[OSGeo-Board] Meeting Proposed Meeting Date

[Markus Neteler]

On 4/28/06, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:
> dear Frank, all,
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:20:04PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > June 17th is fine for me I believe.  Is there anywhere sort of central
> > we can get a free or cheaper meeting site?   A university, etc?  Jo, did
> > you have an event in NYC planned in June that we might want to work around?
>
> Oh, the venue that we had arranged for the 17th-18th was not working out,
> and we agreed to postpone it in favour of working on something smaller;
> I'm hoping to get together an open mapping workshop in Boston instead,
> to start with; build up some proofs of concept.
>
> Where 2.0 seems to be have become a lot more open source/data friendly;
> (the prospect of an extended plug in a keynote for OSGeo a big
> opportunity to make a statement of values) and it now does seem worth
> attending. I see that it's the Tuesday and Wednesday, so perhaps the
> weekend before makes more sense, if the prospect is a lot of people
> trekking out to California.
>
> I wonder how a trip of such distance would work out for non-US based
> participants - Markus, Arnulf, Venkatesh, might you be planning to go
> anyway, could you manage this?

Due to traveling I am not available in June before the 15th,
sorry...

Markus