My welcome presentation to FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham

1. Welcome to
Steven Feldman
FOSS4G 2013 Conference Chair

3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/21222992@N00/518873437
from we welcome you
Vítáme tĕ
迎欢
歡迎
Dobrodošli‫وسهل‬ ‫أهل‬
Welkom
Velkommen
Bienvenue
Willkommen
Καλώς ορίσατε
Aloha
Shalom
Benvenuto
ようこそ
환영합니다
Bienvenido
Bemvindo
Välkommen
Merhaba
ongi etorri
swagata croeso bénvnou
ยินดีต้อนรับ namaste
fáilte
tere tulemast
tervetuloa
welcome
добре дошъл benvinguts

4. It’s really kicking off for OSGeo
in Europe
http://flickr.com/photos/28574571@N00/143438318

5. A European Perspective
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62534170@N00/2678930459

6. Governments mandating or
encouraging Open Source
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35952152@N06/8372306953
European economy is saving around
€114Bn p.a. by using open source software
solutions

7. UK Germany France Finland
Iceland Netherlands Estonia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncaranti/4606341298

8. INSPIRE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67953162@N00/4268739624

9. Education
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30265340@N00/381552798
ICA-OSGeo MoU in Sep
2011
40 labs established worldwide in 2
years
North America – 8 labs
Europe – 14 labs
South America – 7 labs
Africa – 3 labs
Asia – 7 labs
Australia - 1 lab

10. Gamekeeper
turned
poacher
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdrummbks/3812623183/
Perso
nal
Reflec
tion

11. Geo for All
FOSS4GX

12. The Robin Hood License
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jm999uk/395665129
Robin Hood Condition. The Licensor hereby
guarantees to distribute at least 2 % of the
charges, he took from rich people, to social
projects, which support poor people.
Poor people are people with an income
below 30 % of the national average income
or people with an income below 55 USD per
month

13. “If this is coffee, please bring mesome tea; but if this is tea,please bring me some coffee”
Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadhunter/2668243992
At times it has felt as if
we have got 850 Abraham
Lincolns coming to
FOSS4G!

14. Making the
#BestFOSS4Gever
A Silent Movie

15. It all started here in Mappingham 730 days ago
Wouldn’t it be great if we could bring Wouldn’t it be great if we could bring
FOSS4G to the UK in 2013?FOSS4G to the UK in 2013?
Good idea I’ll chat Good idea I’ll chat
with Jeremywith Jeremy
We will need a logo, see We will need a logo, see
what you can do with thiswhat you can do with this
Ahh a ribbon with a cutting Ahh a ribbon with a cutting
edgeedge

16. Forming a team
Ok I’ll do that as long as Ok I’ll do that as long as
we have a good teamwe have a good team
I know just the band I know just the band
of merry men (and of merry men (and
women)women)
we need a chairmanwe need a chairman

17. What on earth is What on earth is
that thing?that thing?
It looks like a budget It looks like a budget
target, for our FOSS4G target, for our FOSS4G
proposal.proposal.
Can you hit it?Can you hit it?
Putting a bid together
It depends on the It depends on the
projectionprojection

18. Nottingham awarded FOSS4G and
promptly renames the town Mappingham
We’ve given you and your We’ve given you and your
merry men FOSS4G 2013 now merry men FOSS4G 2013 now
don’t mess it updon’t mess it up
No worries, we will No worries, we will
have a Mapperry have a Mapperry
time in Maptembertime in Maptember

19. Maptember 19th
189189 Presentations Presentations
8 Keynotes8 Keynotes
2 days of 18 2 days of 18
Workshops Workshops
programme programme
10 Free 10 Free
WorkshopsWorkshops
Birds of a Birds of a
featherfeather
CodesprintsCodesprints
Food, drink, party Food, drink, party
fun and geobeersfun and geobeers
and a Logoand a Logo
All that’s missing is the All that’s missing is the
partridge in a pear tree!partridge in a pear tree!
Over 850 Over 850
delegates!delegates!

20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremybrooks/2177715225/

21. A lot of thank you’s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/4759535950

22. Our amazing FOSS4G Team

23. OurVice Chairs

24. Thanks to Naomi Gale

25. Over 6000 team hours!
So massive thanks to
So massive thanks to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17997843@N02/8488675078

26. Thanks to

27. Diamond & Gold Sponsors

28. Silver & Bronze Sponsors

29. Supporters

30. Opening up the Map

31. Media Sponsors

32. Over 70 wonderfulVolunteers
Onome Abara Till Adams Elisabet Adeva Helene Augu John Birkett
Peter Broßeit John Bryant Iain Burnell Steven Campbell Jui-wen
Chang Jasmina Chow Antonios Chrysochoou Ben Clews Alexander
Coley Luciene Delazari Britta Duve Hansen Kenneth Field Thomas
Finnie Sam Franklin Helena Frudd Christine Gangl Robert Graham
Aileen Heal Heather Hillers Mats Högström Zhi Huang Vanessa
Hughes David Hunt Jermiane Hutchison Anthonia Ijeoma
Onyeahialam Phil James Karl-Magnus Jönsson Ilona Kemeling Pieter
Kempeneers Tobias Kohr Johannes Küpper Jakob Lagerstedt Adele
Lee Stu Lester Sizwe Mabaso Shannon McCann Erik Meerburg Peter
Meijer Simon Miles Marco Minghini Jonathan Moules Andreas
Neumann Brian Norman Ollie O'Brien Mark Percival Amir
Pourabdollah Chris Rhodes Cristina Rosales Roberto Santos Pekka
Sarkola Dinesh Sharma Giuseppe Sollazzo Fiona Spooner Angharad
Stone Tom Stork Matt Travis Paul Van Genuchten Christian
Willmes

