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OSGIS 2004 Conference Report

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Tadams at 12:54, 13 June 2019

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OSGIS 2004 Conference Report: enhance 2004 section

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Stevenfeldman: /* FOSS4G 2013 Conference Report */

2016-09-19T09:00:00Z

FOSS4G 2013 Conference Report

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 =FOSS/GRASS 2004 Conference Report=
-Conference Name: FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR GEOINFORMATICS/ GIS - GRASS USERS CONFERENCE 2004 (FOSS/GRASS 2004)
+* Conference Name: FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR GEOINFORMATICS/ GIS - GRASS USERS CONFERENCE 2004 (FOSS/GRASS 2004)
-Date: 2004-09-12 to 2004-09-14
+* Date: 2004-09-12 to 2004-09-14
-Location: Chulalongkorn University, Bankok Thailand
+* Location: Chulalongkorn University, Bankok Thailand
-Organizing Committee Contact: grass_uc (at) gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
+* Organizing Committee Contact: grass_uc (at) gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
 Note: the following financial numbers are in US $
-General Information
+== General Information ==
-Attendance
+=== Attendance ===
-Type
+* General Sessions: 150
-Number of Attendees
+* Workshops: 150
-General Sessions
+* Exhibition Only(Poster): 150
+* Social Event(Welcome and farewell party): 100
-*Conference documents (including the financial report) are found at: http://www.osgeo.org/conference/archives/grass04
+=== Conference Fees for 1 Individual ===
-Conference Fees for 1 Individual
+* Early: 60 USD (International)
-Early
+* Osaka City University: 2,000 USD
-Late
+* Japan-Vietnam Geoinformatics Consortium: 2,000 USD
-Conference Pass
+* Chulalongkorn university: 1,500 USD
-USD (International)
+* Orkney Inc.: 1,000 USD
 * Travel support for some participants must be considered
+* Reduced registration fee for students and some participants
-Financial Information
+* Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award
+* Best Student paper, Best Student Poster Award
-Sponsorship
+* Attendees must be requested to fill in OSGeo membership forms and automatically become members of OSGeo
 = OSGIS 2004 Conference Report =

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 * Date: 2004-06-09 to 2004-06-11
 * Location: Ottawa, Canada
-* Organizing Committee Contact: Jeff McKenna: jmckenna (at) gatewaygeomatics (dot) com
+* Organizing Committee Contact: [[Jeff McKenna]]: jmckenna (at) gatewaygeomatics (dot) com
 Note: the following financial numbers are in CAN $

