<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Good morning everybody,<div><br></div><div>I am definitely prepared to contribute time and am willing to help man the stand.</div><div><br></div><div>Sadly, our company lacks the deep indefatigable pockets you are seeking but we or myself personally can contribute something toward the costs. Can we set up some sort of a budget for costing the stand and a fund for collecting the money? I agree that it would be great to hand out QGIS (and other OS software) as well as lobby for these products and the service providers for them.</div><div><br></div><div>Great contribution, Tim!</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">Charles Rethman</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">Director, Wahenga</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">Cape Town Office:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">Tel: +27 21 6861510</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><a href="mailto:charles@wahenga.co.za">charles@wahenga.co.za</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">PO Box 23507, Claremont, 7735</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="http://www.wahenga.co.za">www.wahenga.co.za</a><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br>
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<br><div><div>On 16 Jan 2014, at 8:33 AM, Tim Sutton <<a href="mailto:tim@linfiniti.com">tim@linfiniti.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi (<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Tim,<br>
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I must admit, I think you are mixing "OPENGEO" with "AfricaGEO" and<br>
"OSGeo" throughout your message (and "FOSSGIS" is also an event in<br>
Germany, I was really confused), so it took me a little to understand<br>
you ha. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ok I can see how my wonky message was totally confusing! In an attempt at clearing up the confusion I have edited the subject line for this thread. My apologies.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I believe you are asking for an OSGeo booth at the AfricaGEO<br>
event in July. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Indeed!</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In fact I will be a keynote speaker at AfricaGEO (I sent<br>
my bio and pic in this morning, small world), so I will be there for<br>
sure. I am looking forward to experiencing Cape Town again.<br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Most excellent to have you here!</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I don't have deep pockets, but I can obviously help man the booth.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Fantastic. Could we hit up OSGeo HQ for a couple of banners and a pile of pamphlets and OSGeo live CD's?</div>
<div> </div><div>Sorry again for the confusion from my original message.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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-jeff<br>
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On 1/15/2014, 4:11 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
> Hi all<br>
><br>
> Is there anyone out there with deep pockets and a carefree attitude<br>
> towards divesting themselves of their personal or corporate fortune? It<br>
> would be really good to put in a stand (business neutral, only<br>
> representing the FOSSGIS cause) at OPENGEO in July this year. I'm happy<br>
> to donate my time towards manning the stand and I reckon a few others<br>
> would be willing to pitch in to do the same. But I don't have the<br>
> capacity to do that and cover the cost of a stand in the exhibition all<br>
> - see below [1] for details on the costs involved, or to print up CD's<br>
> and flyers. It would be great to knock out say 1000 CD's with QGIS 2.2<br>
> (its gonna be awesome folks), GeoServer, etc etc on it so that we can<br>
> get one into the hands of every delegate there. ESRI and other big<br>
> proprietary vendors will be there and it is really time we let<br>
> especially government officials that they don't have to waste tax payer<br>
> money on proprietary software. Would anyone else like to volunteer to<br>
> help man a stand should the above mentioned deep-pocketed benefactor<br>
> come to the fore?<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="http://www.africageo.org/exhibitors" target="_blank">http://www.africageo.org/exhibitors</a><br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
><br>
><br>
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