So this summer we're taking our show on the road! The Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is "the" international conference for all things related to geospatial technology and open source software. FOSS4G 2017 is in Boston August 14-18 and the Baruch GIS team will be there. We'll be running our full-day introductory GIS Practicum workshop (re-dubbed "Introduction to GIS Using QGIS" for the conference) at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis in Cambridge on Tuesday Aug 15th. There are a slew of great workshops being offered that Monday and Tuesday, covering all technologies and user levels. The main conference runs from Wednesday to Friday.
In preparation for the conference and the upcoming academic year, I will be updating the GIS Practicum manual pretty soon. While QGIS 2.18 Las Palmas is currently the latest release, it is scheduled to become the new Long Term Release once version 3.0 comes out later this year. I'm going to make the switch from 2.14 to 2.18 in the next workbook, since this change is on the horizon.