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Edu Licensing and Logo Discussion

Educational Material Licensing and Logo Discussion
This page is devoted to current Educom efforts to figure out the policy for both content licensing and the use of the OSGeo logo in educational material. Consider merging this with Licenses for Education Material?
Most recent discussion threads
# Dan Ames suggested text for educational material, accompanied by an OSGeo logo: "The authors of this tutorial believe that its content is consistent with goal of the OSGeo foundation to create a global, open access repository of educational material related to open source geospatial theory and technologies. Any mistakes, misrepresentations, or inaccuracies are the authors' alone."
#Arnulf: Add this disclaimer to the Wiki where it can be further refined and serve as a guideline for educational material associated with OSGeo.
# Ned Horning: Not comfortable with handing over total control with the author.
## Some control needs to be maintained over the use of the logo be maintained by OSGeo rather than making it a free-for-all. If authors, at a minimum, demonstrate that they are indeed following spirit of the text in the header (contributing to the OSGeo repository, open access content, open source geospatial focus...) then they could be authorized to use the logo. A simple approval process and resolution process for cases not approved could be established to ensure a minimum set of standards are met.
# Puneet: 
## Should Educom be figuring this out or should this be the board? 
## Authors should be free to chose whatever license and mechanism they want, but if they want the OSGeo imprimatur, they would be required to use the OSGeo guidelines (if OSGeo branding were to require license A, the authors would be required to use license A. If they decide to use license B, OSGeo could still host and advertise the content, but it wouldn't be branded OSGeo).
# Tyler: Board had lots of discussion, but were asking the conference committee to come up with some policy. The direction EduCom takes may really help set the tone for how "bigger" issues of policy like this are handled.
# Charlie:
## My reading of these threads is that there is some resistance to having authors simply placing OSGeo on their documentation without meeting some set of minimum standards or OSGeo guidelines. We need:
### An "as-is" disclaimer given that these will not be vetted through a peer-review process, and something stating the spirit of our effort (Dan's text is a good start).
### Specific guidelines: modules go in open access repository; follows one of a set of recommended licenses; open source geospatial technologies; what else?
### If we can get our arms around this, this will help the board.
Category:Education
Edu meeting dec9 2011

OSGeo Edu December 9, 2011 virtual meeting agenda and notes
15:10 – 15:25 Refreshing our collective memories discussion:
		
	A federated educational content system: 
1) Keep our http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content to post metadata to educational material. 
2) Use http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ for educational “source” material. This will be mirrored at GeoTech. 
	 
3) Geotech center – Connection to their Webinar system and possibly even their Moodle system for full courses. 
Eventual goal portals with online training content for OSGeo related education. 
Next steps: Charlie to post a wiki page to see what webinars might be offered. Helena was one person who said she had content. 
Charlie suggested we all look at the http://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/pyramid.aspx?geo=Y on the Geotech center and over the longer term consider how we connect our educational material to this.
15:25 - 15:45. Academic Track planning for FOSS4G 2012
Barend Kobben summarized his email sent out to the group. 
Question on establishing a scientific review committee that would serve for several years. Poll showed that some on the list liked this idea. 
Discussion that the review committee needed to be larger so that each person would only need to review 3 papers.
Brief discussion about an output journal.
Discussion about a local contact for the Beijing conference. 
15:45-15:55. Funding for Face-to-Face “edu sprints”?
Discussion about possibly a Europe and US Face to Face edu “content sprint” meeting around educational content to complement the Live DVD. (Ari – do I have that right? Charlie)
The COST-EU idea. Not a ton of energy from the group on this but there was some interest still in the idea of meeting face-to-face rather than just once a year BOF. The question is what we would do and how this would be funded. 
People interested in continuing this discussion:
Charlie 
Micha
Ari
Scott
15:55-16:00. Group governance and next meeting time
Some in the group were receptive to the idea of “regional co-chairs”
At least one suggested that adding bureaucracy might not be good. 
Next meeting time question:
Some participants favored the idea of establishing two different times that rotate monthly so that everyone globally could at least participate in one meeting every two months.
Second Friday of every month sounded good to people. 
Next steps: 
Charlie to try and organize January second Friday meeting time that would get Asia and Australia participants, and then February second Friday time that would be at 15:00 UTC. 
Email list to dos
- Establish next meeting times for January and February
- Brainstorm webinar ideas over wiki
- How do we connect our educational material to the http://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/pyramid.aspx?geo=Y
- New push to get our educational content/source into U of Nottingham’s system or at least metadata on our educational system (http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content) 
Next meeting topics
1. Progress on educational material repository “federation” progress: Suchith, Phil, Charlie
2. Progress/issues on FOSS4G Academic track preparations
3. Webinars – let’s move this forward!
Edu webinars

