Education BOF Notes

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These are Jo's notes which loosely correspond to FOSS4G2006 minutes

University curricula - step by step

Mention of OSGeo certification from speaker - levels indicating competency.

Venka: "postgres certified engineer" program. Is certification responsibility of educational people?

Speaker: tutorials and programs drive accreditation

another speaker: GISCI.org - certification institute - is about the principles much more than the "button pushing" certification about tools and specific projects

Ari: we don't want to limit osgeo educational activity only to osgeo incubating projects

Venka: geoinformatics publication in Thailand wants to make an osgeo/foss4g cc licensed issue of its journal (international journal of geoinformatics) - 4000USD support for 150 page publication http://www.j-geoinfo.net/

Ari states potential reservations about sponsoring a publication

Speaker suggests that osgeo should be operating a "clearing house" for tutorial material

cf Educational Resources - this would benefit from more structure / a kind of peer review backend

Speaker: italian language GRASS tutorials developed over 10 years. "best practise" can be very local - how can "one true way" be recommended?

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. It will be companion data for the third edition of the GRASS book.

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