OSGeo promotions in Vietnam

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

OSGeo promotions in Vietnam is going on exceeding
well with great support from Vietnamese Academy
of Science and Technology (VAST) and several other
prestigious governmental and private institutions.

The pre-conference "Open Source Geoinformatics
Workshop" held on 8th Nov 2006 was a great success
and a gist of the workshop was aired on the local
TV channel including a strong mention of OSGeo and
the proposal to create the Vietnam OSGeo Chapter
under the aegis of VAST.

The initial members of Vietnam OSGeo Chapter met after
the workshop and decided to prepare the proposal to
form the Chapter and submit for OSGeo board approval
ASAP.

The members agreed to have

1. Mr. Dao Van Tuyet,
    Executive of International Relation Department of IOIT-HCM
    Vietnam OSGeo Chapter Representative
    tuyetdv at vast-hcm.ac.vn
and

2. Dr. Ho Dinh Duan, Institute of Physics HCMC
    as Chapter Coordinator
    duanhd at gmail.com

The report on OSGeo promotions during the
GIS-IDEAS 2006 Symposium (9-11 Nov 2006) will
also be prepared and made available on
wiki.osgeo.org soon. Will also put the
TV news clip on the web soon.

Thanks to all the local and international support
for making the OSGeo promotions in Vietnam happen.

Regards

Venka