phone, Helena, let me know.

Cheers and thanks for flying the flag!

Charlie

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