Hi Andrea:
That may be a good topic for a BOF session; I would recommend the code
sprint stays focused on you know ... coding :-)
Jody
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM, andrea antonello
wrote:
> Hi all, but mainly QGis-sers and gvSig-gers (I am now speaking as uDig-ger).
> In Italy in November we
- "Eric Wolf" wrote:
>
> Maybe we should focus on a GIS on a stick product rather than a
> LiveDVD?
Jo Cook wrote you a Windows one of those already :) - so you could even give to
the students for ongoing use of the tools and data. And of course that is about
as functional a toolset (i
Peter,
You make a very good point as to the value of marketing.
Thinking back to the early '90s when I was a MicroStation / Intergraph / GDS
user, the factor that attracted me across to using ESRI software at the time
was their marketing approach.
Where Bentley and Intergraph were focusing on te
Hi Eric,
Maybe we should focus on a GIS on a stick product rather than a LiveDVD?
We (CASCADOSS project) have been using our own distro for the training. You
will find it here: http://cascadoss.competterra.com/cascadoss.php?livedvd_en
I am not entirely sure, but I think Compet-Terra developed a v
Eric Wolf wrote:
> I surely don't need another project right now, but I've been trolling to
> find a co-author to create a cookbook-style Python geoprocessing book that
> uses GDAL/OGR and other FOSS libraries. This would be considered a text for
> a fairly advanced GIS course.
Eric,
You may want
As Ian said, the Universities are stuck in a vicious circle. Believe it or
not, faculty do try to teach a GIScience that is independent of any
particular software package. But the perspective ends up being that ESRI
provides both the tools and teaching materials in a consistent manner. If
the facul
Ian Turton wrote:
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Charlie Schweik
wrote:
I'm also wondering if we could get some funding somewhere to hold an invited
workshop (that pays for people to attend) to really dig into this.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/nsf04_23/2.jsp#IID7 - I'm game to aid in
the
Charlie Schweik wrote:
.
This connects back to my earlier education post that Frank Warmerdam
responded to. He asked:
"I would have thought it would be more productive to take existing
curriculum guidelines and get project support in rebuilding them around
foss projects/products. Perha
