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

[Cameron Shorter]

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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