[Talk-us] Venues for State of the Map US and International Conferences (Peter Batty)

[Eric Wolf]

FOSS4G 2011 will be 12-16 September 2011 at the Sheraton Downtown. The OSgeo
wiki has some more details:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011

<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011>There is a wide variety of hotels in
the downtown area, including a few hostels.

We (the Denver LOC) are hoping to line up a second venue for the weekend
following (17/18) for WhereCamp5280 to serve the role of a Code Sprint.

Possible venues for SOTM-US could be the University of Denver (which hosted
WhereCamp5280 in 2009) and the Auraria Campus of the University of
Colorado-Denver/Metro State/Denver Community College (which may host
WhereCamp5280 in 2010). Both are easily accessible via light rail from any
hotel close to FOSS4G.

Three reasonable possibilities exist for dates:

1. Weekend before (Sept 10/11) - would help maintain separate identity
2. Monday/Tuesday - the first two days of FOSS4G will just be workshops. The
workshops will be largely the same as FOSS4G 2010. An advantage here is you
could get the conference rate at the Sheraton - $189/night. It is on the
high end but it's pretty swank. That rate will be guaranteed to be the
lowest published rate for the Sheraton.
3. Weekend after - combine with the Code Sprint and unconference.

What are the chances of getting THE SOTM in the US next year?

-Eric
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Eric B. Wolf                           720-334-7734





On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:35 AM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>wrote:

> It looks like FOSS4G 2011 will be held September 12-16.
>
> http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2010/09/foss4g-2010-wrapup.html
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> wrote:
> >  this Denver SOTM 2011 plan looks pretty neat to me as well.
> >
> > however, i'm going to play pessimist here for a moment and remind
> > everyone that just because we like it doesn't mean that it's going to
> > happen, so we need to consider the fallback plan for an SOTM-US
> > just in case.
> >
> > i see two options right now for handling such a situation:
> >
> > 1) the SOTM bidder is prepared to do SOTM-US if SOTM is
> > not awarded to the US
> >
> > 2) if the SOTM selection occurs soon enough, go with a
> > normal bidding process for SOTM-US
> >
> > discussion?
> >
> > richard
> >
> >
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