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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'>Ari had suggested
that I subscribe to this mailing list, which I have done.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Bitstream Vera Sans"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'>I’m trying to
get a little more active in OSGeo, and had mentioned on the main mailing list
that I’d probably be able to help out mostly in the education area.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Bitstream Vera Sans"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'>I took a look at the
Education Working Groups page of the Wiki. I think I can correlate some work I’ll
be doing for the local chapter of my Surveyor’s association with the Free
GIS Book. I’ll be preparing some educational material on basic math for
surveyors. It won’t be hard to modify this slightly to apply to all
mapping professions, and I thought we might make it a chapter or chapters in
the Free GIS Book. I had put together a preliminary outline for this material
here:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Bitstream Vera Sans"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'><a
href="http://surveyoswiki.pbwiki.com/f/Coordinate_Geometry_For_Surveyors.pdf">http://surveyoswiki.pbwiki.com/f/Coordinate_Geometry_For_Surveyorspdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'>Obviously this will
need to change a little so that it is appropriate for the Free GIS Book.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Bitstream Vera Sans"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'>So here is my first
set of questions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Bitstream Vera Sans"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'>What is the current
status of the Free GIS Book? Is there a basic chapter outline or chapter
template created yet?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Bitstream Vera Sans"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'>I’ve also had
a basic data set for GIS newbies on my list of things to do as an administrator
at OpenJUMP. I think this might coincide with the goals of the Data Package
Group. Has that working group put together a set of data? If they have, I’d
love to use it for OpenJUMP training materials. If they haven’t, perhaps
I can put something together from free data available for my local county. I’d
follow the direction of the Data Package Group members of course.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'>At any rate, I will
only have time to tackle one of these tasks for now. I’ll start with
whatever one works best for the others.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans"'>Just let me know.</span></font><font
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