[OSGeo-Edu] Update on curriculum effort

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi edu folks,

Happy New Year all! I'm hoping we all can commit ourselves to making 
some great progress as a group over the next six months in advance of 
the next FOSS4Geo conference, related to developing a framework for 
organizing OSGeo-related curriculum and educational material, and 
continue to strive for a working system where we share content and build 
on each other's content. As you forge ahead in your own work in 2010, 
please think about how that work might relate to what we are doing and 
you try and contribute to our joint efforts...

On my end, I just wanted to report in that I've been working on my end 
to get permission for us to possibly use the University Consortium for 
Geographic Information Science and Association for American Geographer's 
GI S&T Body of Knowledge [1] as an overarching framework for guiding our 
future curriculum efforts. The framework is under copyright by both 
UCGIS and AAG, but *I've received permission by the UCGIS folks to use 
this material*. I'm now contacting AAG to get their permission since it 
is under joint copyright.

I struggle a little bit with this because of the copyright issues and 
the philosophy of openness and sharing. But this seems to be, in my 
view, a very good guiding framework for us to follow. I'm thinking that 
somehow we would connect this to the discussions we've had about 
material that demonstrates how to do some particular function or process 
using open technologies.

If anyone has any objections to this direction I am taking, let me know, 
or let me know if we need to open this up to a vote.

Finally, two other things:

1) Don't forget about adding new educational content to our inventory 
page [2] through the submit function [3]. The last postings were 
September of 2009 -- someone surely has other material developed since 
then.

2) We need people to start building on what Helena has done related to 
the process of putting material in Subversion so we can continue to move 
toward a "new derivatives" type system of sharing content. Can somebody 
step up and build on Helena's work to get that process documented for 
others to use? Here's what we have linked on our group 
education/curriculum page [4].  What we want, I think, is to more 
clearly connect this process to our submit function [3].

Cheers
Charlie

[1] http://www.ucgis.org/priorities/education/modelcurriculaproject.asp
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
[3] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Subversion_edu_instructions.
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