[Viscom-dev] [Invitation to Propose a Workshop or Tutorial for GSDI 10]

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1

Anyone planning on going to GSDI-10? I'm pretty confident we could get a workshop there. I didn't go last year, but had a group of people who were going to go, so we organized it together. There's a lot of government decision makers who go to this, it may not be a bad place to have some osgeo presence. It's just way too far away for me to know if I'll personally be attending.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Invitation to Propose a Workshop or Tutorial for GSDI 10
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:35:02 -0400
From: Harlan Onsrud <onsrud@spatial.maine.edu>
To: cholmes@openplans.org

Dear Chris,

GSDI 10 will be held in Trinidad 25-29 February 2008. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10

We are once again inviting proposals for the presentation of workshops
on the first day of the conference. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/workshops.html

Workshops this time will be offered under a slightly different
arrangement that we hope will attract strong attendance. We are
requesting workshop proposals by the end of this month so that people
registering for the conference will be able to sign up for specific
workshops in advance. In this manner instructors will know the number of
people attending their workshops and have the contact information for
their participants in advance.

We highly encourage you to submit a workshop proposal. For reference,
the description of the workshop you presented in Santiago in 2006 may be
found at http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/09_Act_Work_Sched.htm.
Submit your proposal on or before 1 June 2007 to onsrud@gsdi.org with a
copy to astevens@gsdi.org. If you submit, you should have a decision by
the evaluation committee in early June.

We look forward to hearing from you.

*The GSDI 10 Local and Regional Organizing Committee*
_Co-Chairs:_
*Jacob Opadeyi*, Centre for GeoSpatial Studies, The University of the
West Indies, Trinidad
*Bheshem Ramlal*, Department of Surveying and Land Information, The
University of the West Indies, Trinidad
_Committee Members:*
*_*Carol Ann Albury*, National GIS Coordinator, Office of the Prime
Minister, Bahamas
*Cecille Blake*, National GIS Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture and
Lands, Jamaica
*Santiago Borrero*, Secretary General, Pan American Institute of
Geography and History
*Tatiana Delgado Fernandez*, National Commission of the SDI of the
Republic of Cuba
*Desmond Dougall*, GISCAD, Trinidad
*Tyrone Leong*, Director of Surveys, Surveying and Mapping Division,
Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, Trinidad
*Adolphus Ollivierre*, Lands and Surveys Department, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
*Harold Wall*, GIS Officer, Ministry of Planning and Development, Trinidad

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2

On Wed, May 23, 2007 11:48, Chris Holmes wrote:

Anyone planning on going to GSDI-10? I'm pretty confident we could get
a workshop there. I didn't go last year, but had a group of people who
were going to go, so we organized it together. There's a lot of
government decision makers who go to this, it may not be a bad place to
have some osgeo presence. It's just way too far away for me to know if
I'll personally be attending.

Hey,
same for me. But nonetheless we should apply for a workshop. I am very
sure that someone knowledgeable from around OSGeo will be there. And if
not I have the perfect excuse that I must go myself... :wink:

So my VisCom opinion is to apply and see later how to fill in the blanks.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Invitation to Propose a Workshop or Tutorial for GSDI 10
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:35:02 -0400
From: Harlan Onsrud <onsrud@spatial.maine.edu>
To: cholmes@openplans.org

Dear Chris,

GSDI 10 will be held in Trinidad 25-29 February 2008. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10

We are once again inviting proposals for the presentation of workshops
on the first day of the conference. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/workshops.html

Workshops this time will be offered under a slightly different
arrangement that we hope will attract strong attendance. We are
requesting workshop proposals by the end of this month so that people
registering for the conference will be able to sign up for specific
workshops in advance. In this manner instructors will know the number of
people attending their workshops and have the contact information for
their participants in advance.

We highly encourage you to submit a workshop proposal. For reference,
the description of the workshop you presented in Santiago in 2006 may be
found at http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/09_Act_Work_Sched.htm.
Submit your proposal on or before 1 June 2007 to onsrud@gsdi.org with a
copy to astevens@gsdi.org. If you submit, you should have a decision by
the evaluation committee in early June.

We look forward to hearing from you.

