[Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Lene,

Pardon my tired old FOSS4G brain, but, I'm trying to remember if it was 
you who I ran into during FOSS4G-Como, and we spoke of the next QGIS 
event for 2016, which is already being planned, but not in Denmark. 
(during the QGIS event in Nødebo a group agreed with the QGIS PSC to 
host the next event in 2016)  My apologies but I don't want to share the 
place name yet as they will be announcing soon.

Anyway, I did run into someone in Como who thought there was no event 
planned by the QGIS PSC for 2016, and I disagreed, and recently I 
confirmed with Tim Sutton that my assumptions are correct: that this 
[unnamed] group [could be on a resort island, could be] will be hosting. 
  And, a few weeks ago I received a direct message from one of the 
organizers that the event planning is in motion (I relayed that to Tim, 
and he said they are aware).

Short story: be sure to let the QGIS PSC know now if you're also 
planning an event. :)

Shorter story: the GeoForAll gang should be watching for news from QGIS 
for their next 2016 event

Sorry to be a downer Lene, not meant that way, I just want to make sure 
everyone is in the know.

-jeff




On 2015-08-27 7:04 AM, Lene Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I´m planning right now and don´t have enough informations to send out
> invitations yet.
>
> But Yes we are planning a Summerschool usig QGIS, but a GeoForAll Spint
> would be a great event too.
>
> We could develop and then try out the result on our students at the
> summerschool J
>
> But right now – planning mode….
>
> Regards
>
> *Lene Fischer*
>
> Associate Professor
>
> *Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management*
>
> University of Copenhagen
>
> MOB +45 40115084
>
> lfi at ign.ku.dk <mailto:lfi at ign.ku.dk>
>
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> *Fra:*ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *På vegne af *Suchith Anand
> *Sendt:* 27. august 2015 11:56
> *Til:* ICA OSGeo Labs List
> *Emne:* Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint
>
> Ela - my suggestion is for Europe Sprint for teacher trainers, let us
> focus on Bonn event.
>
> btw i did not get info. on Nodebo in Denmark event. If  Lene is putting
> her effort to organize QGIS summer school in 2016 then i suggest we
> should make use of that opportunity also.
>
> Suchith
>
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> *From:*Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska <ela at gridw.pl <mailto:ela at gridw.pl>>
> *To:* Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
> *Cc:* ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 26 August 2015, 7:23
> *Subject:* Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Idea: GeoForAll Sprint
>
> Thanks Jeff for sharing the link. We have some experience with this
> model - tried to implement it in cooperation with school teachers and
> teacher trainer (of course we didn't call it 'doc sprint' then ;-) It
> worked great!
>
> As the first step, taking school level of education into account (youth
> aged 19 or less), we could organize a Sprint for teacher trainers (those
> working directly with school teachers and playing the role of change
> facilitators) to develop/modify materials which already exist and make
> them more available/useful for others.
>
> Nottingham sounds great (Suchith, any comments? :-) Also Nodebo in
> Denmark is tempting ;-) - as far as I know Lene is putting her effort to
> organize QGIS summer school in 2016 so these two events could be
> combined. Or Bonn since we agreed in Como to organize a session
> dedicated for FOSS4G educators there (will keep you updated).
>
> Ela
>
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> W dniu 2015-08-25 o 22:32, Jeff McKenna pisze:
>
>     Darn, I forgot to include a link: I saw this yesterday, and it made
>     me think of a GeoForAll sprint: a New York sprint creating course
>     materials
>     http://opensource.com/education/15/6/applying-doc-sprint-model-curriculum-creation
>
>     -jeff
>
>     On 2015-08-25 5:09 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone,
>
>     I'd like to pose an idea to the OSGeo-ICA-ISPRS community: a "GeoForAll
>     Sprint" event.  The goal of the event would be to get the OSGeo, and
>     ICA, and ISPRS communities together over a few days to work together on
>     developing Open curriculum materials.  What do you think??
>
>     Those of you familiar with code sprints, know them as getting
>     developers
>     from around the world to work together, usually in a big room with good
>     wifi, and working on OSGeo software projects.
>
>     Now, the GeoForAll Sprint would be a little different, as code may not
>     be written for the OSGeo projects, but materials would be developed
>     that
>     could be used by the project communities, and educators.
>
>     If you choose to do this, there are already steps available if you want
>     to request for funding to the OSGeo Board for a sprint (see the
>     steps at
>     http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines).
>
>     I wonder if someone in GeoForAll would like to take this on and
>     champion
>     it.  If so, it could be a great event for the 3 communities.
>
>
>     -jeff