[Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/Inputs for expanding "Geo for All" to School education and more collaborations with Industry, Government etc

[Phillip Davis]

What's the argument? Thought we were Geo for ALL? :)

On Jul 8, 2015 4:53 PM, Kurt Menke <kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com> wrote:
As one of the eight Government/Industry/NGO Partner labs this is an interesting topic. As they say, “I wear a lot of hats”, which often means I don’t fall neatly into categories. [1] I am a GIS consultant, [2] author of an open source public health mapping blog (http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/ ), [3] a co-author of Mastering QGIS,  [4] a co-developer of the FOSS4G Academy, and [5] a part-time instructor at several universities and colleges. Wearing the latter hat [5], I’ve been teaching semester long FOSS4G courses for 7 years, and have developed 4 semester long open source GIS courses. All of this material is available and I’ve shared it with numerous teachers.  Aside from Del Mar College, none of the schools I teach at have any other FOSS4G instructors besides myself. In fact I’ve led the FOSS4G charge with these schools, and have gotten the point where these are required courses.

So on one hand I am an educator, I have numerous associations with institutions of higher education, and teach about 10 FOSS4G courses per year. On the other hand I’m industry, I’m  a GIS consultant working with dozens of clients. Some of that ends up being professional training.

I’m a hybrid :) So I’m not sure where someone like myself should be categorized. I suppose that largely depends on the desired form of the network of labs.
Cheers,
Kurt

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