[Board] FOSS4G North America

[Arnulf Christl]

Paul,
no questions from here, sounds like a great plan and I trust it will be
cool event. Let me know if you need anything.

Would be great to see it on the OSGeo calendar at http://www.osgeo.org/
soon so that we can start shout about it.

Cheers,
Arnulf

On 01/19/2012 07:19 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Hi Board,
> 
> Rather suddenly, due to an existing event in Washington DC being
> cancelled, an opportunity to have a FOSS4G-NA event has come up.
> OpenGeo and RadiantBlue are leading the process right now, in terms of
> the nuts and bolts of getting together a venue and bootstrapping the
> start-up costs.
> 
> The dates are April 10 and 11.
> The location is Washington DC at the downtown convention center there
> <http://g.co/maps/76jhc>.
> The pricing will be $120 / day, early bird.
> If we make a profit, it'll be banked for a future event by the NA chapter.
> The program will not include workshops this time around, for simplicity.
> 
> I am trying to put together a conference committee that reflects the
> OSGeo community, as well as some new voices like the WhereCamp folks
> in the east, and folks with ties into the government. While I imagine
> the content will be the usual FOSS4G fare, we're trying to keep in
> mind that the audience will be very DC-centric, in the same way our
> audience in Denver had a strong western flavour.
> 
> I've asked Daniel and Peter to join the committee, and I hope they
> will if they have time. If they don't, I'll be looking for other folks
> like Dan, who can represent the developer community and Peter who can
> represent the user community of OSGeo.
> 
> This is coming together a little crazily given the timelines, but I
> think it'll be a good event, like the early MUM events, and provide a
> basis for a more formal ongoing routine in the future.
> 
> I'm sure you're full of questions, please let them out.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Paul
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