[OSGeo-Edu] Restarting our conversations and collaborative efforts

Tue Jul 13 10:01:57 EDT 2010

Sanders, Mark wrote:
> Charlie,
>
> Hi!  I am new to this list but have a professional interest in Geospatial education. I would be very interested in participating in your teleconference. 
>   
Wonderful Mark! Welcome!
> I work for Education Services Australia <http://www.esa.edu.au> which is a government organisation that produces free digital resources for education. We are just about to commence a project that aims to produce a purpose built for education geospatial tool. We wish to base the tool on open source software. We will be producing supporting material to aid teachers. 
>
> I am hoping that the members of this list might be prepared to share their perspectives and perhaps even expertise and materials to help us bring the first stage of this project to a successful completion. It is our goal to make the results of our work freely available to all. 
>   
Sounds great! As you probably know we do have quite a list of material 
already online at [1]. One of our group goals is to start organizing 
this material and new material that people are willing to contribute in 
an open content way. So you're efforts sound quite in sync with ours.

FYI, we have permission from the Association of American Geographers to 
use their GIS&T Body of Knowledge [2] as an organizing framework for our 
content, but have yet to do this restructuring. That is one issue on our 
group's agenda.

Secondly, I'm hoping we can move toward a "new derivative" system for 
educational materials using our Subversion system as a respository for 
the documents that can be revised by others. We really need some people 
in this group with material available to step up and take a lead by 
storing educational content that can be revised by others (while still 
linking the material in Subversion to our inventory system [1]) and 
helping to develop instructions on how to do this process to make it 
easier for others to do the same.

Over the last 5 years or so, we've established a *really great* group of 
people from a number of different continents with this common goal and 
interest some of whom have responded to this call for a teleconference. 
Our challenge is to keep collaborating and loosely coordinated knowing 
everyone is busy...  It's great to see this revised energy, all.

Cheers
Charlie

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content.
[2] http://www.ucgis.org/priorities/education/modelcurriculaproject.asp
> I look forward to the teleconference with great interest.
>
> Many thanks for organising it.
>
> Mark
>
> Mark Sanders
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> Education Services Australia
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> From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
> Sent: Monday, 12 July 2010 6:10 PM
> To: Charlie Schweik; Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
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> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Edu] Restarting our conversations and collaborative efforts
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> Charlie,
>
> I am very keen on contributing for this. Please confirm time for the teleconference.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
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> Dr Suchith Anand
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Schweik
> Sent: 11 July 2010 00:47
> To: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
> Cc: edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Restarting our conversations and collaborative efforts
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> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
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>> I'd gladly host a conference phone call for the group, via skype and I could phone out to patch in anyone via a landline too if that would help.  I'm busy this week, but the week of the 19th would work for me.
>>   
>>     
> Great Tyler-thanks. Let's see if others volunteer for the call and then we'll try and nail down a date/time. Anybody interested? I know this has some energetic people on the list so... come on folks!
>
> Monika  - I second Tyler's "excellent" comment! Great to hear from you and please add your material via the online submission form [1] or let me know if you'd like to try out the subversion repository so others could use and create new derivatives. We need a few people to show some leadership on this end to get a content derivative system operational (hint hint lurkers... ;-) )...
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> Cheers
> Charlie
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