A quiet bit of byplay is going on in the world of extreme geogeekery, as the State of the Map conference, the annual gathering of the OpenStreetMap community, decides where to host their 2010 event. The twist for this year is that an intrepid member of their spanish community has suggested hosting the event in Barcelona, to align with the FOSS4G 2010 event (either right before or right after). The OSM community decides on their site in early December – I'll add my non-binding "ooooooooh, I hopehopehopehopehope they choose Barcelona!"
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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This is a no brainer to me. Those two communities have so much to share that I'm baffled the two conferences haven't shared venues before. It's hard enough for people to get funding to go to one major FOSS/Free Data conference in the field of geomatics, so people end up choosing either FOSS4G or SoTM, which is a shame. Heck, we did a mapping party at FOSS4G in 2008 in Cape Town two day before the conference ! Go conference merger !
That would be absolutely great!
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