[OSGeo-Edu] Peer to Peer University: Community GIS course & Re: [OSGeo-Edu] More on the OSGeo educational webinar idea

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 17:10:10 EST 2011 

Ok,
Here is my suggestion for moving forward, and taking small achievable 
steps with a high likelihood of success.

1. Someone step up and make one or two 5 to 10 minute videos of an OSGeo 
project, which is based upon an OSGeo-Live quickstart.

2. In the process, document the process for creating the video. In 
particular, outline the tools used and documents to create. I'm 
expecting to decide:
* The template structure for a video (largely based upon the quickstart)
* The format(s) that we store base material in (powerpoint? web based 
portal? video formats?)
* I expect there will be updates and refinements to the Quickstart too.

3. I'm expecting not to get this right first time, and so we will likely 
go through a number of iterations.

4. With regards to which project we use, I suggest selecting one of the 
more popular OSGeo incubated projects.

5. It would be good if we could get this first video released in 
conjunction with the next OSGeo-Live 5.5 release in March 2012.
We will then be in a position to invite projects to develop videos for 
the OSGeo-Live 6.0 release (for FOSS4G 2012). Then have a comprehensive 
list of videos ~ 2013.

6. At some point in the future, some projects will make use of the tools 
and processes we have created to start building material for other 
formats. Eg: A 25 minute conference presentation, or a 3 hour workshop, 
or 6 month series of course lectures.

So now, who is interested in helping create a first example 5 to 10 
minute video?
If one or two people are able to create a video format, I can commit to 
incorporating this into the OSGeo-Live build process, which in turn will 
lead to projects creating and maintaining these videos in the long term.

Charlie, in answer to your question - each project community is 
responsible for creating their own Quickstart. Creating a Quickstart is 
one of the criteria for inclusion in OSGeo-Live.

