[OSGeo Africa] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Gavin, everyone,

That is great news of a FOSS4G Africa in 2017 in Joburg. 
Congratulations to everyone for making this happen, and sharing your 
passion for Open Source all these years.

This news makes me smile.

-jeff



On 2016-08-03 12:15 PM, Gavin Fleming wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Pencil in 29 June - 2 July 2017 in Johannesburg for a FOSS4G SA /
> Geo4All / QGIS User Group conference.
>
> Yes I started this list in 2005 with members from all over Africa. It
> currently has ~800 members, predominantly South African I guess, but
> certainly many from all over Africa. FOSS4G2008 attracted many people
> from all over Africa.
>
> In the absence of any country-level OSGeo activity in Africa at the time
> (well, OSGeo was only just starting up) the aim was to be an inclusive,
> umbrella list. It is still the only OSGeo list for Africa, except for a
> Senegal one that had a couple of posts in 2010. There's nothing stopping
> anyone else in Africa from setting up another list or Chapter with a
> geographic or linguistic emphasis [1]
>
> We never formally registered an OSGeo chapter because of the Africa vs
> South Africa debate. So to move forward, this Africa list remains as an
> all-inclusive eponymous list but we'll probably proceed with formalising
> a South African Chapter in the run-up to the conference next year,
> unless I hear from you that we should stick with the inclusive 'Africa'...
>
> warm regards and hope to see you at the conference next year!
>
> Gavin