RE: Mini-conf in Seattle? (was: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts)
I'd be interested in helping and attending (if the price is right and my company agrees :) ) Chip Taylor Prepared Response, Inc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:09 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Mini-conf in Seattle? (was: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts) (In Seattle, we go out for a latte.) This is a quick troll to see who'd be interested in coming to (and/or helping organize) a mini-conference in Seattle in spring of '09. Send me email, and I'll follow up later with a summary. -mpg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:15 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts Jody Garnett wrote: In Canada we go to the pub. Jody Although that said; a regional conference would be fun ... we are still struggling to have any kind of meetings for the bc chapter. I am amazed at all these other groups that have had yearly conferences since rocks were beginning to cool. One down side with the whole conversation track here is the idea of splitting into multiple venues is that the open source projects cannot always field community members to attend everything. The original post talked about minimizing expense; breaking into several venues actually updates the expense from where I am sitting. Jody ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ 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: 270.7.6/1715 - Release Date: 10/8/2008 7:19 PM ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts
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
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts
I have to agree that something more local needs to be offered as well. I attended the Victoria conference and found it to be one of the most useful conferences I had attended in many years. But the cost of an airline ticket from Seattle to Capetown was nearly $2,000 US. Flying time to Capetown was on the order of 24 hours and returning the flying time was over 31 hours. That's 55 hours of grueling travel time, not to mention airport time. Add in the hotel/BB/tent/sleeping on the street, food and the conference fees you are talking a good bit of expense here. In both cash and time, this was just too prohibitive. My company would have rejected it outright and I certainly could not have afforded it from my own funds. I hope to attend a FOSS4G conference again, but I am afraid with world finances the way they are, as well as airline situations, it will be quite a few years before I can do that. Chip Taylor Prepared Response, Inc Tacoma, WA From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Ames Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:08 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts I'll make another plug for Helena's suggestion on the conference list that an International FOSS4g be offered every other year. In alternate years members would be encouraged to run regional and/or project specific small conferences... - Dan On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really think the best solution to this issue would be smaller, regional conferences. Perhaps this could be an issue that could be tackled by local OSGeo Chapters? It would be cool if we could get a point location and radius of acceptable travel from each OSGeo member. You could then determine which host cities for a local or regional conference would impact the most users. Landon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] re: Georeferencing Rasters
That may do what I want, but the images are mostly proprietary and cannot be uploaded to public sites. Thanks for the lead though. Chip Taylor Prepared Response, Inc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Spencer Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 6:56 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Labs would this do what you want? http://labs.metacarta.com/rectifier/ Paul On 4-Oct-07, at 9:16 AM, Chip Taylor wrote: Is there any open source applications for Windows that will help me geo-reference raster images? Chip Taylor Prepared Response, Inc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss +-+ |Paul Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED]| +-+ |Chief Technology Officer | |DM Solutions Group Inchttp://www.dmsolutions.ca/ | +-+ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Presentation materials
Thanks. I am beginning to find them. Chip -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:02 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Presentation materials Chip, They'll be found attached to the relevant abstract pages (e.g. http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=212). About 40% of presenters have uploaded so far, and I will be harassing the stragglers in the days to come. Paul Chip Taylor wrote: FOSS4G was a tremendous conference and I am glad I was given the opportunity to attend. Do we know when the presentation materials will be available online and where they will be found? Chip Taylor Prepared Response, Inc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Paul Ramsey Refractions Research http://www.refractions.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 250-383-3022 Cell: 250-885-0632 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] FW: Conference Proposal Notification
Aaron, It appears to me that reapproaching them would do little good. It does not seem that the proposal was bad or did not go over well. Rather, there seemed to have been a surfeit of proposals rendered and yours just was not chosen. Incidentally, thank you for providing us with the discount code. grin Chip Taylor Prepared Response, Inc _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Racicot Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:58 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Cc: 'Visibility Committee Discussion List' Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] FW: Conference Proposal Notification H. looks like my proposal for an OSGeo session at OSCON did not go over well. Anyone have a suggestion as to how to re-approach them to try and convince the powers that be that we should be there. Last year was a great success. maybe it was my proposal they did not like ;-( Any thoughts are welcome. A ++ Aaron Racicot - GIS Programmer 360.221.2441 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ e c o t r u s t pobox 1614 langley wa 98260 www.ecotrust.org ++ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:47 PM To: Aaron Racicot; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Conference Proposal Notification Dear Aaron, On behalf of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 program committee, I want to thank you for your recent proposal: OSGeo: Practical Maps, Practical Apps Thank you for your interest in sharing your work with the open source community. While your proposal was considered closely, we are not able to include it in the program this year. In most cases proposals are declined because the topic of the talk or tutorial was already covered in another presentation, or the subject matter was too narrow or vendor specific. This year we again had far too many great talks to fit into the number of slots available. We encourage you to submit a proposal for next year's conference, and we thank you again for taking the time to submit your proposal. We would like to offer you a 25% discount off the registration fee if you simply want to attend. Just register as an Attendee and use this code in the discount code field: os07dsd There are still opportunities to sponsor or exhibit at the event. For sponsor/exhibitor possibilities, please contact Yvonne Romaine, Sales and Exhibits Manager, [EMAIL PROTECTED] We hope to see you there! Regards, Vee McMillen Speaker/Operations Manager O'Reilly Media, Inc. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
