[Aust-NZ] Fwd: FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual Report for 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Cameron Shorter]

Autodesk, LISAsoft, Ennoble Consulting, and a couple of others put on an 
Open Source Workshop in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

---

LISAsoft, in conjunction with Australia's Coroperative Research Center 
for Spacial Information, printed and distributed 500 Open Source Live DVDs.



Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> It is OSGeo annual report time again.
>  
> I'll put the info together on the wiki.
>  
> Any suggestions on what we want to report about?
>  
> I'll start the ball rolling:
>  
>  
> _FOSS4G-2009_
>  
> FOSS4G-2009 preparations are dominating AustNZ activities.
>  
> http://2009.foss4g.org/
>  
>  
> _CCIP-2009_
>  
> AustNZ members working with key OGC personnel have initiated the OGC 
> sponsored Climate Change Integration Plugfest.
>  
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/951
>  
> https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/ccip-2009
>  
>  
> _GeoNetwork - ANZLIC Profile_
>  
> The Australian and New Zealand Metadata communities were engaged to try
> and
> get some momentum back into the seemingly stalled ANZLIC Metadata Catalog
> work based on GeoNetwork.
>
> There is a lot of good will towards making GeoNetwork work as the tool of
> choice. Jeroen Ticheler arranged for ANZLIC development (BlueNet) to be
> developed within a Sandpit environment within the GeoNetwork community.
>
> The ensuing email thread showed how much open source spatial work
> is happening in the region and good will towards working together.
>  
>  
> - Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information 
> and Data
>
> OSGeo-AustNZ prepared a submission for the Victorian Government's
> Parliamentary
> Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information
> and Data.
>
> This submission was prepared at short notice and to a tight time frame 
> and
> covers
> a lot of current issues relating to open access to spatial data.
>
> The submission is available on the OSGeo-AustNZ wiki.     (or soon 
> will be
> ;-) )
>  
>  
> - WALIS Conference
>  
>  
>  
> - LINZ Geodata
>  
> /- /ABS Free v free
>  
>
> - Live CD
>  
>  
> - OSGeo-AustNZ Logo
>  
>  
> Bruce
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
> > [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Tyler
> > Mitchell (OSGeo)
> > Sent: Friday, 6 February 2009 7:18 AM
> > To: OSGeo Discussions
> > Cc: OSGeo Journal
> > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual Report for 2008
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> > The 2007 OSGeo Annual Report[1] was a great success and it's
> > time to do it all again.  I started up a wiki page listing
> > the primary contacts for each project, committee, chapter and sponsor:
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2008
> >
> > If you are involved with one and see that the wrong person is
> > named, or someone is missed, could you please let me know.  I
> > will send out more information to each of the main contacts
> > shortly.  Also, if you are interested in helping to
> > prepare/collect or format the entries for the compilation,
> > let me know.  You will get credit as a section Editor for
> > that issue of the Journal :) I learned a lot compiling last
> > years and it should go much smoother this time around.
> >
> > The annual report is the main reporting venue for OSGeo
> > projects, committees and local chapters.  It's the
> > opportunity for newcomers, potential sponsors and users in
> > general to see, in one location, where things have been
> > moving.  It is also valuable as a record of history for the
> > organisation, so I hope we can make it another great one.
> >
> > You can see the 2007 report (and previous OSGeo Journal issues) here:
> > [1] http://www.osgeo.org/ojs
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Tyler
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Discuss mailing list
> > Discuss at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Aust-NZ mailing list
> Aust-NZ at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz
>   


-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Systems Architect
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
http://www.lisasoft.com