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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Gavin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for the link.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We have now almost completed a Mapguide
Open Source application which is better than out old MapGuide 6.5 sites. Martiens
is giving a presentation today in Nelspruit to there GISSA on this. We will
also be giving a presentation at GISSA Gauteng<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Bye<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Wilhelm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext'> foss4g2008loc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:foss4g2008loc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Gavin Fleming<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 26 October 2007 10:49 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> africa@lists.osgeo.org;
foss4g2008loc@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Foss4g2008loc] SA to
adopt ODF and GML as government standards</span></font><font color=black><span
lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In line with its Open Source / Open
Standards policy, the SA government has made ODF, GML and various other open
standards national standards for all government communication. See message and article
below. The Tectonic article has a link to the official pdf with all the detail.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gavin</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext'> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Quinn Reynolds</st1:PersonName>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 26 October 2007 09:45 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> MLUG - For interest: SA
to adopt ODF as government standard</span></font><font color=black><span
lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ODF is the
"Open Document Format", a file standard for spreadsheets, word
processor documents, and other office productivity applications. It's similar
to Microsoft's .xls, .doc, etc formats, only open for anyone to implement :-)<br>
<br>
ODF is the primary document format of the open source OpenOffice suite.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1838">http://tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1838</a><br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Quinn</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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