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

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Hi all,
I strongly support continental conferences as they are cheaper to attend
and focused on local issues, easier for small companies to be accessed. I
see the global conference occur every two years and more development -
scientific targeted...
Il giorno 27/mag/2012 02:14, "heikki" <tropicano at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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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