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== Mission ==
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The education committee was formed to inventory, organize and coordinate the development of educational and curriculum material that supports open source geospatial-related education. Intended to '''work collaboratively''' providing [[Appropriately Licensed Material]] accessible to a broad audience including academia, professionals, and the general public.
  
The mission of the education committee is to inventory, organize and coordinate the development of educational and curriculum material that supports OSGeo-related education. The intent is to provide [[Appropriately Licensed 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 FOSS4G 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 FOSS4G and free geospatial data projects. The committee also seeks cooperation with academic research projects to promote the use of FOSS4G in research projects, to get FOSS4G used as a platform for research, and to present FOSS4G as a research subject.
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The education committee began around 2006 and evolved into the broader [[GeoForAll]] initiative.
  
== Education Committee related wiki pages ==
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[[GeoForAll]] formally took over the responsibilities of the the education committee in 2016, opperating as an OSGeo committee with a healthy, diverse representation of initiative participants.
  
* [[Education Contributors]] - Provides a list of contributors or interested individuals. Add your name!
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== Our Educational Inventory Pages ==
* [[Education committee liaisons to local chapters]] - Provides a list of people who help the education group work more closely with OSGeo local chapters.
 
* [[Educational Content Inventory]] - Please add information on what you'd like to contribute.
 
* [[Commitments for New Material Development]] - Please add information on new material that you can help develop.
 
* [[Education Committee Work Program]] - our current list of todos.
 
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss Our mailing list]
 
  
== Meeting Minutes ==
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If you are someone looking for educational materials developed by our community, or if you want to let others know about material you have developed, see:
 
 
* [http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2006-09-08.log IRC chat log, Sep 9 2006]
 
* [[FOSS4G2006 minutes]] (Sept. 2006)
 
* [[EduCom Meeting 1 March 2007]]
 
* [[FOSS4G2007_Education_BOF_minutes]]  (Sept. 2007)
 
* [[FOSS4G2009_Education_BOF_minutes]] (Oct. 2009) '''MOST RECENT!'''
 
 
 
== Membership ==
 
Formal members of this committee are as follows, however anyone is welcome to participate regardless of status.  Please add yourself to the [[Education Contributors]] page and join the mailing to get involved.
 
 
 
* Puneet Kishor
 
* Ari Jolma
 
* Markus Neteler
 
* Venkatesh Raghavan
 
* Charlie Schweik (Chair)
 
* Pericles Nacionales
 
* Ned Horning (Co-chair)
 
* Helena Mitasova
 
* David Percy
 
* Ian Turton
 
* Maria Brovelli
 
 
 
== Other Edu Group information of possible interest ==
 
* [[Puneet's Visit to Brazil]] (May 2007)
 
 
 
 
 
=== Educational Avendues ===
 
Bachelor's Degree in Mental Retardation
 
Offered by the National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (NIMH), Manovikas Nagar, Secundarabad 500009 affiliated to Osmania University, Hyderabad. Duration of the course is 3 years and minimum eligibility is 10+2 with a minimum of 50% aggregate marks (40% for SC/ST). [http://www.topindianjobs.com/special-education-qualifications-required.shtml More..]
 
  
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* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content Our '''searchable''' database of educational material]
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* [https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content Our '''submit educational material form'''] -- Share your educational content with the community! (you need to login to the OSGeo system to submit)
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* [[University_courses_using_OSGeo_related_material]]
  
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== GeoForAll Meeting Notes ==
  
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FOSS4G Europe Como, July 2015
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* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting Pre-Conference meeting summary]
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* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_BOF1 BOF1 summary]
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* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_BOF2 BOF2 summary - school education]
  
 
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[[Category:Education]]
 
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Latest revision as of 14:23, 6 March 2016

The education committee was formed to inventory, organize and coordinate the development of educational and curriculum material that supports open source geospatial-related education. Intended to work collaboratively providing Appropriately Licensed Material accessible to a broad audience including academia, professionals, and the general public.

The education committee began around 2006 and evolved into the broader GeoForAll initiative.

GeoForAll formally took over the responsibilities of the the education committee in 2016, opperating as an OSGeo committee with a healthy, diverse representation of initiative participants.

Our Educational Inventory Pages

If you are someone looking for educational materials developed by our community, or if you want to let others know about material you have developed, see:

GeoForAll Meeting Notes

FOSS4G Europe Como, July 2015