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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Well this is easy to fix - just move whatever was going to be said in the free 15 minutes into the paid keynote section.<BR>
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From: "Chris Holmes" <cholmes@openplans.org><BR>
Sent: Thu 5/4/06 9:06 am<BR>
To: "board@board.osgeo.org" <board@board.osgeo.org><BR>
Cc: "dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org" <dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org><BR>
Subject: [OSGeo-Board] Re: [VisCom] Re: OSGF at Where 2.0<BR>
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Gary, so it looks like Nat wants us to sacrifice the 15 minutes slot he<BR>
offered us if Autodesk is going to use the half hour keynote for OSGeo.<BR>
<BR>
So I see a couple things we could do. First come up with something more<BR>
compelling for Frank to talk about. I was hoping to maybe get VisComm<BR>
involved in figuring out what that could be, before sending this email,<BR>
but I had forgot to send it, and at the board meeting we decided to just<BR>
send something. So I could get back to him with a good reason as to why<BR>
it shouldn't just be in a BOF, what Frank can talk about that'd be of<BR>
interest to attendees, how it'd be different than the keynote, ect.<BR>
<BR>
The other thing we could do is try to get an 'upgrade' on GDAL or some<BR>
other foundation project. GDAL I think only has a 5 minute slot at the<BR>
moment, so we could see if we could take the 15 minute slot, and let<BR>
worldwind have the 5 minute lightning talk. Or we could just let<BR>
WorldWind have the 15 minutes slot, as they are a nice open source<BR>
project supporting open standards.<BR>
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thoughts?<BR>
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Nathan Torkington wrote:<BR>
> On 4/05/2006, at 4:07 PM, Chris Holmes wrote:<BR>
><BR>
>> Ok, so the latest word on this is that Autodesk is going to use their<BR>
>> keynote speech to just talk about OSGeo. So that's going to be Gary<BR>
>> Lang, and do intro stuff and business case for it and all. Frank<BR>
>> will do the 15 minute slot on more the nitty gritty details of how to<BR>
>> get involved in OSGeo, what we do on a day to day basis, ect.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> I'm not so keen on having two talks on OSGeo. The details of how to <BR>
> get involved, etc. should be in a BOF. A lot of the audience will be <BR>
> business munchkins and the chances of them having a patch to send in <BR>
> are somewhere between hell freezing over and Henry Rollins being <BR>
> elected President of the United States :)<BR>
><BR>
> I have NASA WorldWind itching to speak about their standards-loving <BR>
> open source system. If the AutoDesk session will already be about <BR>
> OSGeo, I'd love to give the morning session to the WorldWind team.<BR>
><BR>
>> Looks like autodesk is also willing to fully donate their booth space<BR>
>> to OSGeo, so if there's no space for non-profits we can just make use<BR>
>> of it. We have quite a few people attending and/or interested in<BR>
>> attending, to staff the booth space, so we should have a good<BR>
>> presence. Though unfortunately the OGC OWS-4 kickoff is at the same<BR>
>> time, so some of us who are involved in both may have to go to that<BR>
>> (Raj is taking a red eye after doing his presentation the first day).<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> There are non-profit spaces too, so if you know of other projects that<BR>
> should be there please let me know. There's not enough space for every<BR>
> Freshmeat project, so please prioritize rather than posting to Slashdot<BR>
> :-)<BR>
><BR>
> Thanks!<BR>
><BR>
> Nat<BR>
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--<BR>
Chris Holmes<BR>
The Open Planning Project<BR>
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