[Ica-osgeo-labs] [Live-demo] Looking for Web-GIS syllabi

Thu May 28 00:36:31 PDT 2015

Hi Nikos,

This is a great idea.  Newsletter will be a good benifit to the community. If you or anyone in the community wish to take this initiative, it will be great. 

In fact, all our email archives are  available publically at  http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/  so it just need someone with some editorial skills to bring together key items and publish as a newsletter for the community. I am sure once we start, we can build upon this with feedbacks/inputs from others, use the same template for monthly newsletters etc. Just need a lead editor for this. Please come forward if anyone can help with this.

Suchith
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Hi everyone,

One thing I was thinking about is that there are a lot of things under
construction or a lot of action by the members of OSGeo and it is not so
convenient to look for the past emails to find out who is doing what or what
is coming next.
What do you think about publishing a Newsletter for the actions and news of
the Community?

Have a nice day
Nikos

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Good idea. May i also suggest exploring links with the work that Luis (OGC)
is doing on edu content development so we all can build synergies
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-March/001383.html

Suchith
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On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter [cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: [Live-demo] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Looking for Web-GIS syllabi

Hi Jorge, others,
One thing which would be very valuable would be to align development of GIS
training material with the OSGeo-Live build process. Probably incorporate
training material in the documentation at:
http://live.osgeo.org

This could be collaboratively developed and continually updated by both
project teams, training institutes, and our existing teams of translators.

Jorge, it looks like you have a good start on this. I'd be interested to see
how we could link with OSGeo-Live.

Warm Regards, Cameron

On 27/05/2015 7:01 am, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
> Hi Charlie, hi Andy,
>
> Last year I've started (but not finished) a web gis course, based on
> OSGeo Live.
>
> My goal was to create a course that could be translated to different
> languages, and always using local data.
>
> I've created http://mapmaking.info/ to setup the course. I've just
> created contents for chinese students, using chinese data (but I
> didn't had time to write it in mandarim, so it is still in english).
> Now I'm translating the course to portuguese, using data from Portugal.
>
> My suggestion is to use administrative data for some global source like:
> * http://www.gadm.org/
> * http://gdem.ersdac.jspacesystems.or.jp/
> * OSM planet extracts
>
> Every student would use the same technologies, the same algoritms, but
> using data that has some meaning for them. Those interested in
> teaching the course to a new community would have to translate the
> contents and to provide the equivalent datasets related with the
> community.
>
> We already have tons of open source software available in different
> languagues and amazing data from all around the globe. It is time to
> create powerful contens "Think globally" adapted to local learning
> communities "act locally".
>
> As a minor note, whenever possible, we should align our syllabus with
> the BoK, despite web gis being the weakest BoK topic.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge Gustavo
>
> On 26-05-2015 17:37, Charles Schweik wrote:
>> Hello GeoForAll colleagues,
>>
>> Some colleague and I just received some funding to develop a new
>> Web-GIS course for Spring 2016, and this week we are working on a
>> rough draft syllabus as a requirement from the funder. We're in
>> negotiation with the funder on intellectual property rights, but we
>> are confident that we will be able to license the course open access
>> under some Creative Commons license. I also want to try and use this
>> effort as a step forward in our quest to build the content system and
>> a 'new derivative work' system.
>>
>> My request:
>> *
>> *
>> *If you have taught a Web-GIS class in the last few years and are
>> willing to share your syllabus with us*, or if you have relevant
>> materials you are willing to share, please let me know (and copy my
>> developer colleague, Andy Anderson, cc'd above). If we use anything,
>> we'd of course give you attribution!
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Charlie Schweik
>>
>> Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dept of
>> Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
>> Administration
>>
>>
>>
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>
> J. Gustavo

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