The Geography Teachers Association of Queensland recently held their annual conference at the end of July, so we thought it would be great to have a presence there.
We enticed the attendees with some of the great merch from previous FOSS4G conferences and a selection of cartographic books. Ian, Greg and myself manned the store and it was a bonus that the volume of the Digital Atlas of Design we had on display was the one that Ian’s map was published in!
We talked to the teachers about FOSS4G offerings and how to bridge geospatial with other disciplines like programming and science courses. We also introduced the Humanitarium Open Street Map tasking opportunities to run as mapathons in schools.
This was a great opportunity to think about where we could go with the provision of educational resources such as academic exercises, a guide for schools in FOSS4G adoption, and how to run a HOT Task session.