[Indonesia] Re: FOSS4G looking for advice from local chapters

[Cameron Shorter]

PS: I forgot to mention the foss4g URL: http://2009.foss4g.org
The conference is in Sydney, Australia 20-23 October 2009.

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Hello Indonesian chapter of OSGeo,
>
> As mentioned below, we are very keen to involve countries within our 
> region in OSGeo's international Free and Open Source Conference for 
> Geospatial Software.
>
> Many other chapters from our region have started getting involved, 
> starting by translating the FOSS4G description into their local language.
>
> I'm hopeful that people from Indonesia will join us too.
>
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> The FOSS4G organising committee is keen to get advise on how we 
>> should structure FOSS4G to make it attractive to local regions. In 
>> particular, we are especially interested in feedback from our close 
>> neighbours in the Asia/Pacific region. One of the great things about 
>> FOSS4G is that it moves around the world, sharing the unique 
>> opportunity of FOSS4G to local regions.  We want to make sure we 
>> share this with as many people as we can in our local region.
>>
>> We will continue this thread on the following email list:
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/options/www_international-discuss
>>
>> Please join if you are not already on the list, and are interested in 
>> taking part.
>>
>> We will also use this email list to give local translators advance 
>> warning of upcoming media releases, to give them time to translate 
>> and release locally.
>>
>
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Hi,
>> We would like to add a local language message for our key FOSS4G 
>> selling page, which will be copied onto our web page, and locally 
>> targeted media releases.
>>
>> Please let us know if you can help (ideally within the upcoming 
>> before Monday 9 March). We are looking for one page of translation, 
>> which is to be copied here:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annonces_foss4g_fr
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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