Thanks Yves, yup, i DEFINATLY support the idea of Barcelona for the 2010 SOTM, (i saw on the talk-au list that maybe 2011 would be great for Austrailia, and maybe 2012 for Canada. (we should be all imported by then) :)
and yes, if you can help on the sotm planning side, i think is Henk who is a contact for that, im sure sotm planners would welcome the collaboration (4 day all fun event). See below for details. (for the main talk@ list) Sam On 10/20/09, Yves Moisan <yves.moi...@boreal-is.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> Just wondering if anyone on the talk-ca list wants to make a bid for >> the 2010 SOTM? (although i like the idea of Barcelona, also) :-) > > A comment from someone at the FOSS4G conference here in Sydney who > usually can attend *one* FOSS conference per year and desperately wants > to attend SotM : let's please make a joint FOSS4G/SotM event next year > so that the two very closely related communities that attend those > yearly events get a chance to meet or to attend two great conferences at > the same time. > > Ideas for organizing a joint event : > > * share a post- or pre- conference day for para-conference activities > (e.g. workshops/code sprints for FOSS4G, mapping > parties/[code][data]sprints for SotM); maybe that day would be a > wednesday to accommodate 2-day conferences before and after > > * potentially overlap the two conferences (e.g. to accommodate one of > the conference needing 3 days) but overlap should be kept at a minimum > so that people could participate in both and maybe even get a rebate for > registering at the two events > > I don't know if this is at all feasible, but I definitely think SotM and > FOSS4G communities need to meet. FOSS4G 2010 will likely bring in > excess of 500 or 600 people and maybe that number can be increased by > the interest generated by a joint SotM meeting. And the other way > around of course. I think the question will be addressed here at one of > the administrative meetings (I think the OSGeo one tonight). > > My 2 cents, > > Yves Moisan > > > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
