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FOSS for GIS video tutorials and screencasts

2007-05-29T03:10:02Z

Wiki-Aaronr: /* Screencasts and Video List */

This is page is a try to create a central index of all available Video Tutorials and Screencasts about FOSS for GIS.

As creating a central repository is not easy due to licenses, video formats and disk space we are using this page to list all pages hosting interesting videos.

please add you contribute at the bottom of the list respecting the table layout

== Screencasts and Video List==
{| cellspacing="1" border="1" cellpadding="3"
|- bgcolor=#d5d5d5
! title and link
! author
! license
! duration
! format
! description
|-
| [http://openlayers.org/presentations/mappingyourdata/ Mapping your Data]
| Chris Schmidt
| not specified
| 4 min
| flash movie
|
Using QGIS, Mapserver and Openlayers to easily set up a web mapping application.
[http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/MappingYourData Large description]
|-
| [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2952942874211397735&hl=en TikiWiki Map]
| Franck Martin
| not specified
| many videos
| flash movie
| Tutorials on setting up the TikiWiki map environment
|-
| [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Video+Tutorials GeoServer Tutorials]
| Chris Holmes
| not specified
| many videos
| flash movie
| List of all official GeoServer tutorials
|-
| [http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/ GRASS 6 Voxel tutorials]
| Soeren Gebbert
| not specified
| many videos
| flash movie
| Using GRASS 6 to create 3D flow simulations etc.
|-
| [http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/how-tos/video/ FOSS GIS tutorials]
| Aaron Racicot
| CC
| many videos
| flash movie
| Tutorials from www.reprojected.com. Examples include building a new Linux GIS box and building QGIS using Python bindings...
|-
|?
|?
|?
|?
|?
|?
|}

==How to do your screencast==
please add your suggestions on how you did your screencast.
Please try to use and suggest Free Software.

===Linux===
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekfeisty/screencast Ubuntu discussion over screencast]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/RecordingScreencasts Ubuntu screencast how to]
* [http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ vnc2swf] to record a flash movie ([http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/screenshots/vnc2swf_usage.html short vnc2swf usage tutorial])

===Mac===
* [http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/203/openlayers-screencast/ Chris Schmidt experience on Os X]

===Windows===
* [http://www.menasoft.com/blog/?p=30 Taksi - Desktop Screenshot, Video Capture/Recorder] - worked well for capturing OpenGL output (I used it to record from [http://vterrain.org/Doc/Enviro/overview.html VTerrain's Enviro viewer])

==Where to publish your screencast==

Actually main free video hosting are using a strong dowsampling that does not allow a good video quality to present screencast.

Then you'll need to find your own web hosting or a free one that can host just the video without resampling.

===Suggestions===
* What about distribution the videos with a bittorrent-style distribution? Maybe OSGeo could provide the infrastructure for this?

FOSS4G2007 CodeSprint

2007-04-27T18:10:39Z

Wiki-Aaronr: /* Attending */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

== Organizing Contacts ==

* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]

== Code Sprint - what's that? ==

A code sprint is usually organized by a group that is using an open source project and wants to see something done. They fly the developers to a single location and feed them for a couple of days with the necessities of the hacking life (internet, caffeine, electricity). The communication that happens from face to face hacking usually lasts the project for a year or more. You see this a lot in projects like Drupal etc...

== Motivation and Direction ==

A day, a code base, and your imagination?

On the Friday after the conference, a [http://www.foss4g2007.org/code_sprint/ big room] with internet connectivity, lots of tables and flip charts will be arranged. Projects can use the time and venue for organizational discussions, development roadmaps, and group resolution of thorny issues in their code bases.

Is this your First Sprint? Here is some background information to get you started:

* http://www.infrae.com/about/activities/sprintathon/tips
* http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html
* Example Sprint (from same people who do GeoServer): http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint

To participate, start a section below for your project.

== GeoTools ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]

=== Goals ===

* To flesh out issue X until it works right.

== GRASS ==

=== Attending ===

=== Goals ===

* Hack session

== GDAL / Mapserver ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]
* [[User:aaronr|Aaron Racicot]]

=== Goals ===

== GeoNetwork / Metadata Madness ==

=== Goals ===

Building crawler/harvester/aggregator applications on top of the GeoNetwork metadata catalog network and similar interfaces. Plugging client stuff like gvSIG and uDig into it.

