FOSS4G in Sydney
FOSS4G will come to Sydney, Australia, in November 2009. It’s the world wide conference of OSGeo, the home of the open source spatial communities. It’s the gathering of the tribes if you like. FOSS4G is a great chance to show the world what’s been happening down under in the GeoFOSS space. Details in the press release. Being one of the bods on the ‘09 organising committee I can promise we’ve got some great ideas for ramping up the conference. That’s not to say it’s at all lacking thus far. On the contrary, It’s a fabulous conference and already gets rave reviews. We’d like to take it to another level though.
There’s a lot happening in the open source GIS space in this part of the world. From high profile initiatives such as SLIP in Western Australia and the BlueNet GeoNetwork web portal and catalogue project at the University of Tasmania, to the rampant under the radar use of tools such as PostGIS, gdal/ogr, grass, mapserver, openlayers or geoserver throughout government and industry there’s some fabulous things happening. I’mlooking forward to being able to show the world what we can do down under. First though, we have FOSS4G’08 in South Africa, which is shaping up to be a real cracker of an event. See you there.