*The GSDI 10 Local and Regional Organizing Committee*
_Co-Chairs:_
*Jacob Opadeyi*, Centre for GeoSpatial Studies, The University of the
West Indies, Trinidad
*Bheshem Ramlal*, Department of Surveying and Land Information, The
University of the West Indies, Trinidad
_Committee Members:*
*_*Carol Ann Albury*, National GIS Coordinator, Office of the Prime
Minister, Bahamas
*Cecille Blake*, National GIS Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture and
Lands, Jamaica
*Santiago Borrero*, Secretary General, Pan American Institute of
Geography and History
*Tatiana Delgado Fernandez*, National Commission of the SDI of the
Republic of Cuba
*Desmond Dougall*, GISCAD, Trinidad
*Tyrone Leong*, Director of Surveys, Surveying and Mapping Division,
Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, Trinidad
*Adolphus Ollivierre*, Lands and Surveys Department, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
*Harold Wall*, GIS Officer, Ministry of Planning and Development, Trinidad

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3

It does sound promising - can anyone provide some experience from previous events? What happens, how does it work, what angle can we best present?

Tyler

On 24-May-07, at 11:40 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

On Wed, May 23, 2007 11:48, Chris Holmes wrote:

Anyone planning on going to GSDI-10? I'm pretty confident we could get
a workshop there. I didn't go last year, but had a group of people who
were going to go, so we organized it together. There's a lot of
government decision makers who go to this, it may not be a bad place to
have some osgeo presence. It's just way too far away for me to know if
I'll personally be attending.

Hey,
same for me. But nonetheless we should apply for a workshop. I am very
sure that someone knowledgeable from around OSGeo will be there. And if
not I have the perfect excuse that I must go myself... :wink:

So my VisCom opinion is to apply and see later how to fill in the blanks.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Invitation to Propose a Workshop or Tutorial for GSDI 10
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:35:02 -0400
From: Harlan Onsrud <onsrud@spatial.maine.edu>
To: cholmes@openplans.org

Dear Chris,

GSDI 10 will be held in Trinidad 25-29 February 2008. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10

We are once again inviting proposals for the presentation of workshops
on the first day of the conference. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/workshops.html

Workshops this time will be offered under a slightly different
arrangement that we hope will attract strong attendance. We are
requesting workshop proposals by the end of this month so that people
registering for the conference will be able to sign up for specific
workshops in advance. In this manner instructors will know the number of
people attending their workshops and have the contact information for
their participants in advance.

We highly encourage you to submit a workshop proposal. For reference,
the description of the workshop you presented in Santiago in 2006 may be
found at http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/09_Act_Work_Sched.htm.
Submit your proposal on or before 1 June 2007 to onsrud@gsdi.org with a
copy to astevens@gsdi.org. If you submit, you should have a decision by
the evaluation committee in early June.

We look forward to hearing from you.

*The GSDI 10 Local and Regional Organizing Committee*
_Co-Chairs:_
*Jacob Opadeyi*, Centre for GeoSpatial Studies, The University of the
West Indies, Trinidad
*Bheshem Ramlal*, Department of Surveying and Land Information, The
University of the West Indies, Trinidad
_Committee Members:*
*_*Carol Ann Albury*, National GIS Coordinator, Office of the Prime
Minister, Bahamas
*Cecille Blake*, National GIS Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture and
Lands, Jamaica
*Santiago Borrero*, Secretary General, Pan American Institute of
Geography and History
*Tatiana Delgado Fernandez*, National Commission of the SDI of the
Republic of Cuba
*Desmond Dougall*, GISCAD, Trinidad
*Tyrone Leong*, Director of Surveys, Surveying and Mapping Division,
Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, Trinidad
*Adolphus Ollivierre*, Lands and Surveys Department, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
*Harold Wall*, GIS Officer, Ministry of Planning and Development, Trinidad

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M: +1-250-303-1831

4

I went two years ago, where I met Jeroen for the first time, and Allan was there as well. In general the conference has a few concurrent sessions, where people present papers. It's more academic/government - people actually write papers for one. The first year we gave a paper on open source for SDI's which was decently received.

Last year we did the workshop, Jeroen and I applied, and then I think we joined up with Michael Gould and gvSig? The workshop's a pretty sweet deal I believe (I wasn't there), it happens before the conference, and it's a great opportunity to educate people who don't know much about your stuff, and give some hands on demos. The workshops are primarily for the sponsors who provide funds for the conference, so it's pretty nice that Harlan manages to get us an open source slot.

The angle to present is pretty basics, just showing off the capabilities of open source, get people to see that it's a reality and competitive with anyone else. The audience isn't super advanced - I believe it tends to be a bit more government decision makers, a bit less the actual tech people.

Jeroen, you have any other insight? Since you were actually there for the last one.

Chris

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

It does sound promising - can anyone provide some experience from previous events? What happens, how does it work, what angle can we best present?

