[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2024 in Belem, Brazil

[Felipe Sodre Barros]

Dear all. I am joining the potential organizing committee...

Thanks for the support and consideration/concerns on our proposal. We
believe that all those come to make a stronger proposal, if it is the case.

We understand that Belém can be seen as "a little bit out-of-the-way". But
on the other hand we believe that proposing cities such as São Paulo and
Rio de Janeiro, for instance, wouldn't help much on building a more
inclusive and diverse event.

Belém is a big city with all the infrastructure needed to host this kind of
event. Just to take advantage of the timing, recently it was officially
defined as hosting the international climate meeting, COP30, in 2025. Not
to mention other national events already hosted.
Beyond the event subject, Belém has been growing as a scientific
national/international hotspot hosting INPE offices (Brazilian space
agency), among others.

Indeed Brazil has regular national/regional and local open source geo
conferences, but it has been done scattered in the Brazilian territory and
with a well defined niche. There is no such event like FOSS4G to embrace
all niches in one big event. So, we see it as an opportunity t as we have a
strong "FOSS4g" community (QGIS, R, OSM, and so on).

To reduce risks and being competitive with other events we have in our plan
making a good articulation with all brazilian players that works with or
promote geo* events, like governmental agencies (IBGE, INPE, EMBRAPA) or
scientific groups (SELPER) and even from the private sector like MundoGEO.

So, there being said, we will start preparing the proposal as requested
with as much detail we can.

Cheers


Em qui., 1 de jun. de 2023 às 13:34, Arnulf Christl <
arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net> escreveu:

> Hey folks,
> for some reason this email was delivered to my spam folder. Just in case
> this happened to others I repost with slightly different subject... I
> support Paul's valid questions and believe that Iván's proposals addresses
> some of them.
>
> So for me it eventually boils down to:
>
>    - Solid commitment from the LoC
>    - Support from one (or more) of the three organizations
>
>
> All the best,
> Arnulf
>
> Am 31.05.23 um 17:01 schrieb Iván Sánchez Ortega:
>
> El miércoles, 31 de mayo de 2023 15:12:35 (CEST) Paul Ramsey escribió:
>
> I feel great about Brazil, but Belem seems a little bit out-of-the-way?
>
> I know it's not Rio nor São Paulo, but Belém has an int'l airport, two
> university campuses, a delegation of the national mapping agency, the works.
> It ticks my boxes.
>
> I think that if the LOC can secure the support of the universities and/or
> IGBE, then Belém would be a very solid proposal.
>
>
>
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Felipe Sodré Barros

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