I had the opportunity to attend the semi-annual CGIAR-CSI meeting in Nairobi this year. It was my first visit to Kenya which was great despite the bad weather. It was good to actually see the people I communicate with electronically on a daily basis.

The quantity of good research in agriculture coming out of this group is remarkable. As part of the program committee I was able to convince Chris Holmes from GeoServer and Jeroen Ticheler from GeoNetwork to come and present. Hopefully in 2008/2009 we'll be able to find some additional bandwidth and get critical mass for data sharing.