Tyler

On 24-May-07, at 11:40 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

On Wed, May 23, 2007 11:48, Chris Holmes wrote:

Anyone planning on going to GSDI-10? I'm pretty confident we could get
a workshop there. I didn't go last year, but had a group of people who
were going to go, so we organized it together. There's a lot of
government decision makers who go to this, it may not be a bad place to
have some osgeo presence. It's just way too far away for me to know if
I'll personally be attending.

Hey,
same for me. But nonetheless we should apply for a workshop. I am very
sure that someone knowledgeable from around OSGeo will be there. And if
not I have the perfect excuse that I must go myself... :wink:

So my VisCom opinion is to apply and see later how to fill in the blanks.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Invitation to Propose a Workshop or Tutorial for GSDI 10
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:35:02 -0400
From: Harlan Onsrud <onsrud@spatial.maine.edu>
To: cholmes@openplans.org

Dear Chris,

GSDI 10 will be held in Trinidad 25-29 February 2008. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10

We are once again inviting proposals for the presentation of workshops
on the first day of the conference. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/workshops.html

Workshops this time will be offered under a slightly different
arrangement that we hope will attract strong attendance. We are
requesting workshop proposals by the end of this month so that people
registering for the conference will be able to sign up for specific
workshops in advance. In this manner instructors will know the number of
people attending their workshops and have the contact information for
their participants in advance.

We highly encourage you to submit a workshop proposal. For reference,
the description of the workshop you presented in Santiago in 2006 may be
found at http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/09_Act_Work_Sched.htm.
Submit your proposal on or before 1 June 2007 to onsrud@gsdi.org with a
copy to astevens@gsdi.org. If you submit, you should have a decision by
the evaluation committee in early June.

We look forward to hearing from you.

*The GSDI 10 Local and Regional Organizing Committee*
_Co-Chairs:_
*Jacob Opadeyi*, Centre for GeoSpatial Studies, The University of the
West Indies, Trinidad
*Bheshem Ramlal*, Department of Surveying and Land Information, The
University of the West Indies, Trinidad
_Committee Members:*
*_*Carol Ann Albury*, National GIS Coordinator, Office of the Prime
Minister, Bahamas
*Cecille Blake*, National GIS Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture and
Lands, Jamaica
*Santiago Borrero*, Secretary General, Pan American Institute of
Geography and History
*Tatiana Delgado Fernandez*, National Commission of the SDI of the
Republic of Cuba
*Desmond Dougall*, GISCAD, Trinidad
*Tyrone Leong*, Director of Surveys, Surveying and Mapping Division,
Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, Trinidad
*Adolphus Ollivierre*, Lands and Surveys Department, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
*Harold Wall*, GIS Officer, Ministry of Planning and Development, Trinidad

--
Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org
_______________________________________________
Viscom-dev mailing list
Viscom-dev@lists.osgeo.org
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--
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http://www.wheregroup.com

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Executive Director
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
tmitchell@osgeo.org
P: +1-250-277-1621
M: +1-250-303-1831

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Hi all,
We had a good experience in Santiago with our workshop. It was more of an extended demonstration due to the lack of computer facilities and due to the fact that almost nobody took a laptop or so with them into the workshop.

We went through a session that installed and showed GeoServer, GeoNetwork and gvSIG. Than we set up a map service, created a related catalog entry and had gvSIG and GeoNetwork use the WMS service from GeoServer. gvSIG searched the GeoNetwork node and found the GeoServer map service and opened it. I don't remember if we had gvSIG also use the WFS service from GeoServer.

All in all it was a good and challenging experience with a large audience attending. It also provided us with one of those necessary milestones in establishing and/or testing interoperability between applications :slight_smile:

We (GeoNetwork and gvSIG) just discussed a workshop at the gvSIG conference in November, including GeoServer. We also discussed taking that to GSDI-10. So I think there's all the scope from our side to proceed with a proposal. Even if nobody is in the position at this point in time to say they will see those blue oceans with there feet in the water :slight_smile: What a bad outlook that is...

With the availability of modern computer labs, as described on the GSDI-10 site, we now have to define the type and the number of workshops :slight_smile:
What projects are thinking of giving a workshop at GSDI-10? Who would like to do cross-project workshops?

Ciao,
Jeroen

On 24 May 2007, at 10:34 PM, Chris Holmes wrote:

I went two years ago, where I met Jeroen for the first time, and Allan was there as well. In general the conference has a few concurrent sessions, where people present papers. It's more academic/government - people actually write papers for one. The first year we gave a paper on open source for SDI's which was decently received.

Last year we did the workshop, Jeroen and I applied, and then I think we joined up with Michael Gould and gvSig? The workshop's a pretty sweet deal I believe (I wasn't there), it happens before the conference, and it's a great opportunity to educate people who don't know much about your stuff, and give some hands on demos. The workshops are primarily for the sponsors who provide funds for the conference, so it's pretty nice that Harlan manages to get us an open source slot.

