OSCON 2008 - Revision history

Wiki-Percyd at 20:28, 25 July 2008

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Wiki-Percyd at 20:28, 25 July 2008

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Wiki-Percyd at 20:25, 25 July 2008

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Wiki-Percyd at 20:25, 25 July 2008

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Darkblueb at 16:59, 25 July 2008

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Darkblueb at 16:47, 25 July 2008

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Darkblueb at 15:45, 9 July 2008

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Darkblueb at 15:14, 9 July 2008

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Darkblueb at 15:14, 9 July 2008

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Darkblueb at 15:13, 9 July 2008

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 * traffic was reasonable, the conversations were often good. A pattern of specialty still exists - that is, a small handful of professionals had completed sometimes extensive projects and wanted to show them off to us on their laptops! While the majority of attendees had little exposure to the tech at all, however they had GPS units and wanted to figure out how to get free basemaps, or... Some interest in intro web mapping. Some awareness of FOSS4G in Cape Town.
-*once again, a common theme is that people want data! and they want geocoding! This is Percy's third year doing OSCON, and there was a "groundhog day" feel to those kind of questions.
+*once again, a common theme is that people want data! and they want geocoding! This is Percy's third year doing OSCON, and there was a "groundhog day" feel to those kind of questions. Usually some guy has an idea about how to make money using LBS, but he doesn't want to give you all the details, so he's a little vague and talks about locating zipcodes and calculating distances between things.
 * spoke with some media professionals.. they are aware of the strategic importance of the sector
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 * We (someone besides Percy) should talk to the O'Reilly folks about doing an OSGEO track next year :-)
-*Percy thinks we can probably count on sharing space with opensourcelabs, PSU rocketry club, etc next year, if we want...
+*Percy thinks we can probably count on sharing space with opensourcelabs, PSU rocketry club, etc next year, if we want... It's not as plush and high visibility as having our own booth, but you can't beat the price!

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	* We (someone besides Percy) should talk to the O'Reilly folks about doing an OSGEO track next year :-)		* We (someone besides Percy) should talk to the O'Reilly folks about doing an OSGEO track next year :-)
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		+	*Percy thinks we can probably count on sharing space with opensourcelabs, PSU rocketry club, etc next year, if we want...
		+	It's not as plush and high visibility as having our own booth, but you can't beat the price!

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	*a picture of the booth will appear near here sometime soon.		*a picture of the booth will appear near here sometime soon.

−	* We (someone besides Percy) should talk to the O'Reilly folks about doing an OSGEO track next year	+	* We (someone besides Percy) should talk to the O'Reilly folks about doing an OSGEO track next year :-)
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 '''Summary'''
-* traffic was light, though the conversations were often good. A pattern of specialty still exists - that is, a small handfull of professionals had completed sometimes extensive projects, while the majority of attendees had little exposure to the tech at all... Some interest in intro web mapping. Some awareness of FOSS4G in Cape Town.
+* traffic was reasonable, the conversations were often good. A pattern of specialty still exists - that is, a small handful of professionals had completed sometimes extensive projects and wanted to show them off to us on their laptops! While the majority of attendees had little exposure to the tech at all, however they had GPS units and wanted to figure out how to get free basemaps, or... Some interest in intro web mapping. Some awareness of FOSS4G in Cape Town.
 * spoke with some media professionals.. they are aware of the strategic importance of the sector
-* several companies expressed polite  interest in getting developer attention through OSGeo
+* several companies expressed polite interest in getting developer attention through OSGeo

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 '''Booth'''
-* PercyD is in charge, and did a great job
+* PercyD is in charge
 '''Volunteers'''

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 '''Updated Logo'''
 * look out for updated style guide
 * not clear on exactly how much material will have the updated logo printed on it. TylerM working on it

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