[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: [OSGeo-Conf] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to coming years

2012-05-25 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
Jachym-

Can you provide us with a summary of the financial aspects of your event? 
Things like did the attendees have to pay anything and if so how much, did you 
have any sponsors, how much was spent on the venue, food, etc, etc. This is 
good information to have, for others thinking about planning similar events.

-mpg


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 Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to 
 coming years
 
 Hi,
 if anybody is interested, I'm sending here very short report about
 FOSS4G-CEE  Geoinformatics in Prague 2012, which was organised this
 week (and which is continuing with GRASS Code sprint right now). See
 http://foss4g-cee.org for more details.
 
 Number of registered participants: 120
 
 CZ - 35
 RO - 14
 DE - 12
 FR - 6
 AT - 5
 SK - 4
 EE, HU, CH, PL, TU, USA - 3
 IT, UK - 2
 HR, NRW, NZ, Georgia, Ghana, Nigeria 1
 
 Number of accepted papers cca 60
 Number of accepted workshops: 6
 Number of accepted tutorials: 5
 
 However, relatively high number of presenters did not arrive (at least
 one did announce it soon enough, but has slipped between my fingers,
 sorry one more time) - luckily, present speakers were usually able to
 prolong their presentations operatively.
 
 On some tutorials, no attendees have come :-(
 
 Social events formal and informal: nice!
 
 Lessons learned:
 
 * Double check presenters against list of registrations.
 * Double check list of vegetarians and keep track of it
 * Have more accepted presentations in the stack, for possible substitutions
 * and others
 
 List of photos: http://foss4g-cee.org/photos/
 
 PDF version of presentations are being added to
 http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/
 
 Big thanks to the organisation team, general feedback was positive.
 
 Big thanks to all participants: Without them, the conference would not
 happen.
 
 Future of FOSS4G-CEE:
 -
 
 It was agreed, that (unless there is no big obligation), FOSS4G-CEE 2013
 will be organised by  Vasile Crăciunescu and his team at geo-spatial.org
 in Bucharest, Romania. Their situation will be quite difficult thanks to
 global FOSS4G organised somewhere in Europe. But still, they have
 clearly expressed their enthusiasm about organisation the event.
 
 During the event, several participants from various countries (France,
 Italy, Germany, Czech, Romania and others) have indicated their strong
 demand for conference best described as FOSS4G-Europe.
 
 Having FOSS4G-NA in mind, and all the discussions about positives and
 negatives of such proposals, we've had during last months, I do
 personally support this idea: There is demand for more local oriented,
 yet big enough events around the ellipsoid, let's talk about it
 (better in some other thread, at conference_dev list). Such event should
 happen during 2014, so we have about year for clarifying all possible
 questions.
 
 Jachym
 
 --
 Jachym Cepicky
 Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o.
 jachym.cepi...@gmail.com | jac...@hsrs.cz
 http://les-ejk.cz | http://bnhelp.cz


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: [OSGeo-Conf] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to coming years

2012-05-25 Thread nicolas bozon
Yes i'd be interested too Jachym.

I've already heard many good feedbacks about FOSS4G-CEE, although i'm not
in Europe now,  and i guess that hosting it at university should have
certainly reduce the costs. That's pretty awesome.

And thank you again for both the report and good pictures !

Happy GRASS GIS Sprint to all

Best,

Nick



2012/5/25 Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com

 Jachym-

 Can you provide us with a summary of the financial aspects of your event?
 Things like did the attendees have to pay anything and if so how much, did
 you have any sponsors, how much was spent on the venue, food, etc, etc.
 This is good information to have, for others thinking about planning
 similar events.

 -mpg


  -Original Message-
  From: conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
 conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky
  Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:38 PM
  To: Discussions, OSGeo; conference-...@lists.osgeo.org; 'conference'
  Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to
 coming years
 
  Hi,
  if anybody is interested, I'm sending here very short report about
  FOSS4G-CEE  Geoinformatics in Prague 2012, which was organised this
  week (and which is continuing with GRASS Code sprint right now). See
  http://foss4g-cee.org for more details.
 
  Number of registered participants: 120
 
  CZ - 35
  RO - 14
  DE - 12
  FR - 6
  AT - 5
  SK - 4
  EE, HU, CH, PL, TU, USA - 3
  IT, UK - 2
  HR, NRW, NZ, Georgia, Ghana, Nigeria 1
 
  Number of accepted papers cca 60
  Number of accepted workshops: 6
  Number of accepted tutorials: 5
 
  However, relatively high number of presenters did not arrive (at least
  one did announce it soon enough, but has slipped between my fingers,
  sorry one more time) - luckily, present speakers were usually able to
  prolong their presentations operatively.
 
  On some tutorials, no attendees have come :-(
 
  Social events formal and informal: nice!
 
  Lessons learned:
 
  * Double check presenters against list of registrations.
  * Double check list of vegetarians and keep track of it
  * Have more accepted presentations in the stack, for possible
 substitutions
  * and others
 
  List of photos: http://foss4g-cee.org/photos/
 
  PDF version of presentations are being added to
  http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/
 
  Big thanks to the organisation team, general feedback was positive.
 
  Big thanks to all participants: Without them, the conference would not
  happen.
 
  Future of FOSS4G-CEE:
  -
 
  It was agreed, that (unless there is no big obligation), FOSS4G-CEE 2013
  will be organised by  Vasile Crăciunescu and his team at geo-spatial.org
  in Bucharest, Romania. Their situation will be quite difficult thanks to
  global FOSS4G organised somewhere in Europe. But still, they have
  clearly expressed their enthusiasm about organisation the event.
 
  During the event, several participants from various countries (France,
  Italy, Germany, Czech, Romania and others) have indicated their strong
  demand for conference best described as FOSS4G-Europe.
 
  Having FOSS4G-NA in mind, and all the discussions about positives and
  negatives of such proposals, we've had during last months, I do
  personally support this idea: There is demand for more local oriented,
  yet big enough events around the ellipsoid, let's talk about it
  (better in some other thread, at conference_dev list). Such event should
  happen during 2014, so we have about year for clarifying all possible
  questions.
 
  Jachym
 
  --
  Jachym Cepicky
  Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o.
  jachym.cepi...@gmail.com | jac...@hsrs.cz
  http://les-ejk.cz | http://bnhelp.cz


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