[OSGeo Africa] AfricaGEO stand representing FOSS GIS (was OPENGEO Africa stand for OSGeo)

[Charles Rethman]

Good morning everybody,

I am definitely prepared to contribute time and am willing to help man the stand.

Sadly, our company lacks the deep indefatigable pockets you are seeking but we or myself personally can contribute something toward the costs. Can we set up some sort of a budget for costing the stand and a fund for collecting the money? I agree that it would be great to hand out QGIS (and other OS software) as well as lobby for these products and the service providers for them.

Great contribution, Tim!


Charles Rethman
Director, Wahenga

Cape Town Office:
Tel: +27 21 6861510
Cell: +27 21 71 6735502
charles at wahenga.co.za
PO Box 23507, Claremont, 7735
www.wahenga.co.za


On 16 Jan 2014, at 8:33 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi (
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I must admit, I think you are mixing "OPENGEO" with "AfricaGEO" and
> "OSGeo" throughout your message (and "FOSSGIS" is also an event in
> Germany, I was really confused), so it took me a little to understand
> you ha.
> 
> 
> Ok I can see how my wonky message was totally confusing! In an attempt at clearing up the confusion I have edited the subject line for this thread. My apologies.
> 
>  
>  I believe you are asking for an OSGeo booth at the AfricaGEO
> event in July.  
> 
> Indeed!
> 
>  
> In fact I will be a keynote speaker at AfricaGEO (I sent
> my bio and pic in this morning, small world), so I will be there for
> sure.  I am looking forward to experiencing Cape Town again.
> 
>  
> Most excellent to have you here!
> 
> I don't have deep pockets, but I can obviously help man the booth.
> 
> 
> Fantastic. Could we hit up OSGeo HQ for a couple of banners and a pile of pamphlets and OSGeo live CD's?
>  
> Sorry again for the confusion from my original message.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/15/2014, 4:11 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Is there anyone out there with deep pockets and a carefree attitude
> > towards divesting themselves of their personal or corporate fortune? It
> > would be really good to put in a stand (business neutral, only
> > representing the FOSSGIS cause) at OPENGEO in July this year. I'm happy
> > to donate my time towards manning the stand and I reckon a few others
> > would be willing to pitch in to do the same. But I don't have the
> > capacity to do that and cover the cost of a stand in the exhibition all
> > - see below [1] for details on the costs involved, or to print up CD's
> > and flyers. It would be great to knock out say 1000 CD's with QGIS 2.2
> > (its gonna be awesome folks), GeoServer, etc etc on it so that we can
> > get one into the hands of every delegate there. ESRI and other big
> > proprietary vendors will be there and it is really time we let
> > especially government officials that they don't have to waste tax payer
> > money on proprietary software. Would anyone else like to volunteer to
> > help man a stand should the above mentioned deep-pocketed benefactor
> > come to the fore?
> >
> > [1] http://www.africageo.org/exhibitors
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
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