The angle to present is pretty basics, just showing off the capabilities of open source, get people to see that it's a reality and competitive with anyone else. The audience isn't super advanced - I believe it tends to be a bit more government decision makers, a bit less the actual tech people.

Jeroen, you have any other insight? Since you were actually there for the last one.

Chris

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

It does sound promising - can anyone provide some experience from previous events? What happens, how does it work, what angle can we best present?
Tyler
On 24-May-07, at 11:40 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

On Wed, May 23, 2007 11:48, Chris Holmes wrote:

Anyone planning on going to GSDI-10? I'm pretty confident we could get
a workshop there. I didn't go last year, but had a group of people who
were going to go, so we organized it together. There's a lot of
government decision makers who go to this, it may not be a bad place to
have some osgeo presence. It's just way too far away for me to know if
I'll personally be attending.

Hey,
same for me. But nonetheless we should apply for a workshop. I am very
sure that someone knowledgeable from around OSGeo will be there. And if
not I have the perfect excuse that I must go myself... :wink:

So my VisCom opinion is to apply and see later how to fill in the blanks.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Invitation to Propose a Workshop or Tutorial for GSDI 10
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:35:02 -0400
From: Harlan Onsrud <onsrud@spatial.maine.edu>
To: cholmes@openplans.org

Dear Chris,

GSDI 10 will be held in Trinidad 25-29 February 2008. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10

We are once again inviting proposals for the presentation of workshops
on the first day of the conference. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/workshops.html

Workshops this time will be offered under a slightly different
arrangement that we hope will attract strong attendance. We are
requesting workshop proposals by the end of this month so that people
registering for the conference will be able to sign up for specific
workshops in advance. In this manner instructors will know the number of
people attending their workshops and have the contact information for
their participants in advance.

We highly encourage you to submit a workshop proposal. For reference,
the description of the workshop you presented in Santiago in 2006 may be
found at http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/09_Act_Work_Sched.htm.
Submit your proposal on or before 1 June 2007 to onsrud@gsdi.org with a
copy to astevens@gsdi.org. If you submit, you should have a decision by
the evaluation committee in early June.

We look forward to hearing from you.

*The GSDI 10 Local and Regional Organizing Committee*
_Co-Chairs:_
*Jacob Opadeyi*, Centre for GeoSpatial Studies, The University of the
West Indies, Trinidad
*Bheshem Ramlal*, Department of Surveying and Land Information, The
University of the West Indies, Trinidad
_Committee Members:*
*_*Carol Ann Albury*, National GIS Coordinator, Office of the Prime
Minister, Bahamas
*Cecille Blake*, National GIS Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture and
Lands, Jamaica
*Santiago Borrero*, Secretary General, Pan American Institute of
Geography and History
*Tatiana Delgado Fernandez*, National Commission of the SDI of the
Republic of Cuba
*Desmond Dougall*, GISCAD, Trinidad
*Tyrone Leong*, Director of Surveys, Surveying and Mapping Division,
Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, Trinidad
*Adolphus Ollivierre*, Lands and Surveys Department, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
*Harold Wall*, GIS Officer, Ministry of Planning and Development, Trinidad

--
Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org
_______________________________________________
Viscom-dev mailing list
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--
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http://www.wheregroup.com

_______________________________________________
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Tyler Mitchell
Executive Director
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
tmitchell@osgeo.org
P: +1-250-277-1621
M: +1-250-303-1831
_______________________________________________
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Ok, I'm off to a conference tomorrow and there until the 1st, so I don't have time to make a proposal. Could someone take the lead on that? I imagine the best thing to do would be to keep it pretty vague. You're welcome to use the one from last year as inspiration: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/09_Act_Work_Sched.htm (search for 'Getting Started with Open Source Software for SDI's')

Though in retrospect that probably should have been more vague, since we ended up doing gvSig instead of uDig.

Chris

Jeroen Ticheler wrote:

Hi all,
We had a good experience in Santiago with our workshop. It was more of an extended demonstration due to the lack of computer facilities and due to the fact that almost nobody took a laptop or so with them into the workshop.

We went through a session that installed and showed GeoServer, GeoNetwork and gvSIG. Than we set up a map service, created a related catalog entry and had gvSIG and GeoNetwork use the WMS service from GeoServer. gvSIG searched the GeoNetwork node and found the GeoServer map service and opened it. I don't remember if we had gvSIG also use the WFS service from GeoServer.

