[OSGeo-Conf] 2008 (pre) Announcement

[Jeff McKenna]

OSGeo Conference Committee,

The following draft has been approved by the local 2008 committee (they 
will be following up with a full announcement later).  If the OSGeo 
conference committee has no problem with this draft can we please 
distribute it?

thanks.

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jeff

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FOSS4G 2008 Awarded to Cape Town, South Africa
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The OSGeo Conference Committee is pleased to announce that the 2008 Free 
and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference will be held 
in Cape Town, South Africa, with the tentative dates of September 29th 
to October 3th 2008.  The OSGeo Conference Committee would like to thank 
all of those who submitted to host the 2008 conference, we were all very 
impressed with the number and quality of proposals.

With the 2007 conference approaching (http://www.foss4g2007.org/) and 
the excitement building in the FOSS4G community, the 2008 conference 
will be an important date on the calendar not to miss.  The 2008 
organizing committee has already begun preparations, and will be 
following up with a larger announcement.  The detailed proposal is 
available at:

http://www.osgeo.org/files/webfiles/conference/proposals/South_Africa_proposal_to_host_FOSS4G_2008.pdf

Again, thank you for all of the excellent submissions.

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OSGeo Conference Committee