FOSS4G2006 Education BOF minutes

Minutes

Education BOF at FOSS4G 2006
(*) members (+) educator (#) student (@) researcher
 * Present:
 * Ari Jolma(*+), Dan Ames(+), Helena Mitasova(*@?), Ned Horning(*@), Seppo Kaitala(@), Venkatesh Raghavan(*+), Markus Neteler(*@), Pericles Nacionales(*#), Przemyslaw Bojczuk(@), Marco Ciolli(+), Teemu Kokkonen(@), Alfonso Vitti(+), Jean-Denis Giguére(#), Astrid Emde(+), Jos van Orshoven(+), Alessandro Frigeri(@), Juan Miguel Garijo(+)


 * Agenda
 * Review of edu tasks
 * Things that are going on
 * GRASS tutorial
 * Educational project


 * Things that could/should be done


 * Conference tutorials as starting points?
 * Licence?


 * Organize review of educational materials
 * Categories of materials
 * Certification criteria
 * Describe "best practices"
 * Describe levels of FOSS4G know-how required from students
 * Certification of curricula
 * GISCI.org
 * what software tools
 * FOSS4G papers into a scientific journal (special issue?)
 * IJ of geoinformatics www.j-geoinfo.net
 * Dataset
 * Educational review & various contexts
 * To be used with other software tools
 * Descriptions of what is needed for tutorials / common use cases

Afterthoughts:
 * set up edu committee more as a project with
 * PSC,
 * materials with free licence developed a bit similarly as software projects develop software
 * assign subprojects to responsible persons
 * establish a monthly reporting

"Public Geodata" BOF at FOSS4G 2006

 * FOSS4G Public Geodata BOF

"Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard" BOF at FOSS4G 2006

 * dedicated page

"Web Map Client" BOF at FOSS4G 2006

 * dedicated page