[OSGeo-Discuss] inspire and GeoSpatial World Forum

[Jachym Cepicky]

I even think, we should support this financially, if possible. I think
at least for convering the costs of the booth, as well as maybe travel
costs for the advocates?


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2014-10-04 7:23 GMT+02:00 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>:
> +1 for setting up a presence at GWF.
>
> Some ideas for an OSGeo / OSGeo-Live presence at:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Including_OSGeo-Live_at_your_event
> Potential local presenters/advocates at:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate
>
>
> On 3/10/2014 5:15 pm, Paul van Genuchten wrote:
>>
>> Hi, this year Inspire and GWF joined forces in organising a combined
>> conference 25-29 may 2014 in Lisbon
>> http://www.geospatialworldforum.org. In previous years of GWF we used to
>> organize an OSGeo track (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, not sure about Geneva).
>> Should some of us put some energy in setting up such a track for the
>> coming conference, or alternatives like a booth/strategic partner?
>>
>> So why do GWF and INSPIRE hang out together? I have no clue... But it
>> might be a combination of I know INSPIRE wants to share their concepts
>> globally (they have some initiatives in Latin America), they might have
>> seen GWF as a facilitator. Another reason might be that organizing such
>> a big event is quite a challenge for local universities that did this in
>> recent years. Hooking up with a commercial organisation like GWF can
>> facilitate continuation of the event. For GWF I see a benefit of having
>> a big audience increase, with meaningful items to discuss.
>>
>> As organizer of 2013 osgeo track at GWF my evaluation back then was not
>> all that positive. It certainly was good people saw the osgeo logo on
>> the program, but I doubted if the conference had a proper audience for
>> osgeo-message. However, now with combined INSPIRE community, the
>> atmosphere should be quite different.
>>
>> Would be good to hear your thoughts on this. And see if we can set up
>> some great OSGeo presence at the conference.
>>
>> Note (for those interested) the dead-line for abstract submission is
>> january first 2015.
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