Difference between revisions of "Core Curriculum Project"

Revision as of 20:09, 19 February 2006

Introduction

The Core Curriculum Project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is currently in the "definition phase". (some comments)

The project aims at creating and promoting curriculum material that supports the goals of the Foundation. The intent is to provide material that is accessible by a broad audience including academia, professionals, and the general public. Material supported through this project should directly or indirectly build and strengthen the open source geospatial user and developer communities. This can be accomplished by integrating the use of OSGeo endorsed tools in curricula that teach geospatial concepts and applications as well as the creating curricula to teach skills necessary for people to actively participate in supported OSGeo software and data projects.

Likely scenario

Information gathering
Develop list of potential participants
Invite people/organizations to express interest
Discuss potential charter and project name.
Present charter to OSGeo Board for approval.
- Charter should probably have "Terms of Reference" - i.e. what the group will do
- Charter should probably have an initial list of participants/organizations (no need for membership)
- Charter should name a Chair, and optionally a Vice-Chair or co-Chair and some initial members.
Assuming project is approved, or even before it is - Get to work!

Potential Members

If you add people/orgs to this list, please indicate whether you're adding yourself/your organization or whether you are "nominating" the person/organization as a potential member.

Individuals

Ned Horning (added by self): American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation horning@amnh.org www.geospatial.amnh.org
Tyler Mitchell (?)
Helena Mitasova (added by self): North Carolina State University, hmitaso@unity.ncsu.edu [1]
Pericles Nacionales (added by self): University of Minnesota, naci0002 at umn dot edu

Organizations

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Existing Work

The NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience
Remote Sensing Core Curriculum
C. Schweik: 2005-2010. NSF CAREER Grant. “The Open Source/Content Commons as a New Paradigm for Collaborative Scientific Research: A Research and Teaching Agenda.” - MN had some personal conversation at OSG'05

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 * Develop list of potential participants
 * Invite people/organizations to express interest
-* Discuss potential charter (is there an "official" OSGeo name for this?)
+* Discuss potential charter and project name.
-* Present charter to OSGeo Board for approval (or do the members also get to vote on it?)
+* Present charter to OSGeo Board for approval.
 ** Charter should probably have "Terms of Reference" - i.e. what the group will do
-** Charter should probably have an initial list of participants/organizations (not all need to be members)
+** Charter should probably have an initial list of participants/organizations (no need for membership)
-** Charter should name a Chair and a Vice Chair (or co-chairs?) (must proposed chair already be a member or can s/he become a member by virtue of being part of this?)
+** Charter should name a Chair, and optionally a Vice-Chair or co-Chair and some initial members.
-* Assuming project is approved - Get to work!
+* Assuming project is approved, or even before it is - Get to work!
 == Potential Members ==