Great to hear Wolf If you and others who are willing and able to do the sort of support and education you mention can make it to FOSS4G2008 in South Africa, you'd be welcomed.
We are planning outreach activities which will need volunteers from the conference. These will be at universities and schools their aims include exactly what you propose. Gavin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wolf Bergenheim Sent: 31 August 2007 09:31 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G and conservation On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Ned Horning wrote: > I'd like to hear from anyone but I'm particularly interested in > hearing from people with connections outside of North America. I'm definitely interested in helping out. Both as a support person for GRASS GIS and helping in preparing education material. I'd also be willing to give actual courses, and lectures about GRASS GIS, and why not other products too, but I need to learn a bit more (I'm familiar with PostGIS). On the same note I've been thinking about asking the local universities who teach GIS mainly by using ESRI products (and frankly they have a bit of a problem doing it, since they can only have so and so many computers etc...) if they would be interested in learning how to do it with Open Source software. The individual teachers seem to be interested, but I'd be interested in a policy level answer. I think that ans OSGeo provided support network would help with this also. --Wolf -- <:3 )---- Wolf Bergenheim ----( 8:> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss