[OSGeo-Conf] Intergeo Update

[Karel Charvat]

I think, that it is important for both communities to meet each others, because for users is important to know, what is new in technologies and for developers I think, also feedback could be useful. I agree, that is good, if on some meetings only developers are discussing together but I think to sit together on some meetings users and developers together could be profit for both communities.
Now more and more popular is so called model of Living Labs, where researchers and end users are working together on new objectives of research. I know that it is not easy to find common language and also understand each others and I know, that also developers need some freedom to discover new things, but I ma sure, that for future of Open Source technologies is important to meet each others.
And due the fact, that the travelling is some time to expensive for both communities and usually users are mainly connected with local and regional developers I see this models as Worldwide conferences focus mainly on developers communication and regional focused on interaction of all groups as feasible
Karel


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From: conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 5:26 PM
To: Seven (aka Arnulf)
Cc: FOSSGIS at lists.osgeo.org; Organisation; 'conference'
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Intergeo Update

Il giorno lun, 26/09/2011 alle 13.13 +0200, Seven (aka Arnulf) ha
scritto:

> So it sums up to a nice event with lots of user centric activities,
> business oiptions and some conference aspect.

Hi all.
This is one of the main reasons I was not convinced of the beauty of
FOSS4G: it is not clear whether it is centered on developers, on users,
or on business. As a result, many developers do not go because it is too
expensive, and I'm not so sure many businessman enjoy all aspects of
hacklife.
I would prefer to have more meetings, each focused on a specific target.
Of course crossbreeding is good, so the events could be lose by (in time
or space, possibly one could follow the other).
All the best.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc

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