[OpenLayers-Dev] Super impressed with your workshop

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:36:55PM +1100, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> I'm very impressed that you have created an Openlayers workshop and that 
> you have made it available under the Creative Commons license.
> 
> I see training material like this as taking the professionalism of a 
> project up another level, and providing this material for free will 
> empower local communities to build OSGeo locally. I hope to see other 
> Open Source projects take your lead and build up a comprehensive set of 
> open workshops for the full Geospatial Open Source stack.
> 
> Have you been in touch with the OSGeo Education committee?
> I wonder whether it would be appropriate to have a coordinated look and 
> feel to all the OSGeo workshop material.
> (In particular, I have my eye on the FOSS4G 2009 workshops.)

I think that it's important to allow organizations to 'brand' their
owwrkshop materials. I thin kthat this branding provides a significant
benefit -- and therefore, reason for creating documentation in the first
place -- to organizations, since they get to carry on benefiting from
the workshop materials even after the workshop is over. (For example,
I'm using a slightly modified form of the workshop materials for FOSS4G
in Japan -- with OpenGeo's brand staying on it).

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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