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