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<DIV>HI Tim,</DIV>
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<DIV>Great idea. Let me know how EIS-Africa can promote the event. Also the AARSE 2010 is in Addis Ababa and may be a good venue.</DIV>
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<DIV>Our conference AfricaGIS 2011 is going to be in Cairo, so start planning now to be there!!!!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards<BR><STRONG>Sives Govender<BR></STRONG>Executive Director<BR>EIS-AFRICA<BR><BR>tel: +27 12 3491068<BR>fax: +27 12 3492080<BR>mobile: +27 82 9295034<BR>Skype: sives.govender<BR>alt. email: <A href="mailto:sives.govender@gmail.com">sives.govender@gmail.com</A><BR><BR>Postal Address:<BR>Postnet Suite 156<BR>Private Bag X15<BR>Menlo Park<BR>0102<BR>South Africa<BR><BR>Physical Address:<BR>Room 274, Building 4E, CSIR<BR>Meiring Naudé Road<BR>Brummeria<BR>Pretoria<BR>0002<BR>South Africa.</FONT><BR><BR>>>> Tim Sutton <tim@linfiniti.com> 26/01/2010 22:20 >>><BR>Hi All<BR><BR>As Anthony Cooper has pointed out to me, I neglected to mention the dates!<BR><BR>27 - 29 September are the proposed dates (which coincides with the<BR>university semester break).<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Tim<BR><BR>On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Tim Sutton <tim@linfiniti.com> wrote:<BR>> Hi All<BR>><BR>> A few weeks I posted to the list my interest in holding an<BR>> Africa-centric FOSSGIS get together this year. I received a very good<BR>> response with various offers for venues and assistance. Of the three<BR>> venues put forward I would like to use Monash University, Krugersorp,<BR>> South Africa since it offers everything we need:<BR>><BR>> - venue being donated<BR>> - sufficient labs and lecture rooms<BR>> - support from the staff in-situ<BR>> - good transport network<BR>><BR>> The Monash South Africa University campus web site is here:<BR>><BR>> <A href="http://www.monash.ac.za/">http://www.monash.ac.za/</A><BR>><BR>> The venue was proposed by Ashley Gunter who is a lecturer at the university.<BR>><BR>> I know it would have been nice to hold the conference somewhere more<BR>> central in Africa so that those to the north dont need to travel too<BR>> far, but since this is going to be our first time I think it will<BR>> logistically be easier to organise the process if the venue is closer<BR>> to home.<BR>><BR>> I would very much like to make the entrance to the conference and<BR>> workshops free or very cheap. Currently our budget plan calls for a<BR>> registration fee of R500 per delegate and R1000 per workshop. We will<BR>> look at our options, but one great one would be to have a couple of<BR>> sponsors.<BR>><BR>> The german FOSSGIS conference keep costs down by avoiding expensive<BR>> things like fancy catering (they offer soup and bread at lunch and<BR>> tea/coffee/biscuits at tea breaks) and I am looking to emulate their<BR>> approach as much as possible.<BR>><BR>><BR>> So what next? Now is the time to put together an organising committee<BR>> and start promoting our conference.<BR>><BR>><BR>> If you would like to assist with the organisation, please contact me.<BR>> Also if you have contacts for publicising the conference please<BR>> forward the promotional materials on to them when we have them ready.<BR>><BR>> If you are an academic, please start thinking about what we could do<BR>> in terms of an academic track and make some proposals for suitable<BR>> people to review paper / poster submissions.<BR>><BR>> I am going to set up a wiki page and other similar resources over the<BR>> next week or two and we can use that as the basis for collaboration.<BR>><BR>> Best regards<BR>><BR>> --<BR>> Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager)<BR>> ==============================================<BR>> Visit <A href="http://linfiniti.com/">http://linfiniti.com</A> to find out about:<BR>> * QGIS programming services<BR>> * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans<BR>> * FOSS Consulting Services<BR>> Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net<BR>> ==============================================<BR>><BR><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager)<BR>==============================================<BR>Visit <A href="http://linfiniti.com/">http://linfiniti.com</A> to find out about:<BR>* QGIS programming services<BR>* Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans<BR>* FOSS Consulting Services<BR>Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net<BR>==============================================<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Africa mailing list<BR>Africa@lists.osgeo.org<BR><A href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa</A><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>