[OSGeo-Edu] OSGeo Edu Virtual meeting Doodle poll

[Daniel P. Ames]

Hi all. I can't participate in the meeting (AGU) but will be interested in
following up afterwards and possibly participating in one of the proposed
workshops.

- Dan

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Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
dan.ames at isu.edu
geology.isu.edu
www.mapwindow.org



On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Charles Schweik <cschweik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 1) Tom - your idea (attached below) on regional education chairs is an
> interesting one. Let's add that proposal to our discussion on group
> governance in our virtual meeting.
>
> 2) I've created a Doodle poll to try and get a date set for a December
> virtual meeting. Given the names on our wiki page [1] I tried to pick UTC
> times that worked for England and Europe, US (east coast, Texas and
> California), Helsinki. I tried to fit in Jarkarta but it is very late, and
> places like Australia are difficult too. Given we are discussing EU and US
> workshops, I decided on these times to best fit participants from that
> region. Like international conferences, we can try and shift virtual
> meeting times to fit other parts of the world as we move forward.
>
> If you want to participate in our first virtual meeting, please add your
> name and select times that work for you at
>
> http://www.doodle.com/576dfieezb2b3v3g
>
> Cheers
> Charlie
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Educational_Content_Inventory#2011-2012_Initiatives
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Mueller, Thomas <Mueller at calu.edu> wrote:
>
>>  Hello, I am know that I fairly new but I have an idea.
>>
>>
>>
>> How about each region vote on a Education co - chairs?  So North America
>> has a set of co - chairs, Europe, etc.  Each region has their own virtual
>> meeting to discuss local issues and global issues.  Then there would be a
>> virtual meeting of the co - chairs (and any others that could make it) on
>> the global issues.  It would be easier
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [
>> edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Cameron Shorter [
>> cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Saturday, November 26, 2011 12:43 AM
>> *To:* Charles Schweik
>> *Cc:* OSGeo-edu
>> *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Edu] OSGeo Edu Virtual meeting planning questions
>>
>>  Charlie,
>> I'm in a tricky timezone for coordinating with EU and US (as I live in
>> Australia).
>> However, I'd be very happy to talk with anyone who has ideas on how they
>> would like to extend documentation development by leveraging the OSGeo-Live
>> DVD [1].
>>
>> This could include:
>> * Providing QA for our Quickstarts, which have been written, but not QAed.
>>
>> * Create a video template, then create videos for all our OSGeo-Live
>> projects. I see this being a 5 minute video, which would be largely based
>> upon our 5 minute Quickstart.
>>
>> * Development of a template for more comprehensive project cookbooks, or
>> reference material. This would then be followed up with the writing of each
>> of these project cookbooks.
>>
>> * Develop a template for classroom presentation material, then follow
>> through with creating this material.
>>
>> [1] http://live.osgeo.org
>>
>> On 24/11/2011 10:05 AM, Charles Schweik wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I started to make a Doodle poll to set a date/time for this meeting but
>> as all know it is difficult to get a time that potentially everyone can
>> make, if we have participants from many continents.
>> To figure the poll out, I need to get an idea of who wants to participate
>> and where they are from.
>>
>>  Our first (of hopefully a once a month event) will focus on
>>
>>  1) Planning for a spring face-to-face meeting in Europe;
>> 2) A workshop in the US (possibly May);
>> 3) A possible tangible goal is to develop some kind of educational
>> material that complements next year's LiveDVD.
>>  4) Discussion about group governance and a possible election.
>>
>>  If you are interested in participating in this first virtual meeting,
>> please go to [1] ASAP and add your name and location in the world to either
>> the EU COST workshop or the US Workshop or both.
>> On the day after tomorrow, I'll develop a Doodle poll based on the
>> locations of people listed on [1].
>>
>>  Thanks all
>>
>>  Charlie Schweik
>>
>>  [1]
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Educational_Content_Inventory#2011-2012_Initiatives
>>
>>
>>
>>
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