Good point Tim,<br><br>It's always dangerous to predict the future but if we win the bid we should expect the news to spread like wild fire (with the help of some marketing efforts) through the GIS community. The request for papers should see a lot of regional projects come out of the shadows and onto the world stage of FOSS-GIS.
<br><br>We can then clump some of them into their own session stream, bofs and even keynotes if appropriate. <br><br>Shoaib<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 11, 2007 3:32 AM, Tim Bowden <<a href="mailto:tim.bowden@westnet.com.au">
tim.bowden@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It looks like we will get letters of support for our conf bid from the
<br>OSGeo chapters in Japan, China and India. As one of our aims for the<br>conference is to promote regional engagement, we need to come up with<br>some ideas as to how we can do that. Perhaps we could have a "regional
<br>showcase" exhibition where local chapters can showcase what's happening<br>in there region?<br><br>Regards,<br>Tim Bowden<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Aust-NZ mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">
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