Let's use this page to try and identify potential edu webinar (Web-based Seminar) topics, along with potential presenters. 
An obvious start would be "Introductions to..." OSGeo web and desktop projects. If you are skilled to present a webinar on any of the below topics, please edit the page below and sign your name next to the topic or send an email to cschweik 'AT' gmail.com.
Web Mapping
1) deegree 
2) geomajas 
3) GeoServer 
4) Mapbender 
5) MapBuilder 
6) MapFish 
7) MapGuide Open Source 
8) MapServer 
9) OpenLayers 
Desktop Applications 
10) GRASS GIS 
11) Quantum GIS 
12) gvSIG 
13) uDIG 
OpenSource GIS Casestudies and Research overviews 
14) University of Nottingham - Suchith Anand 
15) Local Authorities 
If anyone has other ideas that they'd potentially like to present, please list them below.
Category: Education
Education BOF Notes

These are Jo's notes which loosely correspond to FOSS4G2006 Education BOF minutes
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University curricula - step by step
Mention of OSGeo certification from speaker - levels indicating competency.
Venka: "postgres certified engineer" program. Is certification responsibility of educational people?
Speaker: tutorials and programs drive accreditation
another speaker: GISCI.org - certification institute - is about the principles much more than the "button pushing" certification about tools and specific projects
Ari: we don't want to limit osgeo educational activity only to osgeo incubating projects
Venka: geoinformatics publication in Thailand wants to make an osgeo/foss4g cc licensed issue of its journal
(international journal of geoinformatics) - 4000USD support for 150 page publication http://www.j-geoinfo.net/
Ari states potential reservations about sponsoring a publication
Speaker suggests that osgeo should be operating a "clearing house" for tutorial material
cf Educational Resources - this would benefit from more structure / a kind of peer review backend
Speaker: italian language GRASS tutorials developed over 10 years. "best practise" can be very local - how can "one true way" be recommended?
Ari: university education is more theoretical
Markus: new dataset for GRASS in progress. replacement for spearfish needed. using North Carolina data, inc. municipal, agricultural data sources. It will be companion data for the third edition of the GRASS book.
Providing a ready-to-use GRASS location, also original sources, ability to build custom data packages for different distributions. Focus on finding as many different thematic types as possible in small area. NC chosen because of local data policy. Cf Edu Data Package North Carolina
Also could be used for implementation testing - common data set which one expects similar analytical results across packages - are the results the same across products?
GRASS6 has 150 page tutorial which also covers QGIS. been translated into chinese, italian, french others in progress. Looking for new home. SVN repos of latex texts. Could OSGeo host a service like this. web-based software message translation idea (granular edit of .po files, maintaining concurrency)
GRASS book is closed source - scripts and data are open
Markus has WikiVMap0 idea - reannotation of a verified-IP-clean subset of VMap0
Speaker: developing country teaching issues. Need local data to get point across. How can we work on data access issues to spread open source where it is most needed, outside of the eu/us context
Speaker: to what extent can tutorial material be separated out from data - data independent, tool independent problem sets. "plug in your local context here" - how big is this problem?
Category:FOSS4G2006
Category:Education
Education committee liaisons to local chapters

