[SeasonOfDocs] Hello

Fri Apr 12 00:39:09 PDT 2019

Hi Season of Doc Folks,
I am Victor N.Sunday, I run a local community of OSM/GeoForAll Lab in
Nigeria:The UniqueMappersTeam
https://twitter.com/uniquemappers .We are involved in Citizen Science ,VGI
,Crowdsourced Mapping and lots within my mentoring program and capacity
,trying to grow and expand local teams in Universities in Nigeria and
Africa,now about 10 teams of UniqueMappersTeam Network affiliate to HOT and
OSGeo stuff .

I work as a Lecturer,Geoinformatics @Geography and Environmental Management
,University of Port Harcourt,teaching currently,Remote Sensing and
Cartography and some practical GIS.

I am a HOT Voting Member and a member of OSGeo and do follow all OSGeo and
QGIS activities.Lots of work and impact is still needed over here with QGIS
and would actively participate and contribute while receiving the needed
mentoring to impact over here.
Thanks
Victor N.Sunday

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:46 AM Andrew Jeffrey <aljeffrey83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I agree with Jo's respone to Camerons question.
>
> Training materials are generally tailored to a type of customer and I this
> believe makes it difficult to develop consolidated material that works for
> everyone. The similarities I do see in training material though is the
> basics, the kind of basics that are taught to new users like those in the
> education space.
>
> As Jo mentioned there is potential here to break a monolopy in this space,
> and get exposure to new users early in their development. What makes this
> even better is a solid training material base owned by the community can be
> used by anyone creating training material, providing a consistent training
> base whether you learn in your own time online or go to trainer "A".
> Effectively consolidating the "QGIS beginner" training material.
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:21 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> HI All,
>>
>> Firstly introductions- I'm Jo Cook, and I've been involved in OSGeo stuff
>> for a long time, my current role is as Chair and founder of the UK local
>> chapter, though I've had a stint on the OSGeo board, and been involved in
>> various conferences both in the UK and the International event. For my paid
>> gig I'm a GIS consultant with Astun Technology, focusing on metadata, but
>> with a role that encompasses the majority of the open source GIS stack. I'm
>> really keen to find a role with the Season of Docs as I see it as a great
>> way to contribute to projects without being a serious coder. I'd like to
>> focus on Geonetwork, as it's a project very dear to my heart, and the
>> documentation needs help catching up with the new features. I'd also like
>> to make it easier for other non-coders to help improve the documentation
>> rather than relying on the developers to resolve it.
>>
>> Secondly- Cameron's question about QGIS courses- we also run QGIS
>> training courses in the UK, and I think there's a fairly wide market, both
>> geographically, and in the types of customer. We are focused on integration
>> with cloud technologies, such as delivering QGIS via AWS AppStream, and
>> less on teaching people to use all of the functionality, for example for
>> higher-end processing and analysis. Having said that, I think there's a
>> really big need for standard training materials- and also if possible the
>> kind of training materials that could be used for schools, to try to break
>> the monopoly that certain proprietary companies have on that area.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:27 PM Cameron Shorter <
>> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the introduction Nick. One thing that puzzles me is that
>>> there appears to be a lot of people setting up QGIS training courses and I
>>> would have thought it would be beneficial of these separate initiatives
>>> were to become more consolidated.
>>>
>>> I'd expect that consolidating workshops would be a very valuable task,
>>> as it would focus the community together.
>>>
>>> It would also be a suitably challenging task to bring multiple threads
>>> together, and something that would be worthy of a senior technical writer's
>>> expertise.
>>>
>>> What are people's thoughts on the current state of available QGIS
>>> training courses? Is there potential to consolidate? Or is everyone
>>> tailoring to their unique user base?
>>>
>>> Warm regards, Cameron
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/4/19 10:13 pm, Nick Bearman wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Cameron suggested I send an email to the list introducing myself, so
>>> here it is!
>>>
>>> I am Nick Bearman and I split my time between two roles Teaching Fellow
>>> in Geospatial Analysis (University College London) and GIS Trainer &
>>> Consultant (Geospatial Training Solutions [my own consultancy]).
>>>
>>> I have contributed to QGIS documentation a couple of times, I regularly
>>> write and deliver GIS training courses to a variety of participants, and
>>> release some as Creative Commons material.
>>>
>>> I'm keen to learn how to contribute more effectively, particularly to
>>> QGIS documentation, and I am also looking to run a workshop on how to
>>> contribute to OS documentation at upcoming FOSS4G UK event in Edinburgh, UK
>>> in Sept.
>>>
>>> I am familiar with Git/GitHub and Markdown. The RST format of the QGIS
>>> Documentation site sometimes eludes me! I look forward to working with you
>>> all.
>>>
>>> Thanks very much to Cameron for coordinating and starting this project.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Nick.
>>>
>>> --
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>>> nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
>>>
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