All in all it was a good and challenging experience with a large audience attending. It also provided us with one of those necessary milestones in establishing and/or testing interoperability between applications :slight_smile:

We (GeoNetwork and gvSIG) just discussed a workshop at the gvSIG conference in November, including GeoServer. We also discussed taking that to GSDI-10. So I think there's all the scope from our side to proceed with a proposal. Even if nobody is in the position at this point in time to say they will see those blue oceans with there feet in the water :slight_smile: What a bad outlook that is...

With the availability of modern computer labs, as described on the GSDI-10 site, we now have to define the type and the number of workshops :slight_smile:
What projects are thinking of giving a workshop at GSDI-10? Who would like to do cross-project workshops?

Ciao,
Jeroen

On 24 May 2007, at 10:34 PM, Chris Holmes wrote:

I went two years ago, where I met Jeroen for the first time, and Allan was there as well. In general the conference has a few concurrent sessions, where people present papers. It's more academic/government - people actually write papers for one. The first year we gave a paper on open source for SDI's which was decently received.

Last year we did the workshop, Jeroen and I applied, and then I think we joined up with Michael Gould and gvSig? The workshop's a pretty sweet deal I believe (I wasn't there), it happens before the conference, and it's a great opportunity to educate people who don't know much about your stuff, and give some hands on demos. The workshops are primarily for the sponsors who provide funds for the conference, so it's pretty nice that Harlan manages to get us an open source slot.

The angle to present is pretty basics, just showing off the capabilities of open source, get people to see that it's a reality and competitive with anyone else. The audience isn't super advanced - I believe it tends to be a bit more government decision makers, a bit less the actual tech people.

Jeroen, you have any other insight? Since you were actually there for the last one.

Chris

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

It does sound promising - can anyone provide some experience from previous events? What happens, how does it work, what angle can we best present?
Tyler
On 24-May-07, at 11:40 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

On Wed, May 23, 2007 11:48, Chris Holmes wrote:

Anyone planning on going to GSDI-10? I'm pretty confident we could get
a workshop there. I didn't go last year, but had a group of people who
were going to go, so we organized it together. There's a lot of
government decision makers who go to this, it may not be a bad place to
have some osgeo presence. It's just way too far away for me to know if
I'll personally be attending.

Hey,
same for me. But nonetheless we should apply for a workshop. I am very
sure that someone knowledgeable from around OSGeo will be there. And if
not I have the perfect excuse that I must go myself... :wink:

So my VisCom opinion is to apply and see later how to fill in the blanks.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Invitation to Propose a Workshop or Tutorial for GSDI 10
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:35:02 -0400
From: Harlan Onsrud <onsrud@spatial.maine.edu>
To: cholmes@openplans.org

Dear Chris,

GSDI 10 will be held in Trinidad 25-29 February 2008. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10

We are once again inviting proposals for the presentation of workshops
on the first day of the conference. See
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/workshops.html

Workshops this time will be offered under a slightly different
arrangement that we hope will attract strong attendance. We are
requesting workshop proposals by the end of this month so that people
registering for the conference will be able to sign up for specific
workshops in advance. In this manner instructors will know the number of
people attending their workshops and have the contact information for
their participants in advance.

We highly encourage you to submit a workshop proposal. For reference,
the description of the workshop you presented in Santiago in 2006 may be
found at http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/09_Act_Work_Sched.htm.
Submit your proposal on or before 1 June 2007 to onsrud@gsdi.org with a
copy to astevens@gsdi.org. If you submit, you should have a decision by
the evaluation committee in early June.

We look forward to hearing from you.

*The GSDI 10 Local and Regional Organizing Committee*
_Co-Chairs:_
*Jacob Opadeyi*, Centre for GeoSpatial Studies, The University of the
West Indies, Trinidad
*Bheshem Ramlal*, Department of Surveying and Land Information, The
University of the West Indies, Trinidad
_Committee Members:*
*_*Carol Ann Albury*, National GIS Coordinator, Office of the Prime
Minister, Bahamas
*Cecille Blake*, National GIS Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture and
Lands, Jamaica
*Santiago Borrero*, Secretary General, Pan American Institute of
Geography and History
*Tatiana Delgado Fernandez*, National Commission of the SDI of the
Republic of Cuba
*Desmond Dougall*, GISCAD, Trinidad
*Tyrone Leong*, Director of Surveys, Surveying and Mapping Division,
Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, Trinidad
*Adolphus Ollivierre*, Lands and Surveys Department, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
*Harold Wall*, GIS Officer, Ministry of Planning and Development, Trinidad

--
Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org
_______________________________________________
Viscom-dev mailing list
Viscom-dev@lists.osgeo.org
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/viscom-dev

--
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http://www.wheregroup.com

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