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Hi Jachym,<br>
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in short we invited the OSM people to join our conference not only
as participants. In the first year (I think it was 2010) we had our
regular FOSSGIs conference followed by one day OSM talks. We
switched at noon, so that communities could meet.<br>
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From 2011 on we mixed up both worlds in a classical 2 tracks FOSS
and 1 track OSM. Active members of both communities can attend the
conference for free.<br>
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Being a member of FOSSGIS program committee for many years, I
noticed, that subsequently the handed in talks became more and more
"universal". While we could assign talks to OSM or FOSS track quite
good in the first years, we now have a much more mix-up and
especially for 2017 many talks could be assigned to both, OSM AND
FOSS track.<br>
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Also, the awareness of people from the "other" community became much
better and (only my guess), quite a few OSM-people joined FOSSGIS as
registered members. <br>
For my business it's also cool to know people, that have really deep
knowledge of OSM and the OSM community.<br>
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Enough success story?<br>
<br>
Till ;-)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 02.03.2017 um 14:35 schrieb Jachym
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type="cite">hu till, I'm aware about the success story fossgis and
osm made together. we are facing some long term discussion with
OSM people in czech
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<div>could you possibly share your success story and lessons
learned with us? i would like help to move both groups not
closely together</div>
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<div>thanks</div>
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these are really good news. I wanted to add 2 Cents in
the form, that we might encourage our local OSGeo
chapters for a close relationship to the local OSM
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FOSSGIS, the german speaking local OSGeo chapter for
example, stands also for the german speaking OSM
community. On our annual FOSSGIS conference we bring
both communities together. We have tracks with emphasis
on OSM and with emphasis on FOSS (also with emphasis on
both of course). Also, we support FOSS and OSM projects
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As said, just 2 Cents ...<br class="gmail_msg">
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The Geospatial IG [1] of the Research Data Alliance
will be meeting in Barcelona on 5th April 2017 to
keep building ideas for the global research agenda
for Geospatial Data Science .<br class="gmail_msg">
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I would also like to make use of the Geospatial IG
meeting opportunity at RDA9 in Barcelona to further
discuss ideas on the rise of Open Street Map (OSM)
as a World Mapping Agency (WMA) build by the efforts
of thousands of volunteers. It is also interesting
to see the community links of the Open Street Map
and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
expanding rapidly both locally and globally. OSM has
now reaching the level of a Global Mapping Agency
build by the efforts of thousands of volunteers and
OSGeo is the world's largest geospatial ecosystem.
What a great combination of synergies. Both
initiatives are just over a decade old and have
fundamentally changed the whole geolandscape.<br
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Myself and colleagues are working on a paper on OSM
and OSGeo and i want to use this meeting to discuss
more ideas with the community. I look forward to
welcome you all to RDA meeting in Barcelona.<br
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Best wishes,<br class="gmail_msg">
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GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial
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