[OSGeo-Conf] Intergeo Update

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 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).

See also my related earlier suggestion on this, essentially
OSGeo-Community (or OSGeo-dev) and OSGeo-Biz:

Oct 02, 2008; 5:23pm
http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Two-parallel-conferences-proposal-OSGeo-tech-and-OSGeo-Biz-td2078922.html

Cheers
Markus