<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Congratulations Dewald, and good work!<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><A href="http://www.eepublishers.co.za/view.php?sid=9001">http://www.eepublishers.co.za/view.php?sid=9001</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><DIV><DIV>On 21-Jun-07, at 11:34 PM, Dewald Troskie wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="519063210-20062007"><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="431324110-20062007">H</SPAN>i Guys,</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="519063210-20062007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="519063210-20062007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I have had the priviledge of publishing an article in one of the local IT magazines distributed to about 40 000 readers (printed) + 60 000 reader (online) monthly in the GIS /<SPAN class="941083206-22062007"> Remote Sensing / Surveying sphe</SPAN>re. It's about Mapserver, so I am doing my bit for OSS advocacy in the GIS field here locally. <SPAN class="941083206-22062007"> T</SPAN>he article <SPAN class="941083206-22062007"> can be found at <A title="blocked::http://www.eepublishers.co.za/view.php?sid=9001" href="blocked::http://www.eepublishers.co.za/view.php?sid=9001"><FONT color="#000000">http://www.eepublishers.co.za/view.php?sid=9001</FONT></A> </SPAN>for interests sake. BTW, my next artcle due for publishing is about PostGIS, any pointers (beyond the usual blurb) ??</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="left"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><FONT size="2">Kind Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV align="left"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV align="left"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><STRONG>Dewald Troskie</STRONG></SPAN><FONT face="Century Gothic"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Century Gothic" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">GIS Developer / Database Architect</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV align="left"><FONT face="Century Gothic" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Network Administrator<BR><STRONG><B><FONT face="Century Gothic"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">GIS Global Image (Pty) Ltd.</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR><STRONG><B><FONT face="Century Gothic"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Helping the world make informed decisions</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV align="left"><FONT face="Century Gothic" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><STRONG><B><FONT face="Century Gothic"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"></SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Century Gothic" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">P.O <ST1:ADDRESS w:st="on"><ST1:STREET w:st="on">Box</ST1:STREET> 15</ST1:ADDRESS> The Innovation Hub 0087 <BR>Cell: +27 (0)82 615 0248<BR>Tel: +27 (0)12 844 0660<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Century Gothic" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Fax: +27 (0)86 619 3958<BR>Email: <A href="mailto:dewald@globalimage.co.za">dewald@globalimage.co.za</A> <BR>Web: <A title="blocked::http://www.globalimage.co.za/" href="blocked::blocked::http://www.globalimage.co.za/">www.globalimage.co.za</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Century Gothic" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <BR>Web: <A title="blocked::http://www.mapme.co.za/ http://www.mapme.co.za/" href="blocked::blocked::http://www.mapme.co.za/">www.mapme.co.za</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Century Gothic" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><BR>Registered Linux User No: 371874<BR>Office L15 <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Enterprise</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY> Building <BR>The Innovation Hub - <ST1:STREET w:st="on"><ST1:ADDRESS w:st="on">Hotel Street</ST1:ADDRESS></ST1:STREET><BR><ST1:CITY w:st="on">Lynnwood</ST1:CITY>, <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Pretoria</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>, 0087</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Africa mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Africa@lists.osgeo.org">Africa@lists.osgeo.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Tyler Mitchell</DIV><DIV>Executive Director</DIV><DIV>Open Source Geospatial Foundation</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:tmitchell@osgeo.org">tmitchell@osgeo.org</A></DIV><DIV>P: +1-250-277-1621</DIV><DIV>M: +1-250-303-1831</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>