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<span>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/" title="http://2009.foss4g.org" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">http://2009.foss4g.org</a></p>

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<span>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&#39;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/" title="http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">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>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/" title="http://2009.foss4g.org/registration/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">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="122975a0c454b042_Media_Sponsors" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0, 43, 184);background-repeat:initial;background-color:initial"></a><h2 style="color:black;background-repeat: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">

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<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Position Magazine: <a href="http://www.positionmag.com.au/" title="http://www.positionmag.com.au/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">http://www.positionmag.com.au/</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: <a href="http://www.asmmag.com/" title="http://www.asmmag.com" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">http://www.asmmag.com</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Geoconnexions Magazine: <a href="http://www.geoconnexion.com/" title="http://www.geoconnexion.com/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">http://www.geoconnexion.com/</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Directions Magazine: <a href="http://directionsmag.com/" title="http://directionsmag.com/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">http://directionsmag.com/</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">GIS Development: <a href="http://gisdevelopment.net/" title="http://gisdevelopment.net/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">http://gisdevelopment.net/</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Baliz Media: <a href="http://www.baliz-media.com/" title="http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">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/" title="http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:initial;padding-right:13px" target="_blank">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>

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