[OSGeo-Discuss] Local Conference in USA

[Jacolin Yves]

Hi,

Maybe it is time to change the subject of this thread ;)

Regards,

Y.
Le Wednesday 27 August 2008 00:59:55 Landon Blake, vous avez écrit :
> Puneet wrote: "a conference becomes too big to continue being useful."
>
> Do you mean "too big" as in number of people attending, "too big" as in
> number of topics presented, or "too big" in some other sense?
>
> Landon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of P Kishor
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:56 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and
> structuration
>
> On 8/27/08, Dave Patton <davep at confluence.org> wrote:
> > On 2008/08/26 3:08 PM, James Fee wrote:
> > > I overheard someone say at GeoWeb 2008 that they could care less
>
> about
>
> > > FOSS4G outside of North America and they have no interest in what
>
> will
>
> > > probably be the next couple FOSS4Gs around the world.
> >
> >  Hearing things like that, and the reactions about it being
> >  'impossible' for USA state and local government employees, etc.,
> >  make me wonder if there is any value in having the organizing
> >  committees of 'foreign' OSGeo events doing any marketing
> >  directly to such people.
>
> I wonder what is the cost of marketing directly to me?
>
> I wonder what is marketing directly to me?
>
> I don't remember seeing an what seemed like a paid ad for any
> MUM/FOSS4G conference in a paper magazine or also on a web site?
>
> Just curious.
>
> By the way, I am not a State/Local/Fed employee, yet, I too have
> little interest in these overseas, high-cost conferences, at least as
> long as I have no funding support for them. I do suspect that at some
> point, at least for me personally, a conference becomes too big to
> continue being useful.
>
> >  The "glass half empty" view would be that such marketing
> >  is 'a waste of time and money', because such people either
> >  aren't personally interested, or their workplace has policies
> >  that won't allow them to attend.
> >
> >  The "glass half full" view is that by directly marketing
> >  to such people (who might want to self-identify, to make
> >  sure they are on the relevant 'marketing lists') they get
> >  the opportunity to have discussions with their supervisor(s),
> >  and that if, over time, enough people raise the issue enough
> >  times, along with examples of how other jurisdictions get
> >  value from sending their staff to 'foreign events', maybe
> >  things will change.
> >
> >  --
> >  Dave Patton
> >  CIS Canadian Information Systems
> >  Victoria, B.C.
> >
> >  Degree Confluence Project:
> >  Canadian Coordinator
> >  Technical Coordinator
> >  http://www.confluence.org/
> >
> >  OSGeo FOSS4G2007 conference:
> >  Workshop Committee Chair
> >  Conference Committee member
> >  http://www.foss4g2007.org/
> >
> >  Personal website:
> >  Maps, GPS, etc.
> >  http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/
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