[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G 2007: Next steps:

[Shoaib Burq]

Good one Tim. Here is my slightly bloated version, please hack away and
sorry for my ignorance but do we have a media contact at this point? Also
can we use the OSGeo logo until we get one for the conf. with the outline of
the opera house :)

Straw man (take2):
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*FOSS4G2009 Sydney Australia*
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**"**User Driven FOSS4G"***

* *

*Sydney (Australia) selected to host the seventh annual conference on "Free
& Open Source Software for Geoinformatics" (FOSS4G) in 2009*

*Monday, 11 February 2008*  Aust-NZ OSGeo Aust-NZ at lists.osgeo.org


The Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo is pleased to announce we have been selected to
host the FOSS4G 2009 international conference.  The conference is planned
for Sydney in November 2009, and is expected to attract the leading players
in the open source geospatial community.

Holding this conference in the Asia-Pacific region will bring enormous
benefit to the region and will provide those in the wider geospatial
community an opportunity to discover the cutting edge of spatial software
development through to the state of the art in enterprise deployment.

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*About OSGeo*

*Please add …*

* *

*About FOSS4G*

The spatial industry has been undergoing rapid innovations over the last 4
years. The FOSS4G movement has been at the forefront of this change due to
its openness to share ideas, code and data. From its beginnings the FOSS4G
conference has had a reputation of being a melting pot for great ideas in
the spatial industry and a catalyst for many successful geospatial products,
standards and protocols. The 2007 conference was held in Victoria, BC,
Canada and was a huge success (www.foss4g2007.org). 2008 conference will be
held in Cape Town, South Africa (www.foss4g2008.org). FOSS4G 2009 Sydney
will be the seventh "formal" gathering of the open source geospatial
community and is expected to focus on the increasing importance of FOSS4G in
the public and private enterprise.



*Media Contacts:**
*Cameron Shorter
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
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On Feb 11, 2008 6:32 PM, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:11 +0800, Dr. Markus Lupp wrote:
> > Tim Bowden schrieb:
> > >
> > > Publicity roll (Blogs etc):
> > > Shoaib, Paul Ramsey, Chris Tweedie, Tyler Mitchell, slashgeo,
> > > geowanking, nzopengis, banyon(geo challenged),  any others we may be
> > > able to arm twist?
> > >
> >
> > How about http://www.gisdevelopment.net/?
>
> Yep.  Lets get a release together we can have out tonight.
>
> Straw man:
> ---
> The Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo is pleased to announce we have been
> selected to host the FOSS4G 2009 international conference.  The
> conference is planned for Sydney in November 2009, and is expected to
> attract the leading players in the open source geospatial community.
>
> Holding this conference in the Asia-Pacific region will bring enormous
> benefit to the region and will provide those in the wider geospatial
> community an opportunity to discover the cutting edge of spatial
> software development through to the state of the art in enterprise
> deployment.
> ----
> Please hack it.
>
> Tim
>
> > > Tim
> > >
> > >
> > >> shoaib
> > >> On Feb 11, 2008 5:02 PM, Cameron Shorter <cshorter at lisasoft.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>         FrankW tells me that Sydney was officially accepted the 2009
> > >>         conference
> > >>         city by the OSGeo board at their last meeting.
> > >>
> > >>         So I suggest we start on our next steps. Who wants to do
> what?
> > >>
> > >>         * Write Press Release for FOSS4G
> > >>          - Publish through OSGeo
> > >>          - Publish through Position Magazine. Wendy Chapman has
> > >>         already
> > >>         volunteered to give us free advertising in return for a free
> > >>         pass at the
> > >>         conference.
> > >>          - Publish through Sydney Linux Users Group
> > >>         * Advertise for Professional Conference Organisor (PCO)
> > >>          - I have documents to fill in from SCVB I can forward
> through
> > >>         to someone.
> > >>         * Set up Governance body as per:
> > >>         http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_2008_Governance
> > >>         * Set up email list
> > >>         * What else?
> > >>
> > >>         --
> > >>         Cameron Shorter
> > >>         Geospatial Systems Architect
> > >>         Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> > >>         Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
> > >>
> > >>         Think Globally, Fix Locally
> > >>         Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions
> > >>         http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html
> > >>
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