[VisCom] Re: Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd IGC with deadline soon

[Markus Neteler]

Michael,

currently we are only talking about two (or so) abstracts to
get into it. Then I don't foresee action for the next many months.
I don't have the slightest idea why they plan 2 years ahead but
this is how it works for IGC.

I just thought to get the abstracts written on the Wiki and submit
them, nothing else. :-)

Markus

On 8/22/06, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at lizardtech.com> wrote:
> <rant (not directed at Markus)>
> Am I missing something -- a *TWO YEAR* lead time for planning a session?
>
> If someone wants to take the lead on this -- like Markus -- and propose
> an open source session, I'm sure that OSGeo would be willing in general
> to take it up: but who knows what OSGeo will be like in two years?  And
> realistically I don't see any action being taken until sometime late
> next year or so.  We have enough possible events to worry about in the
> coming months.
> </rant>
>
> -mpg
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Markus Neteler [mailto:neteler.osgeo at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:36 AM
> > To: OSGeo-discuss; OSGeo-VisCom
> > Subject: [VisCom] Re: Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd
> > IGC with deadline soon
> >
> > Hi again on this issue,
> >
> > the problem with IGC is that they want an abstract now for 2008.
> > AFAIK some OSGeo members have already been to an IGC
> > event, I don't have experience yet.
> >
> > One interesting issue is: all the petroleum industry will be there,
> > I heard that they have 8000 (!) participants. See the excursions they
> > offer - from Norway to Greenland and Iceland...:
> > http://www.33igc.org/coco/excursions/default.aspx
> >
> > But the fees are a bit prohibitive for me (Full-conference EUR 600/
> > half-conference EUR 450). With good negotiation we may get
> > reduced entry, and/or workshop organizers don't pay (no idea).
> >
> > In any case: a motivation for OSGeo presence is fundraising there :-)
> >
> > cheers
> > Markus
> >
> > On 8/19/06, Markus Neteler <neteler.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was contacted to advertise the idea of organizing a
> > > Free Software GIS/Geodata/OSGeo session at
> > >
> > > Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd IGC
> > >
> > > While 2008 is far away, the deadline for proposing sessions
> > > is end of *this* month. From a draft proposal by Henning Lorenz
> > > I have made a wiki page:
> > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_IGC2008
> > >
> > > My name therein is a placeholder so far. We should
> > > now discuss if and how to participate and improve the
> > > Wiki page (I assume OSGeo presence there).
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > >  Markus
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