[Ottawa_users] OSGeo workshops/etc.

[Frank Warmerdam]

Russell McOrmond wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Dave Sampson wrote:
> 
>> there was chat about some people interested in some GRASS workshops or
>> tutorials on other software.
>>
>> What do people think?
> 
>   I'm interested to learn more.

Dave,

I'd also like to attend a GRASS workshop.

>   At work there are some "lunch and learn" sessions that are being 
> hosted by ESRI.  They use a combination of a remote desktop (MS Live 
> Meeting, but could just as easily be Citrix gotomeeting.com or similar) 
> and a conference call.
> 
>   I've asked the organizer if we could continue these sessions later to 
> include the OSGeo components as well.  What I don't know is the details 
> of how that might be done.  In the case of ESRI they may be free and 
> come out of their marketing budget -- so now sure how to do the same for 
> OSGeo which doesn't have such a budget to dip into.

I think there a good chance that someone local might be willing to provide
a seminar on selected OSGeo projects for free if there was sufficient interest.

Best regards,
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