OSGeo - User contributions [en]

Commitments for New Material Development

2009-01-04T19:26:10Z

Wiki-Gezjames:

'''Colleagues: Please list here any plans you have to develop content over the next year.'''
 
* '''Title: Introduction to remote sensing using FOSS.''' 
** Author(s): Ned Horning, Charlie Schweik 
** Estimated date of completion: Not sure... Fall 2008? 
** Language: English
* '''Title: Training Notes on Spatial Data Sharing using FOSS 2008''' 
** Author(s): Venkatesh Raghavan, Shinji Masumoto, Sarawut Ninsawat, Daisuke Yoshida, Susumu Nonogaki, Willington Siabato, Add yourself 
** We are working on 2008 version of our training note listed in the URL: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Educational_Content_Inventory
** We are interested in updating, improving and enhancing the Training Note and also the Mandriva 2007 or 2008 FOSS4G Toolkit CD that comes with the training note. If you are interested to join this effort please add you came and contact at venka at osgeo dot org
** Estimated date of completion: Spring 2008? 
** Language: ????
* '''Title: Tutorials for using FOSS4G tools employed in 4th year student projects, Carleton University'''
** Authors: Students in GEOM4008 "Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems"
** In Fall, 2007, students in this class had to provide documentation to go with their final projects, which included explanations on how to use any FOSS4G tools they found useful. The idea was good, but not fully developed by [[User:Smitch|the instructor]], making it difficult to publish the results. The next version of the course will explicitly include a component requiring online publishing of tutorials.
** Estimated data of completion: projects due December 2008, will be available online Winter 2009 
** Language: English
* '''Title: E-course on FOSS GIS'''
** Author: Moritz Lennert
** I'm planning on elaborating an e-course to accompany a four-month training course on FOSS GIS, mainly based on GRASS, but also others.
** Language: French
** Estimated date of completion: Spring 2008 (course begins April 14th, content might evolve throughout the course) 
* '''Title: Exploring and interpolating fields'''
** Authors: Maria Antonia Brovelli and Markus Neteler
** Topic: Many observations are point-wise (i.e.: terrain height, temperature, humidity, pollutant concentration,...) but generally what we need is the corresponding continuous thematic maps. For instance, if we have leveling or LIDAR measurements, we could be interested, for many applications (hydrology, ecology, radio and radar propagation, geoscience, landscape planning, terrain-guided navigation systems, ...), in the corresponding land elevation field and its representation, the digital terrain model. In the theoretical part, we will teach how to explore spatial data (data distribution, global trends, spatial autocorrelation, clues for outlier presence) and how to discriminate (by means of cross-validation techniques) the best method to interpolate them to obtain the best digital model of the corresponding field. All the exercises and the examples of the course are at the moment solved with a proprietary GIS and will be also solved by means of GRASS.
** Language: English
** Estimated date of completion: summer 2008

* '''Title: Geospatial Analysis, Modeling and Visualization (title may change)'''
** Author: Helena Mitasova
** Two semester graduate level course focused on methods and applications in earth sciences, natural resources, civil, coastal and agricultural engineering. Lectures and labs.
** Language: English
** Estimated date of completion: Fall 2008

* '''Title: QGIS and GRASS orientation workshop'''
** Author: Scott Mitchell
** Introductory workshop highlighting capabilities of QGIS, QGIS-GRASS integration, and processing possibilities with GRASS - intended for people with at least beginner's understanding of GIS
** Language: English
** Estimated date of completion: [http://cemml.carleton.ca/osgeo_files/QGISandGRASStutorial.pdf Initial version available] as of March 2008, will refine in Summer

* '''Title: Introduction to GIS and Mapping''' 
** Author(s): Paul Flemming 
** Looking at developing material for elementary and secondary schools for use in geography and social science classes. Anyone with ideas or suggestions on how this could be approached, any help would be appreciated
** Estimated date of completion: Not sure... Early 2009? 
** Language: English

* '''Title: Quantum GIS for beginners''' 
** Author: [[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]] 
** Basic course based on QGIS 1.0. Will include introduction to GRASS.
** Still updated ... URL: http://robert.szczepanek.pl/qgis_tutorial.php
** Estimated date of completion: Summer 2009 
** Language: Polish (translation to English is planned)

* '''Title: Quantum GIS for beginners''' 
** Author: [[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]] 
** Basic course based on QGIS 1.0. Will include introduction to GRASS.
** Still updated ... URL: http://robert.szczepanek.pl/qgis_tutorial.php
** Estimated date of completion: Summer 2009 
** Language: Polish (translation to English is planned)

* '''Title: Implementing and Enterprise GIS Using PostGIS''' 
** Author(s): [[User:Gezjams|Gerry James]] 
** An introductory course exploring the many capabilities of PostGIS, considerations when planning for using PostGIS and myriad compatible interfaces for accessing PostGIS including QGIS and Google Earth. I would also be interested in offers for collaboration on this project.
** Estimated date of completion: February/March 2009? 
** Language: English

[[Category:Education]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2009-01-04T04:25:28Z

Wiki-Gezjames: /* Contributors by Time Zones */

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.

* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
* [[User:Venkat | Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
* [[User:volaya| Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
* [[User:rob.braswell | Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
* [[User:VincentP | Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
* [[User:Bwoodall | Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
* [[User:mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
* [[User:nigeltrodd | Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
* [[User:ominiverdi | Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
* [[User:Martinweis | Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
* [[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
* [[User:kevin1216 | Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
* [[User:Marco | Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
* [[User:clara | Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User: Mardresen | Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
* Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User: Dreamcon | Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User: doktoreas | Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.

== Contributors by Time Zones ==
This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+9
** Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+2
** Ari Jolma
** Arnulf Christl
** Vasile Crăciunescu
* TZ GMT+1
** Markus Neteler
** Maria Antonia Brovelli
** Massimiliano Cannata
** Vincent Picavet
** Marco Ciolli
** Clara Tattoni
** Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
** Martin Dresen
** Luca Casagrande
** Robert Szczepanek
* TZ GMT+0
** Suchith Anand
** Nigel Trodd
* TZ GMT-5
** Ian Turton
** Ned Horning
** Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
** Scott Mitchell
* TZ GMT-6
** Puneet Kishor
** Pericles Nacionales
* TZ GMT-8
** Tyler Mitchell
** Shaun Walbridge
** Matthew Perry
** Aaron Racicot
** Bill Woodall
** Gerry James

[[Category:Education]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2009-01-04T04:23:28Z

Wiki-Gezjames: /* Contributors by Interest */

User:Gezjames

2009-01-02T16:09:34Z

Wiki-Gezjames: /* About */

== About ==
----
This is the user page for Gerry James. I am the President and Lead Consultant at Carteryx Geomatics based in Pitt Meadows, BC. My company specializes in GIS solutions and training for the resource sectors with a specific focus on mining, oil and gas and forestry. Please feel free to contact me by email or you can call me at 778.668.5025

== Websites ==
[http://spatialintel.blogspot.com/ My GIS blog] (please drop by and provide comment)
[http://www.carteryx.com My Company Website]
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/gerryjames My LinkedIn Profile]

British Columbia Chapter Membership

2009-01-02T16:08:07Z

Wiki-Gezjames: /* Current Membership */

Membership in the [[British Columbia Chapter|BC Local Chapter]] is entirely open to anyone who supports our mission. Please fill in your name, join our mailing list, and start helping out!

== Current Membership ==

''in alphabetical order by last name''

* [[user:jasonbirch | Jason Birch]], City of Nanaimo, Nanaimo
* [[user:mbottoni | Max Bottoni]], Sierra Systems, Vancouver
* [[user:Willcadell | Will Cadell]], Timberline Natural Resource Group, Prince George
* Clare Caldicott, Sierra Systems
* Yao Cui, BC Government
* Rick Davidson, TELUS, Burnaby
* Martin Davis, Refractions Research, Victoria
* [[User:jdeolive | Justin Deoliveira]], The Open Planning Project, Victoria
* Tony Dinneen, Jacques Whitford - Axys Ltd, Sidney
* [[User:emmons | Scott Emmons]], GeoBorealis, Prince George
* Rob Frame, Sierra Systems
* [[User:jive | Jody Garnett]], Refractions Research, Victoria
* [[User:mpg | Michael P. Gerlek]], LizardTech, Seattle
* Brian Goble, Cowichan Valley Regional District
* Daniel Hirner, BC Electoral Boundaries Commission
* Kevin Ji, Sierra Systems
* Ken Johansson, District of North Saanich, Victoria
* Nicole Jung, Global CADD Systems
* Rob Knight, Community Mapping Network
* [[user:mkyle | Martin Kyle]], Sierra Systems, Vancouver
* Brian Low, Natural Resources Canada (National Forest Information System), Victoria
* Dean C. Mikkelsen, Terra ETL Ltd., Victoria
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]], OSGeo, Williams Lake
* [[User:Jmorgan | Jonathan Morgan]], Sierra Systems, Vancouver
* [[User:Dpatton | Dave Patton]], CIS, Victoria
* [[User:Pwramsey3 | Paul Ramsey]], Refractions Research, Victoria
* Alison Rowles, Global CADD Systems, Vancouver
* Ken Sam, BGC Engineering, Vancouver
* [[User:DuckySherwood | Kaitlin Duck Sherwood]], UBC MS/CS graduate student
* Tim Taylor, City of Nanaimo, Nanaimo
* Ronnie Wahi, Pacific Alliance Technologies
* Chris Webber, Pacific Alliance Technologies
* Chris West, Natural Resources Canada (National Forest Information System), Victoria
* Tim Wilson, map IT, Vancouver
* [[User:Gezjames | Gerry James]], Carteryx Geomatics Consultants, Vancouver
* [[user:mfowler | Mike Fowler]], Western Forest Products Inc., Campbell River
[[Category:British Columbia Chapter]]

