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<div>in Potsdam, Germany the GIS Day events of the last three years have featured presentations about work done both with propietary and open source-based GIS. Such "peaceful coexistence" allows to reach out and talk shop with people using the "other" kind of GIS.</div>
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<div>To introduce OSGeo both as a organisation an a lifestyle, something like the nice presentations of Jody Garnet might be used:</div>
<div>Overview:</div>
<div>http://de.slideshare.net/jgarnett/osgeo-incubation-39305709</div>
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<div>OSGeo live:</div>
<div>http://de.slideshare.net/jgarnett/osgeo-live-14805196</div>
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<div>Also, geoforall could be a great ressource, possible also for remote training:</div>
<div>http://www.geoforall.org/</div>
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<div>It would be great if all OSGeo-related GIS Day presentations could eventually be pooled and permanently provided via a central access point. In the meantime, one viable way for reference and long term presevation could be archiving as grey literature via a research- or university library.</div>
<div>Here's an example from Potsdam: </div>
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<a href="http://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:292659:5" id="j_id_jsp_1061093437_13:lnkCitationURL" name="j_id_jsp_1061093437_13:lnkCitationURL">http://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:292659</a></div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Peter</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 19. September 2014 um 13:47 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Nicolas Gignac" <gignacnic@gmail.com><br/>
<b>An:</b> discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> OSGeo & GIS Day...</div>
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<div>Hello all,<br/>
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I saw this interesting post here on OSGeo & GIS Day in 2012: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-November/011158.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-November/011158.html</a><br/>
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I am currently in Africa for one month and someone here is organising an annual GIS Day in November. He wanted to do a formal OSGeo day with training session, so I was woundering if someone was able to make OSGeo part of the GIS Day in their own location? If so, how?</div>
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I think OSGeo should be part of GIS Day and show how FOSS4G can be useful and do some OSGeo software formal presentation & training session with OSGeo certificate (like ESRI does). I was thinking of also Skype or remote training session in these parts of the world where local chapter are not well establish and capacity building is a crucial need.<br/>
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Thanks.<br/>
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Cheers,<br/>
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Nicolas Gignac<br/>
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