URISA Members:
URISA’s Workshop Development Committee is seeking new workshops for presentation at URISA conferences, chapter conferences and as stand-alone courses. Workshops offer rewarding educational experiences to URISA members and help them in their careers as geospatial practitioners.
Many of you have attended one or more of URISA’s Certified Workshops at chapter events or at URISA conferences on topics ranging from 3D Geospatial to An Overview of Open Source GIS Software.
Each year, the Workshop Development Committee, instructors, authors and reviewers develop new workshops and update the existing workshops URISA offers. To remain relevant, however, we must develop new workshops to meet our members’ needs for top-quality education on the most important topics in the field.
We invite you to submit a proposal to develop a new eight-hour, four-hour, or two-hour web-based URISA Certified Workshop.
New workshop proposals must identify a specific niche or need. This could be a new topic or a significant improvement of an existing workshop.
Suggested new workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
Not ready for the task of creating a new workshop? If you are interested in helping to update an existing workshop, the following need attention:
Proposers, coordinators and instructors must be URISA members. A workshop must be presented with a minimum of two instructors. The workbook may not be copyrighted by the author or contain proprietary materials which may preclude URISA's use of the workbook/workshop at other URISA conferences. If interested in submitting a certified workshop proposal, follow the schedule and steps below.
Workshop Proposal Schedule
January 22, 2010: Proposals due
February 8, 2010: Notification of acceptance
May 3, 2010: First draft of workbook due
August 9, 2010: Final draft of workbook due
September 28, 2010: Presentation of workshops at the 2010 URISA Annual Conference in Orlando, FL
To propose a new workshop, download the proposal form and related documents or contact URISA Headquarters.
Proposals can be emailed to info@urisa.org when completed.
For questions or more information please contact:
Dave Lanter, GISP or Keri Brennan, GISP
URISA Workshop Development Committee Co-Chairs
Email: info@urisa.org