[Geo4All] g’day, and software carpentry

[Michele M Tobias]

Hi Adam,
I'm on the Geospatial Data Carpentries advisory committee.  I just emailed some of the coordinators letting them know about FOSS4G and Geo For All.  I think they need to know about the broader geospatial landscape and it would be nice to all work together.

Michele

Michele Tobias, PhD
GIS Data Curator
Data Management Program
UC Davis Library 

161 Shields Library
(530)752-7532
mmtobias at ucdavis.edu
https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/service/data-management/ 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Mandel <aimandel at ucdavis.edu> 
Sent: Friday, September 7, 2018 8:31 AM
To: Michele M Tobias <mmtobias at ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Fwd: [Geo4All] g’day, and software carpentry

This sounded relevant to work.


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Subject: [Geo4All] g’day, and software carpentry
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 08:54:39 +1000
From: adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org

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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