Hello QGIS Users!
My apologies for promoting a course I'm running in my first post, but I wanted to inform you all of two Open Source Mapping courses that Mapping Across Borders, a Canadian Non-Profit, will be running in July which I feel will be of great interest to many on this list. Over the past three years, Mapping Across Borders has run approximately a dozen Open Source Mapping courses to over 150 participants in East Africa. Our goal is to provide GIS knowledge and skill transfer through in person and virtual training programs. We run five day classes and cover GIS from the ground up using QGIS and other relevant software (Google Earth, GRASS, GPS Babel, etc.) and are currently building virtual resources training resources, including peer to peer and crowd mentoring services. At our in-person events our philosophy is to teach the concepts of GIS and apply them using free and open source software using examples from participant's experiences and job descriptions. When the program is complete, we follow up with participants at a personal and community level to ensure that the lessons learned at the course are able to be put into action. This July, we will be running two courses: Ethiopia Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Venue: Agri Service Ethiopia Training Centre (behind Global Hotel) Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Date: July 9 - 13, 2012 Price: Starting at 3,000 Ethiopian Birr (see website for details) Included: Lunch each day & tea/coffee/snacks Website: http://www.mappingacrossborders.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar ticle&id=67&Itemid=81 Kenya Location: Kisumu, Kenya Venue: Whirlspring Hotel Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Date: July 37 -27, 2012 Price: Starting at 16, 500 Kenyan Shilling (see website for details) Included: Lunch each day & tea/coffee/snacks Website: http://www.mappingacrossborders.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar ticle&id=68 All details of course content, pace and registration are available via our training websites. I welcome all of you to have a look at our courses and to follow up with me or the contacts posted online if you are interested in joining us, or are just looking for more information. If you have any other lists that you think may be interested in our course, please feel free to pass this email along or to send them my contact details (michael.mar...@ubc.ca). We would love to see some QGIS User list participants in East Africa this summer! Thank you, - Michael Martin - Michael Martin, BSc (Hon) Masters Candidate, Interdisciplinary Studies University of British Columbia, Okanagan Director, Mapping Across Borders Website: http://www.mappingacrossborders.org Blog: http://mikedotonline.blogspot.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/#!/mikedotonline LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-martin/47/173/abb <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-martin/47/173/abb>
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