<div dir="ltr">I don't know if this list/chapter is the best vehicle for the community or not, but my sense is that interest in FOSS4G is growing steadily in Australia, and it would be nice to keep this connected with OSGeo's great community building work.<div><br></div><div>One challenge we face is that it's difficult to muster & sustain interest over such a dispersed geography. It's hard to get too excited about meetups on the east coast from a few thousand km away in Perth. I wonder if there would be value in setting up local sub-chapters in the regional centres?</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow - I check in on the list from time to time and it holds value for me.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>John</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Brent Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pcreso@pcreso.com" target="_blank">pcreso@pcreso.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><span>Ditto - the list may not be active, but FOSS GIS in NZ & Australia is active & growing and having a local list is useful.</span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><span><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><span>Brent Wood<br></span></div><div><br></div>
</font></span><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> </font></span><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> </font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <hr size="1"></font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 10:00 +1100, Bruce Bannerman wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> @AustNZ,<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Do we still need the local AustNZ community?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Do you find benefit from the email list and community?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I appreciate the local list, light as it may be. I no longer have time<br clear="none">to follow the main OSGeo list properly <guilty feeling>, but if anything<br clear="none">local pops up I like to see it even if I'm not active on the list.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards,<br clear="none">Tim Bowden<div><br><br></div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Aust-NZ mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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