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<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">Sydney, Australia. 20 July 2009. <A title=http://2009.foss4g.org style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://2009.foss4g.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://2009.foss4g.org</A></P><A style="COLOR: rgb(0,43,184); TEXT-DECORATION: none" name=122975a0c454b042_Abstracts_Announced></A>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">A comprehensive list of presentations has been announced for the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">Abstracts presented by the world's best Developers, Policy Makers, Sponsors and Geospatial Professionals include the latest geospatial applications, standards, government programs, business processes and case studies.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">Topics include mobile platforms, location based applications, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, development, spatial standards, integration of cross-agency data, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Sensor Webs, Web Processing Services, Integration of Open Source and Proprietary Software and more.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">For the full list of quality abstracts, view: <A title=http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/ style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">Community participation in the abstract selection was impressive, with over 150 community members selecting 85 general track abstracts from the 183 submitted and a further 12 academic abstracts selected by 52 academic peers.</P><A style="COLOR: rgb(0,43,184); TEXT-DECORATION: none" name=122975a0c454b042_Early_Bird_Registration></A>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">After getting inspired from the breadth of abstracts, be sure to register for the FOSS4G conference. Early Bird registration closes in just over two weeks, on 7 August, 2009. <A title=http://2009.foss4g.org/registration/ style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://2009.foss4g.org/registration/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://2009.foss4g.org/registration/</A></P><A style="COLOR: rgb(0,43,184); TEXT-DECORATION: none" name=122975a0c454b042_Upcoming_milestones></A>
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<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">7 Aug 2009, <B>Early bird registration deadline</B>
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">14 Sep 2009, <B>Completed program available</B>
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint</LI></UL><A style="COLOR: rgb(0,43,184); TEXT-DECORATION: none" name=122975a0c454b042_Media_Sponsors></A>
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<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">Position Magazine: <A title=http://www.positionmag.com.au/ style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.positionmag.com.au/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.positionmag.com.au/</A>
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: <A title=http://www.asmmag.com style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.asmmag.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.asmmag.com</A>
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">Geoconnexions Magazine: <A title=http://www.geoconnexion.com/ style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.geoconnexion.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.geoconnexion.com/</A>
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">Directions Magazine: <A title=http://directionsmag.com/ style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://directionsmag.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://directionsmag.com/</A>
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">GIS Development: <A title=http://gisdevelopment.net/ style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://gisdevelopment.net/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://gisdevelopment.net/</A>
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em">Baliz Media: <A title=http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/ style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.baliz-media.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/</A> </LI></UL>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: <A title=http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/ style="PADDING-RIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,102,187); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">or contact:</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">tel +61-2-8570-5050</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m</P></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>