[Talk-ca] SOTM 2010 Bid for Ottawa?

[Sam Vekemans]

Fyi, the peanut gallery over here on the west coast is also pondering
over it too.

Can someone who actually attended last years SOTM, summerize the experience?
Imo Map nerds are more like smarties, where ArchGIS folks are more
like m&m's. :-) both make great week-end snacks. And both may contain
traces of ...GPS tracks.

Cheers,
Sam

On 11/13/09, Yves Moisan <yves.moisan at boreal-is.com> wrote:
>
>> "Barcelona because of the combination with FOSS4G: OSM will not be the
>> centre of attention"
>
> Sleeping over it, I feel I need to make some nuances to my email of
> yesterday.  I know, Emilie, I told you I wouldn't post again on this
> subject so that it doesn't snowball, but for the sake of balance, please
> forgive me that post.  I don't want to go through a bulleted list of
> cons.  I'll just say the cons of back to back conferences I see are
> practical in nature.  They may be summarized as : too much geekness in
> one week.
>
> The argument of SoTM being shadowed by FOSS4G is more valid in 2010 IMO.
> In 2009, FOSS4G was a 3-day event.  In fact, for most people it was a
> 4-day event : users had the workshop day before and developers had the
> sprint day after.   People from the industry also had a 4-day
> conference : they had to set up their booths on the day before the
> conference.  And "geeks" probably had a 5-day event ...
>
> This year, FOSS4G is slated as a 4-day event.  I don't know if that
> counts workshops though.  All that to say that maybe the strongest
> practical cons of holding back to back events is that it may be too much
> for one week.  So less time for people to visit the city (I assume most
> people will book one week in their agenda, so conferences on weekends
> seem impractical to me), less time for para-conference events, for
> networking ...  And maybe that would mean SoTM gets squeezed too much.
>
> Ideally, the opinions from people that attend both conferences should be
> sought.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yves
>
>
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