[OSGeo Africa] AfricaGEO and FOSS GIS unconference

[TOBI SOWOLE]

Thumbs up!

Tobi

On Jul 2, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Gavin Fleming <gavin at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Writing from AfricaGEO2014 where there is a great FOSS GIS vibe. The FOSS GIS session yesterday was packed to capacity and Jeff McKenna gave his keynote address this morning on OSGeo and FOSS GIS.
> 
> I think we can call the FOSS GIS 'Unconference' that happened on Monday a success.
> 
> Numbers peaked around thirty and this is roughly what went down:
> - Tim Sutton gave an overview of QGIS and 'What's new in 2.4'
> - Jeff McKenna did a demo of Mapserver
> - I went through CRSs for South Africa and demo'd the new SG diagram downloader QGIS plugin.
> - There were breakaway groups on QGIS, GIS in education and STDM (Social Tenure Domain Model), a new FOSS project and QGIS plugin.
> - Lots of discussion took place on various other topics.
> 
> A big thank you to Aslam Parker and the NGI for hosting us and providing refreshments.
> 
> Gavin
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