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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Last year we found/made a gap in the programme for a similar session. We rounded up a few local and international, government and private 'experts' (incl Tim Bowden) to sit on a panel and ran a panel discussion anchored by our 'State IT Agency' who is responsible for planning and implementing South Africa's FOSS and interoperability policy. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>It was very well attended (about 100 people) and a very productive debate. </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> foss4g2009-bounces@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Cameron Shorter<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sun 7/26/2009 01:32 AM<BR><B>To:</B> César Medina; Bruce Bannerman; Arnold Wong; Darren Mottolini; Ben Searle; Adam Cooper; Liz; Pia Waugh; foss4g2009<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Foss4g2009] Re: International Community wanting to network with Government at FOSS4G<BR></FONT><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Cesar (from Chilli),<BR><BR>You have noted your interest in meeting Australian Government interested<BR>in Geospatial Open Source at the FOSS4G conference, and I have CCed a<BR>few of the people who would be likely to want to coordinate the<BR>introduction of the international community to Australian/New Zealand<BR>initiatives.<BR><BR>Bruce, Ben, Arnold, Kylie, Darren, Adam, Liz, Pia,<BR>I expect that there will be a number of other people like Cesar, who<BR>will want to meet Australian & New Zealand government representatives to<BR>find out what we are doing with regards to Open Source and Open<BR>Standards here.<BR><BR>How do you suggest we accommodate this?<BR>One forum we have at FOSS4G is our unstructured "Birds of a Feather"<BR>sessions where anyone can coordinate discussion around a particular topic.<BR><BR> From an Australian/New Zealand government point of view, this would be<BR>valuable as it provides an opportunity for us to network and build<BR>valuable international contacts.<BR>For Landgate (who have built a state government SDI based upon Open<BR>Standards, and uses a lot of Open Source) this is an opportunity to<BR>export some of this expertise.<BR><BR><BR>--<BR>Cameron Shorter<BR>Geospatial Systems Architect<BR>Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050<BR>Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254<BR><BR>Think Globally, Fix Locally<BR>Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source<BR><A href="http://www.lisasoft.com/">http://www.lisasoft.com</A><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Foss4g2009 mailing list<BR>Foss4g2009@lists.osgeo.org<BR><A href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>