[mapserver-users] Meeting

[Puneet Kishor]

Tom, et al.

MapServer is not just a success, it is a raving success.

A Users Meeting would only further a feeling of legitimacy, and more
important, bring some faces to the, hitherto, email addresses... 400, while
good, is still small, and we need to nourish this and spread the word.

1. I would come to the meeting (as long as it is not in the winter <g>).
Being in Madison, it is easy for me to drive up to Twin Cities, but I guess
I speak for everyone that the attendance would be impacted in inverse
proportion to the cost of attending.

2. I would prefer a stand-alone meeting at the Twin Cities campus... it
would get lost if it were in conjunction with another event. Besides, I
don't go to other events.

As usual, I speak for myself and not for my... blah, blah, blah.

pk/

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Puneet Kishor 
pkishor at geoanalytics.com
www.geoanalytics.com

GeoAnalyics, Inc.
1716 Fordem Ave
Madison WI 53704


> -----Original Message-----
> From: teb [mailto:teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:44 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Cc: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Meeting
> 
> 
> Thanks to you (nearly 400 list subscribers) MapServer has to be 
> considered a success. Some of us at "home base" feel that we may 
> have reached a time where a MapServer Users Meeting would be 
> appropriate. We'd like your input on that. In particular:
> 
> 1. Would you come? Are there important conditions, over which we 
> have some control, that would determine whether you'd 
> participate?
> 
> 2. Would you prefer a meeting/workshop at the University of 
> Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus (I remember those fine "gopher 
> server" meetings) or something done in conjunction with a related 
> conference? The former is easier to plan and could be pulled off 
> with much less lead time, the latter might be easier for people 
> to justify travel to.
> 
> That's all we want to know at the moment. If there seems to be 
> interest, we will move forward with your help. You may respond to 
> the group (please keep "Meeting" in the subject) or directly to 
> me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> =======================
> Dr. Thomas E. Burk
> University of Minnesota
> 1530 Cleveland Avenue North
> St. Paul, MN 55108
> 612-624-6741
> 612-625-5212 (FAX)
> tburk at forestry.umn.edu
>