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                    Thanks for that Bruce; I used the last one as a basis for a talk. It will be good to review the update.
                </div><div><br></div><div>Also on discuss@osgeo.org is the annual board elections; I kind of suspect that Australia will continue to keep a low profile given the hour of the meetings :-)</div>
                <div><br>-- <br>Jody Garnett<br><br></div>
                 
                <p style="color: #a0a0a0;">On Monday, 1 August 2011 at 10:06 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:</p>
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">For those who don’t subscribe to OSGeo-Discuss, some interesting observations from the US Department  of Defence on the use of Open Technologies in Government.<br>
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Bruce Bannerman<br>
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</span></font><blockquote type="cite"><div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><b>From: </b>Mark Lucas <<a href="mlucas17@mac.com">mlucas17@mac.com</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>OSGeo Discussions <<a href="discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:29:43 +1000<br>
<b>To: </b>OSGeo Discussions <<a href="discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[OSGeo-Discuss] Department of Defense release on OSS<br>
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</span></font><blockquote type="cite"><div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">The DoD CIO officially released more open source guidance.  This is a follow on to the Open Technology Development Roadmap that we previously wrote.<br>
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<a href="http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/oss/index.shtml">http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/oss/index.shtml</a><br>
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