[OSGeo-Conf] Conf for 2008
Tim Bowden
tim.bowden at westnet.com.au
Tue Mar 27 23:00:40 EDT 2007
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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