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* Markus Neteler
 
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* Venkatesh Raghavan
 
* Venkatesh Raghavan

Revision as of 08:27, 24 March 2006

I, Markus Neteler, move that a "Education and Curriculum Committee" be designated to create and promote educational and curriculum material. The initial committee membership shall include:

  • Puneet Kishor (chair)
  • Ari Jolma
  • Markus Neteler
  • Venkatesh Raghavan

Mission

The project aims at creating and promoting educational and curriculum material that supports the goals of the Foundation. The intent is to provide 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 OSGeo endorsed 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 supported OSGeo software and data projects.

Details are given at Core Curriculum Project

Links

The committee will be linked to the Public Geospatial Data Committee, in particular with the Geodata Packaging Working Group to work on educational datasets.