OSGeo Education Projects

Working groups are loosely coupled groups of individuals focusing on certain parts of the Education and Curriculum Committee mandate.

If you want a particular group, add it to the list and provide a goal for the group. When it comes time for reporting back to the membership and board, we can all briefly update the activities/status of the working group.

Data Package Group

 * Detail page Edu Data Package

Goal

 * Produce a data package for common use in tutorials

Method

 * Work with Public Geospatial Data Committee where needed
 * Work with software projects to provide data package in meaningful format for their tool
 * Use data package as a reference in writing tutorials

Status

 * Just starting

Results

 * Nothing yet

Contributors

 * Tyler Mitchell
 * Jo Walsh
 * Perry Nacionales
 * Markus Neteler
 * Charlie Schweik

Goal

 * Collect links to and describe educational resources
 * Develop an "Introduction to GIS" course and courseware
 * Support educators in their usage of GFOSS

Method

 * Find people to test use what we will develop
 * Promote GFOSS to colleagues

Status

 * Just starting

Results
See the Educational Resources page.

Contributors

 * Ari Jolma
 * Perry Nacionales

Goal

 * Link to research projects using and developing GFOSS
 * Support researchers in their usage of GFOSS
 * Start and support research projects that develop GFOSS
 * Start and support research projects that help GFOSS developers

Method

 * Promote GFOSS to colleagues
 * Work with developers to identify research needs

Status

 * Just starting

Results
See the OSGeo in Research page.

Contributors

 * Ari Jolma
 * Perry Nacionales

FreeGISBook Group

 * Detail page Free GIS Book

Goal

 * Produce and maintain the Free GIS Book started by EOGEO

Status

 * Just starting. Allan Doyle will investigate the logistics of moving the project from EOGEO to OSGeo.

Results

 * Nothing yet

Contributors

 * Jo Walsh - modulo some answers to some questions