[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2014 Bid Q&A Period

[David Percy]

Daniel, I'm just curious, why do you think that having more than 1000
attendees at FOSS4G is undesirable?
Cheers,
Percy

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> As Paul I do not care too much about live streaming. People should
>> come to the conference live. But having the video / screencasts
>> available after the conference for later use is a really good thing.
>
>
> Hi Arnulf,
>
> You forget about people, who would love to attend but cannot travel (for
> example they live in Indonesia and don't have big salary), are unfortunately
> too far away from the preferred continents of FOSS4G (Europe and North
> America), can't easily get a Visa or whatever else reason.
> And I think nobody needs a FOSS4G with more than 1000 attendants either if
> you say like "people should come to the conference live" ;-)
>
> I think FOSS4G has a pretty big spending on organizing expenses. It's not
> really a low-budget event such as FOSSGIS maybe.
> So for the spread of information about FOSS4G having a budget for live
> streaming should be possible, no? I thought this is the mission of OSGeo.
> I think there is much more information in a presentation than in a
> screencast and slides for download. You would reach a lot more people with
> live screencasts and others can also do it with a smaller budget (see SotM).
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Arnulf
>>
>> On 07/03/2013 09:07 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
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>> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_Proposal_Portland_Budget.xls
>>
>>
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_Proposal_Washington_Budget.xlsx
>>
>>
>>
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