[Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint

Thu Aug 27 04:17:57 PDT 2015

Dear Suchith,

Thanks for your suggestion.

Lene for sure will let us know in case she has some more details :-)

Ela*

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W dniu 2015-08-27 o 11:55, Suchith Anand pisze:
> Ela - my suggestion is for Europe Sprint for teacher trainers, let us 
> focus on Bonn event.
>
> btw i did not get info. on Nodebo in Denmark event. If  Lene is 
> putting her effort to organize QGIS summer school in 2016 then i 
> suggest we should make use of that opportunity also.
>
> Suchith
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> *From:* Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska <ela at gridw.pl>
> *To:* Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> *Cc:* ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 26 August 2015, 7:23
> *Subject:* Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint
>
> 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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