Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-17 Thread leigh
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi All, On 15 sep 2010, at 11:38, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: d) Had to pay for FOSS4G2010 T-Shirt I very much supported this idea of paying for the shirts! How many T-Shirts end up being unused? It makes a lot of sense from an ecological / sustainability point of view to not just give away

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El 15/09/10 22:39, Seven (aka Arnulf) escribió: On 09/15/2010 08:23 PM, strk wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 06:38:22PM +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: g) Was not particularly amused by keynote speaker putting out his cap and a great guy

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El 16/09/10 11:29, Andy Turner escribió: On the bags front, the FOSS4G conference bag from Lausanne wasI use to envy all of you, the best conference bag I have ever got and I have used mine loads to carry laptop and stuff and it has lead to some

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 16/09/10 09:13, Jeroen Ticheler wrote: On 15 sep 2010, at 11:38, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: d) Had to pay for FOSS4G2010 T-Shirt I very much supported this idea of paying for the shirts! How many T-Shirts end up being unused? It makes a lot of sense from an ecological / sustainability

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Paolo Corti
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote: On 16/09/10 09:13, Jeroen Ticheler wrote: On 15 sep 2010, at 11:38, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: d) Had to pay for FOSS4G2010 T-Shirt I very much supported this idea of paying for the shirts! How many T-Shirts end up

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Dave Patton
On 2010/09/16 5:00 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: On 2010/09/16 19:42, Mateusz Loskot wrote: ... I very much supported this idea of paying for the shirts! How many T-Shirts end up being unused? It makes a lot of sense from an ecological / sustainability point of view to not just give away for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2010/09/16 22:45, Dave Patton wrote: ... Build some flexibility into the registration process. For those who do early bird registration, have a single option where they make a choice whether or not they want 'the OSGeo swag'. That could be a t-shirt + bag + LiveCD + button + etc. Have a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Ravi
: From: Paolo Corti pco...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Cc: Jeroen Ticheler jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net Date: Thursday, 16 September, 2010, 6:15 PM On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Mateusz Loskot mate

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Daniel Ames
' and DONTs for the future. Ravi Kumar --- On *Thu, 16/9/10, Paolo Corti pco...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Paolo Corti pco...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Cc: Jeroen Ticheler jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Daniel Ames
' and DONTs for the future. Ravi Kumar --- On *Thu, 16/9/10, Paolo Corti pco...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Paolo Corti pco...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Cc: Jeroen Ticheler jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread heikki
it going.. This is a good feed back for future event planners. The 'bad', I found is the best for DOs' and DONTs for the future. Ravi Kumar --- On *Thu, 16/9/10, Paolo Corti pco...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Paolo Corti pco...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Alex Mandel
On 09/16/2010 03:31 PM, heikki wrote: This thread is turning into mainly discussing the T-shirts etc. My 6½ euros : the T-shirt this year seemed to be of awful quality -- I'm quite sure you should never wear it or wash it, if you'd want the logo to remain (I did not buy it though, so I'm

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-15 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, Back to work after four weeks on the road with the ZOO-Team. Enjoyed being at FOSS4G2010. As usual there many good things, few bad things at least one ugly incident (for the ZOO-Team). About the good things, i will not spend too much time as it is obvious to all. Just to mention that

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-15 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 06:38:22PM +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Hi All, Back to work after four weeks on the road with the ZOO-Team. Enjoyed being at FOSS4G2010. As usual there many good things, few bad things at least one ugly incident (for the ZOO-Team). About the good things, i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-15 Thread Jochen Topf
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:31:43AM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: a) Difficulty in meet people since we were all spread out and there was not much info about common meeting points Not really sure what you mean about this. I mean, we were all in the conference center; the OSGeo Booth

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-15 Thread strk
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 06:38:22PM +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: g) Was not particularly amused by keynote speaker putting out his cap and a great guy running to the stage to put coins. Now _this_ is something I'd have loved to be there to see. @guy : how much did you raise ? --strk;

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-15 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2010/9/15 Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp: d) Had to pay for FOSS4G2010 T-Shirt and please don't dry your T-shirt. Otherwise you will get nice black T-shirt without any logo as me ;-) Martin -- Martin Landa landa.martin gmail.com * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-15 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
Venka, thanks for the feedback. Ideally you would also add this to the Lessosn Learned page in the Wiki [1] to be considered at the next conference. Conference Committee, it would be great to compile all our experience into a comprehensive conference manual. We did this for FOSSGIS in Germany

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-15 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
On 09/15/2010 08:23 PM, strk wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 06:38:22PM +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: g) Was not particularly amused by keynote speaker putting out his cap and a great guy running to the stage to put coins. Now _this_ is something I'd have loved to be there to see. @guy