[VisCom] Re: Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd IGC with deadline soon

[Michael P. Gerlek]

<rant (not directed at Markus)>
Am I missing something -- a *TWO YEAR* lead time for planning a session?

If someone wants to take the lead on this -- like Markus -- and propose
an open source session, I'm sure that OSGeo would be willing in general
to take it up: but who knows what OSGeo will be like in two years?  And
realistically I don't see any action being taken until sometime late
next year or so.  We have enough possible events to worry about in the
coming months.
</rant>

-mpg
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Neteler [mailto:neteler.osgeo at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:36 AM
> To: OSGeo-discuss; OSGeo-VisCom
> Subject: [VisCom] Re: Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd 
> IGC with deadline soon
> 
> 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
> > --
> > Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> > http://www.osgeo.org/
> >
> 
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