Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd IGC with deadline soon

[Markus Neteler]

Hi again on this issue,

the problem with IGC is that they want an abstract now for 2008.
AFAIK some OSGeo members have already been to an IGC
event, I don't have experience yet.

One interesting issue is: all the petroleum industry will be there,
I heard that they have 8000 (!) participants. See the excursions they
offer - from Norway to Greenland and Iceland...:
http://www.33igc.org/coco/excursions/default.aspx

But the fees are a bit prohibitive for me (Full-conference EUR 600/
half-conference EUR 450). With good negotiation we may get
reduced entry, and/or workshop organizers don't pay (no idea).

In any case: a motivation for OSGeo presence is fundraising there :-)

cheers
Markus

On 8/19/06, Markus Neteler <neteler.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was contacted to advertise the idea of organizing a
> Free Software GIS/Geodata/OSGeo session at
>
> Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd IGC
>
> While 2008 is far away, the deadline for proposing sessions
> is end of *this* month. From a draft proposal by Henning Lorenz
> I have made a wiki page:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_IGC2008
>
> My name therein is a placeholder so far. We should
> now discuss if and how to participate and improve the
> Wiki page (I assume OSGeo presence there).
>
> Best,
>
>  Markus
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> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> http://www.osgeo.org/
>


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