[Conference-europe] when and where

[Jeff McKenna]

Good point Māris, FOSS4G-Europe could definitely co-host the code sprint 
(in 2016 likely, when it is back in Europe).

-jeff



On 2014-08-16 1:59 AM, Maris Nartiss wrote:
> Is it a problem to have code sprint and FOSS4G-Europe event at the same time?
> If code sprint is outside of Europe, FOSS4G-Europe could co-host
> European parallel event (good also for those who can't go to distant
> events). If on that year code sprint should be in Europe - why not
> merge the events so people don't have to choose?
>
> Just my 0.002,
> Māris.
>
>
> 2014-08-15 17:12 GMT+03:00 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>:
>> A friendly hello from the east coast of Canada Ivan :)
>>
>> I also support the March/April idea.  The only other event that we should
>> keep on eye on then each year would be the 'OSGeo Code Sprint', which was at
>> the end of March this year in Vienna.  For 2015 we won't have to worry as it
>> is supposed to be in the U.S.A. this time.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2014-08-15 9:53 AM, Ivan Mincik wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> If FOSS4G (World) is organized in the middle of second half of the year,
>>> what
>>> about to have FOSS4G-Europe in the middle of the first half of the year -
>>> which is March or April. Longer time between these conferences can
>>> minimize
>>> the chance that attendees of both of them will see some very same same (or
>>> only slightly modified) presentations or people attending only FOSS4G
>>> (World).
>>>
>>>