Education Committee members who have volunteered to be a liaison to their local OSGeo chapters
(Edu committee members, please add your name if your local chapter is not listed and you are willing to serve in this capacity)
* Ottawa Chapter - Prof. Scott Mitchell http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Smitch
* Quebec and the Francophone local chapters - Prof. Thierry Badard [website: ]
* Cascadia Chapter - Karsten Vennemann [website: ]
Category:Education
Edwin Amado

===Edwin Amado ===
Researcher, Independent. http://www.wikisquare.de/
Location: Boyacá, Colombia
I was graduated in civil engineering in 2006. On the university I saw the GIS world, into an optative matter at the end of the career. Just after receiving my title, I worked in a project supported by the European Community in 2007, with the goal of protect natural resources in my region using geomatics. In that project I learnt the power of GIS in the management of natural resources. Then, I decided continue my academical preparation in a selflearning way, studying French and GIS. 
My first autonomous experience after my graduation it was to translate from French to Castilian, the documentation of SavGIS, a GIS software developped by the IRD (Institute de Recherche pour le Developpement), a scientific institution for international cooperation of the French Government. 
At the beginning of 2009 I discovered the world of GNU/Linux systems and since that time I am a totally satisfied user and advocate of Libre Software. I've had the chance of use operative systems like Venenux, OSGeoLive, all the Ubuntu's family and SLAX, among others. In the field of GIS software, I've learnt how to use of GRASS, QuantumGIS (QGIS), gvSIG and Kosmo. 
At the end of 2010 I had the opportunity of travel to Caracas (Venezuela) to the 2nd Latin American and Caribean Users Journey of gvSIG and to the 1st Peruvian Simposium on Remote Sensing and GIS in Lima (Perú) to expose two works related with FOSS GIS. 
At the end of 2011 I found Geopublisher (GP) and AtlasStyler (AS). I translated its interface to Castilian, guided by Stefan Alfons Tzeggai, developer of those two programs. Besides, I wrote a 130 pages handbook and I made some video tutorials about the use of GP. Due to my experience translating and documenting GP, I became an expert making digital multimedia atlases and I begun to work searching for its application in the resolution of social problems in my country.
In may 2012 I was invited by Stefan Tzeggai to form part of Wikisquare, the team that offers professional support for GP.
;OSGeo Experience 
:* Colaboration in translating QGIS context help to castilian.
:* Translator of the Geopublisher and AtlasStyler interface to castilian. 
:* Author of the castilian handbook and video tutorials for Geopublisher 1.8.
;Contact:
: Email: correo-e DOT eaab AT hotmail DOT com
;Spoken Language(s): Spanish, French (reading) English (reading), Portuguese (reading)
;Profile last updated: 08 09 2012
Category:OSGeo Member
Eighteenth VisCom Meeting

=== Date and Time ===
The meeting will be on February 28th, 2007, at 16:00 UTC []] (8am PST)
The meeting will take place on IRC at #osgeo and as a [conference call].
=== Standing Agenda ===
# Assign scribe
# Roll call
# review of previous meeting's minutes and tasks
# New Business (below)
# Review action items
# Set next meeting date
# Adjourn
* Where 2.0
** BOF
** mapping service?
** OGC/Raj
Eighth VisCom Meeting

