[Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint

[Andrea Giacomelli]

Hi Jeff and all -

your reference to open curricula brough two things to my mind, which some
of you will surely know (at least for issue #1 )

1) in the late Nineties the NCGIA was providing a core curriculum in GIS. I
used it quite extensively back then, both to review specific topics which I
work on in my MS/PhD times, as well as a sort of "checklist" with interns I
was tutoring.

...I checked, and it's still there: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/ .the
latest updates are dated 2000 ...setting aside memories of yonder, maybe
some parts can be a nice starting point


2) In 2007-2008 GFOSS.it (the Italian OSGEO Chapter) provided the free/open
source version of the so called "ECDL test". ECDL stands for "European
Computer Driving Licence"...there was a GIS module which was geared on
proprietary software, and we proposed adapting it to QGIS, for a start.

At the time I was with GFOSS.it and coordinated the preparation of the test
(with the precious support of Leonardo Lami and Massimo di Stefano).

The "exercise pool" for test includes some 40 questions/simple
exercises....if you think this may be of use, I can fetch it.

Best regards from Italy -

Andrea Giacomelli
http://www.pibinko.org

2015-08-26 8:23 GMT+02:00 Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska <ela at gridw.pl>:

> 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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> 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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