Maybe setup OSGeo Booth there? Trying to fill whole track?
J 2014-10-03 9:15 GMT+02:00 Paul van Genuchten <[email protected]>: > Hi, this year Inspire and GWF joined forces in organising a combined > conference 25-29 may 2014 in Lisbon > http://www.geospatialworldforum.org. In previous years of GWF we used to > organize an OSGeo track (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, not sure about Geneva). > Should some of us put some energy in setting up such a track for the > coming conference, or alternatives like a booth/strategic partner? > > So why do GWF and INSPIRE hang out together? I have no clue... But it > might be a combination of I know INSPIRE wants to share their concepts > globally (they have some initiatives in Latin America), they might have > seen GWF as a facilitator. Another reason might be that organizing such > a big event is quite a challenge for local universities that did this in > recent years. Hooking up with a commercial organisation like GWF can > facilitate continuation of the event. For GWF I see a benefit of having > a big audience increase, with meaningful items to discuss. > > As organizer of 2013 osgeo track at GWF my evaluation back then was not > all that positive. It certainly was good people saw the osgeo logo on > the program, but I doubted if the conference had a proper audience for > osgeo-message. However, now with combined INSPIRE community, the > atmosphere should be quite different. > > Would be good to hear your thoughts on this. And see if we can set up > some great OSGeo presence at the conference. > > Note (for those interested) the dead-line for abstract submission is > january first 2015. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
