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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSgeo)
has recently formed a Australia/New Zealand local chapter and new groups are in
formation (gis.org.nz) which have a focus on vendor neutral GIS.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Although it’s growing, I’d say
New Zealand’s geospatial community is too small to support various
branches, so the move to an open, vendor and software neutral format will not
only attract members of the community who would have avoided the “ESRI”
group in the past, it will also retain users who may start to look elsewhere
when budgets get tight or other constraints prevent the use of certain software
products. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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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'> Saleheen, Munir
[mailto:Munir.Saleheen@Aucklandcity.govt.nz] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 25 September 2008
9:37 a.m.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> gislist@gis-list.gisuser.co.nz<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [gislist] FW: RE: The
future of the NZ ESRI User Group Conference - IMPORTANT PLEASE READ</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Option 3</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><i><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p><b><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'>Mir
Munir us Saleheen</span></font></b><span lang=EN-GB> <br>
</span><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Information Management Analyst</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB> <br>
</span><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:10.0pt;
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</span><b><font size=2 color="#0099cc" face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ
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font-family:Verdana;color:#0099CC;font-weight:bold'>.</span></font></b><span
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<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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City Council</span></font><span lang=EN-NZ> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
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lang=EN-GB> <br>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Fax: 09 374 4359</span></font><span
lang=EN-NZ> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><u><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><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'> Lee-Chee,
Junior [mailto:Junior.Lee-Chee@aucklandcity.govt.nz] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 24 September 2008
11:55<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> gislist@gis-list.gisuser.co.nz<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [gislist] RE: The future
of the NZ ESRI User Group Conference - IMPORTANT PLEASE READ</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Good morning (just) to
you all,</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Hey so far we have had a
poor response (probably due to my email box being full....it's now
clear) to the 3 options put up by committee which will determine the
future direction and make-up (not the Ma'a Nonu kind) of our conferences.</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Can you please email me
asap with either</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:blue;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>No change, carry on
as is <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:blue;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An open ESRI
Conference <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:blue;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Move to a
vendor-neutral, whole of sector GIS Conference </span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Have a say because it's
your conference and your GIS community.</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->Ola,<br>
<br>
Junior Lee Chee<br>
Maps and Designs Manager<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Auckland</st1:place></st1:City> City
Council<br>
Ph: +64 9 373 6306<br>
Fax: +64 9 307 7395<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mobile</st1:place></st1:City>: +64 27
473 9225<br>
Location: Civic Building, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">1 Greys
Avenue</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">Auckland</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region></st1:address><br>
</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/"><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>www.aucklandcity.govt.nz</span></font></a></span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Martin Erasmuson
[mailto:martin.erasmuson@ncc.govt.nz] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, 19 September 2008
11:39 a.m.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> gislist@gis-list.gisuser.co.nz<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [gislist] The future of
the NZ ESRI User Group Conference - IMPORTANT PLEASE READ</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Is it time? Do we
want to move to an open ESRI Conference in New Zealand?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Background<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The NZ ESRI User Group Conference has run, more or
less in its current for (how many years?) years. Until recent years, the
conference was substantially underwritten, organised and run by Eagle
Technology Ltd and while there has always been a committee; their involvement
in conference organisation was minimal. Eagle controlled the content of
the conference; presentations and vendors/sponsors which to date has seen the
exclusion of any company selling products and/or services that competed
directly or indirectly with ESRI and/or eagle Technology Ltd. The focus
of the conference has been almost exclusively on ESRI-based software. The
current conference rules reflect this also. For vendor/sponsors they state:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>It is important to
remember this conference has a focus on ESRI software. Therefore exhibitors are
reminded that other GIS software products can not be promoted at this
conference.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>And for papers:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>If you are a business
partner or consultant and you intend to submit a paper abstract on a topic that
involves a commercial product or service of your company, the primary author of
the paper should be your client or customer. You may be the secondary author.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In the last few years the UG Committee has been much
more hands on determining what goes on at the Conference. Over the past
12-18 months there has been suggestions to broaden the scope of the conference
beyond the current narrow ESRI-based theme. This is a reflection of the
nature of many sites whose architecture now has a mix of different applications
and platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Does the user group want the conference to reflect
this i.e. have non ESRI-GIS vendors attend plus presentation of solutions not
based on ESRI but that integrate with it i.e. MapInfo, Intergraph, Smallworld
etc?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Before anything changes the User Community needs to
discuss and carefully consider the options and if there was a proposed change
to the Conference format, that would need to be ratified at the Conference
AGM. It could also require a change to the User Group rules, such as they
are now and, if change is proposed, we would need some logistics worked through
with eagle Technology Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Can I ask that all the User group members discuss
this amongst themselves and forward specific thoughts/ideas/comments to (YOUR
NAME HERE with email address). The UG Committee will put these into
options for debate and if appropriate, ratification at the AGM. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>So what are the options? Here are three
possibilities (In no particular order and a non-exclusive list):<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>No change, carry on
as is</span></font><span lang=EN-GB> </span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An open ESRI
Conference</span></font><span lang=EN-GB> </span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Move to a
vendor-neutral, whole of sector GIS Conference</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>No Change:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We continue with the conference largely how it is
now. We exclude vendors selling software and/or services that compete
with ESRI and/or eagle Technology Ltd. Presentations continue to be by
users, are exclusively ESRI based and exclude commercial companies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>An Open ESRI
Conference:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Netherlands ESRI Conference follows this model.
While it is substantially an ESRI affair, it is open to other, competing GIS
companies i.e. MapInfo, Intergraph and Smallworld (plus many others) all have a
presence as do pretty much any company wishing to promote their products or
services. Attendance is also open to anyone. Papers still tend to
have an ESRI component but with much broader content i.e. Open source map
servers serving ArcSDE data, integrating ESRI with Intergraph Geomedia,
MapInfo, Smallworld or AutoCAD, service oriented architectures etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Whole of sector,
vendor-neutral GIS Conference:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The various user communities (ESRI, MapInfo,
Intergraph, Smallworld – possibly others) collaborate to run a
vendor/software-neutral, whole of sector GIS Conference. This could offer
various sponsorship packages similar to the ones we have at the ESRI
conference. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vendors would likely pay more for these as the
conference could well be attracting 500-600 plus attendees. Presentations
would also be software independent, based solely on their
merit/interest/usefulness to the wider community. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Such a conference could well attract a higher calibre
of Keynote speaker. Software-based streams could be incorporated into a
three of four day conference i.e. on a particular morning/afternoon or day,
ESRI, MapInfo, Intergraph, Smallworld have their own software specific streams,
i.e. ESRI would be showing off the latest and greatest in ArcGIS 10.2!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Put the thinking caps on, get talking, emailing,
blogging etc. While the committee will monitor the discussion with a view
to bring this to the conference AGM, if anyone has some specific ideas/feedback
please forward this to: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Junior Lee Chee: </span></font><font size=2
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
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