[Aust-NZ] Anyone attending the Federation of Surveyors conference?

Tue Feb 2 21:43:59 PST 2010

I've been offered a speaking slot to talk about the state of Geospatial 
Open Source at the international Federation of Surveyors conference, run 
by SSSI, in Sydney, but it seems I won't be able to attend.

I was expecting that OSGeo would be offered a free booth and pass (as 
FOSS4G did for SSSI), however, this is not the case, and I've been told 
that I need to register for the full conference in order to present.

If someone else will be at the conference, and is in a position to 
present Open Source instead, then please speak up.

Markku Villikka wrote:
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