I think a presentation to introduce Openstreetmap would be very appropriate there. I guess my French is sufficient to present it, but I think it would be better if a native speaker would do it. I'm pretty sure parts of the presentation presented in Mons can be (re)used:
http://www.loligrub.be/wiki/openstreetmap#conference_jeudis_du_libre_du_17_janvier_2013 Didier was going to provide the source document as odt too. Are you going to ask the organisers if we can give a presentation and a present a stand? I'm prepared to take that Thursday off from work to man the stand. Jo 2013/2/5 Julien Fastré <jul...@fastre.info> > Hi, > > I am also open to discuss on the opportunity to have a stand (and a > conference ? The level is not the same than FOSDEM...) at the Walloon Event > "rewics" in Charleroi, end of April. http://www.rewics.be > > Julien > > Le 04/02/13 14:08, Jo a écrit : > > No worries Peter. I'm planning to show it in Lier. There is so much going > on at FOSDEM, one has to find a way to divide and conquer :-) > > Ben, I hope the Hack weekend was productive! > > The first week of July there will be another event around free software > and free content. The RMLL comes to Brussels this time! Usually it's > somewhere in France and last year it was in Switzerland. Too far away for > me. But now that it's nearby we should make sure we represent OSM there. > > They would like we do a mapping party on the day for 'le grand public'. > I think we can do 1 or 2 presentations (introductory and more advanced) > and I think it's important we'll have a stand there as well. Maybe with 3 > to 5 computers, so people can get some 'hands-on' experience. > > And we need 'goodies', of course: T-shirts, but also anoraks/rain coats, > caps, high-viz vests. Cups, pens (muts/bonnet maybe for the die hard > mappers...) ? > Openstreetmap.fr is working on that, but I'm not entirely sure if they > will be with .fr or with .org then. > > The first week of August there is the festival of Esperanza in Floreffe, > where OSM also has a presence, thanks to Pierre Willot. > > Jo > > 2013/2/4 Ben Abelshausen <ben.abelshau...@gmail.com> > >> Hi, >> >> I was, as usual, also planning to visit FOSDEM but decided to go to the >> OSM London Hack Weekend ( >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_Hack_Weekend_Feb_2013) but I >> will be able to meet you all in Lier again. Hopefully a lot of you will >> join because I still haven't met a lot of the mappers on this list! >> >> My compliments to the organizers of the stand, maybe next year I will be >> able to join! >> >> Regards, >> >> Ben >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Peter Leemans <pe...@bist2.be> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I payed a little visit a couple of times to the stand. >>> First estimates are there where between 5 and 7000 visitors there on >>> saturday. >>> So the project should have had 'some' exposure :). >>> It was nice to have you guys at Fosdem. >>> >>> Also want to say sorry to Jo. >>> He wanted to show me some stuff he had done, but unfortunatly I didn't >>> have the time. >>> Hopefully I can find some time to join in Lier. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Peter 'toi' Leemans >>> >>> >>> On 04-02-13 09:49, Julien Fastré wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> For your information some mappers, belgian and french, were presents at >>>> FOSDEM to present OSM in a stand. >>>> >>>> We had good contacts with people at FOSDEM. This was a nice week-end ! >>>> A lot of contacts and meetings. >>>> >>>> We were thinking that some question were very accurate. The Jo's >>>> presence was helpful for those questions. We should keep that in mind for >>>> next year. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Julien Fastré >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-be mailing list >>>> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-be mailing list >>> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing > listTalk-be@openstreetmap.orghttp://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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