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

[Katie Filbert]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Eric Wolf <ebwolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> <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.
>

I like the idea of having SOTM and FOSS4G back-to-back.  But, SOTM + FOSS4G
+ WhereCamp all together might be too much.  How about some unconference
sessions or track parallel or part of FOSS4G?


>
> 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.
>
>
No strong preference but weekend after seems good.


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

I think the US community is ready to be host of SOTM and the chances are
good.

(if not, maybe Havana? -
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2011/Bid/Havana,_Cuba )

-Katie




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> -Eric
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> Eric B. Wolf                           720-334-7734
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> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:35 AM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> It looks like FOSS4G 2011 will be held September 12-16.
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>> http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2010/09/foss4g-2010-wrapup.html
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>> 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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