[OSGeo Africa] FOSS4G 2019

[Chicco Kayange]

Great. So inspiring

On Aug 30, 2019 7:09 PM, "Enock Seth Nyamador" <enockseth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing! I couldn't miss the closing day from far away. Thanks
> to all and CCC team.
>
> Le ven. 30 août 2019 à 16:50, Gavin Fleming <gavin at kartoza.com> a écrit :
>
>> I've just departed from a wonderful edition of FOSS4G (and QGIS
>> contributors meeting) in Bucharest where over 1000 people from around 80
>> countries shared about 40 workshops and 11 parallel presentation tracks
>> over the past week, showing yet again how open source GIS is used
>> successfully to find spatial solutions in all sectors and is at the cutting
>> edge of technology and science.
>>
>> There were five south Africans there (from Kartoza and University of
>> Pretoria).
>>
>> You can see recordings of all presentations at https://media.ccc.de/c/
>> foss4g2019. They were streamed live--some are still being processed.
>>
>> Why any Government entity in SA is still paying a fortune for privative
>> GIS and database software beats me, when developed countries (as in most of
>> Europe for example) saw the light years ago and fully embrace FOSS.
>>
>> Do your bit to advocate for FOSS GIS!
>>
>> Gavin
>>
>>
>>
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> --
> Best,
> -Enock
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