Denver makes sense to me :-)
On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Leslie Zolman wrote: > I was going to put my vote in for Denver. If FOSS4G is going to be there > that would be great if people could make both events. > > Leslie > > From: Peter Batty <[email protected]> > To: Ian Dees <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected] Openstreetmap" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 8:41:59 PM > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Venues for State of the Map US and International > Conferences > > We are hosting the international FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for > Geospatial) conference in Denver in September 2011, and several folks have > suggested the idea of having State of the Map back to back with that (US > and/or international). The events should definitely be separate and have > their own identity (I think), but there would be quite a lot of people > interested in attending both. We'll probably have around 1000 people at > FOSS4G. > > Cheers, > Peter. > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > One of the topics discussed tonight during the US Chapter board meeting was > the possibility of making a bid for the international State of the Map > conference in 2011. We thought that it might make sense to combine the US and > international conferences into one and try to draw attendees from the rest of > the world. > > Can anyone suggest a good host city for either the US or International State > of the Map? > > I'll start by suggesting my current city of Minneapolis. > - Relatively major airport so flights should be cheap and/or quick > - A large metropolitan area with lots to do and plenty of areas to map > - Several different venues of various sizes that are easily accessible by > public transit > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
