[Foss4g2009] Re: International Community wanting to network with Government at FOSS4G [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

Gavin,

This sounds interesting. A few questions:

What was the format of this 'panel discussion'?

What sort of issues were covered?

What time was allocated?

How many people did you have on the panel? What organisations did they represent?


Bruce



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, 27 July 2009 6:17 AM
> To: Gavin Fleming
> Cc: Cameron Shorter; César Medina; Bruce Bannerman; Arnold 
> Wong; Darren Mottolini; Ben Searle; Adam Cooper; Liz; Pia 
> Waugh; foss4g2009
> Subject: Re: [Foss4g2009] Re: International Community wanting 
> to network with Government at FOSS4G
> 
> Thanks Gavin,
> That sounds very positive. How much time was allocated to 
> this session?
> Was it run in parallel with presentations or a Birds of 
> Feather session or something else competing for attendee's time?
> 
> Gavin Fleming wrote:
> > Last year we found/made a gap in the programme for a 
> similar session. 
> > We rounded up a few local and international, government and private 
> > 'experts' (incl Tim Bowden) to sit on a panel and ran a panel 
> > discussion anchored by our 'State IT Agency' who is responsible for 
> > planning and implementing South Africa's FOSS and interoperability 
> > policy.
> >  
> > It was very well attended (about 100 people) and a very productive 
> > debate.
> >  
> > Gavin
> > 
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> > *From:* foss4g2009-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Cameron 
> > Shorter
> > *Sent:* Sun 7/26/2009 01:32 AM
> > *To:* César Medina; Bruce Bannerman; Arnold Wong; Darren Mottolini; 
> > Ben Searle; Adam Cooper; Liz; Pia Waugh; foss4g2009
> > *Subject:* [Foss4g2009] Re: International Community wanting 
> to network 
> > with Government at FOSS4G
> >
> > Cesar (from Chilli),
> >
> > You have noted your interest in meeting Australian Government 
> > interested in Geospatial Open Source at the FOSS4G 
> conference, and I 
> > have CCed a few of the people who would be likely to want to 
> > coordinate the introduction of the international community to 
> > Australian/New Zealand initiatives.
> >
> > Bruce, Ben, Arnold, Kylie, Darren, Adam, Liz, Pia, I expect 
> that there 
> > will be a number of other people like Cesar, who will want to meet 
> > Australian & New Zealand government representatives to find 
> out what 
> > we are doing with regards to Open Source and Open Standards here.
> >
> > How do you suggest we accommodate this?
> > One forum we have at FOSS4G is our unstructured "Birds of a Feather"
> > sessions where anyone can coordinate discussion around a 
> particular topic.
> >
> >  From an Australian/New Zealand government point of view, 
> this would 
> > be valuable as it provides an opportunity for us to network 
> and build 
> > valuable international contacts.
> > For Landgate (who have built a state government SDI based upon Open 
> > Standards, and uses a lot of Open Source) this is an opportunity to 
> > export some of this expertise.
> >
> >
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> Cameron Shorter
> Geospatial Systems Architect
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