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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Hi</span> <span class="hps">Gavin</span> <br><br><span class="hps">How are you?</span><span></span> <span class="hps">Can you</span> <span class="hps">please</span> <span class="hps">send</span> <span class="hps">me</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">photos we took</span> <span class="hps">during the course </span><span>?<br><br>Regards<br></span></span><br><div>> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:23:04 +0200<br>> From: gavin@kartoza.com<br>> To: africa@lists.osgeo.org<br>> Subject: [OSGeo Africa] AfricaGEO and FOSS GIS unconference<br>> <br>> Writing from AfricaGEO2014 where there is a great FOSS GIS vibe. The <br>> FOSS GIS session yesterday was packed to capacity and Jeff McKenna gave <br>> his keynote address this morning on OSGeo and FOSS GIS.<br>> <br>> I think we can call the FOSS GIS 'Unconference' that happened on Monday <br>> a success.<br>> <br>> Numbers peaked around thirty and this is roughly what went down:<br>> - Tim Sutton gave an overview of QGIS and 'What's new in 2.4'<br>> - Jeff McKenna did a demo of Mapserver<br>> - I went through CRSs for South Africa and demo'd the new SG diagram <br>> downloader QGIS plugin.<br>> - There were breakaway groups on QGIS, GIS in education and STDM (Social <br>> Tenure Domain Model), a new FOSS project and QGIS plugin.<br>> - Lots of discussion took place on various other topics.<br>> <br>> A big thank you to Aslam Parker and the NGI for hosting us and providing <br>> refreshments.<br>> <br>> Gavin<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Africa mailing list<br>> Africa@lists.osgeo.org<br>> You can UNSUBSCRIBE at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa<br></div> </div></body>
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