[Foss4g2009] Invitation to Senator Kate Lundy

[Cameron Shorter]

I've written a draft invitation for Senator Kate Lundy to open FOSS4G.

Simon,
Can you please confirm that I'm offering the correct time for her 
speaking slot.

Pia,
Can you please do a general sanity check, and make sure I have covered 
the issues that Kate would be interested in.

The document is in subversion at:
https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2009/documents/sponsor/FOSS4G Senator 
Kate Lundy.doc

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Senator The Honourable Kate Lundy

Australian Labor Party

Law Society Building

11 London Circuit

Canberra ACT 2601

Dear Senator Kate Lundy,

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has been successful in attracting 
the prestigious international Free and Open Source Software for 
Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference which is to be held at the Sydney 
Convention and Exhibition Centre from the 20 – 23 October 2009.

FOSS4G is where the international Geospatial community meets to discuss 
Geospatial Open Source Software and integrating Open Source with 
existing systems through Open Standards. The 2009 Conference in 
particular invites delegates to attend presentations and targeted 
tutorials focussed on business, technical and industry aspects of 
FOSS4G. In addition, ‘Birds of a Feather’ sessions will allow 
like-minded groups to hold discussions, while a specific day has been 
dedicated to practical hands on workshops.

On behalf of the Organising Committee, I would like to invite you to 
attend the conference and would additionally be honoured if you gave a 
brief welcome address to the delegates during the opening session on 
Wednesday 21 October 2009.

At this year's Conference we are expecting a keen interest from within 
the Australian Government as there have been some recent exciting 
developments led by:

- CSIRO with the Spatial Information Services Stack project. This 
project is working to provide a set of FOSS4G tools that can be rolled 
out to a number of Government Departments; and

- The Office of Spatial Data Management and the Australia New Zealand 
Land Information Council with the adoption of a FOSS4G project as a tool 
to help Government employees and the public to find government spatial 
information.

In our current challenging economic times, particularly in the light of 
the implementation of the recommendations of the Gershon Review within 
Federal Government, I think that you will find that FOSS4G is a cause 
that should be supported. FOSS4G has the potential to save government 
considerable sums of money and to lead to more innovative and open 
technical solutions.

I understand you have a very busy schedule and I would be grateful if 
you could advise me of your availability to participate in the opening 
session at your earliest convenience. I would be honoured for you to 
open the FOSS4G Conference 2009.

Kind regards,

Cameron Shorter

Chairman

FOSS4G 2009 Local Organising Committee


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