British Columbia Chapter Meeting 2008-07-22

2008-06-25T01:13:53Z

Wiki-Gezjames: /* Technical Presentations */

This page provides information on a regular scheduled meeting of the OSGeo [[British Columbia Chapter|BC Local Chapter]]

== Meeting Info ==

Location: Vancouver
1177 West Hastings Street, Suite 2500
Room TBD
Chair: Max Bottoni
Date: Tuesday 22 July 2008
Time: 1730 hrs - 1930 hrs PT
Webex: Information to follow

== Agenda ==

=== Welcome and Introduction ===

=== Technical Presentations ===
Tentative Topics

- G - e - o - X - A - C - M - L (strike this bad boy...that's for GeoWeb ;-)

1.) Pick One of the following before July 4, 2008

a. Geospatial Interoperability (e.g. Emerging trends at OGC and their potential application to OSGeo); Current Votes = 0
b. Geospatial Security (e.g. Application threats to OSGeo and defensive countermeasures); Current Votes = 1
c. Geospatial Usability (Common Industry Format for Usability Reporting and its applicability to OSGeo); Current Votes = 0

2.) Open to other presenters (please volunteer)

=== Chapter Business ===
Procedures for organizing a meeting, getting involvement, contingencies.

=== Post Meeting Activity ===

== Minutes/Actions ==

Please let the chair know if you can attend in person or via webex or not at all.
Also please let us know if you'd like something more casual.
(maxbottoni@sierrasystems.com)
Thanks.

[[Category: British Columbia Chapter]]
[[Category: British Columbia Chapter Meeting]]

User:Gezjames

2008-03-13T14:56:03Z

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== About ==
----
This is the user page for Gerry James. I am the President and Lead Consultant at Carteryx Geomatics based in Pitt Meadows, BC. My company specializes in enterprise GIS solutions for the resource sectors with a specific focus on mining, oil and gas and forestry. Please feel free to contact me by email or you can call me at 778.668.5025

== Websites ==
[http://spatialintel.blogspot.com/ My GIS blog] (please drop by and provide comment)
[http://www.carteryx.com My Company Website]
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/gerryjames My LinkedIn Profile]

User:Gezjames

2008-03-13T14:55:29Z

Wiki-Gezjames: /* Websites */

User:Gezjames

2008-03-13T14:53:38Z

Wiki-Gezjames: /* Websites */

User:Gezjames

2008-03-13T14:52:25Z

Wiki-Gezjames: New page: == About == ---- This is the user page for Gerry James. I am the President and Lead Consultant at Carteryx Geomatics based in Pitt Meadows, BC. My company specializes in enterprise GIS s...

British Columbia Chapter Membership

2008-03-13T14:36:16Z

Wiki-Gezjames: /* Current Membership */

Membership in the [[British Columbia Chapter|BC Local Chapter]] is entirely open to anyone who supports our mission. Please fill in your name, join our mailing list, and start helping out!

== Current Membership ==

''in alphabetical order by last name''

* [[user:jasonbirch | Jason Birch]], City of Nanaimo, Nanaimo
* Max Bottoni, Sierra Systems, Vancouver
* [[user:Willcadell | Will Cadell]], Timberline Natural Resource Group, Prince George
* Clare Caldicott, Sierra Systems
* Yao Cui, BC Government
* Rick Davidson, TELUS, Burnaby
* Martin Davis, Refractions Research, Victoria
* [[User:jdeolive | Justin Deoliveira]], The Open Planning Project, Victoria
* Tony Dinneen, Jacques Whitford - Axys Ltd, Sidney
* [[User:emmons | Scott Emmons]], GeoBorealis, Prince George
* Rob Frame, Sierra Systems
* [[User:jive | Jody Garnett]], Refractions Research, Victoria
* Brian Goble, Cowichan Valley Regional District
* Daniel Hirner, BC Electoral Boundaries Commission
* Kevin Ji, Sierra Systems
* Ken Johansson, District of North Saanich, Victoria
* Nicole Jung, Global CADD Systems
* Rob Knight, Community Mapping Network
* [[user:mkyle | Martin Kyle]], Sierra Systems, Vancouver
* Brian Low, Natural Resources Canada (National Forest Information System), Victoria
* Dean C. Mikkelsen, Terra ETL Ltd., Victoria
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]], OSGeo, Williams Lake
* [[User:Jmorgan | Jonathan Morgan]], Sierra Systems, Vancouver
* [[User:Dpatton | Dave Patton]], CIS, Victoria
* [[User:Pwramsey3 | Paul Ramsey]], Refractions Research, Victoria
* Alison Rowles, Global CADD Systems, Vancouver
* Ken Sam, BGC Engineering, Vancouver
* [[User:DuckySherwood | Kaitlin Duck Sherwood]], UBC MS/CS graduate student
* Tim Taylor, City of Nanaimo, Nanaimo
* Ronnie Wahi, Pacific Alliance Technologies
* Chris Webber, Pacific Alliance Technologies
* Chris West, Natural Resources Canada (National Forest Information System), Victoria
* Gerry James, Carteryx Geomatics Consultants, Vancouver

[[Category:British Columbia Chapter]]