[OSGeo-Edu] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G-V 2012?

[Clarke, Trevor]

Looking over this page I think there's some definite synergy. A
traditional conference has topic presentations and workshops. I believe
a virtual FOSS4G could easily incorporate both as well. Your existing
effort fits nicely in the workshop niche and my idea works with the
topic presentations. Looking at the list of possible webinar topics at
least one fits better in the topic presentation slot (5 year study of
sourceforge.net projects). I think the other main difference between the
two efforts is I'm hoping to capture some of the conference discussion
aspects with live presentations and the webinar seems like it might best
fit as a more traditional e-learning system? (pre-recorded screencasts
with exercises and discussion boards)

BTW, I also added a topic to the list. We do a lot of training (live and
online) for that sort of thing. I'd need to re-create the materials for
an open source audience but that's probably just a lot of cut-and-paste
and changing out data sources.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Schweik [mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 9:54 AM
To: Clarke, Trevor
Cc: edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G-V 2012?

Hi Trevor,

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Clarke, Trevor <tclarke at ball.com> wrote:
> Ok, I'll move over to the edu list. I've created a wiki page as well:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4GV_2012

Thanks for your interest and enthusiasm toward this idea. I agree with
Cameron -- it's a good idea. Another aspect of this is that a subset
of people on this group are active right now trying to go after some
grant funding around FOSS4G education. In my view, given the
increasing importance of video-based training, it would benefit OSGeo
to start building more video-based material related to OSGeo related
activities, and especially in the area of FOSS4G education. I have
virtual conferencing software (Adobe Connect) that we could use to
hold some webinars this fall. I'd like to have this happen, in part so
that we start to build a track record here that we can use as "proof
of concept" as we go for grant funding.

A few weeks back, I sent out this wiki page [1]. At the bottom I am
trying to get people to add entries on topics that they might be
willing to present. A natural start might be simply "introduction to
____________" where ______________ is one of the OSGeo projects. But
we need speakers who are willing to do this. For the software
projects, I would think this would be all good and worth their time to
do for it is another way of promoting their project.

So I encourage everyone on this list to do one or all of the options
below:

1) Consider a topic that YOU might be interested in presenting and add
the proposed topic and your name to the bottom of [1];

2) Forward this on to someone you know in an OSGeo project team and
encourage them to enter a webinar proposal at the bottom of [1];

3) Go to that page and add an idea of a topic you'd like to see/hear
in a webinar. We can then vote on the top 3 maybe with the goal of
holding virtual meetings sometime between now and the end of the year.

Come on! Let's do this OSGeo Edu'ers!!!! Take a moment to enter your
ideas at the bottom of [1] below! Let's see what kind of list we can
generate by Friday of this week!!!

Charlie

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_goals_and_to_dos

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Charlie Schweik

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Department of Environmental Conservation - http://eco.umass.edu
Center for Public Policy and Administration - http://masspolicy.org
Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government -
http://ncdg.org
Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press,
2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545
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