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<div>Hi Ragnvald</div>
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<div>Big congratulations to all, this will have huge implications for growing the Tanzania GIS mapping community and the use of QGIS. I will get back to you off list to see how I can assist and also spread the word. </div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>From: Ragnvald Larsen via TZGISUG <tzgisug@lists.habari.co.tz></div>
<div>Date:22/12/2016 00:59 (GMT+00:00) </div>
<div>To: Tanzania GIS Users Group Discussion <TZGISUG@lists.habari.co.tz></div>
<div>Cc: Ragnvald Larsen <ragnvald@mindland.com></div>
<div>Subject: [TZGISUG] Official: FOSS4G2018 will be in Dar </div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr">Dear friends and colleagues,
<div> as a member of the <font face="sans-serif" size="2" color="#252525"><span style="font-size:14px;">Local Organizing Committee (LOC) I am happy to tell you that</span></font> the FOSS4G conference in 2018 will be in DAR. Read more about the bid process
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<li><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2018_Bid_Process" target="_BLANK">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2018_Bid_Process</a><br>
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<div>The decision was taken earlier this week:<br>
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<li><a href="https://www.loomio.org/d/3XJy9I6D/approve-dar-es-salaam-to-host-foss4g-2018" target="_BLANK">https://www.loomio.org/d/3XJy9I6D/approve-dar-es-salaam-to-host-foss4g-2018</a><br>
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<div>Although this is one year and nine months away there is a lot to be done before the conference. Some of this will involve getting ideas from the Tanzania GIS community.<br>
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<div>The co-chairs for the conference will be Msilikale Msilenga and Mark Illiffe. The LOC will provide more information early next year.</div>
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<div>Congratulations all!</div>
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<div>Ragnvald</div>
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