[Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

[SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA]

I am fully available to help Ms Leah Keith-Houle and others in their efforts to shift to the use of Open Source GIS software in Middle & High Schools. At this very moment we are organizing a workshop for several high schools in Montevideo (Uruguay) in a "train the trainer" form that will probably be of interest for others. It will be held on July 14th and after that every teacher must prepare a proposal to work with their students (we'll be assisting them in task). We will be working with gvSIG Batov? which was originally a simplified version of gvSIG adapted to run in the first laptops of the Ceibal Plan (http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/). Today these laptops are far more powerful (full list at: http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/estudiantes/Especificaciones-tecnicas) so we'll be using the Desktop version of gvSIG with the Portable View and Portable Editor extensions. All materials will be available for reuse and it is my intention to translate them into English (please tell me if you consider this of interest). We should be thinking about how to store the educational materials that we want to share and make available.

Best wishes,


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geom?tica
Direcci?n Nacional de Topograf?a
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras P?blicas
URUGUAY
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Enviado: s?bado, 27 de junio de 2015 20:28
Para: OSGeo Discussions; Tom Roche
Cc: Leah Keith-Houle; Michael Solem; ICA OSGeo Labs list
Asunto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations


On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com<mailto:Tom_Roche at pobox.com>> wrote:
Randal Hale Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:17:54 -0400[2]
> Ms Keith (on this list as of last night and cc'd) has a lab but it is quickly going out of date with regards to proprietary software. My wish has been to replace everything with QGIS - GIS is GIS.

And OS[3] are OS, so maximize the utility of the

> "older computers" at schools [being used] for learning

and slap a Linux on them. The OSGeo wiki points to some bundles, including (e.g.) DebianGIS[4], Enterprise Linux GIS[5], and UbuntuGIS[6] (of which, IIUC, the latter is the most active).

And sure enough, there are Linux distributions designed to work well on (very) low-end hardware, for example Lubuntu [1] and Xubuntu [2].

[1] http://lubuntu.net/
[2] http://xubuntu.org/
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