[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: FOSS4G 2007

[Paul Ramsey]

Arnulf, we're going to have to agree to disagree on whether the  
international conference is a technical "meeting of the tribes" or an  
honest-to-god business development opportunity.  The biggest general- 
attendance GIS conference in Canada draws just about what we hope the  
next edition of the international conference will draw, and a much  
higher proportion of the people coming to our open source conference  
have an in-built interest in the wares we are peddling.  I know where  
my bread is buttered, and how I want the conference focussed should  
it come to my neighborhood. :)

P.

On 28-Oct-06, at 2:18 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

> Ah. Is that it? My perception (not as VisCom but as simple, dumb  
> (sorry
> Paul :-) OSGeo participator) of FOSS4G is the meeting of the  
> tribes. OSGeo
> still only covers a small part of the whole FOSSGIS universe. With  
> FOSS4G
> I am explicitly not trying to reach out to Google and Oracle and  
> folks who
> do not know about FOSSGIS already. We have said that we will have a
> natural upper limit of 1000 people anyway. We are reaching 10  
> thousands at
> other occasions much more effectively.