[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G 2007: Next steps: [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Mon Feb 11 15:44:18 PST 2008

Hi,

Well done on getting this approved.

I would like to be able to announce this event on the OSDM web site so when a
'press release' has bee agreed, please let me know and I well get it up on
our site.

Again, well done......

Regards 

Ben Searle 
General Manager, Office of Spatial Data Management 
and 
Group Leader, National Mapping & Information 
Geospatial & Earth Monitoring Division
Geoscience Australia 
Phone: 02 6249 9298 
Mobile: 0439-995-785 
Fax: 02 6249 9942 
Email: ben.searle at ga.gov.au <mailto:ben.searle at osdm.gov.au>  
Postal address: GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Marie-Claire Henry
	Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 10:38
	To: Shoaib Burq; Tim Bowden
	Cc: Aust-NZ OSGeo
	Subject: RE: [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G 2007: Next steps:

	Shouldn't it be Geospatial (not geoinformatics)?

	Congratulations by the way everyone and Good Luck!!

	M-C

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	From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Shoaib Burq
	Sent: Monday, 11 February 2008 9:42 PM
	To: Tim Bowden
	Cc: Aust-NZ OSGeo
	Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G 2007: Next steps:

	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):
	--------------

	FOSS4G2009 Sydney Australia

"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.

	####

	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
<http://www.foss4g2007.org/> ). 2008 conference will be held in Cape Town,
South Africa (www.foss4g2008.org <http://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

	-------------------

	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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