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<DIV><SPAN class=343044123-11022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=343044123-11022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=343044123-11022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Well
done on getting this approved.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=343044123-11022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=343044123-11022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
would like to be able to announce this event on the OSDM web site so when a
'press release' has bee agreed, please let me know and I well get it up on our
site.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=343044123-11022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=343044123-11022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Again,
well done......</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Marie-Claire Henry<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 12 February 2008
10:38<BR><B>To:</B> Shoaib Burq; Tim Bowden<BR><B>Cc:</B> Aust-NZ
OSGeo<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G 2007: Next
steps:<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Shoaib
Burq<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, 11
February 2008 9:42 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Tim
Bowden<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Aust-NZ
OSGeo<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Aust-NZ]
FOSS4G 2007: Next steps:</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Good one Tim. Here is my slightly bloated
version, please hack away and sorry for my ignorance but do we have a media
contact at this point? Also can we use the OSGeo logo until we get one for the
conf. with the outline of the opera house :) <BR><BR>Straw man
(take2):<BR>--------------</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 21pt">FOSS4G<FONT color=gray><SPAN
style="COLOR: gray">2009</SPAN></FONT> <FONT color=#c00000><SPAN
style="COLOR: #c00000">Sydney </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#17365d><SPAN
style="COLOR: #17365d">Australia</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></B><BR><B><FONT
color=#7f7f7f><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #7f7f7f">
</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT color=#7f7f7f size=4><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #7f7f7f">"</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT
color=#7f7f7f><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #7f7f7f">User
Driven FOSS4G"</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </SPAN></FONT></B><SPAN
lang=EN-AU> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Sydney</SPAN></FONT></B><B><SPAN
lang=EN-AU style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> (Australia) selected to host the seventh
annual conference on "Free & Open Source Software for Geoinformatics"
(FOSS4G) in 2009</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#404040 size=3><SPAN
lang=EN-AU style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #404040">Monday,
11 February 2008</SPAN></FONT></B><SPAN lang=EN-AU> </SPAN><SPAN
class=hccdpe>Aust-NZ OSGeo <A
href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</A> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">The Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo is
pleased to announce we have been selected to host the FOSS4G 2009
international conference. The conference is planned for Sydney in
November 2009, and is expected to attract the leading players in the open
source geospatial community. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Holding this conference in the
Asia-Pacific region will bring enormous benefit to the region and will provide
those in the wider geospatial community an opportunity to discover the cutting
edge of spatial software development through to the state of the art in
enterprise deployment.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN
class=hccdpe><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#262626 size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #262626">####</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN class=hccdpe><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#262626 size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #262626">About
OSGeo</SPAN></FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN class=hccdpe><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#262626 size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #262626; FONT-STYLE: italic">Please add
…</SPAN></FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN class=hccdpe><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#262626 size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #262626"></SPAN></FONT></B></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN class=hccdpe><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#262626 size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #262626">About
FOSS4G</SPAN></FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">The spatial industry has been
undergoing rapid innovations over the last 4 years. The FOSS4G movement has
been at the forefront of this change due to its openness to share ideas, code
and data. From its beginnings the FOSS4G conference has had a reputation of
being a melting pot for great ideas in the spatial industry and a catalyst for
many successful geospatial products, standards and protocols. The 2007
conference was held in Victoria, BC, Canada and was a huge success (<A
href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/">www.foss4g2007.org</A>). 2008 conference
will be held in Cape Town, South Africa (<A
href="http://www.foss4g2008.org/">www.foss4g2008.org</A>). FOSS4G 2009 Sydney
will be the seventh "formal" gathering of the open source geospatial community
and is expected to focus on the increasing importance of FOSS4G in the public
and private enterprise.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN class=hccdpe><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#262626 size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #262626"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=hccdpe><B><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=gray size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: gray">Media
Contacts:</SPAN></FONT></B></SPAN><B><FONT color=gray><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: gray"> <BR></SPAN></FONT></B><SPAN
class=hccdpe>Cameron Shorter </SPAN><BR>Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050<BR>Mob: +61
(0)419 142 254</P>
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size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-------------------<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On Feb 11, 2008 6:32 PM, Tim Bowden <<A
href="mailto:tim.bowden@westnet.com.au">tim.bowden@westnet.com.au</A>>
wrote:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:11 +0800,
Dr. Markus Lupp wrote:<BR>> Tim Bowden schrieb:<BR>> ><BR>> >
Publicity roll (Blogs etc):<BR>> > Shoaib, Paul Ramsey, Chris Tweedie,
Tyler Mitchell, slashgeo,<BR>> > geowanking, nzopengis, banyon(geo
challenged), any others we may be<BR>> > able to arm
twist?<BR>> ><BR>><BR>> How about <A
href="http://www.gisdevelopment.net/?"
target=_blank>http://www.gisdevelopment.net/?</A></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Yep. Lets get a release together we can have out
tonight.<BR><BR>Straw man:<BR>---<BR>The Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo is pleased
to announce we have been<BR>selected to host the FOSS4G 2009 international
conference. The<BR>conference is planned for Sydney in November 2009,
and is expected to<BR>attract the leading players in the open source
geospatial community.<BR><BR>Holding this conference in the Asia-Pacific
region will bring enormous<BR>benefit to the region and will provide those in
the wider geospatial<BR>community an opportunity to discover the cutting edge
of spatial<BR>software development through to the state of the art in
enterprise<BR>deployment.<BR>----<BR>Please hack it.<BR><FONT
color=#888888><SPAN
style="COLOR: #888888"><BR>Tim</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>> > Tim<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>>
>> shoaib<BR>> >> On Feb 11, 2008 5:02 PM, Cameron Shorter
<<A
href="mailto:cshorter@lisasoft.com">cshorter@lisasoft.com</A>><BR>>
>> wrote:<BR>> >> FrankW tells me
that Sydney was officially accepted the 2009<BR>> >>
conference<BR>> >> city by
the OSGeo board at their last meeting.<BR>> >><BR>> >>
So I suggest we start on our next steps. Who wants
to do what?<BR>> >><BR>> >> *
Write Press Release for FOSS4G<BR>> >>
- Publish through OSGeo<BR>> >>
- Publish through Position Magazine. Wendy Chapman has<BR>> >>
already<BR>> >>
volunteered to give us free advertising in return for a free<BR>>
>> pass at the<BR>> >>
conference.<BR>> >>
- Publish through Sydney Linux Users Group<BR>> >>
* Advertise for Professional Conference Organisor
(PCO)<BR>> >> - I have documents to
fill in from SCVB I can forward through<BR>> >>
to someone.<BR>> >> * Set up
Governance body as per:<BR>> >> <A
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_2008_Governance"
target=_blank>http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_2008_Governance</A><BR>>
>> * Set up email list<BR>> >>
* What else?<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>> >> Commercial
Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions<BR>> >>
<A
href="http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html"
target=_blank>http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html</A><BR>>
>><BR>> >>
_______________________________________________<BR>> >>
Aust-NZ mailing list<BR>> >>
<A
href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</A><BR>>
>> <A
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz"
target=_blank>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz</A><BR>>
>><BR>> >>
_______________________________________________<BR>> >> Aust-NZ
mailing list<BR>> >> <A
href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</A><BR>>
>> <A href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz"
target=_blank>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz</A><BR>>
>><BR>> ><BR>> >
_______________________________________________<BR>> > Aust-NZ mailing
list<BR>> > <A
href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</A><BR>> >
<A href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz"
target=_blank>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz</A><BR>>
><BR>><BR>><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Aust-NZ
mailing list<BR><A
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