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    <p>Dear GovHack and Linux Australia colleagues and friends, </p>
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      <div>We'd like to thank you all for your wonderful support of
        GovHack - you’ve helped us grow over the years to become one of
        the biggest annual government open data competitions in the
        world. For 2016 we hit a record number of participants,
        locations, data sets and projects (see our achievements in our <a
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          2016 Review</a>).</div>
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      <div>As GovHack has grown it has helped drive the release of open
        data by governments across Australia and New Zealand and
        demonstrated the potential of open data to benefit the community
        as witnessed by the amazing apps, websites, augmented and
        virtual reality projects that continue to push the boundaries of
        open data each year.</div>
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      <div>GovHack and Linux Australia are proud to announce that
        GovHack's current scale, influence and strength of support make
        2017 the right year to establish GovHack as an independent
        organisation whilst continuing to champion our shared spirit of
        openness, awesomeness and respect.</div>
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      <div>Open source and open data are more important than ever, yet
        they mean nothing without your involvement, your ingenuity, your
        brilliance – that’s why both GovHack and Linux Australia are
        determined to keep growing to enable more people to play a part
        of our respective communities.</div>
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      <div>GovHack would like to thank Linux Australia for its
        sensational support as an auspicing body in 2016 and looks
        forward to working closely together in the future to continue to
        promote the tremendous benefits of open source and open data for
        Australia, New Zealand and the entire planet!  </div>
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      <div>GovHack and Linux Australia<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Kathy Reid
President
Linux Australia

0418 130 636

<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:president@linux.org.au">president@linux.org.au</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.org.au">http://linux.org.au</a>

Linux Australia Inc
GPO Box 4788
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia

ABN 56 987 117 479 

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