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face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hi GIS
aficionados,<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000080><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR>we are excited to
announce that the CUGOS Spring Fling 2023 schedule and registration are now live
at </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000080><SPAN lang=zxx><U><A
href="https://cugos.org/2023-spring-fling/"><FONT color=#000080><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">https://cugos.org/2023-spring-fling/</FONT></FONT></FONT></A></U></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> !<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT
color=#000080><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The
main conference day will be on Friday, April 21, 2023, at Univ. Of Washington,
Seattle, WA. at the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for CS &
Engineering(CSE2).</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000080><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">On Saturday, April 22,
2023, there will be an OpenStreetMap (OSM) Hackathon organized by the
OpenSidewalks Project.<BR><BR>Don't hesitate to register if you are interested
because we only have some tickets available.</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT
color=#000080><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Note
that if you are a presenter, you are automatically registered for CUGOS Spring
Fling 2023, and no further action regarding registration is required from your
side.</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000080><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">If your organization is
interested to become a sponsor for CUGOS Spring Fling 2023, please reach out to
us at hello@cugos.org to find out more.<BR>Current sponsors are listed at <A
href="https://cugos.org/2023-spring-fling/#sponsors">https://cugos.org/2023-spring-fling/#sponsors</A></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT
color=#000080><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Overall sponsorships and donations will enable CUGOS to
pay for free food and drinks for attendees at the event, while the vast majority
of these funds will be used to establish these <A
href="https://cugos.org/grants/">2 grant programs</A> CUGOS is working
on.</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000080><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Cheers and we hope to
meet you soon</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000080><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Karsten</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR>and the whole CUGOS
team</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">__________________________________________________________<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT
color=#000080><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Karsten Vennemann - <EM>Among other things current
CUGOS president -</EM></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></P></FONT></FONT>
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