Great, thanks Lane.
Peaceray has been in talks with the OSM people in Seattle.
Mako was asking about estimated attendance in case we decide to ask UW to host a conference in 2016. The information in the Google doc about estimated attendance (850 OSM plus at least 350 for WCONUSA) is helpful to get a sense of scale. It sounds like we should estimate combined attendance at about 1500, assuming some year-over-year attendance growth. Does that sound right?
I've also asked Peaceray to consider reaching out to the SeaGL (Seattle GNU/Linux Conference) people because they might also be interested in the concept of a joint conference in Seattle. I'm not sure how active their organizers are, but if we have a conference at UW then I think they might be interested in joining up with us.
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Hello,
I attended the United States National Open Street Map conference, State of the Map, in New York last weekend. There were about 8 OSMers from Seattle there, and I met with them.
They had proposed hosting their conference in Seattle next year, and I thought also that the Wikipedia community might like a conference in Seattle next year, and I was wondering if Open Street Map and Wikipedia might co-host a conference next year.
I started collecting some ideas in a Google Doc. < https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr...
Thoughts?
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