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Georgia URISA Low Cost Workshop

Thursday May 20th, 2010
at Flint Energies Service Center in Warner Robins, GA

Don't miss the next Georgia URISA Low Cost Workshop, scheduled on Thursday, May 20th from 9:00 AM -5:00 PM. This event is hosted by Flint Energies, and will be held at the Flint Energies Service Center, located at 900 Highway 96 Warner Robins, GA, 31088.

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Georgia URISA desires to offer, at a minimal cost, official URISA certified workshops. Costs are reduced by eliminating the exhibition hall, social activities, and ancillary activities; utilizing facilities at a minimal cost; and minimizing presenter costs.

*Please Note: The nature of this event is to control costs; therefore, expenses such as food and lodging are not planned. You will be on your own for lunch.

Professional Activity Hours
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You can earn 8 hours towards the GISP certification by attending this event.

Workshop Overview
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Topic: An Overview of Open Source GIS Software
Speakers: Sara Yurman and Randal Hale

Description:
Free and open source software (FOSS) has been offering choices to computer users for a number of years. Over the past few years the open source choices in GIS have been broader and more capable than ever before. This workshop will focus on GIS open source software. It will give an overview of current developments from technical and management perspectives. Selected packages and their applications in various projects will be demonstrated and discussed. Specific topics include:

• Open Source GIS background and development
• Overview of Open Source GIS spatial functionalities
• Live demonstration
• Interoperability: The Open Source GIS spectrum
• Planning and implementation issues

Speaker Bios:

Sara Yurman
Director of Information Services
Spatial Focus, Inc.
syurman@spatialfocus.com Yurman is a partner at Spatial Focus, a consulting firm specializing in geospatial data. She has years of experience in both organizational and technical aspects of geographic information, encompassing government at the local, regional, and state levels. Her activities have included team-building and change management as well as implementations of raster and vector GIS, GPS data integration, system development, and database design. She is a former GA URISA board member and president, an open source software advocate, the author of the Data Quality portion of the draft US address standard, the author of the URISA Overview of Open Source workshop and a co-author of the URISA Street Address Workshop.

Randal Hale
President
North River Geographic Systems
rjhale@northrivergeographic.com

Randal Hale is the President of North River Geographic Systems, Inc (NRGS). Randal spent 15 years in the GIS department at one of the southeast’s largest utility companies before leaving to start NRGS. Randal has a Bachelors degree in Geology from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. He serves as the Education and Outreach chair for Georgia URISA, as the 2nd VP of Mid-South ASPRS, and as the Web and Data chair on the TNGIC Board.

Registration and Cost

Please click here to connect to the Event's Page in the Calendar. Scroll down to the registration form at the bottom of the listing. GaURISA Members just enter your e-mail address, Non-Members please complete the entire form.

Special Offer: In an effort to spread the word about our South Georgia Sub-Chapter we are offering special pricing of $45.00 for all...Spread the word amongst your friends and colleagues!

You can pay for this event securely online with your credit card when you submit your RSVP.

*Please Note: Registration will close on May 19 as workshop materials will need to be purchased for those who RSVP. No walk-ins will be accepted.
 

If you have questions on the registration process, please contact: Melanie Tabb, Georgia URISA Secretary.

Additional Information or Questions:

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If you need more information, please contact Randal Hale, Georgia URISA Education and Outreach Chair.