[Aust-NZ] Where to now?

[Bruce Bannerman]

Hi John,

Sorry for the delay in replying, I was waiting to see if there were any
other comments on this.

It makes sense to try and cooperate. Both communities are after similar
things.


However, we have a significant Kiwi membership in the OSGeo AustNZ list.

A number put significant time into helping with the organisation of
FOSS4G-2009.

I think that it is only appropriate that the next regional FOSS4G type event
be held in NZ.


Just a thought, is there any scope for your bid for 2011 SoTM to be also
held in NZ? How close are your ties with the NZ OSM community for a joint
Australian / NZ OSM community bid?



What do others think?



Bruce



On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:31 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/11/17 Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>:
> > On another note, at FOSS4G, Arnulf Christl suggested that we may wish to
> > consider running another regional FOSS4G event in two years time.
> >
> > I canvased a few people at FOSS4G and believe that we'd get a few key
> > Developers / Vendors back here if we did.
> >
> > I think that if we were to do this, running it in New Zealand this time
> > would be ideal.
>
> We, the Australian OSM enthusiests, are thinking about putting in a
> bid for the 2011 State of the Map, which is the annual OSM conference,
> would you be open to some sort of dual event?
>
> There was talk of combining the FOSS4G and SoTM event next year,
> having them on adjoining weekends with mixed activities in the week
> between sort of thing.
>
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