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              -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear QGIS
              Community
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              <div class="">We are pleased to announce that the second
                round of QGIS Grant Proposals is now open. Please see
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              <div class="">We look forward to many more great
                proposals! Thank you to all the sponsors and donors who
                make this possible!</div>
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              <div class="">Regards</div>
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              <div class="">Tim<br class="">
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                    <div class=""><b class="">Tim Sutton</b></div>
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                      rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br
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                    <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
                      Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
                      font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;
                      letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
                      center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
                      white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing:
                      0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                      -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                      font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                      font-variant-position: normal;
                      font-variant-numeric: normal;
                      font-variant-alternates: normal;
                      font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px;
                      line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color:
                      rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">Skype</b>:
                      timlinux </div>
                    <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
                      Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
                      font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;
                      letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
                      center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
                      white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing:
                      0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                      -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                      font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                      font-variant-position: normal;
                      font-variant-numeric: normal;
                      font-variant-alternates: normal;
                      font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px;
                      line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color:
                      rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">IRC:</b><span
                        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>timlinux
                      on #qgis at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="http://freenode.net" class="">freenode.net</a></div>
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                      Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
                      font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;
                      letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
                      center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
                      white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing:
                      0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                      -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                      font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                      font-variant-position: normal;
                      font-variant-numeric: normal;
                      font-variant-alternates: normal;
                      font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px;
                      line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color:
                      rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class="">
                    </div>
                    <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
                      Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
                      font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;
                      letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
                      center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
                      white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing:
                      0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                      -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                      font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                      font-variant-position: normal;
                      font-variant-numeric: normal;
                      font-variant-alternates: normal;
                      font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px;
                      line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color:
                      rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Kartoza is a merger
                      between Linfiniti and Afrispatial</div>
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