Thanks Hamish,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Good suggestions.<br><br>Bruce<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Hamish [mailto:<a href="mailto:hamish_b@yahoo.com" target="_blank">hamish_b@yahoo.com</a>]<br>
> Sent: Monday, 2 March 2009 6:20 PM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</a>; Bruce Bannerman<br>
> Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] Edits to Annual Report<br>
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> Hi Bruce,<br>
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> > Thanks for your contribution to the Annual Report, under Areas for<br>
> > Improvement.<br>
> ....<br>
> > <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Australia/New_Zealand_Chapter_Report_2008" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Australia/New_Zealand_Chapter_Report_2008</a><br>
> ....<br>
> > I'm not sure of the context of your comments and what you had been<br>
> > hoping for AustNZ to do.<br>
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> written was:<br>
> "If we are to get the OSGeo message out there, we need more<br>
> assistance from within the Australian and New Zealand OSGeo<br>
> communities."<br>
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> I hoped to build on that by giving some specific examples of<br>
> community links and projects that are ripe for collaboration.<br>
> i.e. it's not enough for the existing members to get out<br>
> there and evangelize, we can much more quickly grow by<br>
> joining with other similar local efforts. The networks<br>
> already exist, it just needs a few key connections here and<br>
> there between the existing separate but like-minded groups.<br>
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> Feel free to add/modify/trash what I put on the wiki as you see fit.<br>
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> regards,<br>
> Hamish<br>
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