[FOSS4G2016] relationship with FOSS4G-EU

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hello Gert-Jan,

I would favour that there would be no FOSS4G-EU in the next year - so 
we do not have competition in our own house.

Let's talk about this in Como, okay?

Till


Am 2015-07-12 16:22, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting 
OSGeo.nl:
> Hi list,
>
> Are there any thoughts on the relationship with other conferences,
> especially the FOSS4G-EU?
>
> Last year there was a discussion on the conference-europe 
> mailinglist,
> not only about the "when and where" of foss4g-eu, but in fact also
> about the "why" and "how".
>
> 
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference-europe/2014-August/000173.html
>
> Ideas in that discussion featured fcus groups (developers, or also
> commercial suppliers), merely academic or broader,size (200 
> attendees,
> but Como already doubles that) and above all "should a FOSS4G-EU be
> organized in a year that FOSS4G is organized in Europe".
>
> In order to have a clear proposition to our sponsors & commercial
> exhibitors it would be useful for both conferences to have a certain
> focus.
>
> In our 2016 proposal in chapter 5.7 a list of related conferences is
> listed, but apart from FOSS4G without remark on the relationship.
>
> Your thoughts on this, please.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gert-Jan