[Ica-osgeo-labs] ica-osgeo-labs Digest, Vol 24, Issue 65

Kurt Menke kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
Tue Mar 17 07:05:18 PDT 2015


Hello all,
I've been covering OGC protocols and standards in my Intro to Open Source
GIS and Web Mapping course for the past six years. These are critical
concepts to anyone wanting to work in the web environment. The standards and
protocols are very well documented. I can also share any material I have
which includes a lecture and two labs on the topic.
Kurt 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards	training
      (Luis Bermudez)
   2. Re: Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW! Whoa! Or
      What?! (Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX))
   3. Re: Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards training
      (Suchith Anand)
   4. Re: Documenting OGC standards and OGC standards	training
      (Charles Schweik)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:32:25 -0400
From: Luis Bermudez <lbermudez at opengeospatial.org>
To: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>,	Suchith Anand
	<Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Cc: George Percivall <gpercivall at opengeospatial.org>,	Carl Reed
	<creed at opengeospatial.org>,	"ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org"
	<ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>,	Christopher Tucker
	<christopher.tucker at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC
	standards	training
Message-ID: <1EB06E3E-36AF-46D4-BA52-DFBF2705BDC4 at opengeospatial.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

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

Skype: bermudez_luis
Twitter: @berdez
Tel: +1 301 760 7323
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez




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 ?LAZ
clone? 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/InitialRec
>>> ommendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity
>>> and
>>> http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRec
>>> ommendations#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
> 
> --
> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
> 
> P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099
> 
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 05:18:00 +0000
From: "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>
To: "ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org" <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
Cc: MELICK Brandt <bmelick at springfield-or.gov>, 'G?bor Remetey'
	<gabor.remetey at gmail.com>,	'Giuseppe Conti'
	<Giuseppe.Conti at trilogis.it>
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar?
	WoW! Whoa! Or What?!
Message-ID:
	<79D76AA488C4C24B8883181318DBB4D4100A5076 at NDJSMBX203.ndc.nasa.gov>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Brandt,

Once we have an "All Systems Go!" we'll need a couple weeks to prepare. 

So the earliest date, given Suchith's concurrence, is early April.

We are still trying to gauge level of interest. So far we have . . .

* Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver, www.ucdenver.edu
* G?bor Remetey, GIS Lead for Hungary, www.hunagi.hu
* Nikos Lambrinos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece,
www.auth.gr/en
* Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst, www.umass.edu
* Bridget Fleming, AfriSpatial Geospatial Education & Training,
www.afrispatial.co.za
* Thomas Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, www.calu.edu
* Brand Melick, City of Springfield Oregon, www.springfield-or.gov
* Phil Davis, Del Mar College and the GeoAcademy, www.delmar.edu 

We want more!

-Patrick 

-----Original Message-----
From: MELICK Brandt [mailto:bmelick at springfield-or.gov]
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:39 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: 'G?bor Remetey'; 'Giuseppe Conti'
Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW!
Whoa! Or What?!

Patrick and others,

Really appreciate the recognition and interest in youth involvement -
empowering future generations and supporting the wonderful people who
dedicate their lives to such important and demanding work is the ultimate
goal.  The greatest honor is serving the future steward of this precious
planet.  Please let me know should there be opportunities to engage
pre-college students.

9:00AM pacific time works well.  Have any dates been proposed?  A few key
people from our site will be out next week during spring break.  

Look forward to the webinars.


Thank you for your time,
Brandt




-----Original Message-----
From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [mailto:patrick.hogan at nasa.gov]
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:51 AM
To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: MELICK Brandt; 'G?bor Remetey'; 'Giuseppe Conti'
Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW!
Whoa! Or What?!

Nikos and Others,

Thanks for your response and interesting suggestion. 

There is no reason why we shouldn't challenge all students, given their
interest, to make a contribution to society via FOSS4G. The modular
componentry architecture for World Wind code is essentially the same across
all versions, Java, Android and iOS. The new web version in JavaScript will
be no different. And all World Wind code contains plenty of examples. So it
is an excellent platform to teach with. 

