Yes i'd be interested too Jachym. I've already heard many good feedbacks about FOSS4G-CEE, although i'm not in Europe now, and i guess that hosting it at university should have certainly reduce the costs. That's pretty awesome.
And thank you again for both the report and good pictures ! Happy GRASS GIS Sprint to all Best, Nick 2012/5/25 Michael P. Gerlek <m...@flaxen.com> > Jachym- > > Can you provide us with a summary of the financial aspects of your event? > Things like did the attendees have to pay anything and if so how much, did > you have any sponsors, how much was spent on the venue, food, etc, etc. > This is good information to have, for others thinking about planning > similar events. > > -mpg > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: > conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky > > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:38 PM > > To: Discussions, OSGeo; conference-...@lists.osgeo.org; 'conference' > > Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to > coming years > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > Jachym Cepicky > > Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o. > > jachym.cepi...@gmail.com | jac...@hsrs.cz > > http://les-ejk.cz | http://bnhelp.cz > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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