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

Afterthoughts:

• set up edu committee more as a project with
  • PSC,
  • materials with free licence developed a bit similarly as software projects develop software
  • assing subprojects to responsible persons
• establish a monthly reporting

Minutes from the "Web Map Client" BOF at FOSS4G 2006

• FOSS4G_2006_Webmap_BOF dedicated page