[Geo4All] Fwd: Re: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session: Sustaining a training documentation pipeline

Sun Nov 18 05:06:55 PST 2018

Hi Cameron,

Wonderful to hear about this initiative! As many know, we've tried to
develop collective action around the community development of FOSS4G
educational material for years -- a hard nut to crack! Perhaps this will
develop the critical mass to make it happen! I agree with your "big
vision".

A couple thoughts:

1) Any discussion of Summer of Docs that would provide paid opportunities
for students working with faculty/OSGeo projects?

That might lead to even more productivity (think - educational content
summer internships with OSGeo projects or faculty to develop open access
educational materials).

2) One repository -- GeoAcademy, and obviously, QGIS' tutorials

Materials by Kurt Menke, Rick Smith, John Van Hoesen and Phil Davis:
http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/. I believe Rick had
set up a GitHub project for storing the source. Not sure of update status.
Obviously coordination with the QGIS project and their tutorial page
<https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/learning_resources.html> would be
useful.

3) To start - organize a "curriculum outline"?

It would be helpful to collectively develop an overarching curriculum
(perhaps building on the GeoAcademy work) or identify content areas? And a
focus on not only introduction but more advanced materials, and thought
provoking exercises and data, not just tutorials. For example, I'm working
on a new class on data analysis of environmental data collected by
quadcopters with multispectral sensors. I'd be willing to contribute what I
develop to this effort.

4) Organize for Modularity

I'd encourage a modular strategy rather than complete course work, and
organize by topic area, and don't put rules on content format to encourage
submissions and less "rule friction."

5) There is the issue of where various content would be hosted. But if we
can get collective action/organization around  material development that
issue can be addressed next.

Good luck FOSS4G Oceania folks! I hope you can get this started! If a group
forms, add me to the list, please.

Thanks

Charlie Schweik

On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 3:40 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Geoforall community,
>
> FYI: At FOSS4G Oceania this coming week we plan to discuss the possibility
> of creating universally maintained QGIS material, with an eye to eventually
> building this the cover all OSGeo training material.
>
> If there are initiates already in place that we should be aware of, and
> should be aligning with, then please let us know so that we can include
> them in our discussion.
>
> (See below for our local discussion so far)
> Warm regards, Cameron
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session:
> Sustaining a training documentation pipeline
> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 06:23:16 +1100
> From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> To: australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com
> CC: foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
> <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
>
> Johan, great to hear of your interest and ability to bring material to the
> project. A challenge of funded open source (and open training) is
> sustainability after the funding drys up. I'm hoping we can help address
> sustainability by spreading maintenance across multiple community members
> and funding sources.
>
> Brad, you are asking some really good questions which I'm hoping we can
> collectively discuss. I personally don't have an agenda for format or
> delivery mechanisms. I think we should be thinking about big vision,
> determine who wants to contribute and what their priorities are, and then
> focus on what we can sustainable build to address immediate needs and
> material we can already make use of, and also do our best to attract an
> active, international community of maintainers. Feel free to share your
> suggestions.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
> On 17/11/18 9:43 am, bradh at frogmouth.net wrote:
>
> Cameron,
>
> Are you anticipating this being a training course or a set of training
> material (e.g. some overview presentations and tutorials) that could be
> used in a course? What kind of delivery mechanisms do you anticipate (e.g.
> face-to-face, self-paced, etc)? Who do you anticipate the training audience
> to be? What would the training outcome(s) / competencies be? Would this
> include assessment?
>
> Brad
>
>
> On 17/11/18 7:47 am, Jonah Sullivan wrote:
>
> I'm looking forward to this session. Thanks for organising it.
> I helped set up a QGIS MOOC with content created by, and created for,
> Pacific Islanders.
> The project that got it going is winding down; it would be nice to see it
> continue.
> Here is the link: http://pacgeo.org/edu/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com
> <australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com>
> <australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
> Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2018 7:24 AM
> To: Andrew Jeffrey <aljeffrey83 at gmail.com> <aljeffrey83 at gmail.com>;
> australian-qgis-user-group at googlegroups.com;
> foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: Sarah Maddox <sarahmaddox at google.com> <sarahmaddox at google.com>
> Subject: [Aus-NZ-QGIS-group] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session: Sustaining a
> training documentation pipeline
>
> Hi QGIS and FOSS4G folks,
>
> I think a number of things are serendipitously coming together to create
> the perfect opportunity to establish collaborative building and maintaining
> OSGeo training material in general, and QGIS in particular.
> (Templates, processes, tool chains developed for QGIS could be rolled out
> to other projects in future releases).
>
> I was talking with Andrew Jeffrey and Chris Milne yesterday about setting
> up a Birds of a Feather session at the FOSS4G conference in Melbourne next
> week to discuss this. Andrew and Chris mentined that their employer,
> Chartis Technology is keen to collaboratively build QGIS training.
>
> Sarah Maddox, tech writer from Google, is launching a "Google Season of
> Docs" [1], from which we might be able to tap into experienced tech writer
> resources.
>
> I'm hoping that once we get momentum going, we could draw in universities
> from Geo4All. Some universities already have good training material we can
> start from.
>
> I'm interested from an OSGeoLive perspective - drawing from our existing
> community and extending our established documentation pipeline to also
> include training material.
>
> If you are interested to be involved, then speak up (and/or look for
> details of the BoF session once we find a venue and timeslot).
>
> [1]
>
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ABqCc5uAoQv9aqGCxmNqOJ9S_Tst-adNV3fcWQ2Quwc/edit#slide=id.g42b115f18c_0_0
>
>
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> Technology Demystifier
> Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
>
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