Believe it or not (and I look forward to the conspiracy theories on 80n's mailing list) it's one very large coincidence.
I originally pushed Denver (where I live) with some folks here for SOTM-US and Eric asked me to help with the FOSS4G bid for 2010. Both fell through. Then Hurricane and others took the SOTM-US bid and turned that in to a SOTM 2011 bid, and Eric did a ton of work on FOSS4G 2011 and both came through. Personally I have always thought there should be a strong separation between the conferences, and have advocated that in both camps. I'm super glad SOTM is coming to the US, there's huge potential here. Denver's a great place and it's my hope that SOTM '11 in Denver will help form a stronger community here. Steve stevecoast.com On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:39 AM, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > SotM11 is planned to be arranged just after the FOSS4G conference. I do not > believe it is an accident because Steve Coast and Mikel Maron are members of > the > FOSS4G Local Organizing Committee > (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Denver_LOC). > It can be a good idea if people can spend the whole week and take part in the > both conferences. Or then somebody could have a speech in both conferences. > After all, we are not so far away from the FOSS4G folks and software. OSM was > very visible in FOSS4G this year but also we might have something to learn > from > the paleogis side. > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
