[OSGeo-Edu] [Fwd: osgeo training]

[Landon Blake]

Radhakrishnan:

I am very excited to hear that you are working on a certificate for FOSS
GIS! It is great to see this type of support for open source software in
India. I wish we saw that type of enthusiasm in other places.

Let me know if I can help you with the course in some way. (I
occassionally volunteer for OSGeo, and I work as a programmer on
OpenJUMP.)

I'm sure the other members of the Education Committeee will be
supportive as well.

Landon
Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charlie
Schweik
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:10 AM
To: rkrishna at iiitmk.ac.in; OSGeo-edu
Subject: [OSGeo-Edu] [Fwd: osgeo training]

Dear Radhakrishnan,

Thank you for your email. Great things you are doing! I'm forwarding it 
on to the OSGeo education group list so others can see what you are
doing.

| Dear Mr.Charlie Schweik
| Let me introduce myself. I am Radhakrishnan, Chief Technical Officer 
at Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala 
(IIITM-K, www.iiitmk.ac.in <http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/>). IIITMK is 
located in Trivandrum, Kerala State of India. We have done so many 
initiatives such as
| projects, workshops and training using FOSSGIS. Now we are completely 
switched over to FOSS GIS and we are using almost all the tools of 
OSGEO. Also please visit http://www.akmindia.in/agrogis/dhwd1/index.php
| developed using Mapguide Open.

| We are planning to offer a Certificate Course in FOSS GIS. From our 
experience, in our State Kerala, we will get overwhelming response to 
such courses as ours is FOSS friendly State. Please let us know how 
OSGEO can support our efforts in popularizing FOSS GIS.

My suggestions are the following:

1) Consider going to http://www.osgeo.org/education and do what it 
suggests there -- add your name to our mailing list, and consider adding

your educational material to our educational inventory database [1, 2]. 
We hope you will join us!
2) We are trying to develop a system where others can build and enhance 
work that others have developed. So you may find some of the materials 
listed on our inventory useful for your efforts, or it might be 
something you have
developed might be of use to someone else.

Sincerely

Charlie Schweik
for the OSGeo education group

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
[2] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content



| Please find a report on our activities attached

| Thanks & Regards
| Radhakrishnan
| Indian Institute of IT & Management - Kerala
| Technopark
| www.iiitmk.ac.in <http://www.iiitmk.ac.in>
| Tel: +91 471 2700 965 ext 120


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