<p>Hi all,<br>
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...</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Il giorno 27/mag/2012 02:14, "heikki" <<a href="mailto:tropicano@gmail.com">tropicano@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
hello all,<div><br></div><div>I think we should carefully consider whether we put energy in local chapters of FOSS4G.</div><div><br></div><div> 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).</div>
<div><br></div><div>But it may be the end of the global conference. Is this what we want ? It should be carefully considered, in my opinion.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Heikki Doeleman</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Jachym,<br>
<br>
Although I didn't make it to your event (Prague has a special place in<br>
my heart) I followed the event closely through the #foss4g-cee twitter<br>
hashtag - it sounded like a very successful event!<br>
<br>
I would agree that a yearly 'FOSS4G-Europe' makes sense. Might as<br>
well make it easier for locals to attend, and focused on local topics.<br>
<br>
Hello from Eastern Canada my friend. I thank you for your hard work<br>
organizing the event.<br>
<br>
-jeff<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 12-05-24 5:38 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:<br>
> Hi, if anybody is interested, I'm sending here very short report<br>
> about FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics in Prague 2012, which was<br>
> organised this week (and which is continuing with GRASS Code sprint<br>
> right now). See <a href="http://foss4g-cee.org" target="_blank">http://foss4g-cee.org</a> for more details.<br>
><br>
> Number of registered participants: 120<br>
><br>
> CZ - 35 RO - 14 DE - 12 FR - 6 AT - 5 SK - 4 EE, HU, CH, PL, TU,<br>
> USA - 3 IT, UK - 2 HR, NRW, NZ, Georgia, Ghana, Nigeria 1<br>
><br>
> Number of accepted papers cca 60 Number of accepted workshops: 6<br>
> Number of accepted tutorials: 5<br>
><br>
> However, relatively high number of presenters did not arrive (at<br>
> least one did announce it soon enough, but has slipped between my<br>
> fingers, sorry one more time) - luckily, present speakers were<br>
> usually able to prolong their presentations operatively.<br>
><br>
> On some tutorials, no attendees have come :-(<br>
><br>
> Social events formal and informal: nice!<br>
><br>
> Lessons learned:<br>
><br>
> * Double check presenters against list of registrations. * Double<br>
> check list of vegetarians and keep track of it * Have more accepted<br>
> presentations in the stack, for possible substitutions * and<br>
> others<br>
><br>
> List of photos: <a href="http://foss4g-cee.org/photos/" target="_blank">http://foss4g-cee.org/photos/</a><br>
><br>
> PDF version of presentations are being added to<br>
> <a href="http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/" target="_blank">http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/</a><br>
><br>
> Big thanks to the organisation team, general feedback was<br>
> positive.<br>
><br>
> Big thanks to all participants: Without them, the conference would<br>
> not happen.<br>
><br>
> Future of FOSS4G-CEE: ---------------------<br>
><br>
> It was agreed, that (unless there is no big obligation), FOSS4G-CEE<br>
> 2013 will be organised by Vasile Crăciunescu and his team at<br>
> <a href="http://geo-spatial.org" target="_blank">geo-spatial.org</a> in Bucharest, Romania. Their situation will be<br>
> quite difficult thanks to "global" FOSS4G organised "somewhere in<br>
> Europe". But still, they have clearly expressed their enthusiasm<br>
> about organisation the event.<br>
><br>
> During the event, several participants from various countries<br>
> (France, Italy, Germany, Czech, Romania and others) have indicated<br>
> their strong demand for conference best described as<br>
> "FOSS4G-Europe".<br>
><br>
> Having FOSS4G-NA in mind, and all the discussions about positives<br>
> and negatives of such proposals, we've had during last months, I<br>
> do personally support this idea: There is demand for more local<br>
> oriented, yet "big enough" events around the ellipsoid, let's talk<br>
> about it (better in some other thread, at conference_dev list).<br>
> Such event should happen during 2014, so we have about year for<br>
> clarifying all possible questions.<br>
><br>
> Jachym<br>
><br>
><br>
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--<br>
Jeff McKenna<br>
MapServer Consulting and Training Services<br>
<a href="http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/</a><br>
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