[Viscom-dev] [Geotunis] Francophone Tradeshow in Tunis

[Yves Jacolin]

Hi VisCom,

The Francophone Local Chapter try to plan to be present to the Geotunis 
[1] trade show. As for the French Trade show Geoevenement, we are 
organizing an Open Source Village. The organization is managed by 
Camptocamp, and two others French GFOSS companies will be present 
(Makina Corpus and 3Liz). Some other will join the OS Village.

We asked for funding to a French collectivity (called UbiFrance) but it 
won't be enough to support all the cost. So I am looking for support 
from OSGeo to be present to this trade show as I did it for Geoevenement 
[2].

Do you think OSGeo could provide help with managing the financial 
issues, such as paying booth fees, helping to defray travel costs, etc.? 
  I will create an official wiki page soon like for the Geoevenement 
trade show as soon as I will get more information about the feasibility.

I could give you a small and quick budget provisional if needed. We will 
get more information from UbiFrance in September (around the 5th).

The purpose of this trade show for OSGeo (and OSGeo-fr) is to get some 
physical contact with local geomatics worker in order to improve 
contributor/members in this area. The promotion of GFOSS seems important 
to me. We get more and more messages about GFOSS technologies on French 
forum.

Thanks for your answer, best regards,

Y.
[1] http://www.geotunis.org.tn/version-en/index.php (English version)
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoEvenement2007 (English version)
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Yves Jacolin