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                            Andrew Ross <andrew.ross@eclipse.org>;                            <br>
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                            Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference                            <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">David,<br>
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      Thank you. Our team is always glad to support the ecosystem.<br>
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      Personally, I'm jazzed at the potential and looking forward to
      having a lot of fun with this.<br>
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      You're spot-on. We recognize the branding is a crucial bit of
      this. It's not simple, but I think we should be able to figure out
      a way to do it that works for everyone. For those that have ideas
      or want to participate, please speak up ASAP.<br>
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      Cheers!<br>
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      Andrew<br>
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      On 07/04/14 13:50, David William Bitner wrote:<br>
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        <div>First of all, thank you for stepping up as willing to take
          on FOSS4G NA 2015. </div>
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        <div>Having made two calls to the broader community over the
          last several months looking for folks to express interest in
          hosting the NA event for 2015 with no response, I am excited
          to see someone with your experience stepping forward. Unless
          this thread spurs on another bid, at this point, I would not
          envision necessity for a competitive bid for this event.</div>
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        <div>I think that co-hosting the event with Eclipse and
          LocationTech can both help boost the profile and the make this
          event logistically easier. I think the most critical piece in
          joining these events this year will be in making sure that we
          can keep the FOSS4G and OSGeo branding prominent.</div>
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        <div>Keep in mind as well (anyone else here too that might want
          to provide a competing bid!), that we have earmarked ~$20K
          from the Minneapolis event to help bootstrap a 2015 NA FOSS4G.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Andrew
          Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow"
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            <div> Hello Everyone,<br>
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              Please excuse the cross post between OSGeo's discuss &
              conference_dev lists as well as LocationTech's discussion
              list. I'm hoping to enable inclusive discussion about an
              idea.<br>
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              Bit of background, this coming May (19-21), <a rel="nofollow"

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>LocationTech Summit is co-hosted with
                Location Intelligence in Washington D.C.</a>. Travel
              restrictions for Federal Government employees for instance
              meant holding this in D.C. was important in 2014.<br>
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              We have started planning for 2015, and I wanted to reach
              out and see if an idea might be of interest to the greater
              community.<br>
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              The idea is to co-host LocationTech Summit, FOSS4G North
              America, and EclipseCon next year in the spring. <br>
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              For those that haven't been:<br>
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                <li>EclipseCon is a great  developer conference &
                  covers topics that I feel may be a really nice
                  complement such as Science, Internet of Things,
                  Automotive, Software development best practice, and
                  more. While there are some awesome talks in the area,
                  it's not just about the IDE. :-)</li>
                <li>FOSS4G NA is the regional sibling of FOSS4G Global,
                  also a great developer conference, and focused on
                  geospatial technologies. It is a must attend event if
                  you're into web mapping or looking for open source GIS
                  solutions.</li>
                <li>LocationTech Summit is new (first one this May),
                  similar to FOSS4G however perhaps has a stronger focus
                  on high performance geoprocessing technologies and new
                  technologies like GeoGit for instance.<br>
                </li>
                <li>My feeble attempt at contrast aside, I think these
                  last two will see a lot of the same speakers &
                  audience.</li>
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              A few thoughts:<br>
              <ul>
                <li>We believe a combined event could likely be done to
                  prioritize camaraderie which is so important for open
                  source projects & community. i.e. avoid anyone
                  feeling lost in a huge event.</li>
                <li>We feel the mutual outreach to people across
                  communities would be really useful, interesting, and
                  spark wonderful ideas we can't predict.</li>
                <li>The logistical work can be done by full time
                  conference organizers who organize EclipseCon each
                  year. The program is up to the communities to set.</li>
                <li>For those seeking suppliers, partners, &
                  customers, this should make for more opportunities.<br>
                </li>
                <li>Profit sharing with significant participating groups
                  is doable. We're glad to help figure out a fair and
                  amicable solution.<br>
                </li>
                <li>Ensuring each group are well served is a priority of
                  course. We think this combined event might attract
                  people who might not otherwise come to any of them.
                  But we'll have to try and see.</li>
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              <p>Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Is this a good idea?
                Interested?<br>
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              <p>Kind regards,<br>
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              <p>Andrew<br>
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