Hi all,
I'm Sanghee Shin from Seoul, Korea. I hope somebody remember me. I presented
activities of OSGeo Korean language L.C. to you at AGM this conference.
Anyway.. I was invited to a national research institute(KRIHS) in Korea
which supports policy making of Korean central government a month
Registration + hotel represent 1/2 of the price of the trip. So
together they WERE a deciding factor.I am always too busy, so
browsing the discuss lists and the web for BB in Cape Town was not
an option. If the conference is not targeted towards business,
then the conference
Another consideration: my students who attended last week said that the mix
of GISSA with FOSS4g was EXCELLENT. The really liked having the business
GIS users/non-FOSS people there. In fact, doing a joint conference like this
gave the FOSS folks lots of great proselytizing opportunities that they
I should have clearly stated that local conferences could be an
alternative to FOSS4G, not a REPLACEMENT. Please don't burn me at the
stake for that slip up. :]
Landon
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I should have clearly stated that local conferences could be an alternative
to FOSS4G, not a REPLACEMENT.
This is what I also brought up a few days ago on the conference list.
Half a years after/before the main event. This
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
Therefore I'm writting a letter to you to request your help. Please let me
know any successful case of FOSS4G in your country. Web site, implementation
history, your experiences... and kinds of materials will be useful to me.
Here one more (absolutely incomplete):
I don't think this is really fair on the organizers, if you don't have
time to do a Google search for accommodation or follow one low traffic
mailing list (open source people are mostly following or actively
participating on multiple e-mail lists), then how do you find the time
to actually
Frank wrote:
As an alternative to a stand-alone event, it can also be helpful to
work with an existing GIS conference organizer to provide an open
source track or something similar.
We've just been approached by www.eis-africa.org who are keen to run a
dedicated FOSS4G track at
Sanghee,
I understand your question because I've had it asked from me a number of
times too, and we should ensure we have answers as part of our Marketing
Plan.
I've started building up a wiki with links to various case studies which
should be of help:
Yes, sorry Eric, we had to change the dates for FOSS4G2009 to 20-23
October due to clashes with venue availability.
Regarding other conferences, we have collected a list of dates for
related conferences at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Marketing_Plan#Related_Conferences
On 2008/10/07 11:04 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
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.
That would only let you look at the
On 2008/10/07 11:19 AM, Chip Taylor wrote:
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
Last year the organization published a very nice report. That will
certainly take some time do put all the number together as nice I they
did before but I believe that it will help someone like me, who did not
attended, to have a good perspective of what we should expect for Sydney.
Dave
I would go for 3 days - it worked out well for the GeoTools community.
Three days is enough time to effect change; but not so much time you get
bogged down.
I did find timing of a sprint right after FOSS4G to be a bit of a
trouble for some (in addition to being tired ) reports this year
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