[Board] Re: RE: [OSGeo-Conf] North American FOSS4G conference

[Markus Neteler]

Hi all,

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Peter Batty <peter at ebatty.com> wrote:

> ...
> There are already multiple strong local conferences, including FOSS4G Japan
> and FOSSGIS in Germany. According to the 2012 FOSS4G RFP (at
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/rfp/2012/osgeo-conference-2012-request-for-proposal.pdf),
> attendance at FOSSGIS has been as follows:
>
> 2011: >400
> 2010: no data provided
> 2009: ~500
> 2008: >400
> 2007: ~250
> 2006: nothing - I'm guessing it started in 2007?
>

The first FOSS4G was in 2004 in Bangkok.

From
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G#Overview_of_past_conferences_and_attendances

Event Location Number of Attendees  FOSS4G
2011<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011> Denver,
USA   FOSS4G 2010 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010> Barcelona, Spain 869
 FOSS4G 2009 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009> Sydney,
Australia 436  FOSS4G
2008 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2008> Cape Town, South Africa
550  FOSS4G
2007 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2007> Victoria, Canada 721   FOSS4G
2006 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2006> Lausanne, Switzland 560  2005
OSG conference Minneapolis, MN 350  OSGIS
2004<http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/> Ottawa,
Canada ~200  FOSS4G 2004 - Free/Libre and Open Source Software for
Geoinformatics <http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/>: GIS-GRASS Users
Conference Bangkok, Thailand  ~150  2003 Mapserver Users Meeting St Paul,
MN, United States 125  Open Source Free Software
GIS<http://www.ing.unitn.it/%7Egrass/conferences/GRASS2002/home.html>-
GRASS users conference 2002 Trento,
Italy 140 *
*
Please continue to update this table.

Best
Markus
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