[Board] Ideas for a FOSS4G conference in Brazil.

[Jody Garnett]

I also enjoyed the conferences in Brazil that I was able to attend for
OSGeo, they both had a wonderful focus on the libre side of open source.

One idea, seeing the number of names listed in your email, is to form
a Brazilian local-chapter with the members listed. The wiki has a Brasil
chapter <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Brasil> listed as in formation, is
there a chance you could join and restart this chapter? Acting as a local
chapter may make it easier to set up a foss4g-br regional event (since you
would be acting as part of OSGeo).


--
Jody Garnett

On 14 June 2016 at 14:14, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Dear Silvana,
>
>
> Thanks for the mail and this is excellent to hear. I am forwarding your
> mail to OSGeo Board list and Conference lists. I am sure they will be happy
> to hear this and support your excellent efforts.  I have seen the
> dedication of our Brazil community when i visited Brazil 2 years back and
> it is amazing to see the developments.
>
>
> I request you and colleagues to join the FOSS4G mailing list and any
> queries you have will be supported.
>
>
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev
>
>
> Thanks again for your initiative .
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Silvana Camboim [silvanacamboim at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 14 June 2016 6:52 PM
> *To:* raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; Suchith Anand; hmitaso at ncsu.edu
> *Cc:* Felipe Sodre Barros; Fernando Quadro
> *Subject:* Ideas for a FOSS4G conference in Brazil.
>
> Dear OSGeo Board of Directors:
>
> My name is Silvana Camboim, I am the current chair of ICA Commission on
> Open Source Geospatial Technologies, a co-chair in the South American
> region of Geo for
>
> All, and I´ve been coordinating a Geo for All Lab at Federal University of
> Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil) since 2013.
>
>
> I am writing on behalf of a group of Brazilian researchers,
> professionals, and students articulated to organize a meeting/conference
> with the main subjects on Free and Open Source Software for GIS (FOSS4G) in
> 2017. The idea is to spread the FOSS technology and knowledge on its use
> among others researchers, students, and professionals.
>
>
> Knowing the OSGeo effort to support and promote initiatives like our,
> would be interesting to align with OSGeo proposal. We know the Brazilian
> chapter is not active, thus, we could contact the Brazilian members to get
> their engagement, if it is the case. As we have FOSS4G conferences in
> neighbour countries such as Argentina, we would like to know what would be
> the procedure to organize one in Brazil next year.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Silvana Camboim and our Brazilian community:
>
> Anderson Medeiros
>
> Arthur Nanni
>
> Augusto Vieira
>
> Diogo Silva
>
> Edmilson Volpi
>
> Eliazer Kosciuk
>
> Evandro Silvestre
>
> Fabio K
>
> Fausto Bugatti Isolan
>
> Felipe Dantas
>
> Felipe Sodre Barros
>
> Fernando Quadro
>
> James Robert
>
> Jefferson Luiz
>
> Lucas Oldoni
>
> Luis Sadeck
>
> Manoel Guedes
>
> Matheus da Costa Macedo
>
> Murilo Cardoso
>
> Narcélio de Sá Pereira Filho
>
> Newmar Wegner
>
> Sidemar Martins Rosa
>
> Victor Hugo Rohden Prudente
>
> Wille Marcel
>
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