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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear Rafael,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>thank you for your email. I take the liberty to forward it to the opengeoscience mailing list, because it is of general interest. During the last virtual meeting, it has been discussed about the opportunity to propose one single course covering several projects, starting from osgeolive, or rather proposing more than one short course. The opinions were different. Someone also pointed out that there are so many events going on at EGU, that it is hard to involve the people for more than a course. However, after all it is not up to us to decide, but the organizers of EGU will approve or not the proposed courses. My suggestion is indeed that you guys propose the course to EGU, and the opengeoscience group support the initiative with the broader publicity. As far as I’m concerned, I find your proposal very interesting and I would myself be interested in attending the courses. I would probably not attend if the course was less specific and also covering other software, because from my experience it is difficult to enter into detail and actually take home some real experience, if the topic is too general. This is why I believe it is a good thing to keep the postgis short course separated from the osgeolive one. On the other hand, people approaching osgeolive for the first time might be more attracted by other software, perhaps desktop GIS, or geospatial libraries, and would not bear a detailed presentation of postgis. But this is my opinion, and I’d like to hear also others’. In the meanwhile, I’d invite you (Rafael) to add your idea in the wiki page at <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee#Activities">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee#Activities</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Margherita<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Moreno-sanchez, Rafael [mailto:Rafael.Moreno@ucdenver.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:15 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Margherita Di Leo' <margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu><br><b>Cc:</b> Oliveira, Ricardo P <RICARDO.OLIVEIRA@ucdenver.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> Rafael workshop idea<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Margherita, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Following some of the email I have seen. I noticed that more specific ideas for workshop contend were circulated. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here are some from us.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Two levels depending on audience and interest:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>BASIC LEVEL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Introduction to PostGIS - Common GIS tasks in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>This workshop provides an introduction to PostGIS and basic RDBMS concepts. Attendees will explore how simple SQL queries can perform powerful spatial operations in a database system. This workshop will focus on vector data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>INTERMEDIATE LEVEL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Intermediate PostGIS - The Vector and Raster workflow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>This workshop will focus on more advanced composite SQL queries, how to combine different PostGIS functions to extend the capabilities and get the best performance possible. This workshop will also explore how PostGIS can be used to develop raster analysis. The workshop will also demonstrate how to use some GDAL functions for data pre-processing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rafael Moreno, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Colorado Denver<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Office: North Classroom 3524, Auraria Campus<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Campus Box 172<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1200 Larimer Street NC 3524<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Denver, CO 80204<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phone: 303-352-3762<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fax 303-556-6197<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>