=== Attending ===

[[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]

== OpenLayers ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:crschmidt|Chris Schmidt]]
* [[User:aaronr|Aaron Racicot]]

=== Goals ===
Hack, hack, hack. I think this will be OpenLayers 2.6 or 2.7?

== QGIS ==
=== Attending ===
* [[User:Gsherman|Gary Sherman]]
* [[User:Aaronr|Aaron Racicot]]

I would love to get some traction on expanding the "Tim Tutorials" into a more generic and robust framework for stand alone apps. Focussing on the Python bindings would be my preference. (Aaron Racicot)

[[Category:Events]]

FOSS4G2007 CodeSprint

2007-04-27T18:09:58Z

Wiki-Aaronr: /* Attending */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

== Organizing Contacts ==

* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]

== Code Sprint - what's that? ==

A code sprint is usually organized by a group that is using an open source project and wants to see something done. They fly the developers to a single location and feed them for a couple of days with the necessities of the hacking life (internet, caffeine, electricity). The communication that happens from face to face hacking usually lasts the project for a year or more. You see this a lot in projects like Drupal etc...

== Motivation and Direction ==

A day, a code base, and your imagination?

On the Friday after the conference, a [http://www.foss4g2007.org/code_sprint/ big room] with internet connectivity, lots of tables and flip charts will be arranged. Projects can use the time and venue for organizational discussions, development roadmaps, and group resolution of thorny issues in their code bases.

Is this your First Sprint? Here is some background information to get you started:

* http://www.infrae.com/about/activities/sprintathon/tips
* http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html
* Example Sprint (from same people who do GeoServer): http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint

To participate, start a section below for your project.

== GeoTools ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]

=== Goals ===

* To flesh out issue X until it works right.

== GRASS ==

=== Attending ===

=== Goals ===

* Hack session

== GDAL / Mapserver ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]

=== Goals ===

== GeoNetwork / Metadata Madness ==

=== Goals ===

Building crawler/harvester/aggregator applications on top of the GeoNetwork metadata catalog network and similar interfaces. Plugging client stuff like gvSIG and uDig into it.

=== Attending ===

[[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]

== OpenLayers ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:crschmidt|Chris Schmidt]]
* [[User:aaronr|Aaron Racicot]]

=== Goals ===
Hack, hack, hack. I think this will be OpenLayers 2.6 or 2.7?

== QGIS ==
=== Attending ===
* [[User:Gsherman|Gary Sherman]]
* [[User:Aaronr|Aaron Racicot]]

I would love to get some traction on expanding the "Tim Tutorials" into a more generic and robust framework for stand alone apps. Focussing on the Python bindings would be my preference. (Aaron Racicot)

[[Category:Events]]

FOSS4G2007 CodeSprint

2007-04-27T18:09:23Z

Wiki-Aaronr: /* Attending */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

== Organizing Contacts ==

* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]

== Code Sprint - what's that? ==

A code sprint is usually organized by a group that is using an open source project and wants to see something done. They fly the developers to a single location and feed them for a couple of days with the necessities of the hacking life (internet, caffeine, electricity). The communication that happens from face to face hacking usually lasts the project for a year or more. You see this a lot in projects like Drupal etc...

== Motivation and Direction ==

A day, a code base, and your imagination?

On the Friday after the conference, a [http://www.foss4g2007.org/code_sprint/ big room] with internet connectivity, lots of tables and flip charts will be arranged. Projects can use the time and venue for organizational discussions, development roadmaps, and group resolution of thorny issues in their code bases.

Is this your First Sprint? Here is some background information to get you started:

* http://www.infrae.com/about/activities/sprintathon/tips
* http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html
* Example Sprint (from same people who do GeoServer): http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint

To participate, start a section below for your project.

== GeoTools ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]

=== Goals ===

* To flesh out issue X until it works right.

== GRASS ==

=== Attending ===

=== Goals ===

* Hack session

== GDAL / Mapserver ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]

=== Goals ===

== GeoNetwork / Metadata Madness ==

=== Goals ===

Building crawler/harvester/aggregator applications on top of the GeoNetwork metadata catalog network and similar interfaces. Plugging client stuff like gvSIG and uDig into it.

