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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I have to agree that something more “local” needs to be offered
as well. I attended the Victoria conference and found it to be one of the most
useful conferences I had attended in many years. But the cost of an airline
ticket from Seattle to Capetown was nearly $2,000 US. Flying time to Capetown
was on the order of 24 hours and returning the flying time was over 31 hours.
That’s 55 hours of grueling travel time, not to mention airport time. Add in
the hotel/B&B/tent/sleeping on the street, food and the conference fees you
are talking a good bit of expense here. In both cash and time, this was just
too prohibitive. My company would have rejected it outright and I certainly
could not have afforded it from my own funds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I hope to attend a FOSS4G conference again, but I am afraid with
world finances the way they are, as well as airline situations, it will be
quite a few years before I can do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Chip Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Prepared Response, Inc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Tacoma, WA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Daniel Ames<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSGeo Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I'll make another plug for
Helena's suggestion on the conference list that an International FOSS4g be
offered every other year. In alternate years members would be encouraged to run
regional and/or project specific small conferences... - Dan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Landon Blake <<a
href="mailto:lblake@ksninc.com">lblake@ksninc.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>I
really think the best solution to this issue would be smaller, regional
conferences. Perhaps this could be an issue that could be tackled by local
OSGeo Chapters?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>It
would be cool if we could get a point location and radius of acceptable travel
from each OSGeo member. You could then determine which host cities for a local
or regional conference would impact the most users.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Landon</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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