[OSGeo Africa] 1: 500 000 hydrogeological maps of south africa

[Chlodwik Rossouw]

Hi Gavin,

Fair enough, this is a OSGeo mailing list, but it also seems to be more
than just covering OS related topics, which I think is extremely helpful to
the general Geo community is SA. If general GIS topics are not allowed on
this list, do you perhaps now of a forum or list that will cover general SA
related GIS topics?

With regards to your statement of "employers not asking software specific
questions", how should any potential employer test a potential employees
technical skills or knowledge then? All GIS employers use some or other GIS
software and in most cases, when they employ new staff, they want these
employees to be able to use the software, especially when it comes to being
a specialist. If your business or organisation works with specific OS or
proprietary software, you want someone to be able to fully utilise this
software without having to spend thousands of rands on training to get
someone up to speed.

Tenders is something different, but when a tender has been awarded and a
specific software solution has been implemented, surely skills in
this technology will be required?

Therefore, I can not see how any interview process or even job spec can not
contain or ask for skills or knowledge with regards to specific software.

Chlodwik


On 23 February 2012 09:43, Gavin <gavinjfleming at gmail.com> wrote:

> **
> I'm with you there Paul
>
> This is a FOSS GIS list so please keep on topic.
>
> As Paul says, employers should not be asking software-specific questions.
> Government employers especially, seeing that we have an Open Source policy
> in South Africa and ALL government GIS and other software WILL be FOSS
> within a few years.
>
> In the same vein, government tenders are not allowed to request specific
> software. Rather, they have to request a solution. This enables ALL
> software and solutions providers an opportunity to bid while the FOSS
> industry grows. Eventually Government tenders will enforce FOSS software
> requirements.
>
> Please help lobby and advocate FOSS in your environment, especially if you
> work in Government. Start by sharing GIS tenders and job adverts on this
> list and acting as watchdogs for tenders and job adverts that name
> proprietary software - share them on this list so that action can be taken.
>
> Gavin
>
> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:11 +0200, Paul Scott wrote:
>
> So many proprietary software specific questions? Why? Rather ask
> around concepts, not functions in specific software packages - those
> can be learned.
>
> This is OSGeo right? OS being relevant at some point?
>
> Just checking...
>
> -- Paul
>
> On 21/02/2012 11:46, Tshikororo.J wrote:
> > Define versioning and list its main events How will release com
> > objects. If you want to update 'n' number of features in
> > featureclass which interface will you use (performance wise) What
> > is Callback in ArcGIS Server? Explain security model employed in
> > ArcGIS Server . Whats new in 9.3? What is projection ? What are
> > different projection systems and what is difference between
> > projected coordinated system and geographic coordinate system What
> > is a scale.? What is geocoding? What is reverse geocoding? What is
> > geo-referencing? What is geo-processing? What is ArcSDE. What is
> > database which you used?. If two persons updating the particular
> > row of the table in database?. How does the system work?. How do
> > you load data into SDE? How will create a SDE view? What is an
> > interface to implemented for callback ? What is difference between
> > queryfilter and querydef?, when to use ? Difference between
> > IFeatureLayer and Layer What is generic class used to hold a set of
> > properties for database connection? Whether every controls in Web
> > ADF has a property "CallBackresults"? Give few command line ArcSDE
> > commands? Difference beteween personal geodatabase and enterprise
> > geodatabase What is ASP.NET AJax model used in ArcGIS Server 9.3
> > and 9.3 What is BLOB? What is difference between Overriding and
> > overloading Difference between abstract class and interface What is
> > GPS ?
>
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