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 Date: August 22-26, 2016
 Location: Bonn, Germany
-Organizing Committee Contact (including email): [[User:Till Adams]], tilladams@fossgis.de
+Organizing Committee Contact (including email): [[User:Till Adams]], tilladams (at) fossgis (dot) de
 ==General Information==
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 Date: Sept 14-19, 2015
 Location: Seoul, South Korea
-Organizing Committee Contact (including email): [[User:Endofcap|Sanghee Shin]], shshin@gaia3d.com
+Organizing Committee Contact (including email): [[User:Endofcap|Sanghee Shin]], shshin (at) gaia3d (dot) com
 ==General Information==
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 Date: Sept 8-13, 2014
 Location: Portland, OR, USA
-Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Darrell Fuhriman, darrell@garnix.org
+Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Darrell Fuhriman, darrell (at) garnix (dot) org
 ==General Information==
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 Date:  September 17-21, 2013
 Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
-Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Steven Feldman (shfeldman@gmail.com)
+Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Steven Feldman : shfeldman (at) gmail (dot) com
 Note: please specify the type of currency you are referring to throughout the document: UK Pounds (£)
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 Date:  September 12-16, 2011
 Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
-Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Peter Batty (peter.batty@gmail.com)
+Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Peter Batty : peter.batty (at) gmail (dot) com
 Note: please specify the type of currency you are referring to throughout the document: U.S. Dollars
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 Date: 5. to 7. April 2011
 Location: Heidelberg (Germany)
-Organizing Committee Contact (including email):info@fossgis.de
+Organizing Committee Contact (including email):info (at) fossgis (dot) de
 FOSSGIS e.V., OpenStreetMap Community and Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in cooperation with the Department for Geoinformatic of the Geographic Institute of the University of Heidelberg
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 Local Organizing Committee
 Lorenzo Becchi (Chair). Board member of the OSGeo Spanish Chapter
-lbecchi@osgeo.org
+lbecchi (at) osgeo.org
 Jordi Guimet. Director of the Catalan SDI (IDEC)
-jordi.guimet@icc.cat
+jordi.guimet (at) icc.cat
 Irene Compte. Executive Director, Urbiotica S.L.
-irene@sigte.udg.es
+irene (at) sigte.udg.es
 Lluís Vicens. Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Service (SIGTE) of the University of Girona
-lluis@sigte.udg.es
+lluis (at) sigte.udg.es
 Cárol Puig. Lecture of Geomatics at Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC)
-carol.puig@upc.edu
+carol.puig (at) upc.edu
 Oscar Fonts. Geographic Information Research Group, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló
-oscar.fonts@gmail.com
+oscar.fonts (at) gmail.com
 Note: please specify the type of currency you are referring to throughout the document. EUROS
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 Date:  20th – 23rd October 2009
 Location: Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia
-Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Cameron Shorter (cameron.shorter@gmail.com)
+Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Cameron Shorter (cameron.shorter (at) gmail.com)
 Note: please specify the type of currency you are referring to throughout the document: Australian Dollar
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 Date: 17.-19. March 2009
 Location: Leibnuz University Hannover
-Organizing Committee Contact (including email): FOSSGIS-Committee (georg.loesel@fossgis.de)
+Organizing Committee Contact (including email): FOSSGIS-Committee (georg.loesel (at) fossgis.de)
 http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Organisationsteam_2009
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 Date: September 29 – October 4
 Location: Cape Town, South Africa
-Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Gavin Fleming (gavinjfleming@gmail.com)
+Organizing Committee Contact (including email): Gavin Fleming (gavinjfleming (at) gmail.com)
 Note: please specify the type of currency you are referring to throughout the document
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 Date: 1. bis 3. April 2008
 Location: Freiburg (im Breisgau), Germany
-Organizing Committee Contact: FOSSGIS-Committee (georg.loesel@fossgis.de)
+Organizing Committee Contact: FOSSGIS-Committee (georg.loesel (at) fossgis.de)
 http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Organisationsteam_2008
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 Date:	2007-09-24 to 2007-09-27
 Location:	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
-Contact:	Paul Ramsey (pramsey@cleverelephant.ca)
+Contact:	Paul Ramsey (pramsey (at) cleverelephant.ca)
 General Information
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 Date: 2007-03-13 to 2007-03-15
 Location: Germany, Berlin, Humboldt-University, Erwin-Schrödinger Zentrum
-Organizing Committee Contact: FOSSGIS-Committee (georg.loesel@fossgis.de)
+Organizing Committee Contact: FOSSGIS-Committee (georg.loesel (at) fossgis.de)
 http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Organisationsteam_2007
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 Date:  from 2006-09-12 to 2006-09-15
 Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
-Organizing Committee Contact: Claude Philipona (claude.philipona@camptocamp.com)
+Organizing Committee Contact: Claude Philipona (claude.philipona (at) camptocamp.com)
 Note: the following financial numbers are in CHF (Swiss Francs)
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 Date: 2005-06-16 to 2005-06-18
 Location: Minneapolis, MN USA
-Organizing Committee Contact: Steve Lime (steve.lime@state.mn.us)
+Organizing Committee Contact: Steve Lime (steve.lime (at) state.mn.us)
 Note: the following financial numbers are in US $
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 Date: 2004-09-12 to 2004-09-14
 Location: Chulalongkorn University, Bankok Thailand
-Organizing Committee Contact: grass_uc@gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
+Organizing Committee Contact: grass_uc (at) gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
 Note: the following financial numbers are in US $

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 * Date: 2004-06-09 to 2004-06-11
 * Location: Ottawa, Canada
-* Organizing Committee Contact: Jeff McKenna (jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com)
+* Organizing Committee Contact: Jeff McKenna: jmckenna (at) gatewaygeomatics (dot) com
 Note: the following financial numbers are in CAN $

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 This page details all of the Conference Reports that were previously included in the FOSS4G Request for Proposals (RfP) document. It has been copied from that document and still needs a lot of formatting (I have formatted the 2014 report to provide an example). Tables have not been copied across
-Reports for 2016 need to be added
+=FOSS4G 2016 Conference Report=
 =FOSS4G 2015 Conference Report=

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-=Financial Information=
+== Financial Information ==
-==Sponsorship==
+=== Sponsorship ===
 Please include your top 5 sponsors and their amount:
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 *please attach the public sponsorship document (describing possible levels) See http://2013.foss4g.org/sponsorship-opportunities/sponsorship-packages/index.html
-==Financial Report==
+=== Financial Report ===
-===REVENUE===
+==== REVENUE ====
 Registration (includes charges for on site accommodation) = £346,015
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 '''Total = £487,709'''
-===EXPENSES===
+==== EXPENSES ====
 Marketing (Web site, t-shirts, programme book, delegate gifts, signage etc) = £20,102

