[postgis-users] PostGIS in Action Book Technical Reviewers needed

[Jan Hartmann]

  Hi Regina, Leo,

I would like to have a go at having a close look at your book. It is 
useful for my work here at the University of Amsterdam, both for what I 
am doing myself and (hopefully) for setting up a GIS database course 
based on PostGIS. That being the case, I don't think we need to go over 
the hassle of paying something to the University for something that I 
consider part of my job. People don't get paid for writing reviews here.

Next two weeks I have lots of time, as almost everyone is still on 
holiday (that's something we have over here :-)). After that I have 
reasonable amounts of time available.

I would appreciate, though, if a few other people would go over the book 
too. I have been working with MapServer and PostGIS for about ten years 
now (and with GRASS since 1991), but of course there are lots of things 
I am still not really acquainted with.

Regards,

Jan

Dr. J. Hartmann
Department of Geography
University of Amsterdam
tel; 31-20-525-7459
email: J.L.H.Hartmann at uva.nl




On 08/15/10 11:20, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> We are currently looking for technical reviewers for PostGIS in Action
> upcoming book.
>
> Ideally we would like to have one person, but we suspect that is too much to
> ask.  We have permission to split the book into separate sections and have
> each reviewer review each part.
>
> The pay is $2 per page.
>
> Reviewers need to have the following requisites
> 1) Good expertise in PostGIS is desired or the relevant proficiency in the
> selected chapters
> 2) Ability to test all the code in the selected chapters
> 3) Ability to point out logical flows in our explanations etc.
> 4) Not sure how much time we have left, but we are estimating about  3-4
> weeks for review. So willingness and ability to finish in that time frame.
>
> If you are interested, please drop us a line off list.  Let us know the
> following:
>
> a) If you are able to review the whole book or you have specific chapters
> you would like to review
> b) What time frame you would think it would take you to do that
>
>
> Topics we are covering are listed here:
> http://www.postgis.us/chapters
>
> Thanks,
> Leo and Regina
> http://www.postgis.us
>
>
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