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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi list, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>A short report on the 4th annual Dutch OSGeo.nl day, held on 25th of November in 's-Hertogenbosch.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Just like last year the OSGeo.nl day took place as a side-event of the general geospatial "GeoBuzz" conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>To our pleasant surprise (since there was not separate registration for the OSGeo part) a significant amount of the participants found their way to the 2 parallel OSGeo tracks plus additional workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Our two 60-capacity conference rooms were filled with 40 to 70 (yes, that's more than 60!) participants. Roughly 1/3 third of them regular visitors of OSGeo.nl events, the other 2/3 were "newbies" who visited 1, 2, of 3 of our sessions. Especially the "GIS without a GIS Server: MongoDB" session by Bart Baas was very well received.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The two 1.5 hour workshops ("QGis for other GIS users" and "Geospatial Analyses with R" attracted some 25 people each, in a mix of FOSS4G veterans and Open Source newbies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>In December we'll make up our Dutch minds whether we will continue to organize our annual event as a side-event of a general Geospatial Conference (with a focus on outreach) or that we will return to a self-organized OSGeo-only event (with focus on "the gathering of the tribes").<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Presentations and pictures (in Dutch) will soon be available on http://www.osgeo.nl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Kind regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Gert-Jan<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>