[OSGeo-Conf] Conf for 2008

[Paul Ramsey]

Hardware companies have all been approached for '07 sponsorship,  
nothing so far. If you have contacts, by all means, hit them up with  
a prospectus. If you want to run an elaborate coding contest, and are  
willing to shoulder the work around organizing and executing it, I'm  
all in favor of that too!

P

On 27-Mar-07, at 6:59 PM, Tim Bowden wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 09:24 -0600, Daniel Ames wrote:
>> Tim makes a good point about trying to attract hardware sponsors.
>> There is an interesting opportunity here since there is less of a
>> conflict of interests in having for example, Leica or Trimble sponsor
>> the conference than, say, ESRI - since most (if not all?) of the  
>> osgeo
>> projects probably have some need for or connection to GPS and other
>> hardware.  I know that the MapWindow community probably has 20
>> different developers working on GPS related projects... - Dan
>>
>
> If one of the gps hardware co's step up as a major sponsor and are  
> happy
> to donate a suitable gps unit, we could run a coding comp that  
> utilised
> the capabilities of the device.  Functionality requirements to be
> announced on the first day of the conf (including code being under an
> osi license and they /must/ provide suitable interface data about the
> device) and the most creative effort by the end of the conf is  
> declared
> the winner and awarded the device.  Creates buzz and value for the
> sponsor, fun for interested developers, and may even lead to some  
> useful
> software.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Tim
>
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