[Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint

[Jeff McKenna]

Darn, I forgot to include a link: I saw this yesterday, and it made me 
think of a GeoForAll sprint: a New York sprint creating course materials 
http://opensource.com/education/15/6/applying-doc-sprint-model-curriculum-creation

-jeff





On 2015-08-25 5:09 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'd like to pose an idea to the OSGeo-ICA-ISPRS community: a "GeoForAll
> Sprint" event.  The goal of the event would be to get the OSGeo, and
> ICA, and ISPRS communities together over a few days to work together on
> developing Open curriculum materials.  What do you think??
>
> Those of you familiar with code sprints, know them as getting developers
> from around the world to work together, usually in a big room with good
> wifi, and working on OSGeo software projects.
>
> Now, the GeoForAll Sprint would be a little different, as code may not
> be written for the OSGeo projects, but materials would be developed that
> could be used by the project communities, and educators.
>
> If you choose to do this, there are already steps available if you want
> to request for funding to the OSGeo Board for a sprint (see the steps at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines).
>
> I wonder if someone in GeoForAll would like to take this on and champion
> it.  If so, it could be a great event for the 3 communities.
>
>
> -jeff
>
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