FOSS4G2006 Education BOF minutes

Minutes from the edu BOF at FOSS4G 2006
(*) members
 * Present:
 * Ari Jolma(*), Dan Ames, Helena Mitasova(*), Ned Horning(*), Seppo Kaitala, Venka Raghavan(*), Markus Neteler(*), Pericles Nacionales(*), Przemyslaw Bojczuk, Marco Ciolli, Teemu Kokkonen


 * 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 / commong use cases