[OSGeo-Conf] Conf for 2008

[Tim Bowden]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 19:09 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 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
> 

That'll teach me!  Ok, if we get a suitable hw vendor and hw device,
I'll step up to the plate on that one.  I'd like to keep it as simple as
possible though.

Regards,
Tim

> 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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