Education BOF Notes - Revision history

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-These are Jo's notes which loosely correspond to [[FOSS4G2006 minutes]]
+These are Jo's notes which loosely correspond to [[FOSS4G2006 Education BOF minutes]]
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 Speaker: to what extent can tutorial material be separated out from data - data independent, tool independent problem sets. "plug in your local context here" - how big is this problem?

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	Markus has WikiVMap0 idea - reannotation of a verified-IP-clean subset of VMap0		Markus has WikiVMap0 idea - reannotation of a verified-IP-clean subset of VMap0
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		+	Speaker: developing country teaching issues. Need local data to get point across. How can we work on data access issues to spread open source where it is most needed, outside of the eu/us context
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		+	Speaker: to what extent can tutorial material be separated out from data - data independent, tool independent problem sets. "plug in your local context here" - how big is this problem?

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 Markus: new dataset for GRASS in progress. replacement for spearfish needed. using North Carolina data, inc. municipal, agricultural data sources. It will be companion data for the third edition of the GRASS book.
-Providing a ready-to-use GRASS location, also original sources, ability to build custom data packages for different distributions. Focus on finding as many different thematic types as possible in small area. NC chosen because of local data policy.
+Providing a ready-to-use GRASS location, also original sources, ability to build custom data packages for different distributions. Focus on finding as many different thematic types as possible in small area. NC chosen because of local data policy. Cf [[Edu Data Package North Carolina]]
 Also could be used for implementation testing - common data set which one expects similar analytical results across packages - are the results the same across products?

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	GRASS book is closed source - scripts and data are open		GRASS book is closed source - scripts and data are open
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		+	Markus has WikiVMap0 idea - reannotation of a verified-IP-clean subset of VMap0

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	GRASS6 has 150 page tutorial which also covers QGIS. been translated into chinese, italian, french others in progress. Looking for new home. SVN repos of latex texts. Could OSGeo host a service like this. web-based software message translation idea (granular edit of .po files, maintaining concurrency)		GRASS6 has 150 page tutorial which also covers QGIS. been translated into chinese, italian, french others in progress. Looking for new home. SVN repos of latex texts. Could OSGeo host a service like this. web-based software message translation idea (granular edit of .po files, maintaining concurrency)
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		+	GRASS book is closed source - scripts and data are open

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	Also could be used for implementation testing - common data set which one expects similar analytical results across packages - are the results the same across products?		Also could be used for implementation testing - common data set which one expects similar analytical results across packages - are the results the same across products?
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		+	GRASS6 has 150 page tutorial which also covers QGIS. been translated into chinese, italian, french others in progress. Looking for new home. SVN repos of latex texts. Could OSGeo host a service like this. web-based software message translation idea (granular edit of .po files, maintaining concurrency)

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	Markus: new dataset for GRASS in progress. replacement for spearfish needed. using North Carolina data, inc. municipal, agricultural data sources. It will be companion data for the third edition of the GRASS book.		Markus: new dataset for GRASS in progress. replacement for spearfish needed. using North Carolina data, inc. municipal, agricultural data sources. It will be companion data for the third edition of the GRASS book.
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		+	Providing a ready-to-use GRASS location, also original sources, ability to build custom data packages for different distributions. Focus on finding as many different thematic types as possible in small area. NC chosen because of local data policy.
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		+	Also could be used for implementation testing - common data set which one expects similar analytical results across packages - are the results the same across products?

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	Ari: university education is more theoretical		Ari: university education is more theoretical

−	Markus: new dataset for GRASS in progress. replacement for spearfish needed. using North Carolina data, inc. municipal, agricultural data sources.	+	Markus: new dataset for GRASS in progress. replacement for spearfish needed. using North Carolina data, inc. municipal, agricultural data sources. It will be companion data for the third edition of the GRASS book.

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 These are Jo's notes which loosely correspond to [[FOSS4G2006 minutes]]
 University curricula - step by step
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 cf [[Educational Resources]] - this would benefit from more structure / a kind of peer review backend