[California] FW: [Geowanking] seeking academic hosts for "GIS 101 for NPOs"

[Alex Mandel]

There's a very good chance, I'll forward it on. Alan at UCSB might also
be interested and I could pass it on to some contacts at Cal states that
I know (Northridge, Stanislaus).

Could you give some more details on when, and some more specifics about
who you are and past events?

This might coincide well with GIS Day in November too.

Thanks,
Alex


Landon Blake wrote:
> Any chance our UC Davis geography folks would be interested in the
> request below?
> 
> Landon
> Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
> Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geowanking-bounces at geowanking.org
> [mailto:geowanking-bounces at geowanking.org] On Behalf Of
> jim at maptogether.org
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:35 PM
> To: geowanking at geowanking.org
> Subject: [Geowanking] seeking academic hosts for "GIS 101 for NPOs"
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We're planning our fall sessions of "GIS 101 for Nonprofit and Community
> Organizations" which is a free seminar we offer in cities around the
> country to local nonprofit groups.  (The focus is much more on public
> participatory examples and Google Maps, not the latest and greatest
> features in Arc or technical comparison of projections :)
> 
> Ideally, we'd like to have a local university/college's geography/earth
> sciences or urban planning department host these events but August has
> been a bad time to recruit hosts in academia.
> 
> If you or someone you know would be interested in hosting the event in
> your city, please get in touch with me.  It's very low-impact: just
> provide a classroom or conference room with Internet access and a
> projector.  We even bring coffee and donuts for the attendees and roving
> grad students :)  We're currently seeking hosts all over the continental
> US for the Fall and Winter tours.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Jim
> 
> Jim Craner
> Project Manager, MapTogether
> jim at maptogether.org
> skype: jimcraner
> http://maptogether.org
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