[OSGeo-Conf] Intergeo Update

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

Folks,
we could use comments like these as "FOSS4G testimonials" to give people
arguments how to convince their bosses to fund them to go to FOSS4G.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

On 09/27/2011 08:46 PM, Karel Charvat wrote:
> I would like add one more remark. It is not possible to compare FOSS4G with
> other conferences. I was on FOSS4G first time and I have to say, that I had
> chance all time to learn something and I participate on all sections. On
> normal conferences there is interest only to present your paper and it is
> not important to go for others presenters. Here I saw, that this conference
> is not about presenting to fulfil some project requirement, but that here is
> realy working atmosphere. So this has to be protect. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Markus Neteler
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:55 PM
> To: Paolo Cavallini
> Cc: Organisation; conference; FOSSGIS at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Intergeo Update
> 
> 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-OSG
> eo-tech-and-OSGeo-Biz-td2078922.html
> 
> Cheers
> Markus
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