Hello Jachym, Although I didn't make it to your event (Prague has a special place in my heart) I followed the event closely through the #foss4g-cee twitter hashtag - it sounded like a very successful event!
I would agree that a yearly 'FOSS4G-Europe' makes sense. Might as well make it easier for locals to attend, and focused on local topics. Hello from Eastern Canada my friend. I thank you for your hard work organizing the event. -jeff On 12-05-24 5:38 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: > Hi, if anybody is interested, I'm sending here very short report > about FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics in Prague 2012, which was > organised this week (and which is continuing with GRASS Code sprint > right now). See http://foss4g-cee.org for more details. > > Number of registered participants: 120 > > CZ - 35 RO - 14 DE - 12 FR - 6 AT - 5 SK - 4 EE, HU, CH, PL, TU, > USA - 3 IT, UK - 2 HR, NRW, NZ, Georgia, Ghana, Nigeria 1 > > Number of accepted papers cca 60 Number of accepted workshops: 6 > Number of accepted tutorials: 5 > > However, relatively high number of presenters did not arrive (at > least one did announce it soon enough, but has slipped between my > fingers, sorry one more time) - luckily, present speakers were > usually able to prolong their presentations operatively. > > On some tutorials, no attendees have come :-( > > Social events formal and informal: nice! > > Lessons learned: > > * Double check presenters against list of registrations. * Double > check list of vegetarians and keep track of it * Have more accepted > presentations in the stack, for possible substitutions * and > others > > List of photos: http://foss4g-cee.org/photos/ > > PDF version of presentations are being added to > http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/ > > Big thanks to the organisation team, general feedback was > positive. > > Big thanks to all participants: Without them, the conference would > not happen. > > Future of FOSS4G-CEE: --------------------- > > It was agreed, that (unless there is no big obligation), FOSS4G-CEE > 2013 will be organised by Vasile Crăciunescu and his team at > geo-spatial.org in Bucharest, Romania. Their situation will be > quite difficult thanks to "global" FOSS4G organised "somewhere in > Europe". But still, they have clearly expressed their enthusiasm > about organisation the event. > > During the event, several participants from various countries > (France, Italy, Germany, Czech, Romania and others) have indicated > their strong demand for conference best described as > "FOSS4G-Europe". > > Having FOSS4G-NA in mind, and all the discussions about positives > and negatives of such proposals, we've had during last months, I > do personally support this idea: There is demand for more local > oriented, yet "big enough" events around the ellipsoid, let's talk > about it (better in some other thread, at conference_dev list). > Such event should happen during 2014, so we have about year for > clarifying all possible questions. > > Jachym > > -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss