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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Bart,<br>
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Sure, I can make that time and I'm glad to have a dialogue about
it. Thanks for suggesting.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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Andrew<br>
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On 07/04/14 13:31, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:<br>
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Hey Andrew,
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<div>we have a board meeting this Thursday so maybe we can discuss
it there as well given this is urgent?</div>
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<div>I’ll add it to the agenda, would you be available on IRC for
any questions?</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
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<div>On 07 Apr 2014, at 19:04, Andrew Ross <<a
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Everyone,<br>
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For those that might be interested in participating in
this & especially up front in terms of outreach
& helping sort out details to tune the idea so it
works well, please contact me. Thank you very much to
those that have already.<br>
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Some important decisions require immediate attention
such as which city, what dates, and so forth.<br>
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Some possible cities suggested by people, for 2015,
include:<br>
D.C., San Francisco, Boston, San Diego<br>
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In terms of dates, late March or early April would be
offset from the global FOSS4G & also from other very
busy periods in the calendar. It lines up with
EclipseCon, which co-hosting helps reduce organizing
burden. For what it's worth, the overall conference
would not be called EclipseCon to appeal to all
constituents.<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
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Thanks again,<br>
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Andrew<br>
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Hello Everyone,<br>
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Please excuse the cross post between OSGeo's discuss
& conference_dev lists as well as LocationTech's
discussion list. I'm hoping to enable inclusive
discussion about an idea.<br>
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Bit of background, this coming May (19-21), <a
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href="http://www.locationintelligence.net/">LocationTech
Summit is co-hosted with Location Intelligence in
Washington D.C.</a>. Travel restrictions for Federal
Government employees for instance meant holding this in
D.C. was important in 2014.<br>
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We have started planning for 2015, and I wanted to reach
out and see if an idea might be of interest to the
greater community.<br>
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The idea is to co-host LocationTech Summit, FOSS4G North
America, and EclipseCon next year in the spring. <br>
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For those that haven't been:<br>
<ul>
<li>EclipseCon is a great developer conference &
covers topics that I feel may be a really nice
complement such as Science, Internet of Things,
Automotive, Software development best practice, and
more. While there are some awesome talks in the
area, it's not just about the IDE. :-)</li>
<li>FOSS4G NA is the regional sibling of FOSS4G
Global, also a great developer conference, and
focused on geospatial technologies. It is a must
attend event if you're into web mapping or looking
for open source GIS solutions.</li>
<li>LocationTech Summit is new (first one this May),
similar to FOSS4G however perhaps has a stronger
focus on high performance geoprocessing technologies
and new technologies like GeoGit for instance.<br>
</li>
<li>My feeble attempt at contrast aside, I think these
last two will see a lot of the same speakers &
audience.</li>
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A few thoughts:<br>
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<li>We believe a combined event could likely be done
to prioritize camaraderie which is so important for
open source projects & community. i.e. avoid
anyone feeling lost in a huge event.</li>
<li>We feel the mutual outreach to people across
communities would be really useful, interesting, and
spark wonderful ideas we can't predict.</li>
<li>The logistical work can be done by full time
conference organizers who organize EclipseCon each
year. The program is up to the communities to set.</li>
<li>For those seeking suppliers, partners, &
customers, this should make for more opportunities.<br>
</li>
<li>Profit sharing with significant participating
groups is doable. We're glad to help figure out a
fair and amicable solution.<br>
</li>
<li>Ensuring each group are well served is a priority
of course. We think this combined event might
attract people who might not otherwise come to any
of them. But we'll have to try and see.</li>
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<p>Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Is this a good idea?
Interested?<br>
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<p>Kind regards,<br>
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<p>Andrew<br>
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