=== Date and Time ===
The meeting was held on July 13th, 2006: Eighth_VisCom_Meeting_Minutes.
=== Standing Agenda ===
# Assign scribe
# Rollcall (chair)
# New Business (below)
# Old Business (below)
# Review action items (chair)
# Set next meeting date (chair)
# Adjourn
=== New Business ===
# high-level talks (mpg)
## discuss VisCom mission and charter
## mpg backtracks a bit: let us focus on what we know we need to do now, with the limited resources we have
## tentative list of Most Important Things We Could Do:
### event coordination
### coordinate any outreach/inreach oppos that comes our way
### provide brochures, white papers, etc
### press releases
### ?
# update VisCom membership list (mpg)
## Remove Daniel, add Auke as members of committee
## put PeterM into stasis; add Kirsten
## mpg now chair
## others mods?
# Upcoming events
## OSCON Event Logistics, (July 24-28) 
### How to get more shirts?
## Geoweb - overlap with OSCON ?
## FOSS4G
## EurOSCON (smaller)
## Map World Forum
## Map Asia 2006
## next steps for additional Autodesk/OSGeo Shows
# tracking events
## what do we have for events pages?
## need to list: name of event, OSGeo contact person, do we have a booth, list of OSGeo speakers
# need to add TM to the logo
## other formats for Tyler?
# Newsletter plans
## external
## internal
# press release
## OSGeo is 6 months old
## MapBender release
## Open Source in National Interest tie-in
## OSGeo at OSCon?
# need new brochures for show attendees:
## "overview/matrix of all our products" 
## resource list: books, consultants, ...?
# add new items here
=== Old Business ===
# review of open issues in CollabNet (chair)
# (from old TODO list) Operate OSGeo Booth (arnulf)
# (from old TODO list) Work on https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org contents (arnulf)
# (from old TODO list) Organize translation volunteers. (arnulf)
# (from old TODO list) prepare Web page contents about "What OSGeo is doing" to attract sponsors. This is related to Fundraising. Then forward this material to WebCom (arnulf?)
# (from old TODO list) Setup feedback mechanism for web site. I suppose this ought to be creating artifacts in the bug system, but a feedback email list might be more appropriate. (arnulf?)
# (from old TODO list) Recruit more members on discuss list. What skills are most valuable? (arnulf?)
# (held over from 3rd mtg) Can we move the Event List to its own page (from the main VisComm page)? (mpg)
# (held over from 5th mtg) Newsletter Notes (not Tyler)
Category:Marketing
Eighth VisCom Meeting Minutes

This meeting was mostly transcribed into the IRC logs, but was also held on a telephone conference call.
Present: Michael G., Arnulf C., Perry N., Frank W., Tyler M., Aaron K., Jo W., Josh L., Chris H., Aaron R.
== Action Items ==
# Tyler: follow up with Ian Turton see if he can help with booth at geoweb, let Kirsten (Autodesk) know.
# Who?: Need volunteer to be VisCom conf. organising contact for Autodesk at EuroOSCON. Have alread set up single contacts for Autodesk at certain conferences: Tyler (OSCON), Michael (Geoweb), Arnulf (FOSS4G), EuroOSCON (*?*)
# Kirsten: Disc. MapAsia and World Map Forum with Venka re: possibility of helping with an OSGeo booth.
# Tyler: See if GeoWeb passes are available for Aaron K/others.
# All: Consider short vs long term goals/priorities for VisCom
# Michael: To review and clarify committee wiki page re: priorities
# Tyler: Follow up with Alain re: VisCom membership
# All: Dave M. to be removed from committee, to focus on Fundraising
# Michael: Revamp events page, setup for adding more details/launching point on wiki
# All: Start adding TM symbol to our logo
# All: Need logo usage guidelines and icons (i.e. "Powered by OSGeo") in various formats
# All: Consider how to join, membership benefits
# Michael: Press release
Election 2008

