Where’s the feedback on FOSS4G?
Being unable to attend FOSS4G this year, I freed up lots of space in my schedule to read the daily reports that would surely come streaming from my RSS reader. I’m still waiting. In previous years, there were a lot of posts about the conference, often posted during the conference itself. What was different about this year?
OK, so we know that Paul Ramsey was awarded the Sol Katz award (though why he should be surprised by that, I don’t know), and that Chris Schmidt posted a video of Schulyer’s lightning talk (actually Chris did put a few posts up), but other than that there has been very little posting. Not fair guys! Those of us that couldn’t go want to know what the big stories were! What were the trends? What was it like playing with the proprietary guys?
Here is some of what I have gathered up from someone I know who presented:
http://earthissquare.com/2008/10/04/foss-opengeo-google-earth-huh/
http://earthissquare.com/2008/10/02/worldwind-java-on-osgeo-live-disk/
http://madmappers.com/news/?p=64
But on the whole.. it has been dead quiet reporting on what all went on.. which leads to the “Vegas Theory” in that what happened in Africa, Stayed in Africa.