[Ica-osgeo-labs] Your ideas/inputs needed for online educational tools for Spatial literacy using OSGeo technologies and open data

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,
I will make one small suggestion, though I appreciate that Goog has command of extraordinary resources, from watching every move we make in order to market us into a maximum consumer, despite the opposite direction we need to be moving in today, given we are already consuming far more than this planet's resources can sustain or the biosphere can absorb in waste (CO2/NO2/CH4). The suggestion is that, unlike Goog, NASA makes it's virtual globe code open and free. And we've been doing it longer than Goog, since 2002. James Gosling, the 'father of Java,' who still uses NASA World Wind today to manage a world of WaveGliders, http://liquidr.com/, spoke of the World Wind code base as "the gold standard, truly a thing of beauty." In other words, not a bad example by which to teach geospatial software coding. The Java (and iOS) code is particularly well-structured, architectural poetry even, especially for modular componentry architecture. This is thanks to our long-standing world-class development team. Just ask a few old timers at the WorldWindCentral forum, http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?37 
-Patrick
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Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Your ideas/inputs needed for online educational tools for Spatial literacy using OSGeo technologies and open data

We will welcome ideas/inputs from all colleagues interested in this. OSGeo-Google Summer of Code opportunity is one option. If anyone has ideas for other joint collaborations  to achieve this, please let me know and i will be pleased to work with you to make this happen. This will help us further provide geo education opportunities to more students globally.

Best wishes,

Suchith


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From: Anand Suchith
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 8:29 PM
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Subject: Your ideas/inputs needed for online educational tools for Spatial literacy using OSGeo technologies and open data

Looking at the Summer of Code timeline it says Mentoring organisations can begin submitting applications to Google on 9th Feb 2015, so i assume OSGeo projects need to be planned by then (Anne- please correct me if i am wrong)

We only need to finalise the project ideas (which OSGeo project it builds upon) and a small team of mentors . The students selection is later.

The advantage of synchrosing efforts with OSGeo-Google Summer of Code efforts is that we can make use of an existing well structured and funded program to achieve this objective and also we can then keep expanding and building more functionalities for this in the future SoCs.

So those of you who are interested to contribute, please do share your ideas now , so we can be prepared before 9th Feb and put in strong applications for this.

Suchith
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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:27 AM
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Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Your ideas/inputs needed for online educational tools for Spatial literacy using OSGeo technologies and open data

Colleagues,

I had a Skype meeting yesterday with Maria Brovelli and she mentioned an excellent idea to impact education efforts through both International Map Year and Google OSGeo Summer of Code opportunities we have.

Thanks to Anne and others we have an excellent base for the Summer of Code activities. For example last year  Luciene Delazari (Federal University of Parana, Brazil),  Piotr Pociask (GIS Support Sp, Warsaw) and  Mark Ware (University of South Wales) joined together for supervising the  Schematization Plugin for QGIS project http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Nishithm that student Nishith Maheshwari (IIIT Hyderabad, India) carried out. It helped enable more collaborative research ideas for the map generalisation research community and provides opportunity for extending this as an open schematisation platform which other students in future can use to build upon. It is an excellent example of how we can build ideas for collaborative research for ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs for the future.

The idea is to use the Summer of Code opportunity to develop online educational tools for Spatial literacy using OSGeo technologies and open data.The target audience is school teachers in science, geography, biology (both secondary and primary education).

We can use the existing expertise within our network to bring in excellent ideas for this. For example there is already good examples and lesson scenarios developed by Ela and colleagues at UNEP-GRID Warsaw through their GIS for Schools initiative which covers topics from biodiversity to educating climate change. Details at  http://www.edugis.pl/en/images/stories/guide/gis-at-school.pdf

If we can bring in good ideas and work on this, it will be a great resource we can make available to educators globally for spatial literacy using open technologies and data. It might need working together of 3-4 Summer of Code projects (all working on different components) that will be joined together to make this possible. This year's timeline for SoC is at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

So please let us know your thoughts/ideas on this so we can work on this and aim to an excellent gift to educators and students worldwide from our community for the International Map Year.

Suchith




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