For SOTM10, having it coincide with FOSS4G - also in Spain - was considered but rejected for, iirc, that very reason: the idea of SOTM sharing the stage with the bigger (at least in numbers) FOSS4G did not appeal. The advantages of having the conference stand on its own outweighed the disadvantage of missing out on the additional attendee potential.
I did not really fall for that argument back then and I am glad to see the conferences coincide this time. It will be a different conference from the European ones for that and other reasons. But that's not a bad thing. OpenStreetMap evolves and SOTM should evolve with it. Martijn van Exel +++ m...@rtijn.org Laziness – Impatience – Hubris http://schaaltreinen.nl twitter: mvexel skype: mvexel flickr: rhodes On Oct 25, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > SotM11 is planned to be arranged just after the FOSS4G conference. I do not > believe it is an accident because Steve Coast and Mikel Maron are members of > the > FOSS4G Local Organizing Committee > (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Denver_LOC). > It can be a good idea if people can spend the whole week and take part in the > both conferences. Or then somebody could have a speech in both conferences. > After all, we are not so far away from the FOSS4G folks and software. OSM was > very visible in FOSS4G this year but also we might have something to learn > from > the paleogis side. > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