The OSGeo annual elections come in two phases. Firstly, the election of new Charter Members to the Foundation. This group is in turn responsible for electing members to the Board of Directors 
== Charter Member Election ==
In 2008 we are adding 15 new Charter Members to the Foundation. 
* Official list of Charter Members as of 2007
* Positive Attributes for new Charter Members
* Full details of the New Membership Process
* The New Member Nominations 2007 provide an illustration
* The role of the Chief Returning Officer
=== Nominate new Charter Members: 2008-05-23 - 2008-05-29 === 
* Please confirm with the nominated person first.
* Please email cro@osgeo.org with their name, contact email and paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member 
* New Member Nominations 2008
=== Vote for new Charter Members: 2008-05-30 - 2008-06-05 ===
* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote!
* Please email cro@osgeo.org with a list of names 15 lines long (one vote per new member slot)
* You can vote for 15 different people, or the same person 15 times, or any balance in between.
== Board Election ==
* Following the Board Election Procedure there are 4 seats up for election this year.
* Frank Warmerdam, Arnulf Christl, Dave McIlhagga and Chris Holmes have reached the end of their 2 year term; Dave McIlhagga has decided to not stand for re-election. Thanks for your past work, Dave! The others must receive a nomination in order to stand in the 2008 election.
* Continuing Board members who have another year to serve are Markus Neteler (DE/IT), Bob Bray (CA/US), Paul Ramsey (CA), Jo Walsh (UK/ES) and Jeroen Ticheler (NL/IT) 
=== Nominate new Board Members - 2008-06-13 - 2008-06-20 ===
* Please confirm with the person that they would like to stand for election as a Board member
* Email a nomination, consisting of name and a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to cro@osgeo.org by the end of Friday 20th June 2008
* Please also cc: the nomination to the OSGeo discussion list - discuss@lists.osgeo.org - so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on.
* Remember that only Charter Members of OSGeo are eligible for a seat on the Board 
* The final list will be collected at Board Member Nominations 2008
=== Vote for new Board Members - 2008-07-14 - 2008-07-25 ===
* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote
* Choose from Board Member Nominations 2008 list
* Email cro@osgeo.org with a list of names 4 lines long (one vote per new member slot)
* You can vote for 4 different people, or the same person 4 times, or any balance in between.
* Voting closes midnight (your timezone) 25-July-2008
* Results will be posted at Board Election Results 2008
* Contact cro@osgeo.org with questions
Category:Elections Category:Election 2008
Election 2009

The OSGeo annual elections come in two phases. Firstly, the election of new Charter Members to the Foundation. This group is in turn responsible for electing members to the Board of Directors 
== Charter Member Election ==
In 2009 we are adding up to 30 new Charter Members to the Foundation. 
* Official list of Charter Members as of 2008
* Positive Attributes for new Charter Members
* Full details of the New Membership Process
* The New Member Nominations 2008 provide an illustration
* The role of the Chief Returning Officer
=== Nominate new Charter Members: 2009-08-13 - 2009-08-22 === 
* Please confirm with the nominated person first.
* Please email cro@osgeo.org with their name, contact email and paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member 
* New Member Nominations 2009
=== Vote for new Charter Members: 2009-08-23 - 2009-09-06 ===
* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote!
* Please email cro@osgeo.org with a list of names 15 lines long (one vote per new member slot)
* You can vote for 15 different people, or the same person 15 times, or any balance in between.
=== Final Status: 2009-09-09 ===
* Because the number of members nominated was less that our maximum for the year, all nominees were accepted.
* The list of nominees is at New Member Nominations 2009
== Board Election ==
* Following the Board Election Procedure there are 5 seats up for election this year.
* Paul Ramsey, Bob Bray, Markus Neteler, Jo Walsh, and Jeroen Ticheler have reached the end of their 2 year term; Paul Ramsey, Bob Bray and Jo Walsh have decided to not stand for re-election. Thanks for your past work, Jo, Bob and Paul! The others must receive a nomination in order to stand in the 2009 election.
* Continuing Board members who have another year to serve are Arnulf Cristl (DE), Ari Jolma (FI), Howard Butler (US), Frank Warmerdam (CA) 
=== Nominate new Board Members - 2009-09-10 - 2009-09-21 ===
* Please confirm with the person that they would like to stand for election as a Board member
* Email a nomination, consisting of name and a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to cro@osgeo.org by the end of Monday 21th September 2009
* Please also cc: the nomination to the OSGeo discussion list - discuss@lists.osgeo.org - so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on.
* Remember that only Charter Members of OSGeo are eligible for a seat on the Board 
* The final list will be collected at Board Member Nominations 2009
=== Vote for new Board Members - 2009-09-22 - 2009-09-29 ===
* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote
* Choose from Board Member Nominations 2009 list
* Email cro@osgeo.org with a list of names up to 5 lines long (one vote per board slot)
* You can cast 5 votes, for 5 different people or all for the same person, or some combination in between.
* Voting closes midnight (your timezone) 29-September-2009
* Results will be posted at Board Election 2009 Results
* Contact cro@osgeo.org with questions
Category:Elections Category:Election 2009