Brandon Martin-Anderson wrote: > How could we overcome this? A new user's first introduction to a > system of abstraction needs to be excruciatingly gentle and > non-abstract. Right: http://www.feedparser.org/. Wrong: > http://www.gdal.org/gdal_tutorial.html.
Brandon, It's nice to be noticed, but not this way! Gee, and I was pretty proud of that tutorial as approachable. In fact, I found the feedparser thing somewhat off putting. I would be interested in suggestions on a better structure for the GDAL tutorial though I don't know if I would act on them. PS. Anselm - I kind of wish you had let the organizers know you weren't planning to give your presentation. As session chair it was embarassing for me to announce that you had not bothered to show up for the presentation you signed up to give. But clearly the lesson is that the conference folks need to cross check and identify this problem themselves since it was alarmingly common in capetown. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
