Dave, I could not agree with you more! But I think it speaks to having regional as well as international conferences. As we all know, applications for GIS is growing at a prodigious rate and the need for frequent interaction between developers and others grows apace.
Chip Taylor Prepared Response, Inc -----Original Message----- If you 'reverse the directions' in Chip's text, you might get the wording used by people in Capetown to explain why they perhaps didn't wouldn't a FOSS4G conference in Seattle. And the same might have been said for some people in Australia who didn't attend FOSS4G 2007 in Victoria BC Canada, but then you could probably 'reverse' that in 2009 for why some people won't attend FOSS4G 2009 in Sydney Australia. It just reinforces that by moving FOSS4G around geographically, each year some people will be unable to attend, while at the same time others will have an opportunity to attend that year. Overall, the most good for the most people, given time. -- Dave Patton CIS Canadian Information Systems Victoria, B.C. Degree Confluence Project: Canadian Coordinator Technical Coordinator http://www.confluence.org/ OSGeo FOSS4G2007 conference: Workshop Committee Chair Conference Committee member http://www.foss4g2007.org/ Personal website: Maps, GPS, etc. http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.7.6/1713 - Release Date: 10/7/2008 6:40 PM _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
