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