<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear GDAL/OGR users and developers, </div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday, Forest Informatics, Inc., a provider of turnkey and custom solutions for forest resource management announced a partnership with credativ, a global open source consulting, service, and support company.</div><div><br>Together, credativ and Forest Informatics will offer introductory and advanced training on geospatial analytics using open source technology such as PostgreSQL, PostGIS, R, and PL/R. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">The first course of “Open Geospatial University”TM is a three day introductory short course titled </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.credativ.us/pg_w_spatial/" target="_blank" title="Intro to PostgreSQL with PostGIS" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">"Intro to PostgreSQL with Spatial Analysis Extensions"</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">. This offering will teach students the fundamentals of databases using PostgreSQL, geospatial database management using the PostGIS extensions to PostgreSQL, and basic data processing techniques using the PL/R extension which allows stored procedures to be written using R, a popular statistical computing language. As part of the class, we will present techniques to import and export data into PostGIS using the GDAL/OGR tools and briefly cover basic and advanced options. Also, g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">raduates will also receive bundled “Bootstrap Support”TM, to help accelerate them through the initial learning curve when they leave the class.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div>For more details please see:</div><div><br> <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/06/prweb4125794.htm">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/06/prweb4125794.htm</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Respectfully, </div><div>Jeff.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>Jeff Hamann, PhD<br>PO Box 1421<br>Corvallis, Oregon 97339-1421<br>541-754-2457<br>jeff.hamann[at]forestinformatics[dot]com<br><a href="http://www.forestinformatics.com/">http://www.forestinformatics.com</a></div></span>
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