[Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training

[Cameron Shorter]

Forwarding on Chris' email (with permission), which bounced from this list.

Thanks Chris for the offer of support from yourself and others from the 
OGC. I think this is another great opportunity for OSGeo and the OGC to 
work together.
It is also very valuable and motivating for us OSGeo contributors to 
know that the OGC can help deliver OSGeo concerns to the right people.

Regards, Cameron

On 15/03/2015 8:06 am, Christopher Tucker wrote:
> Cameron,
>
> As an OGC Board member, I appreciate the subject change.  If the GeoForAll community wants any particular involvement from the OGC on this or other matters, I am more than happy to help facilitate the interaction with appropriate OGC staff and membership.
>
> Also, coincidently, I happen to do a lot of work with leading US government investors in LiDAR technology, collection and processing - all the way up to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.  If their attention is required, I am happy to facilitate.
>
> Thanks for all you guys are doing.
>
> Chris
> 703-981-9373
>
>
>
>
>> On Mar 14, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm bringing this email thread back onto the public ica-osgeo-labs list (CC OGC people) and changing title (with permission of Suchith).
>> Title was "RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the ģLAZ cloneē by ESRI" and a private conversation had started.
>>
>> Hi Suchith,
>> I like the idea of bringing OGC standards into education, and would be keen to see authoritative and consistent descriptions of standards available. (We started doing this a while ago on OSGeo Live [1], but these descriptions are incomplete, out of date, and the template needs improving).
>>
>> There was further discussion about describing standards within the OGC "Ideas4OGC" initiative [2] ~ October 2013, leading to recognition of a need for consistent descriptions of standards: including a one pager description for architects, and an implementation guide for developers.
>>
>> There is a lot of work in developing such documentation for all standards, but if we create a template for what is required, we can then spread the work across multiple interested parties (as we have done with OSGeo-Live documentation). I'd be happy to help with creating such a template.
>>
>> [1] http://live.osgeo.org/en/standards/standards.html
>> [2] http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity
>> and
>> http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_28:_Active_Direction
>>
>>> On 13/03/2015 8:30 pm, Suchith Anand wrote:
>>> Hi Cameron, All,
>>>
>>> I am not a standards expert but i am determined that i am going to do my best to improve the education aspects of Open Standards in Geo Eduation curriculum worldwide. This is long term action and we need help from all interested to join this.
>>>
>>> We have done this successfully in Open Source GIS education in a very short time. For example, our GeoAcademy colleagues have not only established a very successful MOOC program ( i understand over 4000 students are enrolled for their March 2015 cohort, so the scale of expansion of this amazing) but more importantly they made available  the curriculum (lecture materials, tutorials etc) available to all educators to share and share alike under the Creative Commons BY 3.0 license at the GitHub repository at https://gi

-- 
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099