I have to agree that something more "local" needs to be offered as well. I attended the Victoria conference and found it to be one of the most useful conferences I had attended in many years. But the cost of an airline ticket from Seattle to Capetown was nearly $2,000 US. Flying time to Capetown was on the order of 24 hours and returning the flying time was over 31 hours. That's 55 hours of grueling travel time, not to mention airport time. Add in the hotel/B&B/tent/sleeping on the street, food and the conference fees you are talking a good bit of expense here. In both cash and time, this was just too prohibitive. My company would have rejected it outright and I certainly could not have afforded it from my own funds.
I hope to attend a FOSS4G conference again, but I am afraid with world finances the way they are, as well as airline situations, it will be quite a few years before I can do that. Chip Taylor Prepared Response, Inc Tacoma, WA From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Ames Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:08 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts I'll make another plug for Helena's suggestion on the conference list that an International FOSS4g be offered every other year. In alternate years members would be encouraged to run regional and/or project specific small conferences... - Dan On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I really think the best solution to this issue would be smaller, regional conferences. Perhaps this could be an issue that could be tackled by local OSGeo Chapters? It would be cool if we could get a point location and radius of acceptable travel from each OSGeo member. You could then determine which host cities for a local or regional conference would impact the most users. Landon
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