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

Goal

• Produce a data package for common use in tutorials

Method

• Work with GeoData 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

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

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