Wednesday, February 20. 2008

Quote of the Day - Dangermond: "Fully employed for a long time"

Speaking at the opening plenary session of the ESRI Federal User's Conference at the Washington Convention Center (Wash. DC), Jack Dangermond expounded on the many applications his user's were employing at the federal level. But he also mentioned one key issue: lots of problems in the world, environmental, political, and health-related, create lots of opportunities for GIS. "I am certain that you and I will be fully employed for a long time."

This of course once again highlights the dearth of trained GIS professionals that many have alluded to recently, especially at the federal level and perhaps the expanding need be recognized as a GISP to provide a foundation for the required training.

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re: "the expanding need be recognized as a GISP to provide a foundation for the required training."

What does that mean? You need to be a GISP to be trained?

#1 John Prine on 2008-02-20 13:12 (Reply)

It does kind of insult the intelligence of those who are capable, does it not? But I do digress.

#1.1 Daniel (Link) on 2008-02-20 15:02 (Reply)

GISP is BS.

'Contributions to the Profession' have little bearing on how well a person can perform his or her GIS-related job. Most of the GISPs I know are in management positions.

#2 Joe on 2008-02-20 15:58 (Reply)

Suits are often the only ones with enough spare time on their hands to get all that documentation together (have to locate first, that's the biggest task). I bet I've got enough points, twice over, to get certified - but who else has that kind of time?

#2.1 really busy on 2008-02-20 17:19 (Reply)

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