[OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial
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 Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial
I guess the question is- what's going to get the interest of/be relevant to third year undergrads? While licensing is important, it's not, if you're a student. What you're interested in, is being able to do your work, figure out what's going to help you get a job etc. So I'd focus on the daft limitations of Acme Proprietary GIS- the license that means you can't use it at home, or anywhere if you come from particular countries, and the skills that are required in the workplace these days. Jo On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk 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 Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platformhttp://www.isharemaps.com/ * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial
An application area often ignored in the GIS community is that of Computer-Aided-Dispatch, a key element of emergency response, in which location data is clearly critical. Our Open Source CAD, Tickets by name, is one example. (www.ticketscad.org) On 9/30/13, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk 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 Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial
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 Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial
I forgot to mention I have a 1-2 hour QGIS workshop that covers the basics of vector and raster with a dataset. Been meaning to post it, I've done it with OSGeo Live several times. If you want it let me know. Thanks, Alex On 09/30/2013 10:18 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: 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 Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
