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<span class="mw-headline">FOSS4G Abstracts announced + Early Bird registration looming</span></h1><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Sydney, Australia. 20 July 2009. <a href="http://2009.foss4g.org/" class="external free" title="http://2009.foss4g.org" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://2009.foss4g.org</a></p>
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<span class="mw-headline">Abstracts Announced</span></h2><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">A comprehensive list of presentations has been announced for the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Abstracts presented by the world's best Developers, Policy Makers, Sponsors and Geospatial Professionals include the latest geospatial applications, standards, government programs, business processes and case studies.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Topics include mobile platforms, location based applications, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, development, spatial standards, integration of cross-agency data, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Sensor Webs, Web Processing Services, Integration of Open Source and Proprietary Software and more.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">For the full list of quality abstracts, view: <a href="http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/" class="external free" title="http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/</a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Community participation in the abstract selection was impressive, with over 150 community members selecting 85 general track abstracts from the 183 submitted and a further 12 academic abstracts selected by 52 academic peers.</p>
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<span class="mw-headline">Early Bird Registration</span></h2><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">After getting inspired from the breadth of abstracts, be sure to register for the FOSS4G conference. Early Bird registration closes in just over two weeks, on 7 August, 2009. <a href="http://2009.foss4g.org/registration/" class="external free" title="http://2009.foss4g.org/registration/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://2009.foss4g.org/registration/</a></p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">7 Aug 2009, <b>Early bird registration deadline</b></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">14 Sep 2009, <b>Completed program available</b></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint</li></ul><a name="Media_Sponsors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; "></a><h2 style="color: black; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; background-position: initial initial; ">
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">Position Magazine: <a href="http://www.positionmag.com.au/" class="external free" title="http://www.positionmag.com.au/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://www.positionmag.com.au/</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: <a href="http://www.asmmag.com/" class="external free" title="http://www.asmmag.com" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://www.asmmag.com</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">Geoconnexions Magazine: <a href="http://www.geoconnexion.com/" class="external free" title="http://www.geoconnexion.com/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://www.geoconnexion.com/</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">Directions Magazine: <a href="http://directionsmag.com/" class="external free" title="http://directionsmag.com/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://directionsmag.com/</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">GIS Development: <a href="http://gisdevelopment.net/" class="external free" title="http://gisdevelopment.net/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://gisdevelopment.net/</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">Baliz Media: <a href="http://www.baliz-media.com/" class="external free" title="http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/</a></li>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: <a href="http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/" class="external free" title="http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/</a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">or contact:</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">
Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">tel +61-2-8570-5050</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m</p></span><br>Simon<br>