[Qgis-psc] MAC URISA QGIS

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Matthew,

In addition, regarding speaking, training, and QGIS in the United 
States, please consider Kurt Menke 
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Kurt_Menke) who is based out of New Mexico, 
and is an excellent speaker and trainer for QGIS.

-jeff


-- 
Jeff McKenna
President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna



On 2017-03-12 10:47 AM, scratchtrax at gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Andreas,
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>       THANK YOU!-So very much for providing this additional information
> and for replying so quickly.  I will reach out to Mr. Larry Shaffer in a
> separate email invitation.  This project is very exciting, thank you
> again to all receiving this, I remain grateful.
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> Kind regards,
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> Matthew Duffy
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> MAC URISA Vice President
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> http://www.macurisa.org/
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> *From: *Andreas Neumann <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>
> *Sent: *Sunday, March 12, 2017 9:40 AM
> *To: *scratchtrax at gmail.com <mailto:scratchtrax at gmail.com>;
> qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Cc: *Email <mailto:duffy_matthew at aclink.org>; larrys at dakotacarto.com
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> *Subject: *Re: [Qgis-psc] MAC URISA QGIS
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> Dear Matthew,
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> Thank you for your contact.
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> Unfortunately, we currently don't have  a PSC member living in the US. I
> don't know if any PSC has time to travel to the US on May 5 - please PSC
> colleagues, speak up, if you could travel. There is, however, a QGIS
> core dev (Larry Shaffer, see his e-mail in cc) who is quite involved
> with the project and could potentially speak at your event.
>
> Regarding QGIS and Web-GIS:
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> QGIS server is a OGC compatible Mapserver that can use the QGIS project
> files as configuration. It means that you can prepare your project in
> QGIS desktop and deploy it to the web through QGIS server.
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> Regarding the Web-GIS client, there are two projects: QGIS Web Client 2
> and Lizmap. They are kind of "friendly competitors" with slightly
> different goals or technologies involved. See
> https://github.com/qgis/qwc2-demo-app and
> https://github.com/3liz/lizmap-web-client - theoretically, you could use
> other Web Clients with QGIS server as well, but they wouldn't be as
> tightly integrated with QGIS server as QGIS Web Client 2 or Lizmap are.
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> Perhaps my colleagues from the PSC have more ideas regarding your request.
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> There is, theoretically a QGIS user group in the US: www.qgis.us
> <http://www.qgis.us> - although it doesn't seem to be active - last
> meeting is from 2014.
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> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
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> On 12.03.2017 13:44, scratchtrax at gmail.com
> <mailto:scratchtrax at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     Hello QGIS Project Steering Committee,
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>                   My name is Matthew Duffy and I am contacting you from
>     my personal gmail account on behalf of MAC URISA (Mid Atlantic
>     Chapter Of the Urban Regional Information Systems Association).  We
>     are a volunteer Professional GIS Organization that is hosting an
>     event regarding Web GIS on May 5, in Bordentown NJ, USA.  We consist
>     of approximately two hundred and fifty members located throughout
>     all of New Jersey, Delaware, South Eastern Pennsylvania and parts of
>     New York.
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>                   I am trying to determine how to invite a QGIS
>     representative to participate in our upcoming event and whether you
>     have any available representatives located in our area.  I would be
>     grateful for any further information and the opportunity to discuss
>     this potential further.  I was hoping to have a representative from
>     your steering committee attend and present the direction QGIS is
>     headed specifically when considering WebGIS, to our membership.
>     Content for this event will include data source and publishing,
>     internet web map and web mapping applications and I would like a
>     section on anything pertaining to QGIS and the internet.
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>                   Thank you for your kind attention regarding this
>     matter.  Please reply as soon as you are able, I am eagerly awaiting
>     your response.
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>     Best regards,
>
>     Matthew Duffy
>
>     MAC URISA Vice President
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>     http://www.macurisa.org/
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