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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Oregon Geographic Information Council will hold a series of listening sessions around the state over the next two months. The attached flyer contains a description of the
sessions and information about the locations. Please feel free to forward this on to others you think might be interested. We will also be sending this announcement out to the Oregon URISA membership, and the lists for AOC, LOC, SDAO, and OSACA, as well
as a few others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">These sessions will be aimed at the a wide audience, beyond geospatial practitioners, to include decision makers, executives, managers and front line personnel in all public
bodies, as well as interested parties in academia, non-profits and the private sector.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cy Smith, GISP, State GIO<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OSCIO Geospatial Enterprise Office<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Member, FGDC National Geospatial Advisory Committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Former Chair, Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Former President, Urban Regional Info. Systems Association (URISA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Former President, National States Geographic Info. Council (NSGIC)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(503) 378-6066, <a href="http://gis.oregon.gov/">http://gis.oregon.gov</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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