[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G 2011 AGM [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Cameron Shorter]

On 6/09/2011 8:24 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> I will be attending FOSS4G 2011.
>
> I've noted a call from Arnulf for brief presentations from Local Chapters.
>
> Do we have any achievements over the last 12 months to report on for
> OSGeo-AustNZ?
>
> Bruce Bannerman
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Bruce,
Might be worth mentioning some of the positive Government driven 
initiatives in Australian and New Zealand around Open Government, Gov 
2.0, etc.

Launch of "Open Technology Foundation":
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2011/09/launch-of-australian-open-technology.html

Launch of NZ SDI Cookbook, as part of the NZ SDI Geospatial Strategy:
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2011/07/project-overviews-quickstarts-for-new.html

Australian sets policy for opening Public Sector Information:
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2011/06/australian-government-defines-policy.html
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2011/02/australian-government-embrace-pro.html

Australian Government Tenders now required to consider Open Source 
equally against Proprietary:
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2011/04/guide-to-open-source-software-for.html

CSIRO have been paying developers to ruggegise the "Spatial Information 
Services Stack", in particular adding and stablising functionality in:
* Geoserver
* GeoNetwork
* THREDDS
* Hollow World
* Full Moon
https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/Siss/SiSS

If you still have some time left out of your 4 mins you could reference 
some specific OS implementations.
You have some at CSIRO.
I can give you a fairly long list of Geospatial Government based Open 
Source projects that LISAsoft have worked on. (Although that might sound 
too much like a sales pitch for LISAsoft)


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