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

[Charles Schweik]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> IMO, a goal to set would be a workflow from open and shared development of
> edu material to packages that are easy to pull in to a OSGeo virtual machine
> / live system (usb stick, dvd, ...).
>
> The making and technology of that could be a subject of a few days edu
> sprint - I'd be interested in such. There are several technical options
> (svn, git, docbook, sphinx, publican, deb packages, install scripts, etc
> etc) and perhaps we can't stick to one only. But the end product is a single
> system with matching software, data and written materials.
>
> Even the end product can be made on demand to include just those packages
> that are needed for a certain course.
>
> (above is based on my chats with Massimo, Daniel, Alex and others -- I'll
> invest some time into a version of the workflow I mention above)


Sounds like a great idea. We tried to develop a standard format in the past
(Docbook) and ran into difficulties as a group but with the
education/liveDVD complement as a goal that might give us some more
leverage.
Let's put this on as a topic of conversation for our first virtual meeting.
Ari, it would be great if you could do some further thinking on this between
now and mid October?

>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I'm interested in this but I need to think what would be best way to do it
> institution-wise -- what would be the institution within my university that
> is a part of the network (department, professorship, institute, ...?)
>

Another virtual meeting discussion topic? Or do we want to try and discuss
over this list?

Charlie
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