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

Tue Mar 17 05:05:47 PDT 2015

Thanks Charlie.

To update all on the ELOGeo (E-learning for Open Geospatial Community) repository migration efforts (see  http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2014-August/000709.html  )

I have now got confirmation from colleagues in Manchester that they are working to get the ELOGeo materials into JORUM and they are  progressing good way through importing all the resources into Jorum  http://www.jorum.ac.uk   . The hope is that JORUM will be   make the content live next week. I am ccing  Siobhan Burke who has been leading this at JORUM. Once Siobhan informs the site live , i will inform you all and please do start contributing your teaching materials , workshop tutorials etc to the collection also.

I thank Siobhan Burke, Benjamin Ryan, Gail Millin-Chalabi and all colleagues at MIMAS who made this possible and it is great news for our Open Geospatial education efforts .

Also thanks to Jeremy Morley, Amir Pourabdollah, Mike Jackson for their help in getting ELOGeo initiative started and it is now right time to hand over this to colleagues in MIMAS for maintaining and expanding this for the long term.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Charles Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 8:07 AM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: Luis Bermudez; Cameron Shorter; George Percivall; Carl Reed; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Christopher Tucker
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training

Hi,

Great Luis! I hope to attend a discussion if I can fit it in. One general point of encouragement:

The GeoForAll community should not lose the sight of our long-standing goal of developing a library of educational modules that we can all potentially use in our classes. So in the OGC standards case, I urge you Luis, or whoever else might develop content, to develop it under a Creative Commons license and either as video (e.g., recorded webinar), text content (that would allow for future new derivatives or translations), or even audio recordings if need-be that we educators can use as modules in various courses.

This brings us back to the long-standing issue of a GeoForAll\OSGeo educational content repository.  We still have the older metadata inventory system operational [1], and I've got a ticket request in to the OSGeo website team get the input form [2] up and running again.  And the GeoAcademy has created a GitHub repository for storing content [3]. With their permission, we should work on a simple tutorial that outlines to content authors how to submit the course module metadata in [2], and then upload the course content under [3], and develop some kind of "badge" system or regular "GeoForAll educational journal" with links to this content for acknowledging and incentivizing author contributions.

Finally, Maria Brovelli and I are talking this week, planning for a GeoForAll meeting at FOSS4G, where we can take up this and other topics.

Cheers,

Charlie

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content (operational)
[2] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content (not operational, ticket submitted)
[3] https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi Luis,

That is excellent. Let us schedule a telecon to discuss next steps. May i suggest that you send a doodle poll with your convenient times to this list and we can then find a best time suitable for all.Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Luis Bermudez [lbermudez at opengeospatial.org<mailto:lbermudez at opengeospatial.org>]
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 10:32 PM
To: Cameron Shorter; Suchith Anand
Cc: Christopher Tucker; George Percivall; Carl Reed; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training

Hi Suchith, Cameron and all,

I'm very happy to see this dialog.

Now that I have been officially appointed (tasked), I want to leverage, contribute and help move forward e-learning material related to OGC standards.

I'm wondering, is it worth to schedule a telecon about the next steps?

Best Regards.

- Luis

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On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com<mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:

> 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
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>>> On Mar 14, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com<mailto: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
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