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OSGeoBrussels seems a very good name for your event. Maybe even more
appropriate then Foss4G in this stage.<br>
<br>
As an FOSS4G conference is normally first announced, and then a call
for papers is organized, which is evaluated by a organizational
comity.<br>
OSGeoBrussels could be a good name to get an insight in the
community in and around Brussels.<br>
<br>
I suggest we organize in 2015 a FOSS4G_BE together (French and Dutch
speeking communities.<br>
We can involve OSGeo.fr and OSGeo.nl in this event and work on a
stronger local community in the Belgium area.<br>
<br>
We are working on a proposal to have a devroom on FOSDEM2015. This
good be a good place to discuss the organisation of the FOSS4G_BE
2015 event.<br>
<br>
I think we could announce both initiatives on the general assemble
in Portland next week, so OSGeo knows about the local initiatives.<br>
<br>
Best Regards<br>
D.<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02-09-14 14:36, Maelle Vercauteren
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<div>Thank you for our comment.<br>
<br>
This conference is part of an ARES-CCD (French speaking
academic cooperation, former national CUD) training about GIS:
we host 15 trainees from French speaking African countries.
Unfortunately they are not bilingual.<br>
<br>
Nevertheless, flemish actors are also involved in our project:
GIM (Geographic Information Management- Heverlee) will present
their work. We also contacted AGIV for presenting INSPIRE
issues a few weeks ago but we didn't get any answer. Please
let us know if have other contacts in AGIV for presenting this
topic. Indeed, our aim is to have public actors from the three
Belgian regions.<br>
<br>
However, if it better sounds to you, we could use the name
“OSGEOBrussels”.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-02 12:10 GMT+02:00 Dirk Frigne
<span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dirk.frigne@geosparc.com" target="_blank">dirk.frigne@geosparc.com</a>></span>:<br>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Barend,<br>
<br>
I already replied to the mail yesterday [1]<br>
As we live in a country with multiple languages spoken, I
don't see a<br>
problem with that.<br>
<br>
Of course, when we want to organise a Dutch speaking event
for Foss4G-Be<br>
in the future, I expect we also can use the doamin name for
that event.<br>
But last year, for OSGeoGenth [2], we also organized the
event in<br>
English, with as a result we had French speaking, English
speaking,<br>
Spanish speaking, German speaking and of course, the
majority, Dutch<br>
speaking attendees.<br>
It was the geomajas community who provided the
infrastructure for the<br>
website and the agenda. [3]<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
D.<br>
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[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-September/013524.html"
target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-September/013524.html</a><br>
[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013"
target="_blank">http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013</a><br>
[3] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www/geomajas.org" target="_blank">http://www/geomajas.org</a><br>
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On 02-09-14 00:40, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:b.j.kobben@utwente.nl">b.j.kobben@utwente.nl</a>
wrote:<br>
> Nasty question from a Dutch (Netherlands) member of
OSGEO.nl: Have you<br>
> consulted the Flemish OSGEO community about
claiming the .be (=Belgium)<br>
> suffix for a French/Wallonic speaking event...?<br>
><br>
> Sorry, but I feel it has to be asked...<br>
><br>
> Barend<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Barend Köbben<br>
> Senior Lecturer ITC-University of Twente<br>
> PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)<br>
> @barendkobben<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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> On 01-09-2014 17:16, "Vincent Picavet" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:vincent.ml@oslandia.com">vincent.ml@oslandia.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hello all,<br>
>><br>
>> As far as OSGeo-fr is concerned, we have been
consulted and are happy to<br>
>> see<br>
>> that event taking shape. We will support the
event as much as we can.<br>
>><br>
>> Vincent<br>
>><br>
>> Le lundi 1 septembre 2014 17:57:58, Maelle
Vercauteren a écrit :<br>
>>> Dear,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I am contacting you about the potential use
of the name ³FOSS4G-Be² and<br>
>>> about the participation of OSGeo-fr for a
future freeGIS day in Belgium<br>
>>> (Website and Event):<br>
>>><br>
>>> We want to organize a French OSGeo event
(the so called FOSS4G-Be) in<br>
>>> early<br>
>>> November 2014, in relation with the GIS
courses and masterclass held at<br>
>>> the<br>
>>> Université Libre de Bruxelles, IGEAT
research Unit:<br>
>>> It will be a one day event. There will be a
selection of plenary<br>
>>> communication related to free SIG use in
public or private environment<br>
>>> and<br>
>>> 2 or 3 practical workshops.<br>
>>><br>
>>> This event will cover the following 3
topics:<br>
>>><br>
>>> 1) FOSS4G tools/software:
Establishment/creation or storage of<br>
>>> infrastructure and web sharing of spatial
data<br>
>>> 2) Data & Services: Presentation on the
freely available data and<br>
>>> services<br>
>>> 3) Applications: use of Open GIS (also with
guest speakers from the<br>
>>> South)<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Would you be willing to support us and work
together on this project and<br>
>>> could we use the name ³FOSS4G-Be²?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Could the event be co-organized by the ULB
and OSGeo-fr?<br>
>>> If so, it would be nice to have an OSGeo-fr
stand with a representative<br>
>>> of<br>
>>> the association and of its activities (as
well as a plenary<br>
>>> presentation if<br>
>>> you are interested in).<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Feel free to contact me if you have
questions or if you would like to<br>
>>> share<br>
>>> your suggestions.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Thank you in advance for your reply,<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Kind regards,<br>
>>> Maë//e<br>
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Yours sincerely,
ir. Dirk Frigne
CEO
Geosparc n.v.
Brugsesteenweg 587
B-9030 Ghent
Tel: +32 9 236 60 18
GSM: +32 495 508 799
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