[Board] FOSS4G-FR 2014

[Yves Jacolin]

Hi Jeff,

Le mercredi 18 décembre 2013 09:32:48 Jeff McKenna a écrit :
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> This is great news about your plans for a FOSS4G-FR event.  My
> experience is that the OSGeo-fr local chapter is very active, and I am
> very happy to hear of these plans.  I also followed the progress of last
> year's event (actually I was very impressed with the marketing/branding
> done for that event, it was well done).  I am sure the FOSS4G-FR event
> will be wonderful as well.  I also am happy to hear that Gérald will
> keep the OSGeo Board uptodate with the progress of that event.
> 
> Let me or Gérald know if you need anything.  And congrats on this news!
> 
> Is there a twitter account to follow?
here it is: https://twitter.com/osgeofr

OSGeo-fr has also an official website http://osgeo.asso.fr with blog :)

(http://osgeo.fr links to osgeo wiki pages of Francophone local chapter).

Y. 
> 
> Also, don't be afraid to use any of the OSGeo infrastructure for this
> event (foss4g.org or osgeo.org subdomain etc.).  Fire your requests onto
> OSGeo's Trac instance.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> On 2013-12-18 7:49 AM, Vincent Picavet wrote:
> > Hello board,
> > 
> > The OSGeo-fr local chapter organized this year a french-speaking one day
> > event on FLOSS in the GIS field (that is, FOSS4G).
> > Since it was the first edition, we had a specific name for it (which was
> > not that appreciated by all).
> > We had 150 people for this event and good feedback.
> > 
> > In 2014 we intend to run a 2 days conference event + 1 day of workshops,
> > all in french. We expect to gather around 300 persons.
> > This event would be in Paris between the 20th and the 22nd of May, as we
> > are offered (free of charge) a location to organize it and this is the
> > only slot available.
> > 
> > We would like to call the conference FOSS4G-FR. We read the discussions on
> > "FOSS4G Brand" lately, and there does not seem to be a strict process to
> > follow to be able to use this name. Please correct me if things changed
> > since the threads we read.
> > As for an announcement to the board, here it is :-)
> > 
> > The person in charge of the project is Étienne Delay, and organization
> > takes place on the OSGeo Francophone mailing list, as for now.
> > 
> > Note that Gérald Fenoy is part of the event and could relay informations
> > to/from OSGeo board.
> > 
> > Do not hesitate if you have any question.
> > 
> > Vincent Picavet / Étienne Delay
> 
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Yves Jacolin