[Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW! Whoa! Or What?!

Mon Mar 16 22:18:00 PDT 2015

Brandt,

Once we have an "All Systems Go!" we'll need a couple weeks to prepare. 

So the earliest date, given Suchith's concurrence, is early April.

We are still trying to gauge level of interest. So far we have . . .

* Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver, www.ucdenver.edu
* Gábor Remetey, GIS Lead for Hungary, www.hunagi.hu
* Nikos Lambrinos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, www.auth.gr/en
* Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst, www.umass.edu
* Bridget Fleming, AfriSpatial Geospatial Education & Training, www.afrispatial.co.za
* Thomas Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, www.calu.edu
* Brand Melick, City of Springfield Oregon, www.springfield-or.gov
* Phil Davis, Del Mar College and the GeoAcademy, www.delmar.edu 

We want more!

-Patrick 

-----Original Message-----
From: MELICK Brandt [mailto:bmelick at springfield-or.gov] 
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:39 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: 'Gábor Remetey'; 'Giuseppe Conti'
Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW! Whoa! Or What?!

Patrick and others,

Really appreciate the recognition and interest in youth involvement - empowering future generations and supporting the wonderful people who dedicate their lives to such important and demanding work is the ultimate goal.  The greatest honor is serving the future steward of this precious planet.  Please let me know should there be opportunities to engage pre-college students.

9:00AM pacific time works well.  Have any dates been proposed?  A few key people from our site will be out next week during spring break.  

Look forward to the webinars.

Thank you for your time,
Brandt

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From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [mailto:patrick.hogan at nasa.gov] 
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:51 AM
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Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW! Whoa! Or What?!

Nikos and Others,

Thanks for your response and interesting suggestion. 

There is no reason why we shouldn't challenge all students, given their interest, to make a contribution to society via FOSS4G. The modular componentry architecture for World Wind code is essentially the same across all versions, Java, Android and iOS. The new web version in JavaScript will be no different. And all World Wind code contains plenty of examples. So it is an excellent platform to teach with. 

For teaching World Wind Java, this should be of help, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/guidance. The current JavaScript examples, though meager in terms of the final code, are each also a good teaching exercise.

That said, though this first webinar will be fairly qualitative and therefore mostly non-technical, any successive webinar, though fundamental, will be purely technical. So, depending on the interest and skill of the student, could certainly help to advance their skill, and provide a template for good software architecture. 

Tomorrow's world needs our children to be as well-equipped as possible. Whatever we can do to accelerate that is dearly needed. Our teachers have the most important job in the world! Good luck!!!

Would 9AM Pacific time be a reasonable enough hour?

-Patrick
 650.604.5656 (office)
 650.269.2788 (cell)

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From: labrinos at eled.auth.gr [mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr] 
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 12:52 AM
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Cc: 'MELICK Brandt'; 'Gábor Remetey'; 'Giuseppe Conti'
Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW! Whoa! Or What?!

Dear Patrick,

I will be glad to join the webinar.
As a primary school teacher trainer I would like to ask if you think that the webinar will be simple enough so primary school teachers and undergraduate student teachers could also join. In this case I could motivate a number of teachers and my students.
Have you decided on what exactly the webinar will cover?
Please take into account the time difference or let us download the webinar later.

Nikos  

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Dr. Nikos Lambrinos
Associate Professor
Dept. of Primary Education
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Greece, GR-54124 Tel. +30 2310 991201
Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr
Web pages: http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/
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Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 1:59 AM
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Cc: MELICK Brandt; Gábor Remetey (gabor.remetey at gmail.com); Giuseppe Conti
Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW! Whoa! Or What?!

Dear OSGeo/GeoForAll,

We need your feedback to gauge interest by this community. 

Suchith has recommended a NASA World Wind Webinar where we discuss the new web version of World Wind. . .
http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/
http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/api-doc/

And how to win a NASA Crystal Bull (and Euros) via the Europa Challenge, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
Awarded this year at http://europe.FOSS4G.org/2015/ (Register now for the best FOSS4G ever!)

And win another Crystal Bull for the GeoForAll CitySmart Challenge:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics

Please let me know, who, what and how many, and any questions you might want answered.

Kind regards,
-Patrick

 Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov
 Project Manager
 NASA World Wind
 650.604.5656 (office)
 650.269.2788 (cell)

NASA motto, 'for the benefit of all' 
World Wind, built to challenge a world
for innovative solutions with spatial data.
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