Hi, I am a new instructor on Basic GIS in a small college in the Philippines. We find it hard to request for a dedicated GIS lab for student to tinker around. In last term's basic GIS course, we used the foss4g2006 lausanne live-CD for our exercise using the schools generic computer lab. The live-cd works just fine, we basically set-up the samba server so that students can access Philippine datasets for the exercises.
For this term, were trying out the ominiverdi live-cd. With constant lobbying, I finally persuaded the department to explore setting-up a dedicated GIS lab. No assurance on when and how will this initiative will go through, but I was asked to write a proposal on how do we plan to implement this project. I would like to ask this list on experiences in setting up a GIS lab for students (both for undergrad & graduate course). Initially, I have the following on my mind: hardware: 1 server, 5 thin clients OS: Linux LTSP route (debian-based) GIS applications: OSGEO stack (GRASS, QGIS, Mapserver) databse and stats: R, postgesql other apps: standard office applications (openoffice, firefox, pdf reader) online course management: moodle Any ideas on how we should go about this? One thing thats bugging me is, can LTSP setup handle GIS computing-intensive tasks using the thin clients. Apart from preparing the proposal, I am also looking for sponsors or where we can submit the proposal for possible funding. I know ESRI has this "altruistic" facility to schools. But I also want the lab as advocating for software freedom (as in speech) philosophy. Any org/institution we can ask for help? Any ideas would be helpful. cheers, maning -- |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |http://www.geocities.com/esambale/philbiodivmap/philbirds.html | |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser
