[FOSS4G2016] Reminder: Today - FOSSGIS / OSM "Stammtisch" Wednesday 1st of July 2015

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Till, Gert-Jan,

Yes indeed, confusion.

Some history:

- FOSS4G was first coined as a term in 2004, and the first ever 
conference to use the FOSS4G name was in 2004 in Bangkok
- it was at that Bangkok event where Venka, Markus and I met, and we 
came up with the idea/plan to merge the existing GRASS users conference 
and the MapServer users conference, into an annual FOSS4G event
- the 1st FOSS4G event, hosted by OSGeo, with various communities 
involved, was then held in 2006, as Till noted
- the 2014 event promoted itself as 10 years of FOSS4G, as Gert-Jan noted

So, true, it is confusing.  But I think yes, yes, we should market this 
as 10 years since FOSS4G Lausanne. (most are not aware of the 2004 
Bangkok event, as only a couple representatives from GRASS and MapServer 
attended it)

I am all for promoting 2016 as 10 years of FOSS4G.   It really is, in 
many ways.

-jeff




On 2015-07-02 4:21 AM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> there is one issue, I'd like to discuss with you  before we go out with
> that.
>
> In my counts we have 10th FOSS4G - that one in 2012 was missed, so the
> history is:
>
> 1. Lausanne
> 2. Victoria
> 3. Cape Town
> 4. Sydney
> 5. Barcelona
> 6. Denver
> 7. Nottingham
> 8. Portland
> 9. Seoul
> 10. Bonn
>
> I thought I've seen something in 2014 or 2015 saying s.th. about 10
> years I can't find for now...
>
> We would like to take that onto our webpage and also advertise a little
> with that.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards, Till
>