[Ottawa_users] OSGeo workshops/etc.

[Sampson, David]

I agree...

BTW your original post got scrubbed, see bellow.  Something is
definitely going on with the list serve these days, getting lots of
bounces.

Cheers 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Mitchell [mailto:smitch at me.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:44
> To: Ottawa (Canada) Local Chapter List
> Subject: Re: [Ottawa_users] OSGeo workshops/etc.
> 
> Sounds and looks great!  This would be a good option to make 
> our work have lasting / broader impact.
> 
> I see Dave is starting to bat tutorial ideas around.  Perhaps 
> we can discuss what it ready, what should be worked on, etc., 
> and when something is mature enough for a multimedia 
> possibility, we should schedule something with you.
> 
> I keep in touch with the OSGEO Education committee, too, and 
> there's a lot of demand for not only developing tutorials, 
> but getting them available and linked to the catalog being built at:
> 
> http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
> 
> Dave, note there's some stuff to potentially build on there.
> 
> Plus, some of it (hopefully more in the future) is being 
> loaded into osgeo svn, so that people can directly update 
> content as time goes on and software gets updated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Scott
> 
> On 14 Apr 2009, at 13:11, Andrew Ross wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > In case it is helpful, so long as it's open source software, I am 
> > happy to enable workshops/lunch & learn sessions. This 
> means filming, 
> > encoding, with hosting included. All for $0.
> >
> > I can do live webcasts too with a decent internet 
> connection such as 
> > cable/DSL or similar.
> >
> > There's a bunch of examples on http://fosslc.org. Here's a recent 
> > example (for OpenMoko, but you'll get the idea - 
> demos/code/slides... 
> > it's all
> > good):
> > http://hosting3.epresence.tv/fosslc/1/watch/53.aspx?
> >
> > I'm happy to do this. Please just plan it ahead of time 
> with me so I 
> > can fit it into my schedule. Thanks.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> > [mailto:ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Russell 
> > McOrmond
> > Sent: April 14, 2009 7:54 AM
> > To: Ottawa (Canada) Local Chapter List
> > Subject: [Ottawa_users] OSGeo workshops/etc.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Dave Sampson wrote:
> >
> >> there was chat about some people interested in some GRASS 
> workshops 
> >> or tutorials on other software.
> >>
> >> What do people think?
> >
> >   I'm interested to learn more.
> >
> >   At work there are some "lunch and learn" sessions that are being 
> > hosted by ESRI.  They use a combination of a remote desktop 
> (MS Live 
> > Meeting, but could just as easily be Citrix gotomeeting.com or 
> > similar) and a conference call.
> >
> >   I've asked the organizer if we could continue these 
> sessions later 
> > to include the OSGeo components as well.  What I don't know is the 
> > details of how that might be done.  In the case of ESRI they may be 
> > free and come out of their marketing budget -- so now sure 
> how to do 
> > the same for OSGeo which doesn't have such a budget to dip into.
> >
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