[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo friendly countries to live in

[Andrew Turner]

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On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Cameron
Shorter<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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