[OpenLayers-Dev] Super impressed with your workshop

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

Thanks for the feedback Cameron.  A bit of my thinking below.

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> 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.)

Same with me :)

> 
> 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).
> 

I appreciate how Chris put it here.  We're all working to continue 
promoting projects like OpenLayers.  We also are also trying to make a 
living out of it.  We're very fortunate that our organizations support 
us in contributing to OpenLayers.  For OpenGeo, that contribution comes 
in the form of code.  The same is really true for MetaCarta and Camptocamp.

I enjoyed a trip to Cape Town this year because we (sbenthall and I) put 
together a workshop (covering conference registration for 2 of us) and I 
got myself on the agenda in enough places that it would have been really 
embarrassing if I hadn't made it.

We (OpenGeo) are going to continue refining this and other workshops - 
and look forward to conducting them at whatever conferences we can 
attend (in addition to running non-conference workshops).  Where we 
cannot attend a conference, the material is available for others to use.

So, that's probably enough for this list - we should make an 
openlayers-biz list if we want to talk business plans :)

Anyway, thanks for the comments.  We owe a lot of thanks to all the devs 
that showed up to help make the workshop a success.

Tim


> Regards,


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Tim Schaub
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