We recently completed a job for the Department of Land Affairs, Eastern Cape, South Africa, to build an educational resource around QGIS. Otto Dassau and myself were the principle authors. The resource also includes screencasts and a custom windows installer for QGIS 1.0 with rebranded splash screen etc.
Here’s a sampler I uploaded to youtube:
One of the conditions of the contract was that all content should be under an open license (GPLD for documentation and CCSA for screencasts), the idea being that we could integrate the products of this work into the QGIS documentation base.
The original work was done in Open Office because I found it easier to get the layout etc I wanted. I am in the process of porting it to LaTeX. Our plan next is to import all of these resources into the QGIS SVN (OOo documents and Latex sources), and move the videos onto the official QGIS web site, as well as pdf versions (see link below).
Ultimately we would like to see the community team becoming involved with translations and extension of these worksheets. I am also actively seeking funding to do
this further on a sponsored basis. The resource is available here:
One thing I would ask is to be allowed to place the sponsors logo prominently in the resources and on the appropriate web pages. Feel free to make use of the resources as needed from the above web site.
Many thanks to the Chief Directorate: Spatial Planning & Information, Department of Land Affairs, Eastern Cape, South Africa and the Office of the Premier, Eastern Cape for sponsoring this work.
Enjoy!
