[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo friendly countries to live in

[Ravi]

Nice research.. It was last at Capetown.. Wish it was at Joh--berg, as mentioned,  heard that .. that is more Africa than this Europe hammered into Africa (Cape Town.. a Rich Rich stinking rich guys place)

--- On Mon, 17/8/09, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo friendly countries to live in
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Monday, 17 August, 2009, 2:12 AM
> 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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