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<div>I am from the Top of the South (Nelson) and not Palmerston North, but I would be keen to join via conference. My specialty in FOSS-4G software is GeoNetwork. I also have a good deal of experience in PostGIS as well as a number of other open source geo packages. <br></div>
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<div>Currently I work for LINZ Geospatial Office on the Canterbury SDI program.<br></div>
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<div>Keep me posted. I am always interested in OSGeo activities in NZ!<br></div>
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<div>Cheers,<br></div>
<div>Byron Cochrane</div>
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<div>On Tue, Aug 13, 2013, at 02:57 PM, Tim-Hinnerk Heuer wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">Hi,</span></span></span></span><br></p>
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<span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px"></span></span></span></span>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">I'm Tim-Hinnerk Heuer, a geo web developer
working at Landcare Research in Palmerston North. The Informatics group at Landcare Research has been using open source geo-software for quite a while and we know there are other people in the local region with an interest in such software.
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<span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px"></span></span></span></span>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">We have come up with the idea of forming
an informal group in Palmerston North - or more specifically the lower North Island - to exchange ideas and encourage collaboration on geospatial data and geospatial open source software. One possibility is that this group becomes an OSGeo chapter (see
</span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.osgeo.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">http://www.osgeo.org/</span></span></span></a><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">).</span></span></span></span><br></p>
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<span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px"></span></span></span></span>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">At the moment, this initiative is driven
by myself and my colleague Pierre Roudier, who is working on soil data using open source software (R, GDAL/OGR, QGIS, GRASS GIS). Anybody wanting to join the effort is obviously more than welcome!</span></span></span></span><br></p>
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<span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px"></span></span></span></span>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">We are planning a meeting to gauge interest
in forming such a group. It is set to take place at the Village Inn Kitchen in Hokowhitu, Palmerston North, from 5.30pm onwards, on Wednesday 28st August. (We chose this venue because it has high-speed Internet access and one idea we have is to invite people
from around New Zealand or even the world to join us via video conference to talk about their software and/or how they are using open source geospatial software).</span></span></span></span><br></p>
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<span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px"></span></span></span></span>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">A couple of us are attending FOSS4G 2013
in the UK in mid September and, if there is support for the idea of forming a chapter, we would raise it with the OSGeo Board then.
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<span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px"></span></span></span></span>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">We are looking forward to seeing you at the
Village Inn Kitchen in Hokowhitu, Palmerston North on the 28th August. Drop us an email if you think you will come so we can get an idea of numbers.</span></span></span></span><br></p>
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<span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px"></span></span></span></span>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">Kind regards,</span></span></span></span><br></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:15px">Tim</span></span></span></span><br></p></b>
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<div>Informatics (<a href="http://wiki.zen.landcareresearch.co.nz" target="_blank">http://wiki.zen.landcareresearch.co.nz</a>)<br></div>
<div>Ph: +64 6 353 4872<br></div>
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