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

Education Resources Group

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

Research Outreach Group

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

Method

• ??

Status

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

Results

• Nothing yet

Contributors

• [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh] - modulo some answers to some questions