The local paper notes the event scheduled 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Cafe at headquarters in Redlands, California.

"The company made no mention of how many jobs it has open but said positions are open software development, finance and customer service, among others."

Here's the full press release.

This week our editors use study from the UK which notes "pupils' dissatisfaction with a geography curriculum which they perceive as irrelevant" as a starting point to explore academic geography and geospatial education trends. What works at different grade levels? Does keying in on career options make sense? Should there be a grade school subject of geography? The demands from students, employers and educators leave us optimistic.

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Did you ever wonder what happens to bring your GIS software to market? For many years a process referred to as the "waterfall method" was used. In the last 10 or so years a new method came on the scene, one referred to as agile practices. Today, with insights from agile proponents like my guests Chris Spagnuolo and Dave Bouwman of Data Transfer Solutions, GIS development organizations, including ESRI, are looking to this new way of managing and developing software.

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The article is titled "Web-Based Mapping Tools Help Governments Transform GIS into New Services" which seems a bit dated to me.

The main focus is Google apps - implementations by Utah (Mapserv) and Alabama (Virtual Alabama) and Las Vegas (which has an ESRI backend). Then there's a bit about Sheboygan, WI and it's use of Autodesk software. After that rundown you read this:

Google Earth, Autodesk and a host of other platforms offer possibilities limited only by the imagination. But do these applications threaten the demise of traditional GIS? It might seem like these new, user-friendly manifestations of GIS data would spell the end for ESRI, CARIS and other traditional GIS solutions providers. But according to those using new-school applications, the opposite is true.

The first defender is not who you might think; it's a rep from deCarta. Then there are co-existance words from Chikai Ohazama, product manager for Google Earth and the theme of "moving such tech to the masses is the real revolution" from Chuck Herring at DigitalGlobe.

Also, you can read Jack Dangermond's latest predictions about the future.

Last week brought the news that oil was trading at a record high of $100/barrel. Will this price point demand more specialists and specialized tools for exploration, specifically geospatial ones? Is geospatial work associated with the oil patch seen as a potential career for GIS students? Our editors try to connect the dots between the renewed interest in oil prices, new sources of energy and geospatial technologies.

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ESRI's "U.S. Community Atlas" is a project where teachers and students across the country define their communities and one school in western Massaschusetts but its area on the map.

Douglas C. Finn, a video production and filmmaking teacher at Turners Falls High lead
16 honors earth science and Microsoft Office students (interesting!) and their teachers in the work using ESRI software along with other technologies. Says Finn, "Students who learn how to use GIS systems to gather, organize and read data will have an advantage in the workforce, an advantage that is measurable and real."

The project took just five weeks.

Trivia tidbit: The Town of Montague, MA was key in the development of what important ESRI product? ArcView.


- MassLive.com