Great, thanks Lane. Peaceray has been in talks with the OSM people in Seattle.
Mako was asking about estimated attendance in case we decide to ask UW to host a conference in 2016. The information in the Google doc about estimated attendance (850 OSM plus at least 350 for WCONUSA) is helpful to get a sense of scale. It sounds like we should estimate combined attendance at about 1500, assuming some year-over-year attendance growth. Does that sound right? I've also asked Peaceray to consider reaching out to the SeaGL (Seattle GNU/Linux Conference) people because they might also be interested in the concept of a joint conference in Seattle. I'm not sure how active their organizers are, but if we have a conference at UW then I think they might be interested in joining up with us. Pine Pine On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I attended the United States National Open Street Map conference, State of > the Map, in New York last weekend. There were about 8 OSMers from Seattle > there, and I met with them. > > They had proposed hosting their conference in Seattle next year, and I > thought also that the Wikipedia community might like a conference in > Seattle next year, and I was wondering if Open Street Map and Wikipedia > might co-host a conference next year. > > I started collecting some ideas in a Google Doc. > < > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr5Gg/edit?usp=sharing > > > > Thoughts? > > -- > Lane Rasberry > user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia > 206.801.0814 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
