FOSS4G2006 Education BOF minutes

Minutes

Education BOF at FOSS4G 2006

• Present:
  • Ari Jolma(* ), Dan Ames( ), Helena Mitasova(*@), Ned Horning(*@), Seppo Kaitala(@), Venkatesh Raghavan(* ), Markus Neteler(*@), Pericles Nacionales(*#), Przemyslaw Bojczuk(@), Marco Ciolli( ), Teemu Kokkonen(@), Alfonso Vitti( ), Jean-Denis Giguére(#), Astrid Emde( ), Jos van Orshoven( ), Alessandro Frigeri(@), Juan Miguel Garijo( )

(*) members ( ) educator (#) student (@) researcher

• Agenda
  • Review of edu tasks
  • Things that are going on
    • GRASS tutorial
  • Educational project

• Things that could/should be done

• • Conference tutorials as starting points?
    • Licence?

• • Organize review of educational materials
    • Categories of materials
    • Certification criteria
  • Describe "best practices"
  • Describe levels of FOSS4G know-how required from students
    • Certification of curricula
    • GISCI.org
    • what software tools
  • FOSS4G papers into a scientific journal (special issue?)
    • IJ of geoinformatics www.j-geoinfo.net
  • Dataset
    • Educational review