[Australia] FOSS4G in Australia [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Chris Tweedie]

Hi guys,

Regardless of the outcome of FOSS4G hosting success, maybe this would be a good opportunity to formalise the Australian Chapter??

I am not sure what kind of support i can offer at the moment as far as bidding is concerned, but i obviously have a large amount of contacts around WA State government should this be any use.

Chris.

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:18:26 +1000, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:australia-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
>> Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2007 1:09 PM
>> To: australia at lists.osgeo.org
>> 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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