[Geo4All] Volunteers needed for GeoForAll collaborative educational materials development ideas

Mon Nov 20 02:13:30 PST 2017

Thank you Nikos. This is greatly appreciated. With you guiding us on this, I am confident we will make progress and I am requesting all interested who can volunteer bit of their expertise for us to please come forward. Together we all can do this. We don't have to plan a fixed time to make this happen.  As long as we have the bigger picture in mind and key volunteers to lead this, we will keep moving ahead. I am now confident that we don't need to ask OSGeo Board for any funding for this. 

May I suggest we use 20 minutes time in our next GeoForAll webinar on open geospatial tools by NCSU (Rafael - is this okay?) to get all interested to discuss ideas for this. I really liked the participatory nature of previous webinar. My suggestion is we aim for only 30 minutes presentation for any webinar and 30 minutes for discussions. That way it gives us a great opportunity to collaboratively discuss ideas for joint research/teaching etc. 

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: labrinos at eled.auth.gr <labrinos at eled.auth.gr>
Sent: 20 November 2017 9:49 AM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Volunteers needed for GeoForAll collaborative educational materials development ideas

Dear Suchith, dear all,

The last 20 years I have been working on digital cartography in order
to build new approaches in school geography teaching. Having in mind
mainly the needs of primary school teachers I have built numerous
maps, working with proprietary software those days and helping improve
others like the Greek new school wall maps for primary and secondary
schools in Greece. These maps have been awarded the Gold Metal not
only for their construction but for their pedagogical view as well
from the International Cartographic Association, 24th International
Conference, Santiago, Chile, November, 16-21, in 2009.
I will be glad to offer my experience in forming the new standards for
teaching digital geography. My Lab is small but my students will be
glad to help.

best regards
Nikos Lambrinos

Παραθέτοντας από Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>:

> Dear All,
>
> We now have over 100 OSGeo labs and it is a great time to think
> innovative ideas for expanding research and teaching collaborations
> between our labs. Charlie Schweik gave an excellent webinar on "Can
> we develop collaborative educational and  research ?"  with so many
> ideas for rapidly expanding joint collaborations between our labs.
> If you couldn’t attend the webinar the recording is at
> https://youtu.be/dVCDME7cxUA
>
>
> I am really hoping we follow up some ideas from this. The work that
> Charlie  and Boston LOC did setting up the scholarworks is a big
> contribution to  our whole community and all future FOSS4G LOCs.
> Charlie has put forward an excellent bigger aim for  having a system
> in place to collaboratively develop  "GeoForAll Education Book" for
> different levels building upon  the  scholarworks system from FOSS4G
>  Boston .  I can see the benefit of this for the wider community. I
> volunteer myself to also help  on the GeoForAll Book idea (though I
> don’t have technical skills, I can volunteer for writing articles,
> editing etc as needed) , so we keep building upon this.
>
> But to make all these happen, we need team efforts. Charlie or
> myself won’t be able to do this but if we get volunteers from
> atleast 2 labs interested in working collaboratively, then we can
> move ahead. There is   option to request for OSGeo Board funding
> but ideally I would like to see if we can get volunteers willing to
> help with this.  If there are no  volunteers, then we can request a
> small  budget for this (1000 USD) and put in an open call.
>
> If we can get some volunteers who want to work together on
> educational content, and be willing to do this because they are
> already doing this  as part of their jobs, it will be  ideal  . The
> volunteers need to  investigate platforms and come up with a
> suggested system and suggested content structure standards, and to
> support 2-4 collaborative education projects between 2 or more labs.
> Then we would also issue the call for 2-lab educational
> collaboration proposals.  Can I request any volunteers interested to
> help in this to let me know . Thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> [1] http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
>
>
>
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