FOSS4G2006 Education BOF minutes

Minutes from the edu 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

• 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 & various contexts
    • To be used with other software tools
    • Descriptions of what is needed for tutorials / commong use cases