[Qgis-psc] Report back from Open GIS! conference in Moscow

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Alexander


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> in 17-18 November in Moscow we have first Russian Open GIS
> conference. This two days event was completely devoted to opensource
> GIS and open data. Here is some info:
>  - 230 attenders from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus
>  - about 50 (or even more, didn't count yet) organizations
>  - three parallel sections: classical GIS, OSM and web-GIS, workshops
>  - two discussions: Future of the opensource GIS in Russia and
>    Opensource GIS in Education
>
> The event was very interesting, inspiring and informal, but in same
> time with good organization and strict schedule, so all presentations
> and workshops were run in time.
>
> There is big interest in open GIS, especially QGIS, here. There are many
> QGIS users in different organizations and universities (some of them use it
> as corporate GIS or main GIS in educational process). But
> unfortunately all of them prefer to be only users and don't support
> development in any way (sharing their own docs and tutorials,
> translating, writing plugins or sponsoring/donating).
>
> It is very sad that only Victor Olaya was only the one developer (I mean
> not only QGIS but all other projects, we invited many peoples)
> from Western Europe who attend this conference. He was very popular here
> :-). Many peoples want to meet him and talk with him. Victor and
> me run workshop about using SEXTANTE in QGIS and friend of mine run
> another one about developing simple QGIS plugin. Both workshops were
> successful.
>
> Also I have talk about upcoming QGIS 2.0 and it's features. Now
> peoples know QGIS and its community a bit better. Hope this will raise
> interest and as result more active participation in development
> process.
>
>
Its really great to see what you and the Russian FOSS/Q GIS community are
doing, and to read your feedback for the event! Well done on a successful
event!

Regards

Tim


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