=== Attending ===

[[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]

== OpenLayers ==

=== Attending ===

[[User:crschmidt|Chris Schmidt]]
[[User:aaronr|Aaron Racicot]]

=== Goals ===
Hack, hack, hack. I think this will be OpenLayers 2.6 or 2.7?

== QGIS ==
=== Attending ===
* [[User:Gsherman|Gary Sherman]]
* [[User:Aaronr|Aaron Racicot]]

I would love to get some traction on expanding the "Tim Tutorials" into a more generic and robust framework for stand alone apps. Focussing on the Python bindings would be my preference. (Aaron Racicot)

[[Category:Events]]

FOSS4G2007 CodeSprint

2007-04-27T18:08:48Z

Wiki-Aaronr: /* Attending */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

== Organizing Contacts ==

* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]

== Code Sprint - what's that? ==

A code sprint is usually organized by a group that is using an open source project and wants to see something done. They fly the developers to a single location and feed them for a couple of days with the necessities of the hacking life (internet, caffeine, electricity). The communication that happens from face to face hacking usually lasts the project for a year or more. You see this a lot in projects like Drupal etc...

== Motivation and Direction ==

A day, a code base, and your imagination?

On the Friday after the conference, a [http://www.foss4g2007.org/code_sprint/ big room] with internet connectivity, lots of tables and flip charts will be arranged. Projects can use the time and venue for organizational discussions, development roadmaps, and group resolution of thorny issues in their code bases.

Is this your First Sprint? Here is some background information to get you started:

* http://www.infrae.com/about/activities/sprintathon/tips
* http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html
* Example Sprint (from same people who do GeoServer): http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint

To participate, start a section below for your project.

== GeoTools ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]

=== Goals ===

* To flesh out issue X until it works right.

== GRASS ==

=== Attending ===

=== Goals ===

* Hack session

== GDAL / Mapserver ==

=== Attending ===

* [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]

=== Goals ===

== GeoNetwork / Metadata Madness ==

=== Goals ===

Building crawler/harvester/aggregator applications on top of the GeoNetwork metadata catalog network and similar interfaces. Plugging client stuff like gvSIG and uDig into it.

=== Attending ===

[[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]

== OpenLayers ==

=== Attending ===

[[User:crschmidt|Chris Schmidt]]
=== Goals ===
Hack, hack, hack. I think this will be OpenLayers 2.6 or 2.7?

== QGIS ==
=== Attending ===
* [[User:Gsherman|Gary Sherman]]
* [[User:Aaronr|Aaron Racicot]]

I would love to get some traction on expanding the "Tim Tutorials" into a more generic and robust framework for stand alone apps. Focussing on the Python bindings would be my preference. (Aaron Racicot)

[[Category:Events]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2006-03-28T18:14:27Z

Wiki-Aaronr: /* Contributors by Interest */

See the [[Education_and_Curriculum_Committee]] page for the list of initial committee members.

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education_and_Curriculum_Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.

* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (chair) (TZ GMT-6)
* Ari Jolma (TZ GMT+2)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* Venkatesh Raghavan (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* Charlie Schweik (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* Pericles Nacionales (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning
* [[User:Tmitchel | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* Gary Watry (TZ GMT-5)(Interested in using Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to replace teaching Commercial Off The Shelf Software (COTS)in education, Preparing material for course work at the Graduate and Under-Grad level and then moving down into the High School level through AP and Honors courses.)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily insterested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)

== Contributors by Time Zones ==
This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+9
** Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+2
** Ari Jolma
** Arnulf Christl
* TZ GMT+1
** Markus Neteler
* TZ GMT-5
** Gary Watry
** Ian Turton
* TZ GMT-6
** Puneet Kishor
** Pericles Nacionales
* TZ GMT-8
** Tyler Mitchell
** Shaun Walbridge
** Matthew Perry
** Aaron Racicot

OSGeo education interested participants

2006-03-28T18:11:12Z

Wiki-Aaronr: /* Contributors by Time Zones */

See the [[Education_and_Curriculum_Committee]] page for the list of initial committee members.

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education_and_Curriculum_Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.

* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (chair) (TZ GMT-6)
* Ari Jolma (TZ GMT+2)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* Venkatesh Raghavan (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* Charlie Schweik (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* Pericles Nacionales (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning
* [[User:Tmitchel | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* Gary Watry (TZ GMT-5)(Interested in using Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to replace teaching Commercial Off The Shelf Software (COTS)in education, Preparing material for course work at the Graduate and Under-Grad level and then moving down into the High School level through AP and Honors courses.)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily insterested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]

== Contributors by Time Zones ==
This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+9
** Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+2
** Ari Jolma
** Arnulf Christl
* TZ GMT+1
** Markus Neteler
* TZ GMT-5
** Gary Watry
** Ian Turton
* TZ GMT-6
** Puneet Kishor
** Pericles Nacionales
* TZ GMT-8
** Tyler Mitchell
** Shaun Walbridge
** Matthew Perry
** Aaron Racicot

Public Geospatial Data Project

2006-03-16T23:14:44Z

Wiki-Aaronr: /* Individuals */

== Mission ==

=== Promote the use of open geospatial formats ===
''(the mission needs to be clearly defined)''

=== Promote the public access to governmental geodata ===
''(the mission needs to be clearly defined)''

=== Run a repository of open geodata ===
A collection of geospatial datasets shall be hosted by the PGDP.
Additionally, links to other open data repostories shall be collected.

=== Present and explain licenses for public geodata ===
The PGDP aims to collect licenses suitable for the publishing of public geodata. The license shall be presented along with a summary of its benefits and focus.

== Approach ==

The Public Geospatial Data Project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is currently in the "definition phase". That means that we're in the process of putting together information about the kinds of things we could do, which organizations might be relevant, how the project might be structured, etc. Since the entire OSGeo is new, we're really working out the process for starting a non-software based project as we go.

'''Likely scenario'''
* Information gathering
* Develop list of potential participants
* Invite people/organizations to express interest
* Discuss potential charter (is there an "official" OSGeo name for this?)
* Present charter to OSGeo Board for approval (or do the members also get to vote on it?)
** Charter should probably have "Terms of Reference" - i.e. what the group will do
** Charter should probably have an initial list of participants/organizations (not all need to be members)
** Charter should name a Chair and a Vice Chair (or co-chairs?) (must proposed chair already be a member or can s/he become a member by virtue of being part of this?)
* Assuming project is approved - Get to work!

== Potential Members ==
If you add people/orgs to this list, please indicate whether you're adding yourself/your organization or whether you are "nominating" the person/organization as a potential member.

=== Individuals ===

''Please add yourself''

* David Bitner (self)
* Allan Doyle (self)
* Florian Kindl (nominated)
* Pericles S. Nacionales (self)
* Markus Neteler (self)
* Jo Walsh (nominated)
* Helton Uchoa (self) - [[User:Uchoa]]
* Aaron Racicot (self) - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org

=== Organizations ===
* [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO] (self)
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project] (potential)
* [http://www.gsdi.org GSDI Association] (potential)

== Events ==
Events where we can either promote our positions or are likely to run into like-minded individuals.

* [http://www.asia-commons.net/ Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA]
* [http://indico.epfl.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1 FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]

== Existing Work ==

=== Geo Data Licenses ===
* [http://sig.cwriter.org/index.php/PGL Public Geodata License]
* [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl Group PGL-Canada]
* [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons]

=== Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects ===
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://freeearthfoundation.com/ Free Earth Foundation]
* [http://geobase.ca/ Canadian Base Data]
* [http://geotorrent.org/ Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent]
* [http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi Global Map] - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
* [http://www.geonames.org Geonames.org] - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources

=== Geo Data Repository & Policy Research ===
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/CGDPlone University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data]
* [http://metrogis.org MetroGIS] Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort
* [http://www.gis.state.mn.us MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information]

=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy ===
* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/ Public Geodata Project] (IRC: [irc://freenode/publicgeodata publicgeodata]) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
* [http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto]

=== Open Access ===
There are also more general open access movements, often aimed at scientific data, that could provide a venue for broadening awareness of the geo-specific issues.

* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany]
* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
* [http://www.locusforums.org/forum/ The Locus Forum] - "The Locus Association is a trade association of private organisations working to increase opportunities and reduce barriers to fair trade between the public and private sector, particularly in the use of Public Sector Information."

