[OSGeo-Edu] Update on curriculum effort

[Micha Silver]

Hello Charlie:

Thanks for the update. I'd like to participate, if the slides etc that 
I've made for GIS seminars are up to scratch.
However I'd want to be sure that the material can be shared further, and 
that it would be attributed to me. So, for example, the creative commons 
cc-by-sa licence would be acceptable. Does the framework you outlined 
for publishing the GIS-edu material allow for this?

Thanks,
Micha

On 01/12/2010 05:01 PM, Charlie Schweik wrote:
> 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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