[Portugal] Fwd: Invitation to QGIS Academy Webinar

[Artur Gil]

Dear All,

On behalf of the global ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs http://www.geoforall.org  and
MundoGeo, we are pleased to invite you to the ninth webinar of the *"Open
Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series on 5th Sep, 2014*, The
webinar will be open and free to all on first come register basis.

This webinar will be on QGIS Academy, which an effort to establish a
national GIS education infrastructure focusing on Free & Open Source
Software for GIS (FOSS4G).  The Academy is a consortium of two year
community colleges and four year universities committed to bringing GIS
technical education to students and educators worldwide.  QGIS Academy are
one of the many projects under the OSGeo "Geo for All" initiative.  The
Academy is now offering a new Workforce Certificate in Geospatial
Technology based upon a series of five online courses, all based on QGIS
software.  This presentation will focus on the content, delivery, costs and
purpose of this new online course offering.

This event is suitable for secondary school educators and students, two and
four year college educators and students, students in need of GIS skills,
workers seeking to broaden technology skills and anyone desiring QGIS and
open source knowledge and skills.

Speakers: Dr. Phillip Davis, project director, Del Mar College Corpus
Christi Texas; Dr. Richard Smith, subject matter expert, Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi, Texas; Kurt Menke, subject matter expert, owner
Birds Eye View GIS, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Dr. John Van Hoesen, subject
matter expert, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont.

Attendees will be able to interact with the speakers by sending their
comments and questions through chat. To register visit
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/128220946

The recording will be made available also later for the benefit of the
wider community  at
http://mundogeo.com/webinar/opengeoscienceandapplications/

Best wishes,

Suchith


Dr Suchith Anand
Nottingham Geospatial Institute
Nottingham Geospatial Building
University of Nottingham  NG7 2 TU
Tel: (0)115 82 32750
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/suchith.anand

*Be part of   "Geo for All" <http://www.geoforall.org/> *

*Special Issue "Open Geospatial Science and Applications"
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications>*

Leading Open Geospatial Science through “Geo for All”

Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for
bridging the digital divide
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