<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jo,<div><br><div>Yes, I think a good conference theme is useful, both for participants, presenters and the conference organizers to help focus the conceptualization and programming of the conference. A good theme should really help to shape the conference and give people handles they can use when targeting their presentations and workshops, as well as focussing pre-conference collaborations.</div><div><br></div><div>I purposely said theme and not themes. Although two themes may still work well, having ten themes kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jeroen</div><div><br><div><div>On 14 mei 2012, at 14:40, Jo Cook wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>A question really to previous FOSS4G organisers- did you think about having a theme for the event, or did you just stick with the "Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial" tag-line and leave it at that? Do people think that conference themes are useful/beneficial? Do they help with coming up with clearly defined tracks for papers?</div>
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