[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo friendly countries to live in

[Cameron Shorter]

Yves Jacolin has sliced FOSS4G <http://2009.foss4g.org/> website hits to 
determine the number of FOSS4G attendees per million people, broken down 
by country. From this, you can get a feeling for the most OSGeo tolerant 
populations in the world (distorted around Australia due to the 
conference location).

So what can we learn?

    * Japan and Mongolia are the place be in Asia
    * Chilli is the place to be in Latin America
    * Canada looks preferable to the US. I wonder how much the Canadian
      GeoConnections program is responsible for Canada's strong OSGeo
      industry.
    * There is a lot of interest across Europe, so FOSS4G 2010 should be
      a crowded event.
    * Africa seems to have learned all they need to know when FOSS4G
      attended Johannesburg last year, and won't be heading to Australia
      in force.


You can view the maps here: 
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2009/08/osgeo-friendly-countries-to-live-in.html

and in French on Yves blog:
http://georezo.net/blog/geolibre/2009/08/16/geolocalisation-des-visite-du-site-foss4g-2009/

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