[OSGeo Africa] AfricaGEO and FOSS GIS unconference

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello from Canada!

Thanks for a great week, including the FOSS GIS unconference! (and the
delicious burger after it!)

I hope to really be back soon to your beautiful country :)

-jeff



On 2014-07-02, 7:23 AM, Gavin Fleming 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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Jeff McKenna
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