[Live-demo] [SoC] Report 1 - Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks

[Suchith Anand]

Thanks Massimo. To give you some background. Few years back, i had some initial discussions with folks in the Raspberry Pi Foundation (before they became famous :))  to explore ideas on how we can use Raspberry Pi  https://www.raspberrypi.org/ for teaching Spatial Programming in Schools. The inspiration befind this was the successful gvSIG Batovi program of using OLPC which helped enable spatial learning for primary and secondary school students across Uruguay. So the idea was that with internet reach increasing  and with  low cost hardware , it will help enable schools in poor countires to also teach computer science and programming to thier students. There is also need to develop teacher training programs to support this.

But i couldnt follow up these discussions with Raspberry Pi but i think with your project and work being done by Franz-Josef and others , it might be a good opportunity to get ideas on how we can make use of low cost ways for enabling geoeducation opportunities which will benifit the poorest schools in our planet.

Suchith 

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Suchith,

thanks for fwd the mail to the OSGeo labs lists, i’ll keep the list up to date for the next report.
About IOT .. I’ve access to some devices running armhf linux kernels (UDOO [1]) and I’ll join the  IOT workshop at FOSS4G EU.
Happy to collaborate on some geo-smart project ;)

Massimo.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/udoo/udoo-android-linux-arduino-in-a-tiny-single-board

On May 31, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Massimo,

Thanks for this update. I am forwarding to OSGeo labs lists also as i am aware other educators  are interested in this. I also remember some intial discussions  on teaching spatial programming using Raspberry Pi http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2012-June/005217.html    so might be other ideas we can now explore with your project.

Franz-Josef  - i remember you mentioning a student project in similar areas. Maybe there might be synergies?

Suchith
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Hi, please see below the report for week1.

Code, documentation and reports will be stored on Github.
this report is available online on the project repository at:
https://github.com/epifanio/IPython_notebooks/blob/master/OSGeo-live/osgeolive-gsoc-2015/Report/Weekly%20report%201.ipynb

Thanks!

Massimo


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Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks
Week 1 report

What have I completed this week?

I made a fork of the OSGeo Ipython Notebook repository and start to refactoring its entire structure. The GSOC code will have its own directory on the github repository.
Code, documentation and report will be stored entirely on github. For this week I re-worked the directory structure for the entire repository as follow:

*   IPython_notebooks (root directory)
   *   OSGeo-live (directory already in use from osgeo-live)
      *   OSGeo_project_name (directory containing notebooks for a specific project (i.e. GRASS, FIONA, IRIS) this directory is not part of GSOC 2015 and is the place where other developers can store their own notebooks to be used during workshop/tutorial/quickstart etc )
   *   osgeolive-gsoc-2015
      *   Report (directory where to store reports in the form of notebooks)
      *   Notebooks (main directory of this GSOC project: Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks)
      *   osgeolive (python library to be used as set of utility functions for the educational notebooks )

Note:
The above structure is not definitive.

What am I going to achieve next week?


*   Continue to work on the directory structure for the repository
*   Choose a main theme (use-case) which will drive the development of most of the educational notebooks:
   *   Most of the work for next week will be in defining a coherent outline structure, developed in more details based on a use-case. I will identify an area and a relevant use case and develop each educational notebooks around it. This way i can connect all the dots (the topics) in an end-to-end workflow from raw data (I/O topic) to a final product (Web-GIS tool as service for end-user)
*   Finish a first draft of the outline to be presented to my mentors and to the list for review and feedback

Are there any blocking issue?

No


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