[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Sydney and conference software

[amesdani at isu.edu]

Cameron,

A comment from the sidelines here... I think your approach is totally
appropriate and pragmatic given that the alternative would mean
conference funds going toward helping the company climb a new software
learning curve rather than just letting them do their job....

- Dan

On 5/10/08, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To keep people in the loop:
>
> When interviewing Professional Conference Organisors for Sydney, we
> found that all PCOs used proprietary conference software, and had
> notable investments in tying their existing processes to the conference
> software.
>
> We encouraged them to consider using Open Conference Systems (as used by
> South Africa). They all looked at ICS, one said "Why are we paying so
> much for conferencing software when this is available as open source."
> But they were concerned by a lack of support. (Business Opportunity here
> for someone).
>
> With Tour Hosts, whom we selected, they agreed to look into ways to
> incorporate ICS to some degree, but expect to still use much/most of
> their existing conferencing software and processes.
> We were happy with this as a pragmatic approach. While we would prefer
> to use Open Source at an Open Source conference, it is more important to
> us that we pick a competent team who will do a good job, and we believe
> we have that in Tour Hosts.
>
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-- 
Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE
Geospatial Software Lab
Department of Geosciences
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
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