[OSGeo-Discuss] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to coming years

[heikki]

hello all,

I think we should carefully consider whether we put energy in local
chapters of FOSS4G.

 Wouldn't this negatively impact the yearly, global FOSS4G ? I think it
probably would. But it may be preferred to do so -- it may make it easier
for people to attend (less long-distance travel).

But it may be the end of the global conference. Is this what we want ? It
should be carefully considered, in my opinion.

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman




On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> wrote:

> Hello Jachym,
>
> Although I didn't make it to your event (Prague has a special place in
> my heart) I followed the event closely through the #foss4g-cee twitter
> hashtag - it sounded like a very successful event!
>
> I would agree that a yearly 'FOSS4G-Europe' makes sense.  Might as
> well make it easier for locals to attend, and focused on local topics.
>
> Hello from Eastern Canada my friend.  I thank you for your hard work
> organizing the event.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
>
> On 12-05-24 5:38 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> > Hi, if anybody is interested, I'm sending here very short report
> > about FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics in Prague 2012, which was
> > organised this week (and which is continuing with GRASS Code sprint
> > right now). See http://foss4g-cee.org for more details.
> >
> > Number of registered participants: 120
> >
> > CZ - 35 RO - 14 DE - 12 FR - 6 AT - 5 SK - 4 EE, HU, CH, PL, TU,
> > USA - 3 IT, UK - 2 HR, NRW, NZ, Georgia, Ghana, Nigeria 1
> >
> > Number of accepted papers cca 60 Number of accepted workshops: 6
> > Number of accepted tutorials: 5
> >
> > However, relatively high number of presenters did not arrive (at
> > least one did announce it soon enough, but has slipped between my
> > fingers, sorry one more time) - luckily, present speakers were
> > usually able to prolong their presentations operatively.
> >
> > On some tutorials, no attendees have come :-(
> >
> > Social events formal and informal: nice!
> >
> > Lessons learned:
> >
> > * Double check presenters against list of registrations. * Double
> > check list of vegetarians and keep track of it * Have more accepted
> > presentations in the stack, for possible substitutions * and
> > others
> >
> > List of photos: http://foss4g-cee.org/photos/
> >
> > PDF version of presentations are being added to
> > http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/
> >
> > Big thanks to the organisation team, general feedback was
> > positive.
> >
> > Big thanks to all participants: Without them, the conference would
> > not happen.
> >
> > Future of FOSS4G-CEE: ---------------------
> >
> > It was agreed, that (unless there is no big obligation), FOSS4G-CEE
> > 2013 will be organised by  Vasile Crăciunescu and his team at
> > geo-spatial.org in Bucharest, Romania. Their situation will be
> > quite difficult thanks to "global" FOSS4G organised "somewhere in
> > Europe". But still, they have clearly expressed their enthusiasm
> > about organisation the event.
> >
> > During the event, several participants from various countries
> > (France, Italy, Germany, Czech, Romania and others) have indicated
> > their strong demand for conference best described as
> > "FOSS4G-Europe".
> >
> > Having FOSS4G-NA in mind, and all the discussions about positives
> > and negatives of such proposals, we've had during last months, I
> > do personally support this idea: There is demand for more local
> > oriented, yet "big enough" events around the ellipsoid, let's talk
> > about it (better in some other thread, at conference_dev list).
> > Such event should happen during 2014, so we have about year for
> > clarifying all possible questions.
> >
> > Jachym
> >
> >
>
> --
> Jeff McKenna
> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
>
>
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