[Geo4All] g’day, and software carpentry

[Siki Zoltan]

Dear Adam,

thank you sharing the information.
Marvellous collection of tutorials!

Zoltan

On Fri, 7 Sep 2018, adam steer wrote:

> Hi GeoForAll
>
> I˙˙ve been GeoForAll-curious for a long time, and finally made some effort
> to attend the  GeoForAll discussion session at FOSS4G in Dar last week.
>
> Firstly, what a great program! While I˙˙m not employed in academia, I˙˙m
> happy to help in reaching out to academics that I do know; or developing
> materials; or mentoring.
>
> In the meeting there was much discussion about a catalogue of teaching
> resources. I˙˙m a software carpentry instructor (with not much experience
> actually teaching yet) - and it struck me that the software carpentry
> ecosystem may have some useful patterns to follow. I promised some reading
> links - here they are:
>
> https://software-carpentry.org (overall)
> https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/ (base lessons - Python, shell, git,
> etc)
> https://datacarpentry.org/lessons/#geospatial-curriculum (geospatial stuff)
>
> ˙˙and likewise, I think the software carpentry community will benefit hugely
> from adapting materials from geo4all resources.
>
> Apologies if I˙˙m going over old ground here - it just struck me that there
> may be benefits in the two communities being at least aware of each other.
>
> I hope that˙˙s useful!
>
> Regards
>
> Adam
>
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