[Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint

[Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]

Thanks Jeff for sharing the link. We have some experience with this 
model - tried to implement it in cooperation with school teachers and 
teacher trainer (of course we didn't call it 'doc sprint' then ;-) It 
worked great!

As the first step, taking school level of education into account (youth 
aged 19 or less), we could organize a Sprint for teacher trainers (those 
working directly with school teachers and playing the role of change 
facilitators) to develop/modify materials which already exist and make 
them more available/useful for others.

Nottingham sounds great (Suchith, any comments? :-) Also Nodebo in 
Denmark is tempting ;-) - as far as I know Lene is putting her effort to 
organize QGIS summer school in 2016 so these two events could be 
combined. Or Bonn since we agreed in Como to organize a session 
dedicated for FOSS4G educators there (will keep you updated).

Ela

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Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
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W dniu 2015-08-25 o 22:32, Jeff McKenna pisze:
> 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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