[OSGeo-Conf] Re: FOSS4G Information

[Arnulf Christl]

Steve Lime wrote:
> Many larger orgs (e.g. the State of Minnesota) are in the same boat as well. Victoria is more 
> palatable that Lausanne, but still a tough sell.
> 
> Steve

Hi,
that is yet another reason to have local conferences besides FOSS4G. Our next German language conference is on April 1st 2008, trying to conflict as little as possible with the meeting of the FOSS4G. 

I can only encourage people to take up this idea and do something locally. <rant>This might be especially tough to understand for North Americans who might come to believe that the FOSS4G (meeting of the tribes) is "their" conference.<laugh>Hehe</laugh> It is in English language but that does not mean that there is no need for *local* conferences. </rant>.

We all implement and use software that could give us this spatial intelligence but we never care to ask. 

Best regards, 
Arnulf. 

>>>> On 7/17/2007 at 3:49 PM, in message <469D2B56.8010107 at refractions.net>, Paul
> Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:
>> Just got this email. It provides a data point that I fear will be 
>> not-uncommon. Lots of employees of smaller organizations in the USA 
>> cannot leave the jurisdiction without a very hard-to-obtain approval.
>>
>> __________ wrote:
>>> Hello FOSS4G2007,
>>>  
>>> I work for a city government in Oregon and we have a restriction on 
>>> travel outside of the United States for business.
>>>  
>>> Do you know of any similar conferences / training inside the United States?
>>> Will there be a FOSS4G conference that deals with OpenSource GIS that is 
>>> held within the United States at any time?
>>>  
>>> Any information you have that addresses Open Source GIS conferences / 
>>> training in the United States would be very useful to me.
>>>  
>>> Thanks for any information that you can provide.
> 
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