[Ica-osgeo-labs] Teleconference - request for change of meeting time

[Suchith Anand]

Thanks Charlie. I think we should  explore the opportunity of using GitHub as Luis (OGC) plan of creating training materials is good start to test and expand this.

btw i have updated the wiki with the recording url (for those who couldn't attend the meeting this time) and some more additions esp. on the success of Maria and colleagues NASA Worldwind Europa challenge 2013. Well done to them all participants. All the projects were excellent and covered a broad range of domains from transportation to air quality to linked data. Final projects at http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/?q=projects


http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Network_2013-07-29#Minutes

It is inspiring to see the excellent work all of you are doing and please do send me updates on any key activities that is of interest so we can have it included in our monthly meetings.

I am waiting for updates from Phillip Davis so we can confirm exact time on 5th Sep for our next meeting (to make sure we have rotation in meeting time). Have a good weekend.

Suchith

From: Charles Schweik [mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: 30 July 2013 16:15
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: Serena Coetzee; Jack Barton; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; kramirez1 at delmar.edu
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Teleconference - request for change of meeting time

Hi all,

Another thing i forgot to update on yesterday's meeting (because of time limitation) was the SIGTE's excellent organisation of the 4th edition of the Open Source GIS Summer School earlier this month. Many thanks to Lluís and SIGTE colleagues for providing leadership in this and very happy to see this grow every year and helping spread knowledge and empowering new generation of students.

The teaching materials are also available online at  http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2013/   for the benefit of the wider community.

Wonderful!

Now a question. This is the kind of thing we want to promote and move toward a system where the educational source is made available with some kind of Creative Commons license where someone can utilize this content, and/or create a new derivative of it. For example, I just downloaded the Spatial Databases workshop, and it is a set of presentation slides, along with the data for the exercises. I could see someone else in our network wanting to use this content for a class they are creating, and perhaps develop a tutorial based on the slides. Or someone might want to take these slides and convert them to another language.

So we need a system to store the source content and associated data, with its associated license, and then a system that allows new derivatives to be created and put back in the repository.

Questions:

1) Should we investigate the use of GitHub for this purpose?

2) I'm doing fall course development right now (none involving open source geo). But I wonder if anyone else is developing courses right now that are related to our mutual interests. If so -- might we try to develop a prototype system of educational content collaboration?

I think for future grant proposals around the ICA-OSGeo lab network collaboration, having a prototype system in place might be very helpful as a proof of concept.

Cheers,

Charlie

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