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 = OSGIS 2004 Conference Report =
-Conference Name: OSGIS – Open Source GIS Conference and MapServer User Meeting
+* Conference Name: OSGIS – Open Source GIS Conference and MapServer User Meeting
-Date: 2004-06-09 to 2004-06-11
+* Date: 2004-06-09 to 2004-06-11
-Location: Ottawa, Canada
+* Location: Ottawa, Canada
-Organizing Committee Contact: Jeff McKenna (jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com)
+* Organizing Committee Contact: Jeff McKenna (jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com)
 Note: the following financial numbers are in CAN $
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 === Attendance ===
-Type
+* General Sessions: 210
-Number of Attendees
+* Workshops: 130
-General Sessions
+* Exhibition Only: 3
+* Social Event: 152
 == Financial Information ==
-Sponsorship
+=== Sponsorship ===
-EXPENSES
+==== EXPENSES ====
-Suggestions
+== Suggestions ==
-•	we provided transportation from hotel to conference, and this is a requirement for future conferences
+* we provided transportation from hotel to conference, and this is a requirement for future conferences
-•	we gave registrants the ability to choose their top 4 workshops to attend
+* we gave registrants the ability to choose their top 4 workshops to attend
-•	we made sure each night had a social event, even if it was just an arranged place to meet at after hours, and this made the conference a success (in terms of feedback)
+* we made sure each night had a social event, even if it was just an arranged place to meet at after hours, and this made the conference a success (in terms of feedback)
-•	we used a LIVECD for the Linux workshops
+* we used a LIVECD for the Linux workshops
-•	our downfall financially is that we started looking for sponsors too late
+* our downfall financially is that we started looking for sponsors too late
-•	we had a special student registration price, and this was very popular
+* we had a special student registration price, and this was very popular
-our venue costs were very high because we had to r
+* our venue costs were very high because we had to rent the space from the university
 [[Category:Conference Committee]]

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 General Information
-Attendance
+==Attendance==
-Type
+Number of Attendees at General Sessions:
-Number of Attendees
+* Thurs 19th - 799
-General Sessions
+* Fri 20th - 797
-Thurs 19th - 799, Fri 20th - 797, Sat 21st - 736
+* Sat 21st - 736
-Conference Fees for 1 Individual
+Social Events:
-Early (rates inc UK sales tax at 20% i.e. this is what a delegate paid)
+==Conference Fees for 1 Individual==
-Late (rates inc UK sales tax at 20% i.e. this is what a delegate paid)
 Conference Pass (full conference 3 days inc social event
-Single Day pass
+Early (rates inc UK sales tax at 20% i.e. this is what a delegate paid) = £350
-£350
+Late (rates inc UK sales tax at 20% i.e. this is what a delegate paid) =£435
 £135
-£435
+Single Day pass = £135/£165
-£165
 Workshops (choices could be from either day)
-hours
+hours = £60
-hours
+hours = £120
 Social Events
-Ice Breaker
+Ice Breaker = £35
 Gala Night (free with full conference pass, chargeable for day delegates £55)
-Closing Party
+Closing Party = £35
 Notes
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-Financial Information
+=Financial Information=
-Sponsorship
+==Sponsorship==
 Please include your top 5 sponsors and their amount:
-Sponsor Name
+Ordnance Survey - Diamond - £25,000 plus sales tax
-Amount/Level
+UK Met Office - Diamond - £25,000 plus sales tax
-Ordnance Survey
+Google - Gold - £10,000 plus sales tax
-Diamond - £25,000 plus sales tax
+Sopra - Gold - £10,000 plus sales tax
-UK Met Office
+Envitia - Gold - £10,000 plus sales tax
-Diamond - £25,000 plus sales tax
+Eclipse LocationTech - Gold - £5,000 plus sales tax plus the provision of video recording staff, equipment and service for the whole of the conference
 *please attach the public sponsorship document (describing possible levels) See http://2013.foss4g.org/sponsorship-opportunities/sponsorship-packages/index.html
-Financial Report
+Registration (includes charges for on site accommodation) = £346,015
 Workshops (income not separated and included in above but estimated at £15,000)
+Sponsorship = £138,694
 Social Event (included in conference fee, very few bookings by day delegates)
-Other
+'''Total = £487,709'''
-Total
+===EXPENSES===
-EXPENSES
+Marketing (Web site, t-shirts, programme book, delegate gifts, signage etc) = £20,102
-Type
+Administration (travel, insurance registration service, credit card fees, PCO fee at 5% of costs) = £44,914
-Amount
+Venue (includes meals, catering for social events, on site accommodation) = £278,163
 Meals (inc in venue above)
-Social Event (main cost was catering included in venue above) costs of entertainers
+Donations (AGI £7,500, OSGeo UK Chapter £7,500, Others £1,000) = £16,000
-£4,785
+Returned to OSGeo Foundation = £91,252 (approx $146,000)
 Notes