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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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 size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:21.0pt;font-weight:bold'>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='color:#7F7F7F;font-weight:
bold'>
</span></font></b><b><font
size=4 color="#7f7f7f"><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:13.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;
font-weight:bold'>"</span></font></b><b><font color="#7f7f7f"><span
lang=EN-AU style='color:#7F7F7F;font-weight:bold'>User Driven FOSS4G"</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><span lang=EN-AU> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-weight:bold'>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 size=3 color="#404040" face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#404040;font-weight:bold'>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>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;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='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;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 align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=hccdpe><font
size=3 color="#262626" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#262626'>####</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span class=hccdpe><b><font
size=3 color="#262626" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#262626;font-weight:bold'>About OSGeo</span></font></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span class=hccdpe><i><font
size=3 color="#262626" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#262626;font-style:italic'>Please add …</span></font></i></span></p>
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size=3 color="#262626" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#262626;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span class=hccdpe><b><font
size=3 color="#262626" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#262626;font-weight:bold'>About FOSS4G</span></font></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;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>
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color="#262626" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=hccdpe><b><font size=3 color=gray
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray;font-weight:
bold'>Media Contacts:</span></font></b></span><b><font color=gray><span
style='color:gray;font-weight:bold'> <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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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><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>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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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12.0pt'><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>
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