[OSGeo-Board] [Fwd: OSGF at Where 2.0]

[Chris Holmes]

Quoting Markus Neteler <neteler.osgeo at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> FYI
> they asked me as well for a GRASS talk: since it's pretty far away,
> we
> (some GRASS developers) suggested Dylan Beaudette from the
> GRASS community to go who is only 3hrs away from the conference
> place. He can likely not represent OSGeo there, so it will be a pure
> GRASS talk. Would be nice to go, though...
Though would be good if he could put in a word or two about grass being
an osgeo project.  It'd be nice to have osgeo just mentioned a whole
lot in many different contexts.

Chris

>
> Markus
>
> On 2/23/06, Chris Holmes <cholmes at openplans.org> wrote:
> > If you can make it Frank and do the foundation representation talk
> I
> > think that would be ideal, especially as you're the president.  I'm
> > probably going, and can represent as well, but will probably have
> my own
> > speaking slot to present some of my other ideas and projects.  But
> yes,
> > it definitely belongs on the promotions and visibility list, it's a
> > great opportunity to interact with the big guys, especially
> microsoft,
> > yahoo, google, the ones who have just shown up to the mapping game.
>  A
> > room for any of us who can make it would be good, maybe do a little
> > 'sprint' to do some good foundation oriented work.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I think it is important for us to make a good impression at Where
> 2.0
> > > as a foundation.  I'm seriously considering going as a
> representative of
> > > GDAL/OGR and of course would be happy to do some foundation
> related work
> > > as well.
> > >
> > > I'll add this even to the "promotions and visibility" event list.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
>
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