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

[Cameron Shorter]

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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