Here are my slides that I've remixed a few times for various guest lectures in College GIS courses. http://www.scribd.com/doc/172165387/Introduction-to-Geospatial-The-open-source-method
I mostly cover how the license makes it different, but students shouldn't be afraid of it - then how you can do all the same things you would expect, sometimes easier and sometimes harder than any other software option. Enjoy, Alex On 09/30/2013 08:05 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > A colleague who lectures on GIS at the university asked me if I'd give > him some advice on open-source geospatial so he could at least > introduce his third year geography & environmental science > undergraduates to the idea. Thanks to the joy of site licenses the > students get to use ACME Proprietary GIS System without having to > worry about the cost. > > So anyway, I offered to teach the lecture for him. What can I do in 50 > minutes (and possibly a workshop) for 90 undergraduates? Here's a > brain dump: > > Compare and contrast: Free/Open/Proprietary/Closed/Commercial. > Copyright/Licensing/GPL/Copyleft etc. > > Open Standards: formation and importance - talk about the OGC, > general goodness of interoperability > > Open source development advantages/perceived disadvantages and > rejoinders to those. > > Commercialising Open Source, open source in industry. > > Open Source in Education - reproducible science, 'climategate' as a > failure of openness? > > Case Studies: Open source in government - global deployments as case studies > > Open source in the UK: Ordnance Survey/Met Office case studies > > - thats probably enough for 50 minutes. If I can do a workshop I'd > probably just get them to boot up OSGeo Live and play with QGIS for an > hour, maybe try and duplicate one of their GIS exercises from an > earlier module (load layers, buffer, overlay, report...). > > Any thoughts? > > Barry > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
