[OSGeo-Conf] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to coming years

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Jachym-

Can you provide us with a summary of the financial aspects of your event? Things like did the attendees have to pay anything and if so how much, did you have any sponsors, how much was spent on the venue, food, etc, etc. This is good information to have, for others thinking about planning similar events.

-mpg


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> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:38 PM
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> Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to coming years
> 
> Hi,
> if anybody is interested, I'm sending here very short report about
> FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics in Prague 2012, which was organised this
> week (and which is continuing with GRASS Code sprint right now). See
> http://foss4g-cee.org for more details.
> 
> Number of registered participants: 120
> 
> CZ - 35
> RO - 14
> DE - 12
> FR - 6
> AT - 5
> SK - 4
> EE, HU, CH, PL, TU, USA - 3
> IT, UK - 2
> HR, NRW, NZ, Georgia, Ghana, Nigeria 1
> 
> Number of accepted papers cca 60
> Number of accepted workshops: 6
> Number of accepted tutorials: 5
> 
> However, relatively high number of presenters did not arrive (at least
> one did announce it soon enough, but has slipped between my fingers,
> sorry one more time) - luckily, present speakers were usually able to
> prolong their presentations operatively.
> 
> On some tutorials, no attendees have come :-(
> 
> Social events formal and informal: nice!
> 
> Lessons learned:
> 
> * Double check presenters against list of registrations.
> * Double check list of vegetarians and keep track of it
> * Have more accepted presentations in the stack, for possible substitutions
> * and others
> 
> List of photos: http://foss4g-cee.org/photos/
> 
> PDF version of presentations are being added to
> http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/
> 
> Big thanks to the organisation team, general feedback was positive.
> 
> Big thanks to all participants: Without them, the conference would not
> happen.
> 
> Future of FOSS4G-CEE:
> ---------------------
> 
> It was agreed, that (unless there is no big obligation), FOSS4G-CEE 2013
> will be organised by  Vasile Crăciunescu and his team at geo-spatial.org
> in Bucharest, Romania. Their situation will be quite difficult thanks to
> "global" FOSS4G organised "somewhere in Europe". But still, they have
> clearly expressed their enthusiasm about organisation the event.
> 
> During the event, several participants from various countries (France,
> Italy, Germany, Czech, Romania and others) have indicated their strong
> demand for conference best described as "FOSS4G-Europe".
> 
> Having FOSS4G-NA in mind, and all the discussions about positives and
> negatives of such proposals, we've had during last months, I do
> personally support this idea: There is demand for more local oriented,
> yet "big enough" events around the ellipsoid, let's talk about it
> (better in some other thread, at conference_dev list). Such event should
> happen during 2014, so we have about year for clarifying all possible
> questions.
> 
> Jachym
> 
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