<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<DIV>I've put together a summary of the conference, from my personal highlights and from OSGeo's perspective.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://spatialguru.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=43">http://spatialguru.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=43</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would like to offer it as something we can use to spread the word about the great conference and the Sol Katz award.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I cc:'d Markus, Luc, Claude and Jeff in the hopes that their eyes could find any errors I may have made about some of the details. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What do you think we could do with it? Any important changes that you see should be done?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tyler</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 2-Oct-06, at 9:19 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV id="idOWAReplyText41781" dir="ltr"> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">If someone wants to take a first cut at writing something up, I will help formalizing and publishing. (This has come up before, but no one has yet volunteered...)</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"></FONT> </DIV></DIV> <DIV id="idSignature29385" dir="ltr"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">-mpg</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><BR> <HR tabindex="-1"> <FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><B>From:</B> Markus Neteler [<A href="mailto:neteler.osgeo@gmail.com">mailto:neteler.osgeo@gmail.com</A>]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Mon 10/2/2006 2:31 AM<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:discuss@mail.osgeo.org">discuss@mail.osgeo.org</A><BR><B>Cc:</B> OSGeo-VisCom<BR><B>Subject:</B> [VisCom] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Press around FOSS4G 2006<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><P><FONT size="2">On 10/2/06, Jeroen Ticheler <<A href="mailto:jeroen.ticheler@fao.org">jeroen.ticheler@fao.org</A>> wrote:<BR>> Hi all,<BR>> I have (tried to) keep my eyes open for any news in the press<BR>> regarding the FOSS4G conference in Lausanne. Among the things I<BR>> monitored where the Directions Magazine, GIM International and GIS<BR>> monitor newsletters. I may be wrong here, but the only thing I read<BR>> in these was the (not insignificant) announcement from DM Solutions<BR>> that they started offering commercial support. Anyone read other<BR>> news? Did we miss an opportunity here or did I miss it? I remember<BR>> reading more on OSGEO 2005.<BR>> Ciao,<BR>> Jeroen<BR><BR><BR>Hi Jeroen,<BR>(cc VisCom)<BR><BR>I totally agree - in my opinion there should have been a press<BR>release (it can still be done). Especially in terms of the proposed<BR>change to make it an OSGeo event. The impact of a press<BR>release was probably underevaluated... Hopefully it will happen<BR>asap. It is also a sort of "thank you" to the great work done by<BR>the organizers and involved people.<BR><BR>best,<BR>Markus<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>To unsubscribe, e-mail: <A href="mailto:dev-unsubscribe@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org">dev-unsubscribe@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org</A><BR>For additional commands, e-mail: <A href="mailto:dev-help@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org">dev-help@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org</A><BR><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>