[OSGeo-Edu] Free GIS book news

[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]

Thanks for the update Victor! I'm wondering if any of the faculty on this list
know of any students who might want to help with this translation process.

And if others have any news to share about their relevant projects/progress,
(e.g., classes/material development) keep us posted!

We're roughly 6 months from the next OSGeo conference...

Cheers
Charlie



Quoting Victor Olaya Ferrero <volaya at unex.es>:

> Hi all,
>
> Here are some news about the Free GIS book.
>
> We had a new meeting of authors, this time in Girona, where the "II
> Jornadas de SIG libre" (roughly, the spanish version of the FOSS4G
> congress) were held. Tyler Mitchell attended the congress and also our
> meeting, so we had time to show him our progress and listen to his
> comments about it. He also agreed to write the preface of the book (thanks
> again, Tyler) ;-)
>
> We have decided to pick up a chapter among the ones that are already
> finished (or almost finished) and translate it into english, so it can be
> published in the OSGeo Journal. We hope that this encourages others to
> help us or volunteer for the english version of the book and, specially,
> to make people aware of the project.
>
> We still have to select the chapter to translate, but I hope that we will
> start working soon. None of us is a native speaker of english, so the
> resulting text is not likely to meet the quality criteria (in terms of
> language) for being published. You help is, therefore, appreciated. Anyone
> willing to volunteer for a language revision of the chapter, please get in
> contact with us.
>
> Regards
>
> Victor
>
>
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