Fwd: FW: [Aust-NZ] Wrappup report of Spatial@Gov conference in Canberra, Australia [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

Cameron,

Perhaps I was reading things into Kate Lundy's keynote address, however I
made note of her references to concerns that the Federal Government should
be looking to less restrictive copyright (IP?) on government data in an
effort to stimulate more use of this data.

Ben,

- Did you get a transcript of these comments?

- Congratulations on a well run and very informative event. It was one of
the better spatial events that I've been to. I hope that we can do as well
with FOSS4G-2009. btw do you have any spare time over the next few months?
;-)


Bruce Bannerman




> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
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> Subject: [Aust-NZ] Wrappup report of Spatial at Gov conference
> in Canberra, Australia
>
> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2009/06/osgeo-at-spatialgov
-conference-canberra.html<http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2009/06/osgeo-at-spatialgov%0A-conference-canberra.html>
>
> The Aust-NZ OSGeo local chapter set up and OSGeo booth at the
> Spatial at Gov <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/> conference a few
> days back, and I gave a well attended Geospatial Open Source
> presentation. The conference attracted ~ 200 delegates and covered:
>
>     * Climate Change
>       <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsClimateChange.asp> (7
>       abstracts)
>     * Local Government
>       <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsLocalGovernment.asp> (1
>       abstracts)
>     * Indigenous culture and communities
>
> <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsIndigenouscultureandco
> mmunities.asp>
>       (4 abstracts)
>     * Health <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsHealth.asp> (1
>       abstracts)
>     * Future directions of spatial technologies
>
> <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsFuturedirectionsofspat
> ialtechnologies.asp>
>       (24 abstracts)
>     * Public/Private partnerships
>
> <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsPublicPrivatepartnerships.asp>
>       (5 abstracts)
>     * Social Inclusion
>       <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsSocialInclusion.asp> (4
>       abstracts)
>     * Not Specified
>       <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsNotSpecified.asp> (9
>       abstracts)
>
> The conference was particularly encouraging for people
> interested in "Open Technologies". It was opened by Senator
> Kate Lundy <http://www.katelundy.com.au/>, who is making a
> name for herself in Australia around Open Government (and who
> is also a keynote speaker at the FOSS4G
> <http://2009.foss4g.org/>conference in October). Then most of
> the presentations I attended mentioned Open Standards. In
> particular, there is a strong push to develop a "Spatial
> Marketplace" which is effectively a Spatial Data
> Infrastructure. I was pleasantly surprised to hear ~ 30% of
> the presentations mention how agencies are deploying Open
> Source software. And there was regular mention about how
> agencies are following Queensland's initiatives moving
> government data to Creative Commons licenses. (There are
> abstracts on this at FOSS4G too).
> Thanks to the following people for helping to man the OSGeo stand:
>
>     * Milton Lofberg & Autodesk for sponsoring the booth
>     * Cameron Shorter (me) and LISAsoft for providing fliers
> and giving
>       an Open Source presentation
>     * Bruce Bannerman
>     * Shoaib Burq
>     * Plus a couple of others who dropped by for a bit
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> Geospatial Systems Architect
> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>
> Think Globally, Fix Locally
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