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<p>Welcome Victor,</p>
<p>It is great to see your interest. If you or others that you are
working with would like to contribute, I suggest looking at the
potential ways you'd like to give back, and then describe how
you'd like to contribute in the list of people keen to take part:</p>
<p><a
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Key_roles_sought">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Key_roles_sought</a></p>
<p>Warm regards, Cameron<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/4/19 5:39 pm, Victor Sunday
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Season of Doc Folks,
<div>I am Victor N.Sunday, I run a local community of
OSM/GeoForAll Lab in Nigeria:The UniqueMappersTeam</div>
<div><a href="https://twitter.com/uniquemappers"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://twitter.com/uniquemappers</a> .We
are involved in Citizen Science ,VGI ,Crowdsourced Mapping and
lots within my mentoring program and capacity ,trying to grow
and expand local teams in Universities in Nigeria and
Africa,now about 10 teams of UniqueMappersTeam Network
affiliate to HOT and OSGeo stuff .</div>
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<div>I work as a Lecturer,Geoinformatics @Geography and
Environmental Management ,University of Port Harcourt,teaching
currently,Remote Sensing and Cartography and some practical
GIS. <br>
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<div>I am a HOT Voting Member and a member of OSGeo and do
follow all OSGeo and QGIS activities.Lots of work and impact
is still needed over here with QGIS and would actively
participate and contribute while receiving the needed
mentoring to impact over here.</div>
<div>Thanks</div>
<div>Victor N.Sunday </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:46
AM Andrew Jeffrey <<a href="mailto:aljeffrey83@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">aljeffrey83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,
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<div>I agree with Jo's respone to Camerons question. </div>
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<div>Training materials are generally tailored to a type of
customer and I this believe makes it difficult to develop
consolidated material that works for everyone. The
similarities I do see in training material though is the
basics, the kind of basics that are taught to new users
like those in the education space.</div>
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<div>As Jo mentioned there is potential here to break a
monolopy in this space, and get exposure to new users
early in their development. What makes this even better is
a solid training material base owned by the community can
be used by anyone creating training material, providing a
consistent training base whether you learn in your own
time online or go to trainer "A". Effectively
consolidating the "QGIS beginner" training material.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Andrew</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at
2:21 AM Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jo.k.cook@gmail.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">jo.k.cook@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">HI All,
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Jo</div>
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at 2:27 PM Cameron Shorter <<a
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>>
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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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10/4/19 10:13 pm, Nick Bearman wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Cameron suggested I send an email
to the list introducing myself, so here it is!<br
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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>
<div><br>
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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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