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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>As one of the eight Government/Industry/NGO Partner labs this is an interesting topic. As they say, “I wear a lot of hats”, which often means I don’t fall neatly into categories. [1] I am a GIS consultant, [2] author of an open source public health mapping blog (<a href="http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/">http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/</a> ), [3] a co-author of Mastering QGIS, [4] a co-developer of the FOSS4G Academy, and [5] a part-time instructor at several universities and colleges. Wearing the latter hat [5], I’ve been teaching semester long FOSS4G courses for 7 years, and have developed 4 semester long open source GIS courses. All of this material is available and I’ve shared it with numerous teachers. Aside from Del Mar College, none of the schools I teach at have any other FOSS4G instructors besides myself. In fact I’ve led the FOSS4G charge with these schools, and have gotten the point where these are required courses.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So on one hand I am an educator, I have numerous associations with institutions of higher education, and teach about 10 FOSS4G courses per year. On the other hand I’m industry, I’m a GIS consultant working with dozens of clients. Some of that ends up being professional training.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m a hybrid <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span> So I’m not sure where someone like myself should be categorized. I suppose that largely depends on the desired form of the network of labs. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kurt <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>**************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Kurt Menke, GISP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Bird’s Eye View <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><a href="http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/" title="http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/"><span style='color:blue'>www.BirdsEyeViewGIS.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Work: 505-265-0243<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Cell: 505-362-1776<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>