Two quicks notes to share:
Firstly, please check out this excellent introduction to GIS by Tim Sutton, Otto Dassau, and Marcelle Sutton in partnership with the Chief Directorate for Spatial Planning & Information, Department of Land Affairs, Eastern Cape, South Africa, and the Spatial Information Management Unit, Office of the Premier, Eastern Cape, South Africa. They use QGIS to present some basic GIS concepts and skills, and I particularly like their section on Coordinate Reference Systems.
Secondly, don’t forget to checkout the FOSS4G 2009 Free and open source software for geospatial conference in Sydney in October. There will be loads of excellent presentations and exhibitors, and the atmosphere is always very cool. I will be presenting some software that I’ve been developing for a while now, and will hopefully get a chance to represent QGIS there as well!
