[OSGeo-Edu] Update on curriculum effort

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi Micha,

Micha Silver wrote:
> 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?
Terrific Micha! Yes, one of the metadata items on our submission form 
[1] is a license field where you can specify the license. Our standard 
is the CC cc-by-sa license, but it is not always the one used. The most 
recent posting [2], for example, uses this license. 

Most people have posted links to material they serve somewhere else. I 
really encourage everyone to upload their "educational source content" 
to our subversion system [3] and then link to it through the submission 
form [1]. I've done that for one of my entries [4] but there I am 
serving pdfs not the source. I hope to provide the source in this way in 
my next version upload. I wish there was some way that we could make 
this process even easier for people...

Cheers
Charlie

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/node/966
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Subversion_edu_instructions
[4] http://www.osgeo.org/node/862
>
> 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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