GeoForAll History

Mission

The mission of the education committee is to inventory, organize and coordinate the development of educational and curriculum material that supports OSGeo-related education. The intent is to provide appropriately licensed material that is accessible by a broad audience including academia, professionals, and the general public. Material supported through this project should directly or indirectly build and strengthen the open source geospatial user and developer communities. This can be accomplished by integrating the use of FOSS4G tools in curricula that teach geospatial concepts and applications as well as the creating curricula to teach skills necessary for people to actively participate in FOSS4G and free geospatial data projects. The committee also seeks cooperation with academic research projects to promote the use of FOSS4G in research projects, to get FOSS4G used as a platform for research, and to present FOSS4G as a research subject.

Education Committee related wiki pages

• Education Contributors - Provides a list of contributors or interested individuals. Add your name!
• Educational_Content_Inventory - Please add information on what you'd like to contribute.
• Education Committee Work Program - our current list of todos.

Meeting Minutes

• IRC chat log, Sep 9 2006
• FOSS4G2006 minutes (Sept. 2006)
• EduCom Meeting 1 March 2007
• FOSS4G2007_Education_BOF_minutes (Sept. 2007)

Other Edu Group information of possible interest

• Puneet's Visit to Brazil (May 2007)

Existing open educational geospatial materials

• The NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience
• GITTA - Geographic Information Technology Training Alliance with material under Creative Commons license
• Wikipedia
• Open Source Training Providers