Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:15 PM, D Tucny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Hong Kong? Somewhat further east and I'm sure you could get there almost entirely by train if you really really wanted... Does it really have to be Europe? Well, can you go by ICE to Hong Kong? The nice thing about

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-19 Thread SteveC
On 18 Jul 2008, at 17:14, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, (RichardF) Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily accessible by train. (SteveC) ...so you can skip it again? :-P There were a number of people absent at this year's SOTM who are quite

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread SteveC
On 15 Jul 2008, at 08:08, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Daniel Glassey wrote: fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC would be. Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, (RichardF) Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily accessible by train. (SteveC) ...so you can skip it again? :-P There were a number of people absent at this year's SOTM who are quite active and/or important to the project - JonB wasn't

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread Lester Caine
Frederik Ramm wrote: There were a number of people absent at this year's SOTM who are quite active and/or important to the project - JonB wasn't there, Blackadder wasn't there, Artem wasn't there, Jordan Hatcher cancelled, Martijn van O wasn't there, neither was Franciso Santos, there was

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-16 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily accessible by train. I'd vote for somewhere in south germany, say, in the area of Weissenburg. But that's just me looking for an

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-16 Thread D Tucny
2008/7/16 Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily accessible by train. I'd vote for somewhere in south germany, say, in the

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. So I think it would be great if SOTM could be there, say, Sat 11th-Sun 12th. Nothing against Gran Canaria at all but I don't see a lot of value in

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Daniel Glassey
2008/7/15 Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. So I think it would be great if SOTM could be there, say, Sat 11th-Sun 12th. Nothing against Gran Canaria

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On 2008-07-15, Daniel Glassey wrote: 2008/7/15 Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. So I think it would be great if SOTM could be there, say, Sat

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Daniel Glassey wrote: fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC would be. Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily accessible by train. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Steve Chilton
: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09 Daniel Glassey wrote: fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC would be. Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Daniel Glassey wrote: fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC would be. Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily accessible by train. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread bvh
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:08:55PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC would be. Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Grant Slater
bvh wrote: Nowadays, there are plenty of airlines that allow you to offset the carbon output of your trip. I am not yet aware of train companies offering the same, so the treehugger in you might still prefer to fly?

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/7/15 Nick Whitelegg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, and somewhere with good walking / nice scenery (=mapping party?) would be good. Black Forest or Alps maybe? Or southern France or a mountainous area of Spain or Italy? Austria sounds like a possibility here - it could also do with some extra

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread bvh
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Grant Slater wrote: Nowadays, there are plenty of airlines that allow you to offset the carbon output of your trip. I am not yet aware of train companies offering the same, so the treehugger in you might still prefer to fly?

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Nick Whitelegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, and somewhere with good walking / nice scenery (=mapping party?) would be good. Black Forest or Alps maybe? Or southern France or a mountainous area of Spain or Italy? I was going to submit Trento to held next year

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
July 2008 6:50 AM To: Talk Subject: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09 Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ... http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.987lon=-15.521zoom=10layers=B00FTF Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday

[OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel Glassey
Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ... http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.987lon=-15.521zoom=10layers=B00FTF Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. http://dot.kde.org/1215794861/ So I think it would