Hi Kishor, I will forward your mail to the Francophone mailing list may be some folks there will contact you.
I won't be in Paris since I will be at Victoria from the 21th of september. But one of the OSGeo-fr "board" will be in Paris. Could be nice to meet each other :) Best regards, Y. Le Friday 07 September 2007 14:43:32 P Kishor, vous avez écrit : > posted to two lists... some will get this twice. > ---- > > Friends, > > I have been invited to a workshop in Paris on common use licensing of > scientific data products. The workshop is jointly organized by CODATA, > GBIF, and Science Commons, and will be held at the Sorbonne on Sep 24, > 25. I am writing this email for three reasons -- > > 1. I will be, as usual, representing OSGeo interests as well, so any > feedforward you have for me on licensing of geospatial data inasmuch > as they are scientific data, please send it to me. > > 2. While most of the open geospatial world will be enjoying the > beautiful environs of Victoria BC on Sep 24, 25, in the slim chance > that some of our OSGeo-philes are in and around Paris at that time, I > would love to meet with you. > > 3. Since I have never been to Paris before (a walk between Gare de > l'est and Gare du Nord doesn't count), I am trying to stay over for a > couple of days extra bookending the workshop. That coupled with the $ > - € exchange rate and the location where I want to stay (walking > distance of the Sorbonne) is making for a rather unaffordable trip. I > am looking for accomodation suggestions from locals as it is not > always the easiest trying to do these things over the internet. For > now, I have a room reserved from Sep 23-27 at € 116 a night, which, > while is rather inexpensive by Paris standards, is still rather > expensive by my standards. Ideally, I am looking for a place in the € > 60-80 range from Sep 22-27. > > Many thanks for any and all responses to the above. -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss