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Building Professionals... not Users
Submitted by spatialguru on Wed, 2007-08-15 06:27.
The following is a abstract for a talk/paper describing how open source helps to enable professionals rather than just train them as users.
Enabling Geoprofessionals with Open Source Toolkits
Professional development is critical to training and retaining geospatial professionals for the next decade. However, professional skillsets are too often measured by what tools are at his/her disposal.
FOSS4G Proposal
Submitted by spatialguru on Wed, 2007-07-11 22:30.
This is a proposal for doing a presentation that I submitted for the FOSS4G 2007 conference. It gives a brief glimpse of some of the ideas that will drive this website and its community.
Forging future generations of geo-architects
Tyler Mitchell, OSGeoIn an age of increasing demand for qualified geo-professionals, we introduce a framework for the development of an apprenticeship programme to help raise and support new Masters of the geospatial arts. We call it the Map Guild.