Reinier Who are the sponsors and do you have a Twitter handle?
-- *Robert Alai* Blogger *Techmtaa.com* <http://www.techmtaa.com/> Email: [email protected] Phone: +254 726 034 530 +254 737 944 375 *Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/robertalai* *Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alaionyango* *LinkedIn: *http://ke.linkedin.com/in/robertalai On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Reinier Battenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > After a long time in the making, I am very glad to announce the first > Uganda > Mapping Day. > > This exiting event will take place next Saturday, June 4th, at Mountbatten > Offices. > > During the day we will map, upload our data to Openstreetmap, gather more > publicly available datasources and create maps using free and open source > mapping tools. > > There is a very limited amount of seats available for this free event, so > register now (and do show up when you register). > > We are still looking for volunteers to mentor small groups of users. If you > have an Openstreetmap account and have plotted at least 1 point on the map, > your help during the day would be greatly appreciated. If you are familiar > with a free GIS software package that you would like to demo (gvSig, > Merkaartor, QGis, OpenLayers, Geoserver, Tilemill etc.) we could also use > your help to show how we can create maps of Uganda. Please drop me a line > at > [email protected] > > The event is going to be extremely hands-on. There will be no lectures, no > talks, no presentations. We will really make maps, by doing. > > If you can not join us physically, you can join us online too. We will open > an IRC channel and build a Ugandan Geo-Portal which collects all possible > geospatial datasources about Uganda. Online support with that track is also > greatly encouraged. > > So, where do you register? > > right here: http://www.mappingday.com/ > > Hope to see lots of you June 4th. > > rgds, > > Reinier > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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