From info at nur-online.com Thu Jan 6 19:33:57 2011 From: info at nur-online.com (Gina Clemmer, New Urban Research) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:33:57 -0600 (CST) Subject: [PyAR2] 2011 Mapping Workshops - Registration Now Open Message-ID: <1294338836_SectionID-572298_HitID-1294082946762_SiteID-15089_EmailID-75016640_DB-1_SID-0@ss31.gmmailer03.com> Happy New Year. We are excited to offer a new class in 2011: The GIS Essentials? Workshop. We are teaching two versions of our GIS Essentials? Workshop. These two versions include a tele-class (which can be taken from anywhere) and a live one day workshop (offered in various locations). GIS Essentials? Workshop - Live One Day Class upcoming cities: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Honolulu, Tulsa, OKC, Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas This basic one-day workshop is designed to teach essential GIS (Geographic Information System) skills as indicated by a survey of 500 GIS professionals, as well as input from several thousand GIS practitioners. Staff from government agencies, non-profits and universities will find the workshop particularly relevant. Gina Clemmer, author of the book The GIS 20: Essential Skills published by ESRI Press, will teach these workshops. Audience: Anyone interested in learning the essentials of ArcGIS 10. Registration: $595 (Includes registration to class, continental breakfast, lunch and a copy of the book The GIS 20: Essential Skills) More Info/Registration: http://www.nur-online.com GIS Essentials? Workshop - February Tele-Classes This is a series of tele-classes taught on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout February 2011. Each student uses a toll-free number to phone into class. Student must have ArcGIS 10 setup on their desktop (or a sixty day trial version of the software can be arranged). Class recordings will also be made available for students to review if desired. Registration Fee: $1,000 (We cover 20 exercises over 16 hours of instruction, meeting for 8 classes, 2 hours each) Software: ArcGIS 10 (9.3.1 also available) Dates/Times: Mondays & Wednesdays in February - 10 am - 12 pm PST (1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST). First class is on Feb 2nd. Materials for both classes include: + A copy of The GIS 20: Essential Skills by Gina Clemmer will be provided in class and used as the primary text. The price of the book is included with the price of the registration. The GIS 20 is a focused workbook that demonstrates how to perform the most frequently utilized twenty essential GIS skills. The skills were indicated by 500 GIS practitioners through a survey, as well as through questions, projects and suggestions from 15,000 GIS students over the past decade. This book can be treated as a weekly self-assignment or an as-needed reference making it useful for the professional practitioner, the teacher and student. Each chapter offers clear steps, written in plain language, that illustrate exactly how to complete the presented essential skill exercise. In addition, the book helps beginners and non-native English speakers cut through technical jargon by using everyday language to explain the steps. If you are a GIS beginner, The GIS 20: Essential Skills will help you quickly master the most essential GIS skills in practice today. Not able to attend the workshop? You can still review and purchase the book here http://amzn.com/1589482565. + ArcGIS (ArcView 10) software 60-day trial CD set (ordered in class). What People Are Saying University of Houston: "This was a fast-paced, excellent presentation. Well worth the time." University of Texas, School of Public Health: "Excellent. The workshop was straightforward and very digestible." City of San Antonio: "This workshop provided good content, and instructor&`;s teaching style facilitated easy learning." City of Round Rock, Texas: "Workshop was fast paced and taught efficiently on an easy to understand level." New Urban Research, Inc. is a national social research organization specializing in quantitative and spatial community analysis. NUR is an ESRI Business Partner. 3323 NE 33rd Ave Portland, Oregon 97212 http://www.nur-online.com Message sent by: New Urban Research, Inc., 3323 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, 97212, United States To unsubscribe, click the link below. http://p.ss31.nur-online.com/RWCode/subscribe.asp?SID=0&SiteID=15089&Email=pyar2 at python.org&HitID=1294082946762 From gslindstrom at gmail.com Thu Jan 20 14:15:14 2011 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:15:14 -0600 Subject: [PyAR2] Python Teaching Gig in Portland? (Jeff Rush) Message-ID: This was posted on the Texas list; I didn't think it would hurt to forward: --greg ========= A bit of a strange request I know, but we have a diverse set of folks here on these Python lists, and someone might know someone who can help. Jeff Rush ========= Hello ? My name is John Buesseler and I am responsible for a bunch of non-credit computer classes at PCC. I am in a bit of a pickle? We are offering a 15 hr class on Python starting next Monday and I need an instructor! The instructor who was originally scheduled to teach this is unavailable. We have 5 students, enough to run the class. But I need an instructor. If you are curious enough to have continued reading, here are the details: Course Description: CEU935J Django Django is a powerful web development framework for the Python programming language. It combines leading-edge data modeling with a highly modular design and a rich library of snap-in features, allowing for rapid results and code reuse. For this reason it's used by organizations ranging from NASA to PBS to the Washington Post and is a key component of Google App Engine, which allows web apps to run on Google infrastructure. Highly recommended: prior Python or other object-oriented programming experience as well as HTML or XML. Pay: 15 hr class x $40/hr = $600 time: 6-9 pm, Mondays, 24 Jan through 21 Feb Location: Willow Creek Center, Room 215 241 SW Edgeway Dr (near 185th and Baseline, next to the MAX station) Beaverton,OR 97006 If you are interested or can recommend someone who might be available to teach this, please let me know ASAP. I can be reached at 971.722.2899, or john.buesseler at pcc.edu Thanks! John Buesseler | Applications Program Coordinator PCC CLIMB Center for Advancement Willow Creek Center Rm 210 241 Edgeway Dr. Beaverton, Or 97006 503.533.2899 | john.buesseler at pcc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brian.curtin at gmail.com Fri Jan 28 19:07:52 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:07:52 -0600 Subject: [PyAR2] PSF Sprints - Call For Applications Message-ID: Hello Arkansas Python Users! On behalf of the Python Software Foundation?s sponsored sprint group, I wanted to drop your group a quick note introducing us. If you?re already familiar with our sponsored sprints, you?ll be happy to know we made a few changes to help both sprint groups and Python even more. The PSF recently set aside funding to be distributed to groups who spend time contributing to the Python ecosystem, often in the form of development sprints. Our goal is to help you help Python, so whether it?s buying meals or renting meeting space for your all-day hackathon, we have a budget set aside to reimburse your expenses up to $300 USD (up from $250). If your goal is to make the Python world a better place, and you work on the problems facing Python today, we want to help you. We?re looking for groups of hackers that spend their time fixing and expanding the wide variety of Python interpreters, libraries, tools, and anything else affecting the community.We?re also looking for groups who want to help and get started but don?t have the resources to get together. Whether your group is separated by a train ride or lacking a shared space, we want to help you. On-boarding new contributors to open source Python projects is an especially important area that we?d like to work with.This means if you have a Python project and you want to sprint -- we want to help you.Some sprints we?ve sponsored include the porting of Genshi to Python 3, improvements to packaging (Distribute/distutils), and most recently, the PyPy winter sprint in Switzerland. If your group is interested in hosting a sprint, check out the full details of our call for applications at http://www.pythonsprints.com/cfa/ and contact us at sprints at python.org. Thanks for your time, and happy sprinting! Brian Curtin Jesse Noller http://www.pythonsprints.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: