-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh cool! Ok, so I'm coming from the other direction. I'm very geeky but I'd like to start working GIS into my projects. I'm feeling bit overwhelmed by all the different projections, data types (esri, arcview, vector, bitmap, shape) and file types. Can you recommend a sort of GIS for Dummies? Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Mary Ayala wrote: > I am very interested in this aspect of things. I do not come from the > Computer world, I actually have a degree in Geography with my Computer > Knowledge coming from GIS (Geographic Information Systems). I taught myself > DOS and Windows, because in part, they were really simple. I have this job, > because I have a knack for getting computers to do what I want them to do. > I do want to learn Linux, but I'm restricted by my lack of knowledge on Perl > (which you all use a lot of) and command line Unix. I will be coming from a > strictly boxed version and reading the setup instructions and installing the > GUI's because that is where my confort level is. In the meantime I am > reading a text my husband got me, Linux Unleashed. Perhaps I will keep a > journal of my encounters. I also intend to put a partition for that on my > desktop to play around with StarOffice and some other stuff, because if > Linux gains more users on the Desktop those are the things that are going to > require the most assitance and that users are going to be using the most. > > Sorry to go on like this, but I wanted you to have some perspective on where > I'm coming from when I start asking the "dumb" questions. ;) > > Oh and go ahead and call me a "Newbie" my husband does. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:chrome at real-time.com] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:11 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Contributing to Open Source > > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:05:09AM -0600, Jesse Erdmann wrote: > > Last night at the beer meeting there was a fairly good discussion about > > how non-programmers could contribute to Open Source. Most of the > > discussion centered around doc writing and the like. > > > > Here is yet another way I found posted on The Register this morning: > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23245.html > > that's actually a pretty good thought. I know I'm definitely in the category > of 'admin who lives, eats, sleeps, and breathes in xterms'. It continues to > amaze me, the things I find when I actually sit down in front of a box > that's running Gnome or KDE. > > I'm going to try to introduce my girlfriend to Linux (she's going to have to > know it, if she uses the computers at my house); but I've been despairing > about how to do it. as anyone who works with me knows, I run very minimal > desktop environments; which are kind of simple, even for most linux users. > (lots of monitors, full of xterms and the occasional web browser, and not > much else. no panels, taskbars, or icons.) > > I really wanted to bring her to the Installfest Saturday, so she can take a > look at the different desktop environments people have; and see which one > she likes. unfortunately, she has to work that day. :( > > guess I'm going to have to learn how to set up Gnome... without that GDM > russian-roulette buisness. (yeah, it looks all pretty... until something > breaks and you have to bludgeon it to death before you can properly work on > your X configuration). > > Carl Soderstrom. > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8FPCSfexLsowstzcRAkaMAKCwQ5fuY1vTEDxKeX7WGU5R3tTolQCgnRSD s1m05VXGNJ3szV8H+G1wWX8= =tqzb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----