[GRASS-user] Re: [Qgis-user] Basic GIS course ideas

[Hamish]

[sorry for the mass-post; this probably deserves its own mailing list, or
be moved to the freegis.org mailing list ??]
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The Thread so far:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/15804


Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> I agree, a dedicated site for teaching open source GIS would
> be the best idea, since there are so many components involved
> here: GRASS, QGIS, R, PostgreSQL, ParaView, ...
>
> I have attached a draft text about GRASS and QGIS for archaeologists.
> It also contains a general introduction to GIS concepts and file
> formats.


I don't know how the various people who run these sites feel about it :),
but natural homes for Open-GIS-Edu documentation, video tutorials,
presentaions, PDFs, etc. could be:

OSGeo Library
  http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Library
  https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList

A new open_gis_edu project on Intevation's Gforge server?
  http://wald.intevation.org/

A new open_gis_edu area at freegis.org? (again hosted by Intevation)
  http://freegis.org/database/index_html?cat=3&full=n&order=i

If large video files etc are to be uploaded, access must be restricted
to known folks/caretakers in a CVS or SVN (or similar) system and hosts
have to be generous enough to serve the bandwidth.

I think the GRASS wiki is a fine place to collect links, text documents
and small still images until such time something more formal is set up.



regards,
Hamish


>> Otto Dassau wrote:
>>
>>>>> But I do not have the time or resource to set up an appropriate
>>>>> website and administer this.
>>>>
>>>> The GRASS wiki site is a perfect place for this development.
>>>>  (can it serve PDF, presentation attachments?)
>>>
>>> no, currently it doesn't support uploads, documents (pdf, images,
>...) >> have to be stored somewhere else.
>>
>>
>>
>> create a quasi-liberal access area in gforce GRASS svn? or better,
>> create a new project on gforge for "open_gis_edu" or similar.
>>   http://wald.intevation.org/projects/grass/
> 
> 
> Thats a great idea.
> Can we use this place to put video tutorials online?
> I just created a very simple gui feature demo with grass63
> to encourage all users and dev's to create video tutorials.
> 
> http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/screenshots/grass63feature_tour.html
> 
> 
> 
> It would be great to have many thematic video tutorials
> to explain the basics and advanced features of grass.
>