[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

[Andrew Ross]

Dear Johan,

Thank you for reaching out & the great idea. For what it's worth, I 
really like seeing cross-organization collaboration like this.

For some reason the message didn't seem to x-post to the LocationTech 
discussion list (at least that I can see). Hopefully this email might 
reach all the lists. I'll make sure the LocationTech community knows 
about it in any case.

I may be able to make it there myself. And I've heard good things from 
my colleagues who have gone to past FOSDEMs.

Andrew

On 06/08/14 03:11, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> FOSDEM[1] is a free open source event bringing together about 5000
> developers together in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open
> source software developers and communities a place to meet to. The
> next edition will take place the weekend 31/1 -> 1/2/2015.
>
> Last edition (in february this year) both Osgeo and Openstreetmap had
> a stand and there was a lot of interest in geospatial technologies.
>
> That is why the idea was coined to organise a geospatial devroom the
> next edition.
>
> Since the call for participation for developer rooms and main tracks
> is now open [2], I would like to start writing a proposal [3], so
> hopefully we can have a geospatial devroom next year.
>
> Rather than organising the devroom organised by one project FOSDEM
> really prefers joint organisation "Proposals involving collaboration
> across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged." That's
> why I'm sending this mail to Osgeo, OSM and locationtech.
>
> If you would like organising the devroom (writing the proposal and
> selecting the presentations) and will be present, please get in touch
> or add your name to my current draft proposal [3].
>
> Note that one can also propose main track presentations. For main
> track speakers travel expenses and accommodation will be covered by
> the organisation. This is not the case for the devroom.
>
> Finally a reminder that we are only sending a proposal for a devroom
> -> We are not sure it will be accepted. Competition will be fierce.
>
> Cheers,
> Johan
>
> [1] http://fosdem.org
> [2] https://fosdem.org/2015/news/2014-07-01-call-for-participation/
> [3] https://titanpad.com/GptTJKIKJB
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