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Wiki-Leo: Undo revision 66437 by RubenSteppe (talk)

2012-09-28T13:26:44Z

Undo revision 66437 by RubenSteppe (talk)

Wiki-RubenSteppe at 12:02, 28 September 2012

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Wiki-Cschweik: /* PROPOSED FOCUS FOR 2009-2010 OSGEO EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM */

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PROPOSED FOCUS FOR 2009-2010 OSGEO EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM

Wiki-Cschweik at 18:43, 16 October 2009

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Wiki-Cschweik: /* TASK C: Support Victor Olaya (and colleague's) FreeGIS book effort */

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TASK C: Support Victor Olaya (and colleague's) FreeGIS book effort

Neteler: explained

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explained

Wiki-Cschweik: /* 2008 INITIATIVES */

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2008 INITIATIVES

Wiki-Clara: /* '''TASK F. DEVELOP A PACKAGED CD FOR UBUNTU TO LAUNCH AT FOSS4G2008 in Cape Town */

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'''TASK F. DEVELOP A PACKAGED CD FOR UBUNTU TO LAUNCH AT FOSS4G2008 in Cape Town

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 === '''TASK G. CONTENT FORMAT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL''' ===
 # We've had ongoing back and forth discussions about whether some recommended standards regarding the format of education content should be established. Generally, our policy should be that we welcome educational material in ANY format that the author prefers to work in. However, at the same time, we might want to move toward developing some recommended standards, especially if we eventually move toward "official" OSGeo educational content.
-# I've added a new wiki page to record our discussion of [http://www.uk-dissertation.com/law_dissertation.html commercial law dissertation topics] [[possible edu content format standards]].
+# I've added a new wiki page to record our discussion of [[possible edu content format standards]].
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 ## Subcommittee members: Ben Alden; Victor Olaya; Charlie Schweik; Scott Mitchell; Venka; Maria Brovelli; Rob Braswell
 ## [[Edu Content Management Platform Decision]]
-## More detail: coming soon. But this task is for people to investigate various options that have been identified. These include (1) the Moodle example presented by Arnulf [http://www.osgeo.net/moodle]; (2) the use of the wiki system (Tyler showed me some additional functionality after our BOF meeting); (3) Rice connexions [http://cnx.org]; (4)  [http://www.eoearth.org/ Encyclopedia of Earth]; (4) [http://lulu.com lulu.com]; (5) [http://www.uk-dissertation.com/ uk-dissertation] (5) [http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/ EduCommons]. The group agreed that at this juncture we need to be inclusive and work with the needs of various content providers. So some material may be stored on an OSGeo platform with the capability for new derivative works, or it may just be links to external resources we are aware of. This subcommittee task is to figure out a recommended strategy within the next month (or less).
+## More detail: coming soon. But this task is for people to investigate various options that have been identified. These include (1) the Moodle example presented by Arnulf [http://www.osgeo.net/moodle]; (2) the use of the wiki system (Tyler showed me some additional functionality after our BOF meeting); (3) Rice connexions [http://cnx.org]; (4)  [http://www.eoearth.org/ Encyclopedia of Earth]; (4) [http://lulu.com lulu.com]; (5) [http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/ EduCommons]. The group agreed that at this juncture we need to be inclusive and work with the needs of various content providers. So some material may be stored on an OSGeo platform with the capability for new derivative works, or it may just be links to external resources we are aware of. This subcommittee task is to figure out a recommended strategy within the next month (or less).
 # '''Develop a suggested tutorial creation standard for group review'''

