[Ottawa_users] Potential OpenStreetMap conferece in Ottawa

[Dave McIlhagga]

Perhaps an Ottawa OSGeo Chapter event could be aligned with this?  
Might be a good way for the OSGeo folks and any local openstreet  
mappers to meet?

Dave


Dave McIlhagga
www.mapsherpa.com
www.dmsolutions.ca

On 6-Aug-09, at 11:03 PM, Andrew Ross wrote:

> Hi Teresa,
>
> Count me in.
>
> FOSSLC too.
>
> When is it?
>
> Andrew
>
> 2009/8/6 Teresa Baldwin <tnbaldwin at gmail.com>:
>> Hey list,
>>
>> I'm not sure if there is any interest in this or not, but I figured  
>> I would
>> forward it along. I'm most likely going to be helping out with  
>> this, and any
>> additional help would be great!
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Teresa
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2009/8/6
>> Subject: [Talk-ca] SOTM Canada - Ottawa September 27 (tentative)
>> To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>,
>> osgeo-bc-request at lists.osgeo.org
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I decided that it's time for a SOTM for Canada, considering the great
>> progress of everyone over the past year.
>> Whats neat about this one, is that we can set it up so that people  
>> can
>> attend remotely. (considering it's so far for people to get to,  
>> it's not
>> possible for the whole talk-ca list to get together. (the remote  
>> attendence
>> would be higher than the actual attendence)
>>
>> We have AWESOME 'power users' who are located across Canada (and  
>> all over
>> the world, actually), and would be great to get everyone together  
>> for a
>> SOTM.
>>
>> Since I'm planning on being in Ottawa for that time (since the  
>> Trans Canada
>> Trail AGM is around that day). I'm not sure for how long, but i  
>> think that
>> might work. So it could still be the Thursday, Friday, Saturday,  
>> Sunday
>> thing.
>>
>> If someone else is good at planning, feel free to jump in. (As i  
>> don't
>> really need to host it).  I invited a few of you already on Google
>> Calendar.  So if someone wants to make a wiki page for it, and  
>> incorporate
>> other things.  Since i haven't been to SOTM before (i don't know  
>> what it's
>> like).
>> ... so anyway, i think we can line-up a bunch of speakers for it  
>> (remotely
>> too).
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a conference room at the local library  
>> (like
>> there is here in Victoria)?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sam Vekemans
>> Across Canada Trails
>>
>> Twitter: @Acrosscanada
>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans
>>
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