Konferenz 2006/Introduction EN

FOSSGIS 2006

The FOSSGIS 2006 is the conference Wiki of the German language sibling to the old UMN MapServer and new FOSS4G 2006 conference.

The FOSSGIS 2006 is explicitly not trying to stand in the way as an alternative to the FOSS4G conference. The FOSS4G 2006 (http://www.foss4g2006.org/) is the official meeting of the tribes! Last year the German speaking user community insisted on having a local user meeting, so this is why there is another conference with a similar name. The FOSSGIS conference takes place at the end of March instead of September to not collide with the FOSS4G conference.

Future Planning of Conferences

In future hopefully this kind of organization can take place in a more orderly manner, we see this as one of the tasks for the emerging Foundation.