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 === '''TASK G. CONTENT FORMAT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL''' ===
 # We've had ongoing back and forth discussions about whether some recommended standards regarding the format of education content should be established. Generally, our policy should be that we welcome educational material in ANY format that the author prefers to work in. However, at the same time, we might want to move toward developing some recommended standards, especially if we eventually move toward "official" OSGeo educational content.
-# I've added a new wiki page to record our discussion of [[possible edu content format standards]].
+# I've added a new wiki page to record our discussion of [http://www.uk-dissertation.com/law_dissertation.html commercial law dissertation topics] [[possible edu content format standards]].
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 ## Subcommittee members: Ben Alden; Victor Olaya; Charlie Schweik; Scott Mitchell; Venka; Maria Brovelli; Rob Braswell
 ## [[Edu Content Management Platform Decision]]
-## More detail: coming soon. But this task is for people to investigate various options that have been identified. These include (1) the Moodle example presented by Arnulf [http://www.osgeo.net/moodle]; (2) the use of the wiki system (Tyler showed me some additional functionality after our BOF meeting); (3) Rice connexions [http://cnx.org]; (4)  [http://www.eoearth.org/ Encyclopedia of Earth]; (4) [http://lulu.com lulu.com]; (5) [http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/ EduCommons]. The group agreed that at this juncture we need to be inclusive and work with the needs of various content providers. So some material may be stored on an OSGeo platform with the capability for new derivative works, or it may just be links to external resources we are aware of. This subcommittee task is to figure out a recommended strategy within the next month (or less).
+## More detail: coming soon. But this task is for people to investigate various options that have been identified. These include (1) the Moodle example presented by Arnulf [http://www.osgeo.net/moodle]; (2) the use of the wiki system (Tyler showed me some additional functionality after our BOF meeting); (3) Rice connexions [http://cnx.org]; (4)  [http://www.eoearth.org/ Encyclopedia of Earth]; (4) [http://lulu.com lulu.com]; (5) [http://www.uk-dissertation.com/ uk-dissertation] (5) [http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/ EduCommons]. The group agreed that at this juncture we need to be inclusive and work with the needs of various content providers. So some material may be stored on an OSGeo platform with the capability for new derivative works, or it may just be links to external resources we are aware of. This subcommittee task is to figure out a recommended strategy within the next month (or less).
 # '''Develop a suggested tutorial creation standard for group review'''

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-== PROPOSED FOCUS FOR 2009-2010 OSGEO EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM ==
+== PROPOSED INITIATIVE FOR 2009-2010 - OS GEO CURRICULUM ==
 This next year I think we as a group should focus on one main effort -- trying to develop suggested educational curriculum built around open source geospatial technologies. We've inventoried educational material, but the next step is to put some structure around it rather than being simply a database of material.
-In an earlier email, Tyler Mitchell articulated these set of steps that we might follow
+In an earlier email, Tyler Mitchell articulated these set of steps which I think are quite helpful:
 === '''Task 1. Review existing GIS curriculum.''' ===
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 === '''Task 6. Bundle it all up, etc...''' ===
 == OLD 2008-2009 INITIATIVES ==

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-== NEW 2008-2009 INITIATIVES FOR DISCUSSION ==
+== PROPOSED FOCUS FOR 2009-2010 OSGEO EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM ==
-Hi OSGeo education folks,
+This next year I think we as a group should focus on one main effort -- trying to develop suggested educational curriculum built around open source geospatial technologies. We've inventoried educational material, but the next step is to put some structure around it rather than being simply a database of material.
-We had a very good year as a group last year. Thanks to everyone's efforts who contributed, especially to our educational inventory page. It was good to see some of you in South Africa!
+In an earlier email, Tyler Mitchell articulated these set of steps that we might follow
-Below is the list of our potential group tasks and goals for this next year after discussions with others at the FOSS4Geo conference in South Africa. Please take a moment to review. If I have missed anything please add to the list.
+=== '''Task 1. Review existing GIS curriculum.''' ===
-What I'd like to do is either call a group vote to prioritize, and/or establish a leader for each of these tasks to try and take the lead on the initiative.
+The question I have here, is are there variations in curriculum depending on the area? For example, I could see there being differences in a curriculum for someone wanting to be a future developer of OS geo technologies, compared to people who might be users. In other words, is there 1 curriculum we want to develop or multiple?
-Cheers,
+In an email to me, William Walter Kinghorn suggested that what we should do is develop a Table of Contents that is required for exams for "core competencies" in OS GIS. He sent some useful and interesting ideas. William also noted that in our current inventory there are too many courses (I'm not sure that is a problem) but many are outdated. He was suggesting that we try and focus on a set of common courses that get updated regularly that many could use.
-Charlie
+So I think we need to get a number of us to take some time looking for curriculum approaches or guidelines, and then hold a skype conference call or IRB or something to see if we can agree on a strategy.
 === '''TASK A: Collect educational material to go on an OSGeo Live DVD '''===