For teaching World Wind Java, this should be of help,
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/guidance. The current JavaScript
examples, though meager in terms of the final code, are each also a good
teaching exercise.

That said, though this first webinar will be fairly qualitative and
therefore mostly non-technical, any successive webinar, though fundamental,
will be purely technical. So, depending on the interest and skill of the
student, could certainly help to advance their skill, and provide a template
for good software architecture. 

Tomorrow's world needs our children to be as well-equipped as possible.
Whatever we can do to accelerate that is dearly needed. Our teachers have
the most important job in the world! Good luck!!!

Would 9AM Pacific time be a reasonable enough hour?

-Patrick
?650.604.5656 (office)
?650.269.2788 (cell)

-----Original Message-----
From: labrinos at eled.auth.gr [mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr]
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 12:52 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: 'MELICK Brandt'; 'G?bor Remetey'; 'Giuseppe Conti'
Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW!
Whoa! Or What?!

Dear Patrick,

I will be glad to join the webinar.
As a primary school teacher trainer I would like to ask if you think that
the webinar will be simple enough so primary school teachers and
undergraduate student teachers could also join. In this case I could
motivate a number of teachers and my students.
Have you decided on what exactly the webinar will cover?
Please take into account the time difference or let us download the webinar
later.

Nikos  
 

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Associate Professor
Dept. of Primary Education
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Greece, GR-54124 Tel. +30
2310 991201
Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr
Web pages: http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/
                    http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/
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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick
(ARC-PX)
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 1:59 AM
To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: MELICK Brandt; G?bor Remetey (gabor.remetey at gmail.com); Giuseppe Conti
Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Interested in a Web World Wind Webinar? WoW! Whoa!
Or What?!

Dear OSGeo/GeoForAll,

We need your feedback to gauge interest by this community. 

Suchith has recommended a NASA World Wind Webinar where we discuss the new
web version of World Wind. . .
http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/
http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/api-doc/

And how to win a NASA Crystal Bull (and Euros) via the Europa Challenge,
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
Awarded this year at http://europe.FOSS4G.org/2015/ (Register now for the
best FOSS4G ever!)

And win another Crystal Bull for the GeoForAll CitySmart Challenge:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics

Please let me know, who, what and how many, and any questions you might want
answered.

Kind regards,
-Patrick
 
 Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov
 Project Manager
 NASA World Wind
 650.604.5656 (office)
 650.269.2788 (cell)

NASA motto, 'for the benefit of all' 
World Wind, built to challenge a world
for innovative solutions with spatial data.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:07:21 +0000
From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
To: Luis Bermudez <lbermudez at opengeospatial.org>, Cameron Shorter
	<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>, Suchith Anand
	<Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Cc: George Percivall <gpercivall at opengeospatial.org>,	Carl Reed
	<creed at opengeospatial.org>,	"ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org"
	<ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>,	Christopher Tucker
	<christopher.tucker at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC
	standards training
Message-ID:
	
<DF5C4FB2277FEC4C824FEDC89906CAA85046D6DB50 at EXCHANGE3.ad.nottingham.ac.uk>
	
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-4"

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

Skype: bermudez_luis
Twitter: @berdez
Tel: +1 301 760 7323
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez




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 ?LAZ
clone? 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/InitialRec
>>> ommendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity
>>> and
>>> http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRec
>>> ommendations#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
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>
> P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099
>
> _______________________________________________
> ica-osgeo-labs mailing list
> ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs





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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:07:48 +0100
From: Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
To: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Cc: "ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org" <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>,
	Christopher Tucker <christopher.tucker at gmail.com>,	Carl Reed
	<creed at opengeospatial.org>,	George Percivall
	<gpercivall at opengeospatial.org>
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Documenting OGC standards and OGC
	standards	training
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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
>
> Skype: bermudez_luis
> Twitter: @berdez
> Tel: +1 301 760 7323
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lbermudez
>
>
>
>
> 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
> ?LAZ clone? 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/InitialRecom
> mendations#Topic_20:_Quality_versus_Quantity
> >>> and
> >>>
> http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/InitialRecom
> mendations#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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