RES: [OSGeo-Conf] 2011 Process

[Lorenzo Becchi]

I agree with Jorge, South America is moving already with or without us.
IMO there's not yet a good SA network to justify a big conference.
Our hope as FOSS4G 2010 is that Barcelona can be the right place to meet and
expand this network.

lorenzo


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
<jsanz at osgeo.org>wrote:

> 2009/11/2 Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at wheregroup.com>:
> >
> > On Fri, October 30, 2009 11:49, Rafael Medeiros Sperb wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >>
> >> Before we go ahead, I would like to know whether the ideia of having the
> >> International FOSS4G every two years will be considered, as discussed in
> >> Sidney? In this case, we would have international and regional meetings
> >> alternating each other.
> >>
> >> Warm regards,
> >>
> >>
> >> Rafael
> >
> > Rafael,
> > from my tiny perspective Brazil is a continent of its own and should
> > therefore also have at least one annually recurring event of its own.
> > During bootstrapping this is a heavy load on those starting it up but the
> > second or third event can - if you manage accordingly - run on its own.
> >
>
> Well, maybe I'm missing something in that thread but Brazil has its
> FOSS4G event at http://geolivre.com/ this month on Brasilia.
>
> But I have no idea if they are connected with OSGeo or OSGeo-Brazil in any
> way
>
> > But it is very important to have you here on the conference committee to
> > add a Brazilian perspective. Ideally some folks from Spanish speaking SA
> > will also eventually join, for them it definitely makes sense to have a
> > local conference in their language. I guess Barcelona will be the right
> > time to bootstrap them, if they are not already under way, Lorenzo is
> very
> > active.
> >
> > Can you argument in favor of having the international FOSS4G in Brazil
> > apart form it being a great venue and probably offering the most lively
> > night life ever? Would it help the cause of OSGeo in Brazil, spread word,
> > mission and so on? This might sound like a rhetoric question but I guess
> > we should know because it will give us the option to adjust a localized
> > FOSS4G event to address these questions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Arnulf.
> >
>
> On the other hand, this year was the first gvSIG conference for
> Latinamerican and Caribe, with a lot enthusiasm and success AFAIK.
> Next year will be at Venezuela and probably next on Brazil. So the
> thinks in SA are moving and I see a growing "market" there for OSGeo
> and free geosoftware.
>
> Best regards
> --
> Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
> Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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