Hi! I am Wine, Statistician and Chief of the Training Division of the Statistical Research and Training Center (SRTC)(www.srtc.gov.ph). SRTC is a government agency in the Philippines.
At present we are having a tie up with the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UN-SIAP) based in Japan http://www.unsiap.or.jp/ for the conduct of the Country Course on Geographic Information System which we plan to conduct early February next year.
We are in critical need of a trainer to conduct such a training using a freeware GIS software. While surfing the internet I found your site. I understand that you have developed GRASS which is a freeware on GIS.
Could you refer to us anyone in your team who could conduct the training here in the Philippines for 10 days using GRASS? If there is anyone in your team who could be available, please send his/her name and email address to us including some background information of him or her.
We shall be refering him/her to the UNSIAP who will in turn contact you for the details of travel arrangements and remuneration.
I attached here a tentative coverage of the GIS training which can be modified by the prospective trainer to suit the requirements of the GIS freeware.
Thank you so much and I hope I will be able to receive an early reply.
Very truly yours,
Winecito L. Tan
Statistician V and Chief, Training Division
Statistical Research and Training Center
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course outline gis.595DEFANGED-doc (101 KB)
Dear Mr Tan,
thanks for writing us and considering GRASS as GIS solution.
We are very proud of the Free Software GRASS and hope that it will
suit your needs and be a basis for your work.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:38:07PM +0700, Wine Tan wrote:
We are in critical need of a trainer to conduct such a training
using a freeware GIS software. While surfing the internet I found
your site. I understand that you have developed GRASS which is a
freeware on GIS.
This list has the open development team of people that work
on the GRASS source code. Anyone can subscribe on the list and
start helping us to develop GRASS.
Many of us prefer the term Free Software as it refers to freedom
and "freeware" is ambigious in that respect.
(If you are interested in the background, the following links
might be of interest: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html )
Could you refer to us anyone in your team who could conduct the
training here in the Philippines for 10 days using GRASS? If there
is anyone in your team who could be available, please send his/her
name and email address to us including some background information
of him or her.
There are a number of people and companies that provide (commercial) support
for GRASS and might be the best people you can get for GRASS training.
This is also an option if you do not find people direclty over this list.
I suggest looking at the offers:
http://grass.itc.it/commercial.html#support
Personally I know that "GDF Hannover" does GRASS training on a
frequent basis.
Best Regards,
Bernhard Reiter
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