[OSGeo Africa] Introduction to GIS & Remote Sensing short courses

[Jeroen Ticheler]

And if cheap is a reason, what about paying OSGeo 10$ per student for all software and online course materials already out there in open source?! ;-) Joking of course. You and your students can use it for free for the rest of your careers and even contribute by educating others. Just as Paolo wrote. 
Cheers,
Jeroen

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> Op 11 aug. 2014 om 09:48 heeft Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Il 11/08/2014 09:39, Gretha <gretha_g at sun.ac.za> ha scritto:
> 
>> Thanks! And yes we definitely want to go Open Source at some point (when there is time...), or at least include sections in which we use open source software. I'm also interested in converting these courses to on-line or distance learning courses at some point, and then open source would make sense.
>> In the meantime it is worth noting that ESRI gives us a great deal where enrolled students qualify to buy a student licence at a minimal fee and get the entire suite for a year - difficult to refuse!
> 
> Sorry if I'm rude, but I find this approach short sighted.
> With Open Source you effectively empower students, giving them powerful tools they
> can work with for free, improve, and master for their and their future customers use.
> All the best.
> 
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