Hi Peter, Sure, talk to the farmers about hardware, geodata, yadda yadda, all that stuff that is so 2016. But also talk to them about open source seeds :)
http://osseeds.org And yes, please do share your presentation with us once you are done. Puneet > On Dec 29, 2016, at 9:09 PM, Peter Mooney <petermoone...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > In my home region (http://osm.org/go/etihfKs--?m=) in the midlands of Ireland > a local volunteer group has asked me to give a lecture/talk to the local > farming community (and anyone else who is interested) on the topic of "Open > Source Farming" or "Open Source Agriculture". The talk is scheduled for the > end of January 2017. > > The theme of the talk is to try to reach out and engage with the sizeable > local farming community on the topics of using Open Source Software, Open > (Geo)Data, Open Hardware, etc in the management of their agricultural > business. Basically show the audience some really good examples from > agriculture around the world. > > My email is to ask if any of you have links to (1) similar presentations, > lectures, webinars, videos or (2) examples of OSGeo software use in > agriculture, etc. Indeed any fun, interesting, or cool ideas that would be of > interest to an agriculture/rural audience. > > My idea is that if there is enough interest in the audience I will try to > look to develop some outreach teaching using OSGeo Live for these > communities. > > I will credit all contributions and shall be making my slides openly > available after the presentation. I'll report back to the mailing lists. > > Greetings for the holiday season and best wishes for 2017, > > Peter Mooney > > … -- Puneet Kishor Just Another Creative Commoner http://punkish.org/About _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
