[SDI-Africa] Fw: [OSGeo Africa] African FOSSGIS meeting 2010

[Tim Sutton]

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Hi Byron

We will be sending out press releases next week. Could you let me know
in which role you are interested in participating? If you are interested
in helping to organise, present workshops etc let me know and we will
get you involved with the organisation process.

Regards

Tim

Byron A.O. Anangwe wrote:
> Hello Tim,
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> Please let me know where discussions reached on your email of earlier this
> month. We are keen to participate in this initiative.
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> Kindest regards
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> Byron A. Okubasu Anangwe 
> Product Development Officer - RCMRD
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> (: +254 20 8560227/65                 ): +254-722-357528/735-981098
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> baokubasu at yahoo.co.uk 
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> [mailto:sdi-africa-bounces at lists.gsdi.org] On Behalf Of Kate Lance
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> Subject: [SDI-Africa] Fw: [OSGeo Africa] African FOSSGIS meeting 2010
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> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>
> To: Africa local chapter discussions <africa at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 9:28:05 AM
> Subject: [OSGeo Africa] African FOSSGIS meeting 2010
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> Hi all
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> Happy New Year all!
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> I would like to organise (with help from others I hope!) an African
> Free and Open Sources GIS (FOSSGIS) meeting for the third 
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> quarter of 2010. I know there is FOSS4G held yearly but the travel 
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> distances are usually far and the topic matter not necessarily germane 
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> to an African audience. Having attended the german FOSSGIS 
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> conference last year I can see the benifits of localised get together 
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> where the attendees share a common geography and operational 
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> environment. This email is just an initial 'toe in the water' to see how 
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> much interest there is. My thought was to hold it over 3 days with tracks 
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> covering:
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> - general presentations (case studies, thought provoking ideas etc.)
> - academic papers (FOSS GIS applied in an African context)
> - panel discussions (how can we develop African FOSSGIS skills)
> - a B2B (business to business) help wanted / help offered pin board
> (each can advertise their wares or requirements on a 10x5 card that
> gets placed on a pin board) to help clients and solution providers
> find each other
> - workshops (practical hands on FOSSGIS training)
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> Of course to make this happen we need:
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> - a venue (somewhere in Africa that is easy to get to)
> - volunteers
> - a funding model that doesn't result in exorbitant entrance fees
> - promotion and advertising
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> There is also the possibility of dovetailing with the annual afrigis
> conference though I do wonder if we would have better success as a
> dedicated FOSSGIS conference.
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> Perhaps we could start off more simply and hold an 'unconference' (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference) and grow from that in
> future years.
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> If you are interested, think the idea sucks, or have any other ideas
> on the matter please lets discuss further here on this list....
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> Best regards
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