[FOSS4G2016] adjacent communities

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Gert-Jan, @all,

I really like your ideas and I would absolutely support any activity in 
direction of connections to neighboring communities! Also this helps us 
to hit our goal of 25% "new" attendees from outside our community.

As you know, FOSSGIS also is behind the german speaking OSM community. 
But looking at Europe  there is much more - we have INSPIRE (whatever 
opinion one has... ;-)), we also have the Copernikus programme 
delivering open remote sensing data to the world - I am in contact to 
the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) about that, finally last friday I 
found the perfect contact to them ;-). Also therei s OSM and the 
openData policy of many public administrations in Germany. Wanted to 
say, yes I absolutely support any bridges to all of this heterogenous 
communities

About CMS I am in contact to a company from Bonn, who are highliy 
engaged in the Drupal community. I'll see the manager next wednesday and 
engagement in FOSS4G is also an issue we want to talk about.

Reagrding python community maybe you talk to Dominik Helle, he is in 
Essen as well I think? Maybe they with omniscale have some contacts we 
can talk with...


Another 2 cents,

Till



Am 2015-11-21 19:43, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting 
OSGeo.nl:
> Hi LOC,
>
> As you all may know we would like to build bridges towards other
> communities at FOSS4G - 2016
>
> In order to make this a bit more concrete I distinguished 3
> "high-potentials". I would like to know your opinion on the
> suggestions listed below.
>
> These suggestions are made from my Dutch point of view, I'd like to
> know your opinion on how this fits with Germany or other countries.
>
> - Python community: in the Netherlands there;s severy overlay between
> Python user groups and FOSS4G user groups
>
> - CMS: in several CMS-communities there are initiatives to integrate
> for instance Drupal with geospatial (mostly OpenLayers)
>
> - Open data: almost everybody involved in open source in the
> Netherlands is also involved in open data. Perhaps due to the large 
> of
> open data we have in the Netherlands
>
> (and of course also the already well-known communities around remote
> sensing, and cartography)
>
> Your 2 cents please!
>
> Regards,
>
> Gert-Jan