Ravi wrote:
Part of the issue is getting faculty to learn themselves and make the shift. This underlies what I am getting at. I need to learn it. Busy faculty teach what they have learned in the past. I'm currently involved in trying to get faculty at my campus to shift to R stats, for example. But it requires that they revise their material. Asst profs working toward tenure don't have the incentive to do this. So one of the key things is how can we help faculty retool?'Universities should teach only with FOSS'Wish academia think like that.
This will be a long process. WHat might be easier is focusing on the next crop of Assistant Professors...
So one idea might be to start a wikipage (maybe with Digg-it like voting) listing some key new FOSS geo research/development needs that grad students might take on as a thesis project....
I'm puzzling if we should move this conversation over to the Edu listserv, but then it is great to have these people not subscribed there with ideas and input. I'd like to organize a BOF and possibly a virtual conference or workshop to really dig into this issue and come up with some concrete steps forward.
I'm also wondering if we could get some funding somewhere to hold an invited workshop (that pays for people to attend) to really dig into this.
Charlie
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