[OSGeo-Conf] Conference for Central and Eastern Europe

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

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I'm cc-ing Lluis Vicens from the Spanish FOSS4G conference team. As a
member of a quite succesful conference I think his opinion is really
valuable on this discussion and on this mailing list.

El 19/09/11 23:01, Jachym Cepicky escribió:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> thinking about that - I found that in general bad idea: why would
> Germans or Italians give up their conference, for pan-europan one? And
> if they would not, who would come where? Having 3 Foss4g
> conferences/year (+ osm, + some non-foss4g ones) is simply too much.
> 
> But having a chat with Martin Landa, and thinking about it for a
> while, I could imagine, that we would re-use the "olympic" model:
> 
> Proposal (and really, that is *just another idea*"): Having once / two
> years Foss4g-Europe, and every second year regional conferences?
> 

Well I can't see any successful conference giving up for an European
one, far from their location.

But a two year European conference, when FOSS4G is far away (say
Beijing) could be interesting, travelling inside Europe is for sure more
affordable than going overseas if you have to convince your boss to go
there.

Probably it wouldn't be as "developer focused" as the main FOSS4G, but I
think there are a lot of approaches for a geospatial conferences on free
software to be able to present a good conference program (see Arnulf
post[1]).

Best regards

[1]
http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/archives/43-OSGeo-The-Jack-of-all-Trades.html

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Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
http://es.osgeo.org
http://jorgesanz.net
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