<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Hello everyone,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">M</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">y name is Lorrain Giddings, I work in the state
university of Veracruz (Universidad Veracruzana). I'm part of an office
called "Coordinación Universitaria de Observatorios". It's an office
dedicated to promote civil observatories by helping to establish the indicators
that will be generated and putting together social, economical and environmental
context data. We have been doing this threw QGIS and GeoServer. We now have a
pretty strong gis and geoserver office so we decided to promote QGIS in our
university and we've been very successful at it. Many of the new GIS
users use QGIS software and some ARCGIS user have also migrated. My job in the
institution is to gather data form official sources and to make tutorials and
also give GIS classes. I've been working hard on translating the procedures
people do in ARCMAP and IDRIS to OSGeo different programs. I thought you'd like
to know this, it's a great software and were very happy with it. We use it so
much that I thought it was time to get in touch with the community, I wrote to
OSGEO and they told me about this mail list. We are very happy to have joined
this and are looking forward to establish some kind of communication with you
guys. Maybe we could invite you over so you can talk about OSGeo,
or even teach something about it. It's a great program and I'm very
happy teaching and learning it. </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hope to hear back from you.</span><br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lorrain Eugenio Giddings Soto</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p></div>