[Qgis-community-team] new case study: "Using a free GIS at Jaime Moniz Secondary School: Quantum GIS (Madeira, Portugal)"

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Giovanni,

thanks, can you send me the original images, please. Then I can add it later
today.

Regards,
 Otto

Am Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:02:09 +0100
schrieb Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'll send the PDF directly to Otto as I guess is too big to be attached
> here.
> 
> This is the introduction:
> 
> "There will be democratic teaching in our schools or education
> communities when we generalize the use of Open Source software. This
> demands not only a change in people's way of thinking (sometimes molded
> by advertising), but also a sustainable management of expenses and,
> indirectly, fighting against software piracy. These advantages which are
> inherent to the philosophy of the Open Source software will be the model
> to follow if we want a quality education without boundaries or
> dependencies of any kind.
> 
> >From this perspective, class 35 of the 12th grade belonging to the
> technological course of territory and environment at Jaime Moniz
> Secondary School, uses QGIS to develop activities proposed in
> Geographical Information Systems, Applied Information Systems and during
> their training period.
> 
> Within the range of options of free GIS, there were three underlying
> reasons for the choice of Open Source selection: the user friendly
> andintuitive approach, supported by online information provided by
> forums; the several software plug-ins and the quality of the product in
> its final stage."
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> -- Giovanni --