<div>Greetings to you,</div> <div>I have gone through your draft for IYA South Africa. I think it is very encompassing. I would like to use this medium to comment your leading role in IYA Africa. How I wish your program for Africa will help in waking up other African countries.</div> <div>Your draft will equally go a long way in helping us in designing the draft for IYA Nigeria.</div> <div> </div> <div>Cheers!!!!!!</div> <div> </div> <div>Bonaventure. <BR><BR><B><I>astronet-request@mail.saasta.ac.za</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Send AstroNet mailing list submissions to<BR>astronet@mail.saasta.ac.za<BR><BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR>http://mail.saasta.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/astronet<BR>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR>astronet-request@mail.saasta.ac.za<BR><BR>You can reach the person
managing the list at<BR>astronet-owner@mail.saasta.ac.za<BR><BR>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>than "Re: Contents of AstroNet digest..."<BR><BR><BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR>1. Draft plan for IYA South Africa (Kevin Govender)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 1<BR>Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:01:00 +0200<BR>From: Kevin Govender <KG@SAAO.AC.ZA><BR>Subject: [AstroNet] Draft plan for IYA South Africa<BR>To: astronet <ASTRONET@MAIL.SAASTA.AC.ZA><BR>Message-ID: <47058CCC.3040903@saao.ac.za><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>Hello all<BR>For transparency, please note that a draft of the IYA business plan is <BR>available for download on www.astronomy2009.org.za/downloads/<BR>This will give you an idea as to what the steering committee in SA has <BR>been working towards following our discussions earlier this year.<BR>We hope to be able to
present a plan of this nature to the DST/DOE by <BR>next month.<BR>If there's anything you feel strongly about in terms of where we might <BR>have gone wrong in this plan, please send those comments to me so we can <BR>discuss. Please understand the difficulty though in trying to <BR>consolidate the large number of opinions in astronomy in the country. We <BR>will obviously serve you as best we can though, always bearing in mind <BR>the objective and vision at the end of the day.<BR>Before you ask, the budget is still being developed and would be <BR>something that would also be guided by potential funders. The important <BR>thing right now, before talk of money, is that we all stand together as <BR>a community and agree to the spirit and ideas of the plan and commit <BR>ourselves in principle to participating in realising these objectives <BR>during 2009.<BR><BR>We're getting there... and will feed back as things progress.<BR><BR>Next week SA will be represented at
CAP2007 <BR>(http://www.communicatingastronomy.org/cap2007/) where there will also <BR>be a meeting of IYA contacts from around the world. Attendees of this <BR>will provide feedback to this list.<BR><BR>This week at the ALC2007 conference (www.space.gov.za/alc2007/) there <BR>was great energy surrounding African collaborations around astronomy and <BR>space science. Watch this space as things develop. If you are <BR>specifically interested in astronomy around Africa please email <BR>africa@astronomy2009.org.za.<BR><BR>Regards<BR>kg<BR><BR>-- <BR>*** If you are at all interested in Astronomy Education and Outreach, please join the AstroNet email list - details on SA International Year of Astronomy website: www.astronomy2009.org.za ***<BR><BR>Kevin Govender<BR>Manager: SALT Collateral Benefits Programme<BR>South African Astronomical Observatory<BR>Office: +27 21 460 9350<BR>Mobile: +27 82 487 8466<BR>Fax: +27 21 447 3639<BR>Email: kg@saao.ac.za<BR>Skype:
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