== Further Reading ==

* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html Give us back our crown jewels] - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2107&trv=1 Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata ] by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
* [http://www.systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata] by Richard Fairhurst, a critique of GPL-like licensing situations with suggested LGPL-like model for distribution.
* "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU. <br> [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/papers/sdic_call_fossdi.pdf PDF with layout] | [http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/sdic_view_step1_only.cfm?id=2163 HTML without layout]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/270/ Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology] - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons

Core Curriculum Project

2006-03-16T23:13:01Z

Wiki-Aaronr: /* Individuals */

== Mission ==

The project aims at creating and promoting curriculum material that supports the goals of the Foundation. The intent is to provide material that is accessible by a broad audience including academia, professionals, and the general public. Material supported through this project should directly or indirectly build and strengthen the open source geospatial user and developer communities. This can be accomplished by integrating the use of OSGeo endorsed tools in curricula that teach geospatial concepts and applications as well as the creating curricula to teach skills necessary for people to actively participate in supported OSGeo software and data projects.

== Approach ==

The Core Curriculum Project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is currently in the "definition phase". ([[some comments]])

'''Likely scenario'''
* Information gathering
* Develop list of potential participants
* Invite people/organizations to express interest
* Discuss potential charter and project name.
* Present charter to OSGeo Board for approval.
** Charter should probably have "Terms of Reference" - i.e. what the group will do
** Charter should probably have an initial list of participants/organizations (no need for membership)
** Charter should name a Chair, and optionally a Vice-Chair or co-Chair and some initial members.
* Assuming project is approved, or even before it is - Get to work!

== Potential Members ==
''If you add people/orgs to this list, please indicate whether you're adding yourself/your organization or whether you are "nominating" the person/organization as a potential member.''

=== Individuals ===
* Scott Emmons (added by Tyler): University of Northern British Columbia - emmons at unbc.ca.
* Ned Horning (added by self): American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation horning@amnh.org [http://www.geospatial.amnh.org www.geospatial.amnh.org]
* Ari Jolma (added by self): Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ari.jolma at tkk.fi
* Puneet Kishor (added by self): punkish at eidesis dot org; GeoAnalytics, Inc., soon to join [http://www.wisc.edu Univ of Wisconsin - Madison]
* Tyler Mitchell (added by markusN): Author of Web Mapping Illustrated [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmapping]. Seminars at local schools: University of Northern British Columbia, Canada [http://gis.unbc.ca] and College of New Caledonia, Canada [http://cnc.bc.ca]. Email tylermitchell at shaw.ca.
* Helena Mitasova (added by self): North Carolina State University, hmitaso@unity.ncsu.edu [http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/]
* Pericles Nacionales (added by self): University of Minnesota, naci0002 at umn dot edu
* Matthew Perry (added by self): University of California, Santa Barbara, perrygeo at gmail dot com
* Charlie Schweik (added by self): University of Massachusetts, Amherst, cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu [http://people.umass.edu/cschweik people.umass.edu/cschweik]
* Ian Turton (added by self): Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* Venkatesh Raghavan (added by self): Osaka City University, Japan raghavan at .media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
* Aaron Racicot (added by self): Ecotrust, Portland Oregon USA - aaronr at ecotrust.org

=== Organizations ===

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== Existing Work ==

* [http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/ The NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience]
* [http://www.r-s-c-c.org/ Remote Sensing Core Curriculum]
* [http://people.umass.edu/cschweik/research.html C. Schweik: 2005-2010. NSF CAREER Grant. “The Open Source/Content Commons as a New Paradigm for Collaborative Scientific Research: A Research and Teaching Agenda.”] - MN had some personal conversation at OSG'05
* [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/ Open Web Mapping course] - Ian Turton, this is under the creative commons despite living on a University web site, I just haven't got a good new home for it yet.

== GFOSS Books ==

* S. Erle, R. Gibson, and J. Walsh, 2005, Mapping Hacks. O'Reilly Media, Inc., 564 pages, ISBN 0596007035, http://mappinghacks.com

* S. Erle and R. Gibson, 2006, Google Maps Hacks. O'Reilly Media, Inc., 366 pages, ISBN: 0-596-10161-9, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlemapshks/

* B. Kropla, 2005, Beginning MapServer: Open Source GIS Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source). Apress, 448 pages, ISBN 1590594908, http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=443

* T. Mitchell, 2005, Web Mapping Illustrated: Using Open Source GIS Toolkits. O'Reilly Media, Inc., 367 pages, ISBN 0596008651, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmapping/

* M. Neteler and H. Mitasova, 2004, Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach. 2nd Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer, Boston. 424 pages, ISBN 1402080646, http://mpa.itc.it/grasstutor/index.phtml