[AtlanticCanada] Introduction

[Jarrett Totton]

Hi All,

I just figured I would introduce myself. My name is Jarrett Totton and
I am a student at NBCC Moncton taking the GIS Diploma program. I am
quite familiar with ESRI software, but when I came across GRASS it
piqued my interest being a powerful GIS analysis engine without the
powerful price-tag. I am not a programmer, my background is in
forestry, but I want to master the use of GRASS (I am still in the
learning phases, I know how to run it but am just learning where
everything is) and learn how to develop my own modules in
python(someday). I am quite interested in how people in the industry
are using GRASS and other open source geospatial software and for what
they are using it for. Also as a student I am interested in making
myself as employable as possible for when I graduate and feel that
GRASS and other free software will help with this.

But enough about me. I also read in some of your previous emails that
you as a group were seeking more involvement from schools and the
like. I am sue if someone was interested they would be more than
welcome to come to my school and introduce the organisation, and I
could help arrange this.

I would be very interested in sitting in on a meeting of the Atlantic
Chapter of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and would also like
learning more about OSM and how I can contribute and how the data from
OSM can be used in other projects and in what formats it can be used
in.

To end my short introduction of myself I would like to make a call for
ideas for a project I have to do for school. I would be interested in
solving a real world problem that has readily available data and would
show the capabilities of GRASS.

Thank you for your time,

Jarrett Totton