[Foss4g2010] foss4g2010 initiatives

[Lorenzo Becchi]

There are a couple of initiatives that we would like to support and 
present in Barcelona.

1) Climate Change Integration Plugfest
This is the OGC initiative that will be presented in Sydney too. OGC is 
supposed to support it economically (I guess) but it will be important 
to give then enough visibility.

2) the LiveDVD
in every foss4g event is a good way to present the complete stack of our 
softwares. In Sydney it has been sponsored a bit to make it better then 
usual. It would be good to find a little bit of money to update it and 
refine it.
ex: adding local data, update last version of all OSGeo/fossGis 
software, adding educational material...

3) Free GIS book
this is very important to me.
we have the chance to propose an excellent educational project in his 
first stable version. to do this we need some money.
we are trying to evaluate what it could be the minimum amount to reach 
version 1.
who could sponsor this? I would dream that the conference itself could 
sponsor it in part.

ciao
lorenzo