FOSS4G2006 Education BOF minutes

Minutes from the edu BOF at FOSS4G 2006

• Present:
  • Ari Jolma(*), Dan Ames, Helena Mitasova(*), Ned Horning(*), Seppo Kaitala, Venka Raghavan(*), Markus Neteler(*), Pericles Nacionales(*), Przemyslaw Bojczuk, Marco Ciolli, Teemu Kokkonen

(*) members

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

• Things that could/should be done

• • Conference tutorials as starting points?
    • Licence?

• • Organize review of educational 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