[Foss4g2011] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Introduction to geospatial open source event at FOSS4G

[Peter Batty]

Hi Cameron, thanks, we'll definitely take a look at this, and of course
happy to share any new / extended material we come up with.

Cheers,
    Peter.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Peter, Brian,
>
> I love the outline you have for the one day "Introduction for GeoSpatial
> Open Source". What I noticed at FOSS4G 2009 was that there were many local
> manager types who attended who were not familiar with the OSGeo culture.
> They didn't have the basic general understandings about FOSS and GeoFOSS
> software which we as a community have picked up, but they were keen to learn
> about it. I think this day presentation will be very valuable for this
> community.
>
> I also see your event as an opportunity to improve the training material we
> have been creating for the OSGeo-Live project. In particular, we have built
> a 30 minute (quite rushed) presentation which outlines the 45 applications
> installed on OSGeo-Live.
> It is available here:
> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/trunk/en/presentation
> And videoed here:
> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/09/osgeolive-40-lightening-overview.html
> (It is based upon the material at http://live.osgeo.org )
>
> This could provide base material for your "Wading into Open Source"
> session, and I'm sure that you could extend and improve what we have already
> created.
>
> I'm interested to hear your thoughts on whether you would like to see your
> training material incorporated back into the OSGeo-Live material, such that
> it can be re-used in other conferences.
>
>
> On 30/04/11 08:31, Peter Batty wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This has already been mentioned on the FOSS4G list, but I wanted to make
> sure that everyone was aware that we'll be a doing a one day "introduction
> to geospatial open source" event the day before the main conference starts,
> in parallel with the pre-conference workshops. This will be aimed at a broad
> audience, but in particular at users, developers and managers involved with
> geospatial software / GIS who haven’t yet had significant involvement with
> open source. It will work equally well as a standalone event, or as a way of
> getting up to speed to get the most out of the full FOSS4G conference.
>
> More details at http://2011.foss4g.org/intro-details/.
>
> If you know of people who could benefit from this, please let them know!
> We'll be publicizing it through various channels.
>
> The event is being organized by Brian Timoney, who has previously run
> several similar events locally. We have several speakers lined up already,
> and we'll be looking over the abstracts submitted to the main conference
> also, and may ask some people to participate based on those. If you have
> suggestions or interest in participating feel free to contact Brian or
> myself.
>
> Cheers,
>     Peter.
>
>
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