[Aust-NZ] Some feedback from WALIS

[Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au]

IMO:


I had a number of discussions with various people at WALIS across 
government and industry.

There was widespread interest and goodwill towards FOSS4G 2009.


Some specifics:

- We have two additional potential sponsors for OSGeo-AustNZ and FOSS4G 
2009. More to follow later:

  + SpatialVision
  + NGIS

- Jon Fairall from Position Magazine and Spatial Business Newsletter (for 
our overseas list members, 
  Australia's premier spatial magazine and newsletter) expressed support 
for Open Source Spatial and for FOSS4G 2009 
  (sorry if I'm misquoting you Jon). 

  Jon is prepared to publish a number of articles on Open Source Spatial 
  to help get the message out. We should think carefully on this and work 
out the best way to use this offer and
  **excellent medium** to drum up interest in OSGeo and in FOSS4G 2009. 
Perhaps this should be a high priority 
  for the FOSS4G 2009 committee.

  Hopefully Jon will accept submissions under a Creative Commons License 
so that we can also use the
  material with the OSGeo Journal. 


Bruce




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