[Foss4g2010] OSM at FOSS4G 2010?

[Tyler Mitchell]

I assume someone will still organise a mapping party at least?

----- Original Message -----
From: Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:51 am
Subject: Re: [Foss4g2010] OSM at FOSS4G 2010?
To: foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org

> El Jueves, 10 de Diciembre de 2009, Jeff McKenna escribió:
> > I guess I missed the discussion about State of the Map 
> combined with
> > FOSS4G event being rejected because it "could be damaging to 
> OSM (it
> > could be seen as part of OSGeo)."[1]  That is very 
> unfortunate that
> > someone (who??) feels this way.
> 
> That was the feeling of the SotM10 organising committee - 
> they/we want SotM to 
> be a stand-alone event.
> 
> The general feeling of the committee was that setting SotM10 
> next to the 
> FOSS4G would attract too much attention to the FOSS4G and too 
> little 
> attention to SotM10. I would have liked to host SotM10 next to 
> the FOSS4G, 
> but I understand the feeling of the rest of the committee.
> 
> Finally, the SotM10 will be held in Girona, 9th-11th july, next 
> to the FOSS 
> GIS summer camp that Lluís Vicens is organising. He will also 
> host the 4th 
> spanish FLOSS GIS conference.
> 
> 
> One way or the other, there will be so many geo-events in 
> Catalonia this year 
> that you'll wish to live there :-)
> 
> 
> I'm sorry we won't have a joint event, but I'm pretty sure we'll 
> work 
> something out.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> ----------------------------------
> Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
> 
> El mundo entero conocerá nuestras pacíficas costumbres. ¡Por la 
> fuerza!           -- Bender Doblador Rodríguez. Futurama 4×14: Obsoletamente 
> fabuloso.
> 
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