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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Now that the preparation for the German-speaking FOSSGIS conference (4-6 juli in Salzburg, Austria) has started, I wonder if we have any idea how to not let the FOSS4G and FOSS4G cannibalize on each other. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Based upon last year figures & this years expectations:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- FOSSGIS: German spoken, july, 450 attendees (in 2016 as part of AGIT: 1200 attendees from 45 countries)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>, 150 euro entrance fee, 2 days (2 halves, plus one entire day), workshops during these 2 days, Salzburg, Mozart <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- FOSS4G: English spoken, august, 999 attendees, 650 euro entrance fee, 3 full days, workshop as extra days, Bonn, Beethoven<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The Bid has an chapter about the FOSSGIS / FOSS4G overlap & difference, but I still find it hard to explain why one should come to either the FOSSGIS@AGIT2016 or the FOSS4G, both for participants as well as exhibitors/sponsors. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Any thoughts on this can help Till, Marc and myself in our "strategic marketing" session next Friday in Bonn. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>(and perhaps this all has been discussed within the FOSSGIS e.V., some months ago...)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>GJ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>