[OSGeo-Edu] Re: FreeGIS book effort

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

2008/7/6  <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>:
> Hi Jorge, Victor:
>
> 1) I went looking on the OSGeo wiki todo list
> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_Committee_Work_Program) for a link to the
> current FreeGIS book material and couldn't find it. It's also not listed on the
> educational content page that I can see.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Educational_Content_Inventory
>
> You might want to add it to both with a request for help in either writing or
> translating chapters.

Hi, I've updated both wiki pages with the lacking info, I hope is
enough. Please Victor take a look just to make sure everything is OK

>
> 2) A PhD student here that works for me who has written some of our open source
> GIS training material is looking for some funds for the next year to help
> support her program. She's from Spain and speaks both Spanish and English.
>
> Does anyone know if there is any funding possibilities out there to hire her to
> do the translation from Spanish to English for the chapters you have written?
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>

Well, I've no idea of how to get funding for your student.

Maybe presenting the materials to an editorial and proposing them to
pay to get some parts (that mean a whole, for example the SDI or the
raster analysis parts) translated or for example improving figures
(yes, improve figures is a really boring part so we need someone who
pays for them :P) could be possible but is just an idea.

I see (for Spanish students) proposing scholarships to improve the
book could be possible. When I was at the university I did worse works
as a grant holder!

> CHeers
> Charlie Schweik

Best regards
-- 
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
http://www.geomaticblog.net
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