[OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Board Thanks the Organizers of the FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Event

[Anne Ghisla]

The OSGeo Board would like to thank all of the FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham
local committee for an impressive and successful event. Led by the
hard-working chair Steven Feldman[1], the organizers hosted over 800
attendees through more than 20 hands-on workshops and 9 concurrent
presentation tracks. Their theme “Geo for All” really highlighted the
passion for Open Source geospatial around the world in so many
different disciplines.

The local committee recently submitted a substantial financial surplus
back directly to the OSGeo foundation. Members of the OSGeo Board are
very thankful for this generous contribution to the foundation and to
the Open Source geospatial community.


Steven Feldman says, "I am delighted that we have been able to make a
substantial contribution to the OSGeo Foundation and the FOSS4G 2013
team look forward to celebrating the successes that the OSGeo Community
will be able to generate with this funding."

Jeff McKenna, OSGeo's President, says, "We thank Steven and the entire
local committee for such hard volunteer work, sacrificing months of
their career to put on a stellar international event. Their passion for
Open Source geospatial was felt by people from all across the globe.
They are the FOSS4G Heroes of 2013." 


About OSGeo
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has been created to support and
build the highest-quality Open Source geospatial software. The
foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development
of community-led projects, data development and education.[2]


About FOSS4G
FOSS4G, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, is the
international gathering of Open Source, geospatial tribes. The spatial
industry is undergoing rapid innovations and the Open Source spatial
community is one of the forces driving the change. From its beginnings
the FOSS4G conference has been the gathering of the spatial tribes and
has a reputation of being a melting pot for great ideas in the spatial
industry and a catalyst for many successful geospatial products,
standards and protocols.

The FOSS4G 2013 Local Organising Committee members were: Jo Cook and
Jeremy Morley (vice-chairs), Abi Page, Addy Pope, Antony Scott, Barend
Kobben, Barry Rowlingson, Claire Gilmour, Franz-Josef Behr, Ian
Edwards, Ian Holt, Kenneth Field, Mark Iliffe, Matt Walker, Rollo Home
and Suchith Anand

Look for the next FOSS4G 2014 to be held in Portland, Oregon, U.S. in
September[3].


[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Stevenfeldman
[2] http://osgeo.org
[3] http://2014.foss4g.org 
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