[Board] Potential location for AGM/Sol Katz etc

[Luca Delucchi]

2012/7/10 Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>:
> Hi Jo,
>
> After seeing the note from the Beijing FOSS4G 2012 list I have been
> wondering the same thing: What are our alternatives for the OSGeo Annual
> General Meeting (AGM), Sol Katz, benchmarking, etc?
>
> Nottingham/OSGIS is one option (sounds like the obvious one), thank you for
> suggesting it. However if we go that route then we'd be pointing people
> there two years in a row. Maybe not that big a deal, but before settling on
> that option I'd like to see what our other options are... and if we have any
> practical way to make the AGM and Sol Katz happen in Asia even if that means
> having less participants for this year.
>
> Another option that was mentioned in the Beijing email is The Asian
> Geospatial Forum, September 2012, Hanoi, Vietnam, which will have an OSGeo
> session. http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/ ... I have no idea whether they
> would be interested in hosting our AGM and Sol Katz events, and whether it
> has enough OSGeo taste and contents to attract enough people from the OSGeo
> core to make it a viable alternative.
>
> There is also the Japanese chapter that usually has a conference in the
> fall. I don't follow them closely, but if I read the site right then it
> would have happened already ... last week...
> https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/
>

there is also the Italian chapter that has a conference in November
(14-17 with the Italian OpenStreetMap conference) in Turin hosted into
Piedmont Region buildings [0] (sorry it's only in Italian language)

> Daniel
>

[0] http://www.regione.piemonte.it/centro/index.htm

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ciao
Luca

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