[FOSS4G-Oceania] [Geo4All] Fwd: Re: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session: Sustaining a training documentation pipeline
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 13:11:59 PST 2018
I'm looping in suggestions from Charlie, Suchith and Thomas from the
Geoforall community.
On 19/11/18 12:06 am, Charlie Schweik wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> Wonderful to hear about this initiative! As many know, we've tried to
> develop collective action around the community development of FOSS4G
> educational material for years -- a hard nut to crack! Perhaps this
> will develop the critical mass to make it happen! I agree with your
> "big vision".
>
> A couple thoughts:
>
> 1) Any discussion of Summer of Docs that would provide paid
> opportunities for students working with faculty/OSGeo projects?
>
> That might lead to even more productivity (think - educational content
> summer internships with OSGeo projects or faculty to develop open
> access educational materials).
>
> 2) One repository -- GeoAcademy, and obviously, QGIS' tutorials
>
> Materials by Kurt Menke, Rick Smith, John Van Hoesen and Phil Davis:
> http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/. I believe Rick
> had set up a GitHub project for storing the source. Not sure of update
> status. Obviously coordination with the QGIS project and their
> tutorial page
> <https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/learning_resources.html> would
> be useful.
>
> 3) To start - organize a "curriculum outline"?
>
> It would be helpful to collectively develop an overarching curriculum
> (perhaps building on the GeoAcademy work) or identify content areas?
> And a focus on not only introduction but more advanced materials, and
> thought provoking exercises and data, not just tutorials. For example,
> I'm working on a new class on data analysis of environmental data
> collected by quadcopters with multispectral sensors. I'd be willing to
> contribute what I develop to this effort.
>
> 4) Organize for Modularity
>
> I'd encourage a modular strategy rather than complete course work, and
> organize by topic area, and don't put rules on content format to
> encourage submissions and less "rule friction."
>
> 5) There is the issue of where various content would be hosted. But if
> we can get collective action/organization around material development
> that issue can be addressed next.
>
> Good luck FOSS4G Oceania folks! I hope you can get this started! If a
> group forms, add me to the list, please.
>
> Thanks
>
> Charlie Schweik
>
On 19/11/18 1:06 am, Mueller, Thomas wrote:
> Here is what Philip Davis’s Group has completed via QGIS. I use his
> materials in my classes and workshops
> https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/
>
> Tom
On 18/11/18 6:28 pm, Suchith Anand wrote:
>
> Thank you for this excellent information. May I also request you to
> invite representatives from universities and educational organisations
> at the conference to join GeoForAll through our website form. Really
> hoping we get more educational organisations from the region joining
> us and building momentum.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 3:40 PM Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Geoforall community,
>
> FYI: At FOSS4G Oceania this coming week we plan to discuss the
> possibility of creating universally maintained QGIS material, with
> an eye to eventually building this the cover all OSGeo training
> material.
>
> If there are initiates already in place that we should be aware
> of, and should be aligning with, then please let us know so that
> we can include them in our discussion.
>
> (See below for our local discussion so far)
>
> Warm regards, Cameron
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session:
> Sustaining a training documentation pipeline
> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 06:23:16 +1100
> From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> To: australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com
> <mailto:australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com>
> CC: foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
> <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
> <mailto:foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
>
> Johan, great to hear of your interest and ability to bring
> material to the project. A challenge of funded open source (and
> open training) is sustainability after the funding drys up. I'm
> hoping we can help address sustainability by spreading maintenance
> across multiple community members and funding sources.
>
> Brad, you are asking some really good questions which I'm hoping
> we can collectively discuss. I personally don't have an agenda for
> format or delivery mechanisms. I think we should be thinking about
> big vision, determine who wants to contribute and what their
> priorities are, and then focus on what we can sustainable build to
> address immediate needs and material we can already make use of,
> and also do our best to attract an active, international community
> of maintainers. Feel free to share your suggestions.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
> On 17/11/18 9:43 am, bradh at frogmouth.net
> <mailto:bradh at frogmouth.net> wrote:
>> Cameron,
>>
>> Are you anticipating this being a training course or a set of
>> training material (e.g. some overview presentations and
>> tutorials) that could be used in a course? What kind of delivery
>> mechanisms do you anticipate (e.g. face-to-face, self-paced,
>> etc)? Who do you anticipate the training audience to be? What
>> would the training outcome(s) / competencies be? Would this
>> include assessment?
>>
>> Brad
>
> On 17/11/18 7:47 am, Jonah Sullivan wrote:
>> I'm looking forward to this session. Thanks for organising it.
>> I helped set up a QGIS MOOC with content created by, and created
>> for, Pacific Islanders.
>> The project that got it going is winding down; it would be nice
>> to see it continue.
>> Here is the link: http://pacgeo.org/edu/
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com
>> <mailto:australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com>
>> <australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com>
>> <mailto:australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2018 7:24 AM
>> To: Andrew Jeffrey <aljeffrey83 at gmail.com>
>> <mailto:aljeffrey83 at gmail.com>;
>> australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com
>> <mailto:australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com>;
>> foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mailto:foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Cc: Sarah Maddox <sarahmaddox at google.com>
>> <mailto:sarahmaddox at google.com>
>> Subject: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session:
>> Sustaining a training documentation pipeline
>>
>> Hi QGIS and FOSS4G folks,
>>
>> I think a number of things are serendipitously coming together to
>> create the perfect opportunity to establish collaborative
>> building and maintaining OSGeo training material in general, and
>> QGIS in particular.
>> (Templates, processes, tool chains developed for QGIS could be
>> rolled out to other projects in future releases).
>>
>> I was talking with Andrew Jeffrey and Chris Milne yesterday about
>> setting up a Birds of a Feather session at the FOSS4G conference
>> in Melbourne next week to discuss this. Andrew and Chris mentined
>> that their employer, Chartis Technology is keen to
>> collaboratively build QGIS training.
>>
>> Sarah Maddox, tech writer from Google, is launching a "Google
>> Season of Docs" [1], from which we might be able to tap into
>> experienced tech writer resources.
>>
>> I'm hoping that once we get momentum going, we could draw in
>> universities from Geo4All. Some universities already have good
>> training material we can start from.
>>
>> I'm interested from an OSGeoLive perspective - drawing from our
>> existing community and extending our established documentation
>> pipeline to also include training material.
>>
>> If you are interested to be involved, then speak up (and/or look
>> for details of the BoF session once we find a venue and timeslot).
>>
>> [1]
>> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ABqCc5uAoQv9aqGCxmNqOJ9S_Tst-adNV3fcWQ2Quwc/edit#slide=id.g42b115f18c_0_0
>>
>>
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