<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Maria<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First of all thank you very much for your message, and I echo Anita’s sentiments, it is really great to see that you are using QGIS as part of your training programme. I should explain that QGIS is a community project and most of us already donate substantial amounts of time and effort to the project. Whilst we applaud the work you are doing it will probably be difficult for us to offer support as a community on yet another platform. We already have established platforms by which we support our community and participating in a new one would simply dilute the effort we are able to make elsewhere.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I highly encourage to send your students to the standard community support forums and other support channels that are detailed on the following web page: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/support.html" class="">http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/support.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will find our community welcoming and helpful within those fora.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our very best regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim Sutton</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(on behalf of the QGIS project)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 May 2016, at 20:50, Anita Graser <<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at" class="">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Dear Maria,</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Thank you for getting in touch. It's great to hear that you will introduce UN experts to QGIS!</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Let me forward your request for support to the PSC because many people have been much more involved in creating the training manual and discussing education efforts [0] than I have been.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">I'll be happy to help where I can but most of my support effort goes into <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/" class="">gis.stackexchange.com</a> rather than localized platforms which might not appear on Google search results when users are looking for answers.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Best wishes<br class="">
Anita</p><p dir="ltr" class="">0: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-edu" class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-edu</a></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 24, 2016 6:11 PM, "Graser Anita" <<a href="mailto:Anita.Graser@ait.ac.at" class="">Anita.Graser@ait.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
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From: Maria Brovelli [<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>]<br class="">
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 9:40 PM<br class="">
To: Graser Anita<br class="">
Cc: alberta.albertella; Ki-Joune Li<br class="">
Subject: QGIS Tutorial<br class="">
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Dear Anita<br class="">
I asked colleagues and students of mine to use and revise your tutorial in preparation of suggesting the tutorial to UN staff who is involved in the migration to Open Source.<br class="">
They found it excellent, detailed and rich. Thanks for suggesting it on the GeoForAll UN Training Web Page!<br class="">
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Now we are starting in a month or two (at most september) a first experimental period in which we want to "work" with UN staff who will try to use the self-explaining tutorials by themselves but having some remote tutors they can ask when they have doubts.<br class="">
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The first software are QGIS, PostGIS and Geonode.<br class="">
I wonder wheter you can be a volunteer tutor for your QGIS tutorial, contributing to the blog and forum and answering questions.<br class="">
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Alberta and I (Alberta, in CC, is a collegue of mine at PoliMI) will create a virtual class with UN staff as students and G4A and other people as tutors.<br class="">
Are you able to help us? If not, can you suggest us another person?<br class="">
We will send the people who will part of this experiment some instructions to be able to "work" in the educational Politecnico platform, which is Beep.<br class="">
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Many thanks and best regards!!<br class="">
Maria<br class="">
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P.S. Anita, dear, I'm contacting you as member of QGIS PSC. If you are not the right person, please forward my email to who can help me.<br class="">
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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli<br class="">
Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor<br class="">
Politecnico di Milano<br class="">
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ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET<br class="">
Sol Katz Award 2015<br class="">
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Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)<br class="">
Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321<br class="">
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