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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hi, all - This is a public event sponsored by GITA, Carl's in town for the Gecco event. </span></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Please come out and support "Open", bring others (sign up at the "ticket" spot to make sure there's room) - NR</span></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="5"><i><b>A Message For Minnesota’s Geospatial Community</b></i></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 10px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
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<font color="#0500a3"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/user/10" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><b>Dr. Carl Reed</b></font></font></a></span></font><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><b>,</b></font></font></font><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "> Chief Technology Officer, </font></font></font><font color="#0500a3"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Open Geospatial Consortium</font></font></a></span></font></p>
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<font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Meet the Man behind the Myth!</font></font></p><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 10px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
<font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Designed and implemented the first fully interactive vector-based GIS, the Map Overlay and Statisitical System (MOSS), 1977-1978.</font></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 10px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
<font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Lead engineer and a software developer for GenaMap, the worlds first interactive UNIX based commercial GIS.</font></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 10px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
<font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Former vice president of geospatial marketing at Intergraph Corporation</font></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 10px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
<font face="Verdana, sans-serif">2009 recipient of the URISA GIS Hall of Fame award</font></p></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 10px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font>What does “Open” mean? Not just royalty-free or free of patent restrictions – it includes open dialog with many organizations and users, in a community that includes </font></font></font><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font><b>everyone who uses maps</b></font></font></font><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font>. The OGC has expanded its focus past essential tech standards, and is now looking towards domains of interest. New kinds of standards are coming that are semantically rich. Information models like those used in transportation, aeronautics, or hydrology, are encoding-neutral. Location is hot right now, and changing quickly – there are 12-15 other standards organizations that include some location element.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font><b>Make sure you have a place at this event -</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 10px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
<font color="#0500a3"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2232575694" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font>click here to get a ticket</font></font></a></span></font><font color="#0000ff"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font> </font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font>o</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>r go to</font></font></font><font color="#222222"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font> </font></font></font><font color="#222222"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/44zobzx" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">tinyurl.com/44zobzx</a></b></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font>This is a unique opportunity to hear from a thought leader who oversees worldwide efforts to further the sharing and use of geospatial information.</font></font></font></p>
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