<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">resend. sorry, forgot the list.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">__________________</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IMO:</font>
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<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Tim,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">see below...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">-- </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bruce Bannerman</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org wrote on 11/09/2008
01:48:47 AM:<br>
<br>
> I'm going to be doing a local chapter report for Aust-NZ at FOSS4G.
Is<br>
> there anything notable that people would like mentioned?<br>
> <br>
> A few things that have hit the list that may be worth mentioning:<br>
> *Geonetwork happenings</tt></font>
<br>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>The Australian and New Zealand Metadata communities
were engaged to try and </tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>get some momentum back into the seemingly stalled
ANZLIC Metadata Catalog </tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>work based on GeoNetwork.</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>There is a lot of good will towards making GeoNetwork
work as the tool of </tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>choice. Jeroen Ticheler arranged for ANZLIC development
(BlueNet) to be </tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>developed within a Sandpit environment within the
GeoNetwork community. </tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>The ensuing email thread showed how much open source
spatial work</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>is happening in the region and good will towards working
together. </tt></font>
<br>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt><br>
> *Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information<br>
> and Data</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>OSGeo-AustNZ prepared a submission for the Victorian
Government's Parliamentary </tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public
Sector Information<br>
and Data.</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>This submission was prepared at short notice and to
a tight time frame and covers</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>a lot of current issues relating to open access to
spatial data. </tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>The submission is available on the OSGeo-AustNZ wiki.
(or soon will be ;-) )</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt> </tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt><br>
> *ABS Free v free<br>
> *LINZ geodata (& osm)<br>
> *WALIS conf<br>
> *Geodata hosting (I take it we didn't get anywhere with this?)<br>
> *Live CD<br>
> *Anything else?<br>
> <br>
> If anyone wants to write a short 3 line description of any of these<br>
> issues they were involved in that would be great.<br>
> <br>
> Regards,<br>
> Tim Bowden<br>
> -- <br>
> Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake<br>
> when you make it again.<br>
> <br>
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</tt></font>
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