[Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

[Luca Delucchi]

On 2 March 2017 at 15:16, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de> wrote:
> Hi Jachym,
>

Hi all,

> in short we invited the OSM people to join our conference not only as
> participants. In the first year (I think it was 2010) we had our regular
> FOSSGIs conference followed by one day OSM talks. We switched at noon, so
> that communities could meet.
>
> From 2011 on we mixed up both worlds in a classical 2 tracks FOSS and 1
> track OSM. Active members of both communities can attend the conference for
> free.
>
> Being a member of FOSSGIS program committee for many years, I noticed, that
> subsequently the handed in talks became more and more "universal". While we
> could assign talks to OSM or FOSS track quite good in the first years, we
> now have a much more mix-up and especially for 2017 many talks could be
> assigned to both, OSM AND FOSS track.
>
> Also, the awareness of people from the "other" community became much better
> and (only my guess), quite a few OSM-people joined FOSSGIS as registered
> members.
> For my business it's also cool to know people, that have really deep
> knowledge of OSM and the OSM community.
>
> Enough success story?
>

Yes, good choices...

In Italy OSM-people choose to join Wikimedia Italia, but this year we
had a joined conference in Genova and it was quite a success, so we
are thinking to replicate next year.

> Till ;-)
>


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ciao
Luca

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