On 15/12/2011 1:50 AM, Charles Schweik wrote:
> Hi Cameron, all:
>
> Thanks for making this link and for your continued insights, Cameron.
> Short response:
>
> - I think Cameron's idea of doing short webinars on the Quickstart
> material is a great first step toward figuring out how we do this
> collectively as a group.
> - Can we get the individual authors of Quickstarts to do short webinars?
> - Not sure how we connect to Brylie's Peer--to-Peer U question, but it
> could be worth looking at that and thinking how, if we managed to
> create a course collectively, how we would link that to Suchith's
> system and to the Geotech Center's efforts.
>
> My longer responses to specific questions posed below. -- Cheers
> Charlie
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I suggest that we discuss the following questions/suggestions on the list
>> here, then copy into:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Artefacts
>> Quickstart is translated into other languages. I'd strongly urge people
>> building webinars and training courses to make use of the Project
>> Quickstarts.  Eg: It would be great to see someone create videos/webinars
>> which are based on a script from the Quickstart.
>> The bonus here is that we reduce the cost to projects of creating (and then
>> more importantly the maintaining) of training material.
> I think this is an excellent suggestion to both "translate" the
> quickstarts to another form of educational material (webinars/youtube
> video) to increase the range of "readership." Second, it would help us
> figure out how we collectively set up this system.
>
> Below are my take on the questions posed -- but of course it's only my
> view from my particular vantage point.
>
>> So my questions/suggestions:
>> * Who is the target audience for Peer to Peer University / Webinar?
> I think to start, we need introductions to the OSGeo-related
> technologies for anyone who wants to know what they are. So I think
> the quickstart idea is perfect here.
>
>> * How long should it be? (I think a high value for effort opportunity would
>> be to create 5 minute webinars for each project, which is based upon
>> existing Quickstarts)
> I think 5-10 minutes would be great, although with the webinars, I was
> thinking these would be a longer demonstration by project experts on
> their projects that would include Q&A and be a little longer. The
> examples Phil has sent out are good examples. These are simply
> presentations like what we would see in a conference, for example.
>
>> * Is the emphasis to be:
>> 1. Describing an Open Source Project and how it solves a set of
>> technologies, or
>> 2. Describing a technology (which is serviced by one or more Open Source
>> projects which are used for in examples)
> It could be either....
>
>> * What sub-products can you break your product into? Eg, for a webinar, I
>> think you would break it into:
>> 1. Slides
>> 1.1 Screenshots
>> 2. Script, or speaking notes (which could be derived from the Quickstart
>> text)
> Yes... all three
>
>> * What format will you store your products in?
>> 1. Wiki?
>> 2. Word/Powerpoint/OpenOffice formats?
>> 3. Video format? What resolution? 1024x768?
> I was thinking at least #3. After the webinars, we could ask the
> author if he/she is willing to store all three (scripts, slides, etc.)
> in the University of Nottingham's database library. If the source of
> all three are stored there, then new versions of them could be updated
> every year. I think the Quickstart material also should be stored in
> Suchith's system, Cameron.
>
>> * What is the process/tools should you use in creating your products?
> You have a lot of experience in this Cameron. But unless someone like
> Brylie or someone else wants to step up and be the coordinator of this
> and develop the standards, I worry that too many rules or requirements
> will lead to larger tasks/too much time commitment and the idea will
> die. We need task granularity to be as fine scaled as we can make it.
>
> Who wrote the Quickstarts? Is it possible to recruit the authors to do
> these short webinars?
>
>
>
>> If you have read this far, and still want more background reading, here are
>> a few places to look:
>>
>> *
>> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2011/06/memoirs-of-cat-herder-coordinating.html
>> *
>> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2008/10/creating-geofoss-distribution-pipeline.html
>> * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Artefacts (and links to OSGeo-Live
>> processes)
>> * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Pipeline
>>
>> On 6/12/2011 4:58 PM, Brylie Oxley wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> We are organizing a Community GIS course at the Peer to Peer University.
>>> http://p2pu.org/en/groups/community-gis/
>>>
>>> Would anybody here like to help us develop the course? We can use
>>> organizers to assure that the course content is of high quality.
>>>
>>> If you would like to help with the course organization, let me know. We
>>> will make sure to promote you to a course organizer role.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your consideration!
>>> --Brylie Oxley
>>> Technology Generalist
>>> http://gnumedia.org
>>>
>>> Course Organizer
>>> http://p2pu.org
>>>
>>> Technology Apprentice
>>> http://woolman.org
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Edu_discuss mailing list
>>> Edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss
>>
>> On 14/12/2011 2:56 AM, Charles Schweik wrote:
>>> Dear OSGeo colleagues,
>>>
>>> Regarding our proposal to start an OSGeo educational webinar. It occurred
>>> to me that some on these lists might not fully understand what we are
>>> proposing.
>>>
>>> First, please check out [1] -- it is a recorded webinar stored on YouTube
>>> and example of what we hope to achieve. (This is a webinar put on by Phil
>>> Davis' GeoTech center -- Phil is an OSGeo education committee member, and
>>> nicely providing the webinar hosting system).
>>>
>>> Second, I urge knowledgable representatives from OSGeo software projects
>>> to consider working with us to schedule an "Introduction to your technology"
>>> webinar. Other webinar ideas are WELCOME. Please add your ideas (and your
>>> name, email) to our webinar ideas wiki page [2].
>>>
>>> All of these would be recorded and, with permission of the speaker, stored
>>> on YouTube and hopefully inventoried in the new educational material
>>> repository being hosted by Suchith Anand and his ELOGeo group at the
>>> University of Nottingham, UK. See our main OSGeo education page [3].
>>>
>>> I do hope some on these lists will step up and help us move this idea
>>> forward. This is a great marketing opportunity, especially knowing we can
>>> store these on YouTube and in our online searchable database.
>>>
>>> Charlie Schweik
>>> OSGeo Edu committee chair
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://www.youtube.com/user/GeospatialTechnology?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/-vv7OcxATh0
>>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_webinars
>>> [3] http://www.osgeo.org/education
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>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Geospatial Solutions Manager
>> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>
>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Geospatial Solutions Manager
>> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>
>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
>> Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
>> http://www.lisasoft.com
>>


-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

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