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

[Benjamin Ducke]

I would vote in favour of the third option, www.freegis.org

Hamish wrote:
> [sorry for the mass-post; this probably deserves its own mailing list, or
> be moved to the freegis.org mailing list ??]
>   http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list
> 
> 
> 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.
>>
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
Archäoinformatik
(Archaeoinformation Science)
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
(Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
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