Re: [location-iwg] On events

[Heather Leson <hleson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All, This this thread is about events, I'll mention the ones that are coming up in the Crisismapping community:

Full event:
International Conference of Crisis Mappers, Washington DC (October 11 - 14, 2012)

http://crisismappers.net/page/iccm-washington-2012
This event brings together humanitarians, mappers (open source, et al) and technologists together to discuss best practices, highlight new methodology and tools and network on all things location plus humanitarian. While FOSS4G is a component, it is not exclusive. ESRI, GeoEye and others participate. In fact, it is a huge benefit to the community to have all the flavours of location join in the dialogue. 

Hackathon: 
International Conference of Crisis Mappers/ Random Hacks of Kindness, Washington  (October 13 - 14, 2012) 
http://www.rhok.org/event/rhok-iccm
Challenge Submissions are being accepted from mappers and humanitarian groups. I'm one of the lead organizers. We are looking for participants to help build open source map or hack solutions for real work issues. 

I'm happy to answer questions on or off list.  Andrew, I will take you up on your offer to talk more too.

Heather

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is a natural interest to provide similar services as part of

LocationTech. The obvious options are:

1) Do a LocationTech sub-conference of EclipseCon/EclipseCon Europe

Check. I am interested to lear more of the demographics of these conferences and what an appropriate message would be for outreach activities.

2) Do stand-alone conferences for LocationTech

I suspect we will need some more content first. 

3) Get involved with other established events, such as FOSS4G as a notable example.

I would be good to try and take part in the regional FOSS4G conferences (for example FOSS4G-NA).  

These options are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

There may be some potential to build on the "Friends of Eclipse" program

and offer a LocationTech annual subscription. For example, $49 a year

gives you a discount at many events, a discount with many vendors,

access to conference videos sooner, downloads from faster servers, etc.

While I am familiar with the "Friends of Eclipse" program and sign up each year; I have never tracked any of

its benefits beyond the obvious support the eclipse foundation; and access to download server.

One idea would be to have a google hangout session with the development team for "Friends of LocationTech"; the resulting Q&A hangout can edited up and published at a later date.

Jody

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