[OSGeo-Edu] Restarting our conversations and collaborative efforts

Tue Jul 13 13:03:40 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!
Please count me in also.
-- 
Micha

>> 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
>> Project Manager | The National Digital Learning Resources Network
>> Education Services Australia
>> Level 5, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000
>> PO Box 177, Carlton South, Victoria 3053
>> Phone +61 3 9910 9869 | Mobile +61 401 382 646
>> Fax +61 3 9910 9807 | Fax 1300 780 545 (within Australia only)
>> Email mark.sanders at esa.edu.au
>> www.esa.edu.au
>>
>> Visit the National Digital Learning Resource Network (previously The
>> Le at rning Federation) at www.thelearningfederation.edu.au
>>
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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 Suchith Anand
>> Sent: Monday, 12 July 2010 6:10 PM
>> To: Charlie Schweik; Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
>> Cc: edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Edu] Restarting our conversations and collaborative
>> efforts
>>
>> Charlie,
>>
>> I am very keen on contributing for this. Please confirm time for the
>> teleconference.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>> Dr Suchith Anand
>> Centre for Geospatial Science
>> The Nottingham Geospatial Building
>> University of Nottingham  NG7 2 TU
>> Tel: (0)115 82 32750
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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
>>
>> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>>
>>> 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... ;-) )...
>>
>> Cheers
>> Charlie
>>
>>
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