[Board] ICC 2015 in Rio de Janeiro

Mon Jul 28 02:27:10 PDT 2014

Hi Gerald and Jeff,

I agree that a presence at ICC 2015 would be good. Please note that ICA
has a Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies
<http://http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/>  chaired by Suchith Anand
(also on OSGEO), and there actually is an MOU betewen OSGEO and ICA, teh
whole ICA-OSGEO labs initiative "geo for All" stems from that...

Several members of that Commission (including most likely Suchith and
myself) will be at the conference. With enough volunteers, we could man a
booth, BUT do note that a booth at such conferences is usually not really
cheap. I remember having a booth for our institute there some 10 years ago
and paying more then 1500$ just for a small space for 3 days.

yours
--
Barend Köbben
Senior Lecturer  ITC-University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
@barendkobben

On 28-07-2014 10:57, "Fenoy Gerald" <gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr> wrote:

>Dear Cameron,
>I have to say that my first intention was to have OSGeo promoting the
>event.
>Obviously if we can also have contribution from ICC to have free
>registration for our advocates it makes even more sens.
>Note that I feel that having a booth there make lot of sens to me as the
>presence of OSGeo will be more visible I think that only participating as
>speaker or workshop presenter. IMO, having talks is ok but the time
>allocated to spread the word is too short, if you have a booth you have
>potentially all the time required for people to access the informations
>they require from OSGeo.
>I think that the presence will be more remarkable let say if we can have
>a booth there.
>
>I feel that OSGeo should be represented during this kind of conference
>and even more should be active providing informations, presentations and
>if possible workshop there to promote OSGeo softwares and solutions.
>
>IMO, as there is a lot of researchers there, it may also be a good source
>for having new MOU.
>
>I hope that we can have some sort of agreement and we can manage to have
>OSGeo present at this event.
>
>Best regards,
>
>
>side-note: I will personally propose both presentations and workshops.
>
>
>Le 26 juil. 2014 à 12:48, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> a
>écrit :
>
>> Hi Jeff and Gerald, do you have any objections to moving this email to
>>the public board email list? If Ok, please forward my response publicly
>>too.
>> 
>> I regularly approach conference organisors and ask if they wish to see
>>OSGeo represented at the conference, suggesting that we could likely
>>source a local speaker and point at our OSGeo Advocates. Often one of
>>our advocates is already attending the conference, and sometimes we are
>>able to get the advocate a free pass. Where applicable, I reference:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Expenses
>> or
>> 
>>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Including_OSGeo-Live_at_your_eve
>>nt
>> 
>> On 25/07/2014 11:01 pm, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> Hi Gerald,
>>> 
>>> This is a good point.  I recently spent a whole week with the ICA
>>> president Georg Gartner in Cape Town and we got to know each other
>>> very well (I was even his 'body guard' one night as he said it, as I
>>> walked him back to his hotel late at night - after that i realized
>>> "who walks me back to my hotel?" ha, he laughed with me over that the
>>> next morning); he is extremely supportive of OSGeo and our community.
>>>  I will contact him directly and see if OSGeo can help in some way
>>> with this event.
>>> 
>>> -jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2014-07-25, 9:55 AM, Fenoy Gerald wrote:
>>>> Dear board members, I received this morning an email inviting me to
>>>> submit a talk to the ICC conference.
>>>> 
>>>> I suppose this email came to me simply because I had the privilege
>>>> to participate in the past when the ICC conference in 2011 was made
>>>> in Paris (France). Nevertheless, I noticed that there is no mention
>>>> of OSGeo on the web site, when I think we should take part of the
>>>> promotion of such a conference which gather many scientist every
>>>> two year and they are discussing, for most of them, about the
>>>> softwares of the OSGeo Foundation. So I think it make sense to be
>>>> at least promoters for this conference.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to know what other think about this idea.
>>>> 
>>>> Waiting for your comment, With sincere dedication to OSGeo, Best
>>>> regards,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Cameron Shorter,
>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>> LISAsoft
>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>> 
>> P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099
>> 
>
>
>
>Gérald Fenoy
>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay
>