Okay, here’s where we can discuss logistics for the virtual workshop.
Title
“GIS Developer Basics”? Open to suggestions here!
Timeline
Wednesdays at noon starting at the end of August
| Date | Topic | Led By |
|---|---|---|
| August 26 | Setting up an IDE, getting started with GIS development | Burt |
| September 2 | Attribute Rules in the FGDB | Hunter |
| September 9 | Python and GIS (maybe just web-focused?) | Josh |
| September 16 | A different python topic? | up for grabs |
@BMcAlpine and @hunter_ray just let me know if those dates don’t work, we can move things around.
Format
This should be hands-on, and definitely not a presentation. We have webinars for that!
When you prepare your topic, try to have very clear, achievable steps that participants can walk through along with you. If we have advance registration, we can ask the participants to come with certain things already installed.
I think just focus on a handful of simple things that you could walk through, slowly, over the course of 30 minutes. I know that’s not much, but it leaves plenty of flex time for questions, letting participants share their screen if they need troubleshooting, etc., and I think we’d get more people actually walking through the steps.
Registration?
I’d like people to register for this. Should we consider a registration cap? @llee as we get more details fixed, it would be great to have a few emails go out about this, and maybe some kind of form.
I kind of hate the forms on the main website. I’m happy to build one myself, if that seems kosher, and I could just give you the link?
Platform
I would like to use the forum, if possible. I made a group for virtual workshop attendees on here, and folks we add to that group will have access to a virtual room where they can do voice / video / screen share. Tested it with a few users, and you can do simultaneous screen sharing, it’s pretty nice.
Resources, questions, etc., could be posted in a workshop-specific category on the forum, too.