[SeasonOfDocs] Hello
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 17:39:12 PDT 2019
Welcome Victor,
It is great to see your interest. If you or others that you are working
with would like to contribute, I suggest looking at the potential ways
you'd like to give back, and then describe how you'd like to contribute
in the list of people keen to take part:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Key_roles_sought
Warm regards, Cameron
On 12/4/19 5:39 pm, Victor Sunday wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>> <mailto:nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk>
>>
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