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 a) People could help write the new chapters in English and he or someone on his team could translate them to Spanish.
-b) Help is needed to translate the Spanish chapters already written into English.
+* Team members: Landon Blake
 === '''TASK D: Contact local OSGeo chapters – recruit – how can they help? '''===

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 In short, the question is whether we want to move in this direction this year. After some contemplation on this, my thought was we don't want to compete with other curriculum guideline groups. But we could develop an inventory page on our wiki of various curriculum guidelines that groups worldwide have developed.
-=== '''Task I: Multi-language dictionary?''' ===
+=== '''Task I: Multi-language OSGeo dictionary''' ===
-Marcus, can you fill in here?
+We propose the idea of a Multi-language OSGeo dictionary. The scope is to collect over the years geo* related terms in a multi-language style to facilitate reading/writing in other languages, to help with software internationalization, to help when writing proposals in non-mother-tongue languages. Since we are an excellent group of experts covering many languages, we could run this as long-term project.
 == OLD 2007-2008 INITIATIVES (for archive's sake) ==

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-== 2008 INITIATIVES ==
+== NEW 2008-2009 INITIATIVES FOR DISCUSSION ==
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 ## Gavin's ideas: One-click installation for Linux, Windows or Mac; Integrated software stack so teachers and learners have to launch a minimal number of applications; Simplified and customised GUIs to lower the entry threshold (for teachers to teach curriculum requirements of GIS; for teachers to use GIS to teach geography and other subjects; for learners to use for hands-on work); Free, integrated global and local data package; excellent documentation; framework for local contributors to structure and contribute exercises, lessons, etc; central website for resources; possible advanced options for network deployment, more sophisticated users, 'computer studies' learners (i.e. developers), school web map services, etc. These are expanded in [[School_GIS_Use_Cases]].
 ##Current individual efforts:
-### The '''live DVD''' for the FOSS4G 2008 "Practical Introduction to GRASS and related software for beginners" Workshop to be presented in Cape Town '''is available'''. The DVD, developed by University of Trento Italy, is based on Kubuntu live with GRASS GIS 6.2.3 and GRASS GIS 6.4 (snapshot_2008_7_12), R 2.7.0 with GRASS support, QGIS 0.10 with GRASS plugin, PostgreSQL 8.3.8, PostGIS 1.3.3, pgAdminIII 1.8.2, pgagent 1.8.2 and other application. A GRASS tutorial in English and the workshop slides are included in this distribution. [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/software/FOSS4G2008_GRASS_beginners_DVD.html: You can fined more info here]. Download:[ftp://grassimages.ing.unitn.it/pub/GRASS_DVD_FOSS4G2008_workshop.iso ISO image of the DVD] warning the file weights about 4.0 Gb, [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/software/GRASS_DVD_FOSS4G2008_workshop.md5 md5sums here]
+### The '''live DVD''' for the FOSS4G 2008 "Practical Introduction to GRASS and related software for beginners" Workshop to be presented in Cape Town '''is available'''. The DVD, developed by University of Trento Italy, is based on Kubuntu live with GRASS GIS 6.2.3 and GRASS GIS 6.4 (snapshot_2008_7_12), R 2.7.0 with GRASS support, QGIS 0.10 with GRASS plugin, PostgreSQL 8.3.8, PostGIS 1.3.3, pgAdminIII 1.8.2, pgagent 1.8.2 and other application. A GRASS tutorial in English and the workshop slides are included in this distribution. [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/software/FOSS4G2008_GRASS_beginners_DVD.html You can find more info here]. Download:[ftp://grassimages.ing.unitn.it/pub/GRASS_DVD_FOSS4G2008_workshop.iso ISO image of the DVD] warning the file weights about 4.0 Gb, [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/software/GRASS_DVD_FOSS4G2008_workshop.md5 md5sums here]
 ### The '''Ubuntu-based [http://www.ominiverdi.org/index.php/livecd/Free%20GIS%20liveCD Ominiverdi Desktop Livecd 2008.0]''' will be available soon, which includes GRASS, QGIS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GDal,  Proj, R and Pgadmin. Also bundled an installation package for windows system ( with an help page showing up on Autorun); the idea is to put inside also packages for Mac, but doing this will mean moving from CD to DVD.
 ## [http://sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/Home Poseidon Linux] including many [http://sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/details of these apps], including GRASS, QGIS, Terraview and more.  Also includes main desktop apps found in a normal distribution.