[Qgis-community-team] was [Qgis-user] R: QGIS 2.4 Basic Tutorial

Tue Jul 29 20:31:38 PDT 2014

Hi All,

Thanks Richard! I think it would be great to have the PDF and data
available for download for now in a relatively static state.

In the long-term, having a "training material" page on the website would
work well. It may be best to have such as page as clearinghouse for these
materials, so they can be there in perpetuity if folks wish, and we don't
have to worry about dead links and such. [though if folks are unwilling to
contribute, also have links to external materials too]

Keeping materials up-to-date is tougher.  A github-based solution seems
like it can work well [I'm new to that realm myself...], since it will
allow multiple people to update materials/add material, without sole
reliance on the primary author.  For example, if somebody needs material as
soon as a newer version comes out, it would be great to have that person
add to/update an existing document, if they want to use it, avoiding  lot
of duplicate work.

Those are my brief thoughts, though I'm curious to hear other opinions too
- I realize many of you have contributed a lot of work into this, and I
sincerely appreciate your efforts.

Best regards,
Mike

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>
wrote:

>
> (pulling this to community list)
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> I'm happy to put it on one of the download pages on qgis.org.
>
> Question is how to 'publicize' it, and how to keep it uptodate for you.
>
> We could create some 'training material-index page in the website
> (website and documentation are 2 different projects).
> Then maybe everybody offering some 'training'-set should write a
> separate page describing what is in the download, OR where to download
> it externally? More or less like we do the 'case-studies' in the website.
> In that way we keep the stuff translatable too.
>
> Would that be enough for now?
>
> Or are you more thinking on something like a github based solution?
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
> (ps currently travelling with limited connectivity)
>
> On 28-07-14 19:01, Stefan Keller wrote:
> > Hi Richard
> >
> > Andreas Neumann pointed me to you.
> > Michael asked about a website to publish QGIS Learning Material.
> > As I have answered below, I have thought to define such a web space to
> > share such things for a long time now.
> > What do you think? Would it make sense to you to and would it be
> > technically feasible to define a Learning Material page - initially in
> > english and german under qgis.org?
> > I then would contribute and migrate my german page
> > http://giswiki.hsr.ch/QGIS-Materialien to qgis.org.
> >
> > Yours, Stefan
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Michael Treglia <mtreglia at gmail.com>
> > Date: 2014-07-26 19:21 GMT+02:00
> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] R: QGIS 2.4 Basic Tutorial
> > To: Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>,
> > "labiancamarilena at libero.it" <labiancamarilena at libero.it>, Pirmin
> > Kalberer <pka at sourcepole.ch>
> >
> >
> > HI Stefan and others,
> >
> > Thanks for your thoughts and feedback!  It would definitely be great
> > to have a subsite on QGIS.org, dedicated to tutorials and such (you
> > meant separate from the Documentation page, right? Or am i
> > misunderstanding?).
> >
> > I'm sure there's a lot of duplicate work going on to develop materials
> > for courses/trainings around the world, so it would be great to work
> > on this in a collaborative context, where we might make datasets
> > available, relevant to specific fields of study and regions.
> >
> > I'm new to working on collaborative projects like this [though I've
> > gratefully used products of them for years now...], and would
> > definitely like to contribute work I've done to the larger community.
> > For now is the best thing to make the materials available as I have,
> > and let folks know about them so they can be linked appropriately by
> > administrators? Or is it best to work on existing training materials
> > through GitHub?  [Sorry if this is a really basic question - I didn't
> > really find any answers on the QGIS.org "Get Involved" page, and am
> > not sure where to get such information].
> >
> > Also, Stefan - those materials you've posted look great! The
> > All-in-one Project Plugin looks like it will come in handy, especially
> > for workshops where you may need to have users at a set starting
> > point, with data imported and such.
> >
> > Best,
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Michael
> >>
> >> After the OSGeo Vienna Code Sprint I've launched a (german) page here:
> >> http://giswiki.hsr.ch/QGIS-Materialien
> >>
> >> My idea was to wait until there's a learning material space at qgis.org
> .
> >> => Maybe it's time now to launch such a subsite (in english and/or for
> >> each language)?
> >> (perhaps somebody of the qgis.org admins can help?)
> >>
> >> Let me also mention, that we're using also a "QGIS Portable for
> >> Education" (reduced "power user functionality") and members of my
> >> Geometa Lab) launched at the code sprint 1. QGIS plugin "Quiz" and 2.
> >> an "All-in-one Project". The latter is similar to  ArcGIS Layer and
> >> ArcGIS Map Packages and allows to package and exchange whole set of
> >> project, configuration, symbology, data and instructional files:
> >> http://giswiki.hsr.ch/QGIS_All-in-one_Project_Plugin
> >>
> >> --Stefan
> >>
> >> 2014-07-26 10:14 GMT+02:00 labiancamarilena at libero.it
> >> <labiancamarilena at libero.it>:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> Thank you so much for the very useful material.
> >>> I would suggest to all those who, like you publish lecture notes,
> >>> tutorials....also provide indication to find databases containing
> shapefile
> >>> or data.
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> ----Messaggio originale----
> >>> Da: mtreglia at gmail.com
> >>> Data: 26/07/2014 6.49
> >>> A: "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org"<qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> >>> Ogg: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.4 Basic Tutorial
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I developed a tutorial for a 1/2 day workshop that I conducted at my
> >>> university, and want to make the materials public. I've got them all
> in a
> >>> GitHub repository for now, with the main document available as .pdf,
> .doc,
> >>> and .md files (the .md needs some work for final formatting before
> >>> conversion to HTML or something).  I've also posted the data files
> that i
> >>> used in a .zip folder (I've checked with the providers and confirmed
> that is
> >>> okay).
> >>>
> >>> The repository is here: https://github.com/mtreg/QGIS-Tutorial
> >>>
> >>> I'd be happy to have comments or edits, and any assistance improving
> text as
> >>> is necessary. I know the md file is probably best for managing and
> updating
> >>> into the future, but would need the most help with that, as I'm new to
> using
> >>> markdown.
> >>>
> >>> I hope it is useful to at least some folks - I know similar tutorials
> exist,
> >>> at least up through earlier versions of QGIS 2.x, but wanted to make
> my own
> >>> that is relevant to data in my field.
> >>>
> >>> If there is another place these materials should be posted, please let
> me
> >>> now.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Mike
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >
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