Fwd: INSPIRE Conference 2008

[Benjamin Henrion]

Application rejected.

Can we send someone to Slovenia in June?

Or ask the organisers to make a video recording?

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Date: Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Subject: INSPIRE Conference 2008
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Dear Benjamin Henrion,,

Thank you for submitting your paper

PublicGeoData: State-collected Geographic Data is public property
Benjamin Henrion

to the INSPIRE Conference 2008. Unfortunately, due to the large number
of papers received we regret that we cannot include your paper in this
year's programme as an oral presentation.

We would however like to include the paper as a poster presentation.

Please let us know before the 15th May 2008 if this is acceptable to
you so that you can be included in the programme.

Thank you once again for your interest in the INSPIRE conference.

I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that there is a
registration fee for the workshop and if you wish to avail of the
early registration rate you should register before the 15th May 2008

I would also recommend that you book your hotel accommodation before
the 15th May 2008.

Karen Fullerton

http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/inspire_2008/


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[Jo Walsh]

dear Benjamin, all,

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 09:51:29AM +0200, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> Application rejected.
> Can we send someone to Slovenia in June?

I didn't submit a paper this year as I knew i'd be unable to travel then.
So it depends on what you mean by "we" in this context. At last year's
EC-GIS workshop of which I guess this is the successor, there were
some open source / open data "allies" who we can hope will blog this time.
I'd love to know more about what's going on at national level in terms
of implementation.

Re. drafting papers for this kind of thing, I have had a lot more luck
presenting a free/open data case as a corollary of something else
useful and above all *cost-saving* ;) - distributing very large data
sets via bittorrent, implementing "INSPIRE compliance" simply with
free software, the "neogeography" angle used to be good for this too.

I see ESRI are funding a "building INSPIRE compliant solutions" seminar
http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/inspire_2008/esri_workshop.cfm at this
conference. Now *that* i would like to see and assess how
straightforward it will be to replicate.

cheers,


jo
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