[OSGeo-Conf] 2008 (pre) Announcement

[Jeff McKenna]

ok thanks for the responses.  I'll send the announcement to [announce] 
and file a ticket for the website news item now.

If anyone else wants to distribute this 'pre-announcement' to their 
desired channels please do now.

--
jeff





Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> 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
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