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

[Charlie Schweik]

Carmeron, Shawn:

Nice idea. In case this is of use, perhaps you could do these in a set of
modules (e.g., 1 hour sessions) which could be done over our GeoForAll
webinar series. They could be recorded and then placed on the cloud for
others to watch later.

Just an idea...

Cheers
Charlie

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:10 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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