[Qgis-community-team] Creating Educational Resources For QGIS

[Colin D. MacLeod]

Hi Paolo,

Thanks for the quick response. I'm more than happy to give something back to 
the QGIS community and will have a look to see how I can best do this as I 
develop the book I'm planning, and any courses based on QGIS.

All the best,

Colin



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From: Paolo Cavallini
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:25 AM
To: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Creating Educational Resources For QGIS

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Il 18/03/2014 21:50, Colin D. MacLeod ha scritto:

> Would there be any issues in publishing a GIS workboook based around QGIS? 
> In
> particular, would the production of a commercial, for profit workbook be 
> at odds with
> the open source ethos of QGIS? Any profit made would be used to fund the 
> academic
> research I do on whales and dolphins.
>
> SImilarly, are there any isses with offering commercial training courses 
> based around
> QGIS? Again, this is something often get request for, but so far all the 
> training I
> provide is based around ArcGIS and I would like to be able to offer an 
> open-source
> alternative. Again, this is something I do to support my academic 
> research.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can give me on this as I wouldn?t want to 
> progress with
> this project if it goes against the ethos of QGIS and the community that 
> supports it.

Hi Colin,
thanks for raising point. I see no issue whatsoever neither in publishing 
anything on
QGIS, nor in offering commercial courses on it.
Please remember that QGIS is a free cooperative project, so contributing 
back to it,
giving back something of what you receive for free, would not only be 
appreciated,
but also important for the continuous improvement of the project itself.
There are many ways of contributing, you can easily find one that fits your 
situation.
All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
Corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
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