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<h1><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal'>Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal'>The cycle starts again; this year FOSS4G is in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sydney</st1:place></st1:City> in October. After
a very successful and stimulating FOSS4G 2008 in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cape Town</st1:place></st1:City> I highly recommend participating in
this one. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_7">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_7</a></span></font></b><font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<h1><span class=mw-headline><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:24.0pt'>FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts </span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
Organising Committee would like to welcome all interested participants to
submit abstracts for presentations for the Free and Open Source Software for
Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23.
FOSS4G offers participants an opportunity to learn from and share your
knowledge, experience and ideas with a group of like minded individuals
representing a wide array of industries, governments, technologies and
nationalities. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Presentations
are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which
includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions. Presentations
will be selected which have a strong "Open Geospatial" theme to them.
The committee is looking for a mixture of technical and non-technical
presentations. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
In deference to the conference theme of “User Driven,” topics of
particular interest are: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Case Studies: Share your experiences implementing
and using open source geospatial. What problems were you attempting to
solve? How successful were you and at what cost? What can others learn
from your experience? <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Business Case: Have you had to sell the Open
Source concept within your organisation? How did you present the concept
to management? How did you present the cost/benefit scenarios and build
the business case? What hurdles did you encounter and how did you surmount
them? <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Collaboration: Have you faced the trials of
collaboration between organisations, remote offices or team members
scattered to the far corners of the globe? What steps have you taken to
improve the efficiency of your collaboration: open or de facto standards,
decentralised data collection, or the myriad of solutions that only you
could describe? <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Security: Securing you data while ensuring ease
of access to those select few within your inner circle can be a daunting
task. Share you successes, and your failures, with others facing their own
security issues. <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Developments: Have you created a shiny new widget
that is about to change the world? Or has your time-honoured project
finally completed a much requested feature or two? Bring us up to date
with the new developments in your open source geospatial software products
with all the latest buzz: what does it do, how are people using it and
what is in store for the next year. <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For more
information, visit the FOSS4G site at <a
href="http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/"
title="http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/">http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sydney</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h2><a name="FOSS4G_2009_Highlights"></a><span class=mw-headline><b><font
size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>FOSS4G 2009
Highlights</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>The Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP)</span></font></b>:
FOSS4G will launch the OGC's Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP),
which demonstrates standards based interoperability between Open Source and
Proprietary geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple
virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering
standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common
dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications
installed on client computers. <a
href="http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome"
title="http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome">http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Presenters
are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and on-site data
from the Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is especially
important as demand for access to data over the internet is expected to be
high, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has notoriously slow connections to the outside world. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>FOSS4G Live DVD</span></font></b>: LiveDVDs, based on the
Xubuntu operating system and including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be
given to all delegates. Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial
the software without installing or effecting the existing system. <a
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc"
title="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Installfest</span></font></b>: The Installfest will give
delegates the opportunity to meet in a common area and install a wide variety
of FOSS software on their laptops, EE PC or any other system they care to bring
in. Community members will be around to assist with any troubles and provide
help and insight into the software. The install fest will take place after
workshops on the first day. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Workshops and Tutorials</span></font></b>: Workshops and
Tutorials allow presenters to lead attendees through applications, integration
solutions, or other topics in an interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3
hours) will be held in computer rooms on the first day. Tutorials (90 minutes)
will be held in standard presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations
during the third and fourth days. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Presentations</span></font></b>: The meat of the conference
are it's presentations. Drawing on a huge community of local, regional and
international experts we will discuss some of the most current and poignant
topics in the industry today. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Demo Theatre</span></font></b>: During lunch and coffee
breaks the demonstration theatre will be showcasing live software. These short
demonstrations from sponsors, open source projects and the user community show
what is possible with open source today. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Birds of a Feather</span></font></b>: Rooms have been set
aside for semi-organised meetings between like minded groups. Some prominant
community initiatives started in prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Code Sprint</span></font></b>: The weekend after FOSS4G is
reserved for the Hackers' Code Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement
with lots of bandwidth, pizzas and coke. (Well, maybe something better than
that, but we don't want to spoil the mystical hacker image by describing it any
differently.) <o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a name="Upcoming_milestones"></a><span class=mw-headline><b><font size=5
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Upcoming milestones </span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>9 Mar 2009, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Call
for Abstracts opens</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for
workshops/tutorials <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>13 Apr 2009, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Registration
for conference and workshops opens</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>1 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>13 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance
for talks <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>31 Jul 2009, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Author/Early
registration deadline</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>14 Sep 2009, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Completed
program available on the wiki</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and
Tutorials <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="Media_Sponsors"></a><span class=mw-headline><b><font size=5
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Media Sponsors </span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Position Magazine: <a
href="http://www.positionmag.com.au" title="http://www.positionmag.com.au">http://www.positionmag.com.au</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Geoconnexions Magazine: <a
href="http://www.geoconnexion.com/" title="http://www.geoconnexion.com/">http://www.geoconnexion.com/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For
information about this announcement, contact: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>FOSS4G
Organising Committee: <a
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us"
title="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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