[mapserver-users] COM.Geo 2010: Computing for Geospatial Conference & Exhibition (June 2010 Washington DC)

[Jan Hartmann]

Hi Puneet,

Glad to see you are still alive and kicking (hard). Do you still have 
the same good memories as I do of the real "leading conference" of this 
decennium? IMHO, time ***has*** already told ...

http://mapserver.sara.nl/conferences/2003/mum/photos/group.jpg

Cheers,

Jan

On 19-1-2010 6:34, P Kishor wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Andrew Clark<aclark at com-geo.org>  wrote:
>    
>> COM.Geo 2010: Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research
>> and Application (June 2010, Washington DC)
>> http://www.com-geo.org
>>
>>      
> Sounds nice, but...
>
>    
>> COM.Geo 2010 is a leading conference and exhibition on computing for
>> geospatial research and application ..
>>      
> How can COM.Geo [sic] be "a leading conference" when the first one is
> still six months in the future? [1] And the front page copy on the web
> site has such flowery text that I don't know whether to feel flush
> with gratefulness or grimace with bitterness at lost opportunity.
> Let's see -- "computing driven location based applications" have not
> revolutionized anything with the prominent exception of online mapping
> for finding directions, cloud computing is still hot air, and the
> hottest term of the 90s was not .com but sex, and still is so.
>
> As always, time will tell.
>
> --
> Puneet Kishor
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