Aust-NZ

Welcome to the home of the Aust-NZ (proposed) chapter of OSGeo
Our mailing list can be subscribed to at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz

Our original page (which contains our initial plans for an Aust chapter, can be found at [Old Aust chapter page- outdated]

Bid for FOSS4G
OSGeo Australia/New Zealand preparing a bid to host the annual Free Open Source Software For Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference for 2009. Details at https://extranet.lisasoft.com/wiki/index.php/Foss4g-sydney.

Anybody who would like to get involved, please feel free. We need all the help we can get. At this stage (Sept 07) it looks like bids will open some time in October, and close in November. We should know by the end of November at the latest who will be hosting.

Current Plans

 * 1) In the next month or so we need to get incorporated, probably in Western Australia.

The WA specific requirements can be summarized as: Legislation: WA incorporation legislation

Incorporation Guidelines
 * More than 5 members
 * Intention to apply for incorporation must be advertised between one and three months before the application is made.
 * No residency requirements
 * Keep accounts in such a state that they can be audited and presented to members at AGM
 * Register of members to be kept with residential or postal address.


 * 1) WALIS Forum: It looks like we may well have a stong Open Source prescence there, along with an Open Source Workshop of some sort.  WALIS details at

UPDATE: We will have a stand at WALIS. For details, go to [WALIS stand].