[OSGeo Africa] Re: FOSSGIS-Africa conference updates

[Sives Govender]

HI Tim,
 
Great idea.  Let me know how EIS-Africa can promote the event.  Also
the AARSE 2010 is in Addis Ababa and may be a good venue.
 
Our conference AfricaGIS 2011 is going to be in Cairo, so start
planning now to be there!!!!
 
 
 
 
Regards
Sives Govender
Executive Director
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>>> Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> 26/01/2010 22:20 >>>
Hi All

As Anthony Cooper has pointed out to me, I neglected to mention the
dates!

27 - 29 September are the proposed dates (which coincides with the
university semester break).

Regards

Tim

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> A few weeks I posted to the list my interest in holding an
> Africa-centric FOSSGIS get together this year. I received a very
good
> response with various offers for venues and assistance. Of the three
> venues put forward I would like to use Monash University,
Krugersorp,
> South Africa since it offers everything we need:
>
> - venue being donated
> - sufficient labs and lecture rooms
> - support from the staff in-situ
> - good transport network
>
> The Monash South Africa University campus web site is here:
>
> http://www.monash.ac.za/ 
>
> The venue was proposed by Ashley Gunter who is a lecturer at the
university.
>
> I know it would have been nice to hold the conference somewhere more
> central in Africa so that those to the north dont need to travel too
> far, but since this is going to be our first time I think it will
> logistically be easier to organise the process if the venue is
closer
> to home.
>
> I would very much like to make the entrance to the conference and
> workshops free or very cheap. Currently our budget plan calls for a
> registration fee of R500 per delegate and R1000 per workshop. We
will
> look at our options, but one great one would be to have a couple of
> sponsors.
>
> The german FOSSGIS conference keep costs down by avoiding expensive
> things like fancy catering (they offer soup and bread at lunch and
> tea/coffee/biscuits at tea breaks) and I am looking to emulate their
> approach as much as possible.
>
>
> So what next? Now is the time to put together an organising
committee
> and start promoting our conference.
>
>
> If you would like to assist with the organisation, please contact
me.
> Also if you have contacts for publicising the conference please
> forward the promotional materials on to them when we have them
ready.
>
> If you are an academic, please start thinking about what we could do
> in terms of an academic track and make some proposals for suitable
> people to review paper / poster submissions.
>
> I am going to set up a wiki page and other similar resources over
the
> next week or two and we can use that as the basis for collaboration.
>
> Best regards
>
> --
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Manager)
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