Good one Tim. Here is my slightly bloated version, please hack away and sorry for my ignorance but do we have a media contact at this point? Also can we use the OSGeo logo until we get one for the conf. with the outline of the opera house :) <br>
<br>Straw man (take2):<br>--------------<br><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 21pt;" lang="EN-AU">FOSS4G<span style="color: gray;">2009</span> <span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Sydney </span><span style="color: rgb(23, 54, 93);">Australia</span></span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" lang="EN-AU"><span style=""> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" lang="EN-AU"><span style=""> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" lang="EN-AU"><span style=""> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" lang="EN-AU">"</span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" lang="EN-AU">User Driven FOSS4G"</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 19pt;" lang="EN-AU"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="" lang="EN-AU"> </span></b>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="" lang="EN-AU">Sydney (Australia) selected to host the
seventh annual conference on "Free & Open Source Software for
Geoinformatics" (FOSS4G) in 2009</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);" lang="EN-AU">Monday, 11 February 2008</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"> <span style=""> </span></span><span class="hccdpe">Aust-NZ OSGeo <a href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;">The Aust-NZ
chapter of OSGeo is pleased to announce we have been selected to host the
FOSS4G 2009 international conference. The conference is planned for
Sydney in November 2009, and is expected to attract the leading players in the
open source geospatial community. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;">Holding this
conference in the Asia-Pacific region will bring enormous benefit to the region
and will provide those in the wider geospatial community an opportunity to
discover the cutting edge of spatial software development through to the state
of the art in enterprise deployment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span class="hccdpe"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">####</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="hccdpe"><b><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">About OSGeo</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="hccdpe"><i><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Please add …</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="hccdpe"><b><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="hccdpe"><b><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">About FOSS4G</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;">The spatial industry
has been undergoing rapid innovations over the last 4 years. The FOSS4G movement
has been at the forefront of this change due to its openness to share ideas,
code and data. From its beginnings the FOSS4G conference has had a reputation of
being a melting pot for great ideas in the spatial industry and a catalyst for many
successful geospatial products, standards and protocols. The 2007 conference was
held in Victoria, BC, Canada and was a huge success (<a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/">www.foss4g2007.org</a>). 2008 conference will be held in Cape
Town, South Africa (<a href="http://www.foss4g2008.org/">www.foss4g2008.org</a>).
FOSS4G 2009 Sydney will be the seventh "formal" gathering of the open source geospatial
community and is expected to focus on the increasing importance of FOSS4G in
the public and private enterprise.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="hccdpe"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="hccdpe"><b><span style="color: gray;">Media Contacts:</span></b></span><b><span style="color: gray;"> <br>
</span></b><span class="hccdpe">Cameron Shorter </span><br>
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050<br>
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254</p>
-------------------<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 11, 2008 6:32 PM, 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;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:11 +0800, Dr. Markus Lupp wrote:<br>> Tim Bowden schrieb:<br>> ><br>> > Publicity roll (Blogs etc):<br>> > Shoaib, Paul Ramsey, Chris Tweedie, Tyler Mitchell, slashgeo,<br>
> > geowanking, nzopengis, banyon(geo challenged), any others we may be<br>> > able to arm twist?<br>> ><br>><br>> How about <a href="http://www.gisdevelopment.net/?" target="_blank">http://www.gisdevelopment.net/?</a><br>
<br></div>Yep. Lets get a release together we can have out tonight.<br><br>Straw man:<br>---<br>The Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo is pleased to announce we have been<br>selected to host the FOSS4G 2009 international conference. The<br>
conference is planned for Sydney in November 2009, and is expected to<br>attract the leading players in the open source geospatial community.<br><br>Holding this conference in the Asia-Pacific region will bring enormous<br>
benefit to the region and will provide those in the wider geospatial<br>community an opportunity to discover the cutting edge of spatial<br>software development through to the state of the art in enterprise<br>deployment.<br>
----<br>Please hack it.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Tim<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>> > Tim<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >> shoaib<br>> >> On Feb 11, 2008 5:02 PM, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cshorter@lisasoft.com">cshorter@lisasoft.com</a>><br>
> >> wrote:<br>> >> FrankW tells me that Sydney was officially accepted the 2009<br>> >> conference<br>> >> city by the OSGeo board at their last meeting.<br>> >><br>
> >> So I suggest we start on our next steps. Who wants to do what?<br>> >><br>> >> * Write Press Release for FOSS4G<br>> >> - Publish through OSGeo<br>> >> - Publish through Position Magazine. Wendy Chapman has<br>
> >> already<br>> >> volunteered to give us free advertising in return for a free<br>> >> pass at the<br>> >> conference.<br>> >> - Publish through Sydney Linux Users Group<br>
> >> * Advertise for Professional Conference Organisor (PCO)<br>> >> - I have documents to fill in from SCVB I can forward through<br>> >> to someone.<br>> >> * Set up Governance body as per:<br>
> >> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_2008_Governance" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_2008_Governance</a><br>> >> * Set up email list<br>> >> * What else?<br>
> >><br>> >> --<br>> >> Cameron Shorter<br>> >> Geospatial Systems Architect<br>> >> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050<br>> >> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254<br>
> >><br>> >> Think Globally, Fix Locally<br>> >> Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions<br>> >> <a href="http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html" target="_blank">http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html</a><br>
> >><br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>> >> Aust-NZ mailing list<br>> >> <a href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
> >> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz</a><br>> >><br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>
> >> Aust-NZ mailing list<br>> >> <a href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> >> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz</a><br>
> >><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Aust-NZ mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> > <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz</a><br>
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