Fully agree that it is the duty of all to try and contribute in thier own way for the benifit of the global community. RECTAS is very welcome to join Geo for All . Please contact the Africa chairs for info.
For the AARSE 2016 conference, i am ccing in Anthony Gidudu, Yazidhi Bamutaze,Hussein Farah and Serena Coetzee who will be able to suggest best way to make sure OSGeo is strongly presented in the main sessions. Anthony, Yazidhi - please follow up this. It will be good if one of you attending the conference can present "Geo for All" at the conference. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith ________________________________________ From: Gildas Jr. Boko <[email protected]> Sent: 03 August 2016 11:43 PM To: Enock Seth Nyamador; [email protected]; Anand Suchith; [email protected] Cc: Maelle Vercauteren; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa Hello everyone, I'll try to give an answer or point of view on some pending questions 1- As for AARSE, i'm afraid i won't be able to make it to AARSEE this year, however if people attending are interested in discussing the topic, why not? as long as we are finding a way to move forward, i'm ok with that 2- regarding the South(ern) Africa aspect, I believe it is the duty of each member of the Free and Open Source GIS software to try to be more present and contribute in his own way to the community. I think that there are people in SA who are very active in the development of QGIS (for what i am aware of) and maybe other software. It is kinda normal that they somehow catch most of the attention 3- On the aspect of the language. Well i don't personally consider it as an issue. Although it obvious that it will be difficult to organise a conference only in one language. But then there are translators, thus implying more costs. But if there should be an african chapter of FOSS4G, there is definitely a choice to do on the language aspect. A possibility is to create regional nodes (Mahgreb, Eastern, Central, Western and southern) with their own specificities and choice of language. And all thoses nodes will be under the African FOSS4G. I am very happy to see that the idea received all this consideration. So, if we all agree it is something that should be done, maybe we should start trying to put things in place gradually. Like duration, period of the year, hosting institution (i suggested RECTAS, but it is still a suggestion), etc. I am still expecting more contribution from participants from the 2008 experience if they are in the list. Thanks everyone Gildas Jr This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
