[FOSS4G2016] Reminder: Today - FOSSGIS / OSM "Stammtisch" Wednesday 1st of July 2015

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Till,

Great idea to get the former chairs on stage!

By the way, I received many direct emails, ha, Markus was in Portland, 
so sorry for that mistake everyone! :)

-jeff



On 2015-07-03 7:34 AM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> that's interesting news. Nearly the same happened here in Germany, when
> we renamed our conference from "UMN MapServer meeting" to FOSSGIS and in
> the same year, we changed our club name from GRASS Anwendervereinigung
> e.V. (GAV. e.V.) to FOSSGIS e.V., and again Markus was invloved, at
> least as co-founder of GAV e.V.. So also UMN and GRASS tribes came
> together here ;-)
> And of course, it's not only three people, but was the same here:
> Arnulf, Torsten and me had an evening in "namenlos2 and the idea of a
> german UMN conference came up ;-) If not we, others would have done this
> ....
>
> Okay, no matter. I'd thought of an event in the opening/closing anayway
> to get as much former chairs on stage as possible. So we plan one "10
> years of FOSS4G event" - maybe in connection to Soul Cats Award in the
> closing and we go on to advertise Bonn 2016 as "10th FOSS4G conference".
>
>
> So far, Till
>
>
>
>
>
> Am 2015-07-02 16:20, schrieb Jeff McKenna:
>> Till, let me respond to this in a different way:
>>
>> Both Venka and Markus did not attend FOSS4G Portland.
>>
>> There was also a FOSS4G-Asia event this past December in Bangkok,
>> where the 10 years of FOSS4G was also mentioned (but unfortunately
>> Markus could not attend it).
>>
>> So, Bonn 2016 will indeed be a wonderful way to celebrate 10 years of
>> FOSS4G, getting everyone together again :)  [imagine bringing Venka
>> and Markus and I on stage there to thank the entire FOSS4G community
>> for 10 years)
>>
>> Not that FOSS4G is about any 1 or 3 individuals, it is not, but, it
>> could be a great way to celebrate all together.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2015-07-02 11:13 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> Hi Till, Gert-Jan,
>>>
>>> Yes indeed, confusion.
>>>
>>> Some history:
>>>
>>> - FOSS4G was first coined as a term in 2004, and the first ever
>>> conference to use the FOSS4G name was in 2004 in Bangkok
>>> - it was at that Bangkok event where Venka, Markus and I met, and we
>>> came up with the idea/plan to merge the existing GRASS users conference
>>> and the MapServer users conference, into an annual FOSS4G event
>>> - the 1st FOSS4G event, hosted by OSGeo, with various communities
>>> involved, was then held in 2006, as Till noted
>>> - the 2014 event promoted itself as 10 years of FOSS4G, as Gert-Jan
>>> noted
>>>
>>> So, true, it is confusing.  But I think yes, yes, we should market this
>>> as 10 years since FOSS4G Lausanne. (most are not aware of the 2004
>>> Bangkok event, as only a couple representatives from GRASS and MapServer
>>> attended it)
>>>
>>> I am all for promoting 2016 as 10 years of FOSS4G.   It really is, in
>>> many ways.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-07-02 4:21 AM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> there is one issue, I'd like to discuss with you  before we go out with
>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> In my counts we have 10th FOSS4G - that one in 2012 was missed, so the
>>>> history is:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Lausanne
>>>> 2. Victoria
>>>> 3. Cape Town
>>>> 4. Sydney
>>>> 5. Barcelona
>>>> 6. Denver
>>>> 7. Nottingham
>>>> 8. Portland
>>>> 9. Seoul
>>>> 10. Bonn
>>>>
>>>> I thought I've seen something in 2014 or 2015 saying s.th. about 10
>>>> years I can't find for now...
>>>>
>>>> We would like to take that onto our webpage and also advertise a little
>>>> with that.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Till
>>>>