[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Sydney and conference software

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Cameron,

I/we/many found the INDICO software from CERN (free software) used at
http://www.foss4g2006.org
pretty cool. Grab it here: http://cdsware.cern.ch/indico/

Support:
http://cdsware.cern.ch/indico/support.html

Please consider it, too.

Markus

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To keep people in the loop:
>
> When interviewing Professional Conference Organisors for Sydney, we found
> that all PCOs used proprietary conference software, and had notable
> investments in tying their existing processes to the conference software.
>
> We encouraged them to consider using Open Conference Systems (as used by
> South Africa). They all looked at ICS, one said "Why are we paying so much
> for conferencing software when this is available as open source." But they
> were concerned by a lack of support. (Business Opportunity here for
> someone).
>
> With Tour Hosts, whom we selected, they agreed to look into ways to
> incorporate ICS to some degree, but expect to still use much/most of their
> existing conferencing software and processes.
> We were happy with this as a pragmatic approach. While we would prefer to
> use Open Source at an Open Source conference, it is more important to us
> that we pick a competent team who will do a good job, and we believe we have
> that in Tour Hosts.
>
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