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

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

All,

I’ve been pondering how to do something similar to this but at a project level, and/or maybe as a custom stack.  The target would be in how to apply the software to work processes.  Is there some method that could be used here that would facilitate both the OSGeo-Live path as well as a custom stack path?

bobb



On Jun 25, 2018, at 8:05 PM, Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>> wrote:

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<mailto: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<http://live.osgeo.org/>

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