[Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training

Tue Mar 17 01:07:48 PDT 2015

Hi,

Great Luis! I hope to attend a discussion if I can fit it in. One general
point of encouragement:

*The GeoForAll community should not lose the sight of our long-standing
goal of developing a library of educational modules that we can all
potentially use in our classes*. So in the OGC standards case, I urge you
Luis, or whoever else might develop content, to develop it under a Creative
Commons license and either as video (e.g., recorded webinar), text content
(that would allow for future new derivatives or translations), or even
audio recordings if need-be that we educators can use as modules in various
courses.

This brings us back to the long-standing issue of a GeoForAll\OSGeo
educational *content repository*.  We still have the older metadata
inventory system operational [1], and I've got a ticket request in to the
OSGeo website team get the input form [2] up and running again.  And the
GeoAcademy has created a GitHub repository for storing content [3]. With
their permission, we should work on a simple tutorial that outlines to
content authors how to submit the course module metadata in [2], and then
upload the course content under [3], and develop some kind of "badge"
system or regular "GeoForAll educational journal" with links to this
content for acknowledging and incentivizing author contributions.

Finally, Maria Brovelli and I are talking this week, planning for a
GeoForAll meeting at FOSS4G, where we can take up this and other topics.

Cheers,

Charlie

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content (operational)
[2] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content (not operational, ticket
submitted)
[3] https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Luis,
>
> That is excellent. Let us schedule a telecon to discuss next steps. May i
> suggest that you send a doodle poll with your convenient times to this list
> and we can then find a best time suitable for all.Thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Luis Bermudez [lbermudez at opengeospatial.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 10:32 PM
> To: Cameron Shorter; Suchith Anand
> Cc: Christopher Tucker; George Percivall; Carl Reed;
> ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards
> training
>
> Hi Suchith, Cameron and all,
>
> I'm very happy to see this dialog.
>
> Now that I have been officially appointed (tasked), I want to leverage,
> contribute and help move forward e-learning material related to OGC
> standards.
>
> I'm wondering, is it worth to schedule a telecon about the next steps?
>
> Best Regards.
>
> - Luis
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Luis Bermudez, Ph.D.
> Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning
> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
> The OGC: Making Location Count
>
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>
>
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Forwarding on Chris' email (with permission), which bounced from this
> list.
> >
> > Thanks Chris for the offer of support from yourself and others from the
> OGC. I think this is another great opportunity for OSGeo and the OGC to
> work together.
> > It is also very valuable and motivating for us OSGeo contributors to
> know that the OGC can help deliver OSGeo concerns to the right people.
> >
> > Regards, Cameron
> >
> > On 15/03/2015 8:06 am, Christopher Tucker wrote:
> >> Cameron,
> >>
> >> As an OGC Board member, I appreciate the subject change.  If the
> GeoForAll community wants any particular involvement from the OGC on this
> or other matters, I am more than happy to help facilitate the interaction
> with appropriate OGC staff and membership.
> >>
> >> Also, coincidently, I happen to do a lot of work with leading US
> government investors in LiDAR technology, collection and processing - all
> the way up to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.  If
> their attention is required, I am happy to facilitate.
> >>
> >> Thanks for all you guys are doing.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >> 703-981-9373
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Mar 14, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Cameron Shorter <
> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm bringing this email thread back onto the public ica-osgeo-labs
> list (CC OGC people) and changing title (with permission of Suchith).
> >>> Title was "RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the
> ģLAZ cloneē by ESRI" and a private conversation had started.
> >>>
> >>> Hi Suchith,
> >>> I like the idea of bringing OGC standards into education, and would be
> keen to see authoritative and consistent descriptions of standards
> available. (We started doing this a while ago on OSGeo Live [1], but these
> descriptions are incomplete, out of date, and the template needs improving).
> >>>
> >>> There was further discussion about describing standards within the OGC
> "Ideas4OGC" initiative [2] ~ October 2013, leading to recognition of a need
> for consistent descriptions of standards: including a one pager description
> for architects, and an implementation guide for developers.
> >>>
> >>> There is a lot of work in developing such documentation for all
> standards, but if we create a template for what is required, we can then
> spread the work across multiple interested parties (as we have done with
> OSGeo-Live documentation). I'd be happy to help with creating such a
> template.
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://live.osgeo.org/en/standards/standards.html
> >>> [2]
> http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity
> >>> and
> >>>
> http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecommendations#Topic_28:_Active_Direction
> >>>
> >>>> On 13/03/2015 8:30 pm, Suchith Anand wrote:
> >>>> Hi Cameron, All,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am not a standards expert but i am determined that i am going to do
> my best to improve the education aspects of Open Standards in Geo Eduation
> curriculum worldwide. This is long term action and we need help from all
> interested to join this.
> >>>>
> >>>> We have done this successfully in Open Source GIS education in a very
> short time. For example, our GeoAcademy colleagues have not only
> established a very successful MOOC program ( i understand over 4000
> students are enrolled for their March 2015 cohort, so the scale of
> expansion of this amazing) but more importantly they made available  the
> curriculum (lecture materials, tutorials etc) available to all educators to
> share and share alike under the Creative Commons BY 3.0 license at the
> GitHub repository at https://gi
> >
> > --
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