[Australia] FOSS4G in Australia [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Cameron Shorter]

Antti,
That is a good idea.

Do you have any contacts that you would recommend to initiate a 
conversation with?

Of note, I'll be meeting the conference organisors at 10:30am EST in 
Sydney tomorrow, Friday.
I'd welcome anyone interested in joining us.
Let me know and I'll open up a tele-conference line.

Roppola, Antti - BRS wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> It may also be worth canvassing participation advice and/or support
> from other spatial and FOSS organisations in Australia. I have cc:ed
> Justin from FOSSACT in case they have any ideas.
>
> Then there's Commonwealth geospatial agencies such as OSDM and AGIMO,
> though I'm less certain about how one might involve them. I'll be at
> the AGIMO spatial community of practice meeting on the 25th, so I'll
> mention the idea then.
>
> NICTA also coordinate an ACT GIS network, I know NICTA were reasonably
> well involved with LCA this year.
>
> No harm in pulling together a list of bodies who would be interested
> in seeing a FOSS4G conference in Australia.
>
> Antti 
>
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> [mailto:australia-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
> Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2007 1:09 PM
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> Subject: [Australia] FOSS4G in Australia
>
> I made some enquiries a few months back about hosting FOSS4G in
> Australia.
>
> These guys are sponsored by the Australian Government and sound like
> they are prepared to do a lot of the hack work in getting a conference
> off the ground.
>
> I'm having a meeting with them tomorrow.
>
> Do any of you have any comments/suggestions about whether we should
> investigate this further, get involved etc.
>
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