[OSGeo-Conf] Intergeo Update

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

I fully agree with your point of view - since I'm no longer at the 
university, I can understand that me, as developer, can get my celery 
exclusively through business.

I actually do not have any strong statement to this. I just try to put 
together some ideas, which are coming trough my head.

Does everybody agree, that global FOSS4G is really more about 
"developers meeting"? And so, developers are the ones, who are putting 
together the biggest budget for OSGeo (correct me, if I'm wrong)?

So what do do about it? Discount for every developer for global FOSS4G 
(just another - more socialist - idea)?

Jachym

On 26.9.2011 21:59, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Jachym Cepicky
> <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> So my suggestion: "Global FOSS4G" is *the* developers meeting (developers
>> meet developers). Local events are more user- and business-oriented
>> (developers meet business, developers meet users).
>
> Isn't this more-or-less the opposite of the motivations expressed in
> the first place for trying to conceptually split the events?
> (developers don't have money for big travel and fancy conference
> centers; business people do)
>
> Also, if Beijing is about community outreach to the China market, how
> does that fit with the developers-meet-developers idea?
>
> P.