[Board] Re: RE: [OSGeo-Conf] North American FOSS4G conference

[Peter Batty]

Thanks Markus - this list was referring to FOSSGIS in Germany rather than
FOSS4G.

Thanks also for the wiki link, I need to check back with GITA to get the
final final count for Denver, but will update when I get that (it was
somewhere a little over 900).

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Peter Batty <peter at ebatty.com> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> There are already multiple strong local conferences, including FOSS4G
>> Japan and FOSSGIS in Germany. According to the 2012 FOSS4G RFP (at
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/rfp/2012/osgeo-conference-2012-request-for-proposal.pdf),
>> attendance at FOSSGIS has been as follows:
>>
>> 2011: >400
>> 2010: no data provided
>> 2009: ~500
>> 2008: >400
>> 2007: ~250
>> 2006: nothing - I'm guessing it started in 2007?
>>
>
> The first FOSS4G was in 2004 in Bangkok.
>
> From
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G#Overview_of_past_conferences_and_attendances
>
> Event Location Number of Attendees  FOSS4G 2011<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011> Denver,
> USA   FOSS4G 2010 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010> Barcelona,
> Spain 869  FOSS4G 2009 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009> Sydney,
> Australia 436  FOSS4G 2008 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2008> Cape
> Town, South Africa 550  FOSS4G 2007<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2007> Victoria,
> Canada 721   FOSS4G 2006 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2006> Lausanne,
> Switzland 560  2005 OSG conference Minneapolis, MN 350  OSGIS 2004<http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/> Ottawa,
> Canada ~200  FOSS4G 2004 - Free/Libre and Open Source Software for
> Geoinformatics <http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/>: GIS-GRASS
> Users Conference Bangkok, Thailand  ~150  2003 Mapserver Users Meeting St
> Paul, MN, United States 125  Open Source Free Software GIS<http://www.ing.unitn.it/%7Egrass/conferences/GRASS2002/home.html>- GRASS users conference 2002 Trento,
> Italy 140 *
> *
> Please continue to update this table.
>
> Best
> Markus
>
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