This http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/estudiantes/Especificaciones-tecnicas might also link ideas with the Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks SoC project [1]that Massimo Di Stefano is doing.
Suchith [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_GSoC_2015 ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 5:16 PM To: Vaclav Petras; OSGeo Discussions; Tom Roche Cc: Leah Keith-Houle; Michael Solem; ICA OSGeo Labs list Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations I am fully available to help Ms Leah Keith-Houle and others in their efforts to shift to the use of Open Source GIS software in Middle & High Schools. At this very moment we are organizing a workshop for several high schools in Montevideo (Uruguay) in a "train the trainer" form that will probably be of interest for others. It will be held on July 14th and after that every teacher must prepare a proposal to work with their students (we'll be assisting them in task). We will be working with gvSIG Batoví which was originally a simplified version of gvSIG adapted to run in the first laptops of the Ceibal Plan (http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/). Today these laptops are far more powerful (full list at: http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/estudiantes/Especificaciones-tecnicas) so we'll be using the Desktop version of gvSIG with the Portable View and Portable Editor extensions. All materials will be available for reuse and it is my intention to translate them into English (please tell me if you consider this of interest). We should be thinking about how to store the educational materials that we want to share and make available. Best wishes, Sergio Acosta y Lara Departamento de Geomática Dirección Nacional de Topografía Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY ________________________________ De: [email protected] <[email protected]> en nombre de Vaclav Petras <[email protected]> Enviado: sábado, 27 de junio de 2015 20:28 Para: OSGeo Discussions; Tom Roche Cc: Leah Keith-Houle; Michael Solem; ICA OSGeo Labs list Asunto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Tom Roche <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Randal Hale Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:17:54 -0400[2] > Ms Keith (on this list as of last night and cc'd) has a lab but it is quickly > going out of date with regards to proprietary software. My wish has been to > replace everything with QGIS - GIS is GIS. And OS[3] are OS, so maximize the utility of the > "older computers" at schools [being used] for learning and slap a Linux on them. The OSGeo wiki points to some bundles, including (e.g.) DebianGIS[4], Enterprise Linux GIS[5], and UbuntuGIS[6] (of which, IIUC, the latter is the most active). And sure enough, there are Linux distributions designed to work well on (very) low-end hardware, for example Lubuntu [1] and Xubuntu [2]. [1] http://lubuntu.net/ [2] http://xubuntu.org/ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
