[Geo4All] Proposed OSGeo stack beginner workshop, based on OSGeo-Live, presented at FOSS4G

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi folks,

Shaun Kolomeitz and myself were recently discussing the value that could 
be gained by setting up a "beginners OSGeo full stack" workshop, which 
served multiple needs and communities.

It would aim to help new users answer "when, what and how should I use 
Open Source GIS".

Initially we would target a workshop at FOSS4G-Oceania [1] (in Melbourne 
Australia in November 2018)

The aim would be to build upon OSGeo-Live [2], with the intent that the 
training material would eventually become distributed with OSGeo-Live. 
This brings the advantage that the training course would be continually 
be getting updated with every software distribution, and setup glitches 
would be significantly reduced because everything would be pre-installed 
with OSGeo-Live.

Ideally, we would be this course to be run on the cloud. Again, the 
advantage here is that we would be taking OSGeo-Live (along with OSGeo 
applications) into a cloud environment.

In future versions, we would aim to team up with geo4all, universities 
and educators, such that we can integrate OSGeo-Live and courses, and 
help cross collaboration and maintenance between projects, programmers 
and educators.

The first thing we want to do is work out if anyone is doing something 
similar, or have material we can make use of, or have good ideas that we 
should incorporate, or who would like to join us.

Introducing Shaun:

For those who don't know Shaun, he is someone I've known for years. He 
has decades of experience with GIS, is an advocate Open Source GIS, and 
is someone who has a track record of getting things done.

[1] http://foss4g-oceania.org/

[2] http://live.osgeo.org

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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

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