[Talk-us] Venues for State of the Map US and International Conferences

[Ian Dees]

I like this idea. Do you know which venue they're using? How long will it
be? Will we burn people out with too much open source geo?

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Leslie Zolman <lzolman1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was going to put my vote in for Denver.  If FOSS4G is going to be there
> that would be great if people could make both events.
>
> Leslie
>
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> *From:* Peter Batty <peter at ebatty.com>
> *To:* Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* "talk-us at openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap" <Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
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> *Sent:* Wed, September 8, 2010 8:41:59 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-us] Venues for State of the Map US and International
> Conferences
>
> We are hosting the international FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for
> Geospatial) conference in Denver in September 2011, and several folks have
> suggested the idea of having State of the Map back to back with that (US
> and/or international). The events should definitely be separate and have
> their own identity (I think), but there would be quite a lot of people
> interested in attending both. We'll probably have around 1000 people at
> FOSS4G.
>
> Cheers,
>     Peter.
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> One of the topics discussed tonight during the US Chapter board meeting
>> was the possibility of making a bid for the international State of the Map
>> conference in 2011. We thought that it might make sense to combine the US
>> and international conferences into one and try to draw attendees from the
>> rest of the world.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a good host city for either the US or International
>> State of the Map?
>>
>> I'll start by suggesting my current city of Minneapolis.
>>   - Relatively major airport so flights should be cheap and/or quick
>>   - A large metropolitan area with lots to do and plenty of areas to map
>>   - Several different venues of various sizes that are easily accessible
>> by public transit
>>
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