Open Source Geospatial Event of the Year: FOSS4G in Capetown

4 April 2008 Geoff Zeiss

The Open Source
Geospatial Foundation OSGEO is hosting FOSS4G in Capetown, South Africa, Sep  29 – OctFoss4g_2008_logo
3.  In February of this year South Africa adopted a national policy on open source, National Open Source Policy in Government , so this is an opportune time to increase awareness of open source gesopatial in Africa.

According to the head of government communications in South Africa “All new software developed for or by the government will be based on
open standards and government will itself migrate current software to
FOSS.”  It is intended by April that CSIR and the State
Information Technology Agency will setup a project office by to assist in implementing FOSS
throughout South Africa.

Autodesk and Google have already signed up to be
sponsors of the 2008 event.  In 2007 about 700 developers and users of
open source geospatial software got together in Victoria, Canada. 

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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