Thanks Markus - this list was referring to FOSSGIS in Germany rather than FOSS4G.<div><br></div><div>Thanks also for the wiki link, I need to check back with GITA to get the final final count for Denver, but will update when I get that (it was somewhere a little over 900).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Markus Neteler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neteler@osgeo.org">neteler@osgeo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Peter Batty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@ebatty.com" target="_blank">peter@ebatty.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>...</div><div class="im"><div>There are already multiple strong local conferences, including FOSS4G Japan and FOSSGIS in Germany. According to the 2012 FOSS4G RFP (at <a href="http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/rfp/2012/osgeo-conference-2012-request-for-proposal.pdf" target="_blank">http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/rfp/2012/osgeo-conference-2012-request-for-proposal.pdf</a>), attendance at FOSSGIS has been as follows:</div>
<div><br></div><div>2011: >400</div><div>2010: no data provided</div><div>2009: ~500</div><div>2008: >400</div><div>2007: ~250</div><div>2006: nothing - I'm guessing it started in 2007?</div></div></blockquote>
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</div><div>The first FOSS4G was in 2004 in Bangkok.</div><div><br></div><div>From</div><div><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G#Overview_of_past_conferences_and_attendances" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G#Overview_of_past_conferences_and_attendances</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><div><table border="1"><tbody><tr><th> Event </th><th> Location </th><th> Number of Attendees
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<td> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011" title="FOSS4G 2011" target="_blank">FOSS4G 2011</a> </td><td> Denver, USA </td><td>
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<td> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010" title="FOSS4G 2010" target="_blank">FOSS4G 2010</a> </td><td> Barcelona, Spain </td><td> 869
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<td> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009" title="FOSS4G 2009" target="_blank">FOSS4G 2009</a> </td><td> Sydney, Australia </td><td> 436
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<td> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2008" title="FOSS4G 2008" target="_blank">FOSS4G 2008</a> </td><td> Cape Town, South Africa </td><td> 550
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<td> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2007" title="FOSS4G 2007" target="_blank">FOSS4G 2007</a> </td><td> Victoria, Canada </td><td> 721
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<td> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2006" title="FOSS4G2006" target="_blank"> FOSS4G 2006</a> </td><td> Lausanne, Switzland </td><td> 560
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<td> 2005 OSG conference </td><td> Minneapolis, MN </td><td> 350
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<td> <a href="http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OSGIS 2004</a> </td><td> Ottawa, Canada </td><td> ~200
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<td> FOSS4G 2004 - <a href="http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics</a>: GIS-GRASS Users Conference </td><td> Bangkok, Thailand </td>
<td> ~150
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<td> 2003 Mapserver Users Meeting </td><td> St Paul, MN, United States </td><td> 125
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<td> <a href="http://www.ing.unitn.it/%7Egrass/conferences/GRASS2002/home.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Open Source Free Software GIS</a> - GRASS users conference 2002 </td><td> Trento, Italy </td><td> 140
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<span style="font-size:20px"><b><br></b></span></div></div>Please continue to update this table.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div>Best</div><div>Markus</div></div>
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