[OSGeo-Discuss] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to coming years

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello Jachym,

Although I didn't make it to your event (Prague has a special place in
my heart) I followed the event closely through the #foss4g-cee twitter
hashtag - it sounded like a very successful event!

I would agree that a yearly 'FOSS4G-Europe' makes sense.  Might as
well make it easier for locals to attend, and focused on local topics.

Hello from Eastern Canada my friend.  I thank you for your hard work
organizing the event.

-jeff





On 12-05-24 5:38 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Hi, if anybody is interested, I'm sending here very short report
> about FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics in Prague 2012, which was
> organised this week (and which is continuing with GRASS Code sprint
> right now). See http://foss4g-cee.org for more details.
> 
> Number of registered participants: 120
> 
> CZ - 35 RO - 14 DE - 12 FR - 6 AT - 5 SK - 4 EE, HU, CH, PL, TU,
> USA - 3 IT, UK - 2 HR, NRW, NZ, Georgia, Ghana, Nigeria 1
> 
> Number of accepted papers cca 60 Number of accepted workshops: 6 
> Number of accepted tutorials: 5
> 
> However, relatively high number of presenters did not arrive (at
> least one did announce it soon enough, but has slipped between my
> fingers, sorry one more time) - luckily, present speakers were
> usually able to prolong their presentations operatively.
> 
> On some tutorials, no attendees have come :-(
> 
> Social events formal and informal: nice!
> 
> Lessons learned:
> 
> * Double check presenters against list of registrations. * Double
> check list of vegetarians and keep track of it * Have more accepted
> presentations in the stack, for possible substitutions * and
> others
> 
> List of photos: http://foss4g-cee.org/photos/
> 
> PDF version of presentations are being added to 
> http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/
> 
> Big thanks to the organisation team, general feedback was
> positive.
> 
> Big thanks to all participants: Without them, the conference would
> not happen.
> 
> Future of FOSS4G-CEE: ---------------------
> 
> It was agreed, that (unless there is no big obligation), FOSS4G-CEE
> 2013 will be organised by  Vasile Crăciunescu and his team at
> geo-spatial.org in Bucharest, Romania. Their situation will be
> quite difficult thanks to "global" FOSS4G organised "somewhere in
> Europe". But still, they have clearly expressed their enthusiasm
> about organisation the event.
> 
> During the event, several participants from various countries
> (France, Italy, Germany, Czech, Romania and others) have indicated
> their strong demand for conference best described as
> "FOSS4G-Europe".
> 
> Having FOSS4G-NA in mind, and all the discussions about positives
> and negatives of such proposals, we've had during last months, I
> do personally support this idea: There is demand for more local
> oriented, yet "big enough" events around the ellipsoid, let's talk
> about it (better in some other thread, at conference_dev list).
> Such event should happen during 2014, so we have about year for
> clarifying all possible questions.
> 
> Jachym
> 
> 

-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
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