<div dir="ltr">HI All,<div><br></div><div>Firstly introductions- I'm Jo Cook, and I've been involved in OSGeo stuff for a long time, my current role is as Chair and founder of the UK local chapter, though I've had a stint on the OSGeo board, and been involved in various conferences both in the UK and the International event. For my paid gig I'm a GIS consultant with Astun Technology, focusing on metadata, but with a role that encompasses the majority of the open source GIS stack. I'm really keen to find a role with the Season of Docs as I see it as a great way to contribute to projects without being a serious coder. I'd like to focus on Geonetwork, as it's a project very dear to my heart, and the documentation needs help catching up with the new features. I'd also like to make it easier for other non-coders to help improve the documentation rather than relying on the developers to resolve it.</div><div><br></div><div>Secondly- Cameron's question about QGIS courses- we also run QGIS training courses in the UK, and I think there's a fairly wide market, both geographically, and in the types of customer. We are focused on integration with cloud technologies, such as delivering QGIS via AWS AppStream, and less on teaching people to use all of the functionality, for example for higher-end processing and analysis. Having said that, I think there's a really big need for standard training materials- and also if possible the kind of training materials that could be used for schools, to try to break the monopoly that certain proprietary companies have on that area.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Jo</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:27 PM Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Thanks for the introduction Nick. One thing that puzzles me is
that there appears to be a lot of people setting up QGIS training
courses and I would have thought it would be beneficial of these
separate initiatives were to become more consolidated.</p>
<p>I'd expect that consolidating workshops would be a very valuable
task, as it would focus the community together.</p>
<p>It would also be a suitably challenging task to bring multiple
threads together, and something that would be worthy of a senior
technical writer's expertise.</p>
<p>What are people's thoughts on the current state of available QGIS
training courses? Is there potential to consolidate? Or is
everyone tailoring to their unique user base? <br>
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<p>Warm regards, Cameron<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_-8174159744361345516moz-cite-prefix">On 10/4/19 10:13 pm, Nick Bearman
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<div dir="ltr">Cameron suggested I send an email to the list
introducing myself, so here it is!<br clear="all">
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<div>I am Nick Bearman and I split my time between two roles
Teaching Fellow in Geospatial Analysis (University College
London) and GIS Trainer & Consultant (Geospatial
Training Solutions [my own consultancy]).</div>
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<div>I have contributed to QGIS documentation a couple of
times, I regularly write and deliver GIS training courses to
a variety of participants, and release some as Creative
Commons material. </div>
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<div>I'm keen to learn how to contribute more effectively,
particularly to QGIS documentation, and I am also looking to
run a workshop on how to contribute to OS documentation at
upcoming FOSS4G UK event in Edinburgh, UK in Sept.</div>
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<div>I am familiar with Git/GitHub and Markdown. The RST
format of the QGIS Documentation site sometimes eludes me! I
look forward to working with you all. </div>
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<div>Thanks very much to Cameron for coordinating and starting
this project. </div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Nick.</div>
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