[OSGeo-Edu] OSGeo Live DVD - ELOGeo

[Phillip Davis]

Agreed wont happen without funding.  We are doing almost parallel effort and its costing $1M anually.


http://www.geotechcenter.org/GTCM/Project-GTCM


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On Aug 9, 2011, at 8:17 PM, "Charlie Schweik" <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:

> On 8/8/2011 8:09 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:
>>> But what I believe is required is:
>>>
>>> 1. A vision of what a full set of course material will look like, along with a definition of end users and links back to training goals (like the Body of Knowledge and University training courses).
>>>
>>> 2. Writing templates and guidelines, and supporting tools.
>>>
>>> 3. Associated processes and workflows for document creation.
>>>
>>> 4. A dedicated editor/technical writer charged with providing the technical review.
>>>
>>> 5. A project coordinator / champion who will help attract authors, and help authors write funding proposals for their external organizations.
>> I fully concur with the above, in particular with #5 above. The only way to make this happen is to have someone spearheading the effort with funds to back the initiative. Without it, it ain't going nowhere.
>>
>> Puneet.
>>
> I agree with these statements too, mostly. And as I've said in the past,
> Cameron has provided a model on how this can be successfully done with
> his coordination of the Live DVD.
>
> However, the list above is really broad and is perhaps some of the
> challenge of what we are trying to do. I think the OSGeo edu group is an
> eclectic group of educators (different higher ed programs, different
> levels of education, etc.) and it is quite difficult for us to get to #1
> (vision of a full set of course material).
>
> But I think we need to try and collaborate in some other way than what
> we've been trying over the last several years. It's like we're a car,
> with wheels spinning in the sand.  It is not easy to move us forward
> based on volunteer time, alone. So I do agree that we should try and go
> after some funding to get #5 above established (a dedicated project
> coordinator) -- but I don't think that is enough.
>
> A key question is "how to attract the authors?" in #5? What are their
> incentives to participate? In academia, often the incentive is "to
> publish." But are some of our potential authors non-academics (e.g.,
> people in software groups or service organizations)? What are their
> incentives to participate in collaborative training materials?
>
> One idea I think we've passed around before in the Edu group is the idea
> of an edited volume or something on training material. Maybe what we
> should be trying to do is develop a vision for an "edited textbook" on
> open source geospatial concepts and technologies?
>
> In short, perhaps our next collaborative steps should be:
>
> 1) Go after some funds to get subset of people together in a workshop
> format to try and formulate what the "full set of course material
> (Cameron's #1) is and/or what supporting textbook(s) would look like?
>
> 2) Either (A) try and get one or more people to be the "editors" of this
> volume under the traditional academic incentives of "publish" or (b) go
> after some funding to hire someone to undertake the coordination efforts
> Cameron describes above?
>
> Where might we go for funds to support #1? Can a subset of us try and
> write a proposal to go after those funds to bring us together for a
> multiple day work session? Or should this be the topic for an Edu Sprint
> on the last day of FOSS4G in Denver?
>
> Charlie
>
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