[OSGeo-Edu] Summary of edu BOF discussion at FOSS4G

[Daniel Ames]

Charlie,

Thanks for sending this summary.

I suggested at the meeting that we might try to organize a special issue of
a journal with a series of lab exercises using various open source
geospatial tools.

One journal to consider for this is Journal of Geoscience Education (
http://nagt-jge.org/).

What do you all think? If there is any interest then could contact the
journal and ask them if this is something they'd be interested in hosting.

- 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 Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Charlie Schweik
<cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>wrote:

> Hi all (I sent this last week from a different email address and realize
> now it didn't go through...)
>
> Here’s a quick summary of our Birds of a Feather discussion we had in
> Denver.
>
> First, Suchith at the University of Nottingham gave a short summary of
> their activities. He provided a set of slides (Suchith, is there a way your
> slides can be posted for others not present to read?)
> Second, Phil Davis gave a summary of their GeoTech Center’s activities.
> They are focusing much of their attention toward developing an open source
> GIS curriculum for 2-year higher education schools (community colleges) in
> the US.
> Both of these groups are making substantial progress in the OS GIS
> education space and are bringing some new ideas and energy to our collective
> efforts.
>
> Two concrete next steps came out of our open discussion::
>
> 1) To develop an educational version of the live DVD with a focus on
> educational needs that would be ready for next year’s FOSS4G conference.
> This would mean we should coordinate with the Live DVD folks and it provides
> us with something really tangible to work on as a group. A key issue will be
> identifying one or two people who would act like Cameron Shorter does in the
> coordination of the LiveDVD.
>
> 2) To work toward building a network of OS GIS labs in universities. (This
> idea was actually something Suchith suggested to me in an email, and I think
> it is a great goal.) I’d like to hear from people interested in trying to
> develop this. This is similar (or maybe overlaps) with the local OSGeo
> groups perhaps – I wonder how many of those are actually organized by people
> affiliated with educational institutions.
>
> The group concluded with the idea that we would try to convene a meeting
> once a month meeting using a “virtual room.” Phil said he would help us get
> that established. Be on the look out for an email from me on that.
>
> Finally two further thoughts:
>
> 1) I encourage people who have content to share them through the new
> University of Nottingham’s inventory system [1].
>
> 2) Is there any other way to make it easier for us to share information on
> what we are accomplishing individually? Ideas:
>
> - - We could try and resurrect our group’s blog. I tried that before but
> didn’t get much information sent to me.
>
> - - Might we try establishing a OSGeo edu group social networking page?
> Facebook? Or Linkedin?
>
> If people have ideas let me know, or if there is someone who can act as an
> OSGeo edu “information broker” for us – that would be great.
> Thanks to all who attended the BOF and to Helena for reporting for us at
> the conference. More will follow on our first "virtual room" meeting --
> sometime in October.
>
> Cheers
>
> Charlie
>
> [1] http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.**uk/xmlui/<http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/>
>
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