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I’m curious about both your thoughts on this on how we would/could best participate?
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<div class="">On Nov 21, 2019, at 1:05 AM, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Hold up, looks like it was discussed here: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/industry/2018-September/000051.html" class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/industry/2018-September/000051.html</a>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 22:59, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 16:36, Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca" target="_blank" class="">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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Just out of curiosity, I assume nobody approached OSGeo about this august body?<br class="">
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