[OSGeo-Conf] Intergeo Update

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Tue Sep 27 07:34:06 EDT 2011


Il giorno mar, 27/09/2011 alle 12.54 +0200, Karel Charvat ha scritto: 
> I think, that till now is big part of communities out of game. It is not only question of independent developers, but (mainly in Central and Eastern Europe) for developers on Universities. I think, that for example in Czech (except our group) is most developers on Universities and for them is difficult to find financing, mainly for PhD students. So this is also reason for local events. But there could be some danger, that local communities will meet only inside. It will be not good.

Right.

> Other issue is, to think, how to organise low coast conferences. To find models, that fees will be really not high. So could be try to move meetings from hotels to Universities etc. 

In Italy, our GFOSS Days have always been free, and we manage to find
sponsors to keep other costs down.
All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc



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