33. You
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/234464601
Sam Franklin John Birkett David Hunt Graeme Bell Lars Aksel Opsahl Ricardo Cifres Ian Mayo Kees Kersten
Freek Wonnink Mael Meliani Matthieu Lefort Guillaume Sueur Jan Roger Andersen Frode Wiseth Jorgensen
Richard Hanssen Eirik Csak Knutsen Dean Paulley Steven Campbell Brent Fraser Niels Hoffmann Peter Meijer
Massimo Pignataro Robert Steele Matteo Gismondi John Britton John Bryant Aileen Heal Graeme Herbert
Vaclav Klusak Petr Pridal Hugo Martins Peter Wells Volker Mische Mark Percival Antoine Riche Dinesh
Sharma Thomas Bonfort Ben Wyss Cheng Chang Lu Martin Dresen Thomas Baumann Timothy Duffy Anders
Jürisoo Kristian Bergstrand Björn Lahti Gunnar Kuhi Margarita Selli Mart Reinola Marco Lechner Mihkel Oviir
Alec Ross Espen Oldeman Lund Espen Ornes Baishan Peng Dragan Podvezanec Marko Turkovic Casper Span
Tim Sutton Gary Colquhoun Mathieu Coudert Vasile Craciunescu Simone Dalmasso Arnaud De Groof
Yannick Arnaud Pirmin Kalberer Marco Hugentobler Horst Düster Jonas Eberle Georges-Thierry Handja
Peter Foster Tore Halset Sverre Iversen Michael Kalbermatten Richard Knippers Dalibor Kusic Chris Little
Paolo Pasquali Robert Nuske Muhammad Nabi Ahmad Erick Opiyo Per Liedman Peter Thorin Daniel Garcia
SeungJae Lim Sepehr Mavedati Julien Michel Peter Steen Nielsen Simon Valentin Hansen Aske Butze Marie
Nilsson Martin Ouellet Chris Berkhout Bjorn Sandvik Jorge Sanz Marcus Sen Mauritz Bomark Just Van den
Broecke Kristy Van Putten Matthew Bond Lluís Vicens Claudia Vitolo Andy Allan Maurizio Bottaccio
Alessandro Amici Antonios Chrysochoou Julien Collaer Nicolas Dufrane Thomas Gratier Helene Augu
Desiree Hilbring Simon Jirka Rasmus Johansson Karl-Magnus Jönsson Matthias Kuhn Julien-Samuel Lacroix
Jakob Lanstorp Martin Rivest Frederic Morin Bruce Anger Okan Birhan Daniel Karran Steve Keyworth Jamie
Williams Birgit Laggner Warren Marks Richard Brantingham James Skinner Matthew Rixson James Baker Louis
Holford Christopher Nicholas Matthew Bristow Oliver May Mike McCann Christine Meixner Lukas Treyer
Jacob Mendt Marco Montanari Luca Morandini Stefan Neumeier Natascha Orthen Birgit Blaabjerg Bisgaard
Jae-deok Roh Junghwan Yun Pekka Sarkola Alistair Wilkie Pascal Coulon Pieter De Graef Rasmus Ewehag
Christopher Eykamp Kenneth Field David Askov Lee Hachadoorian Thomas Hirsch Matthew Hodgskiss
Christian Willmes Qing Liu Tarvo Kurm Jakob Lagerstedt Alastair Graham Bjørn Ove Grøtan Heather Hillers
Mats Högström Jonathan Corker Nigel Godwin Celeste Dixon Rune Johnsrud Henrik Lund Pedersen Rolf
Dybdal Frank Arntsen Jarle Pedersen Jim Jones Andres Kärk Katrin Saul Jonas Saul Pieter Kempeneers Sergey
Borodavkin Alexey Klimenko Huyen Lam Hong Nicolas Lavigne Stephan Meissl Adrià Mercader Simon Miles
Andreas Neumann Dra_en Odoba_i_ Andrew Terry Mathias Walker Karl-Erik Wilson Brent Wood Luís De
Sousa Luca Delucchi Anita Graser Andrew Bailey Adam Burt Richard Hattersley Mark Hedley Clare Hubbard
Mappingham, UK
APS
Maptember
19,20,21
MAPFEST
FOSS4G

34. and you
Sabo Richard Everson Chris Ewing Anne Ghisla Jonathan Moules Frank Gasdorf Sören Gebbert Alexandre
Neto Pavel Shevchenko Till Adams Bertrand Gervais Neil Harris Phil James Victor Mensing Lara Marx Allart
Kooiman Timo Aarnio Jose Garcia Paul Van Genuchten María Arias de Reyna Anton Bakker Juan Luis
Rodriguez Ponce Craig Sanderson Ian Feeney Colin Wright Catherine Schroder David Frankland Andrew
Fleming Paul Hasenohr Jiri Kozel Jani Kylmäaho Minpa Lee Mika Lehtonen Jan Lindbom Heikki Ylitalo Jane
Lewis Jaakko Ruutiainen Klaus Luthje Edward Mac Gillavry Richard Duivenvoorde Hans Fast Kevin Mackay
Marco Negretti Gergely Márta Massimiliano Cannata MIlan Antonovic Peteris Bruns Maris Nartiss Steven
Ottens Barbara Percy Chambel Rui Kari Salovaara Jon Blower Marius Schebella James Stott Panagiotis Terzis
Johan Timrén Ben Tuttle Angelos Tzotsos Juan Ignacio Varela García Christian Wilson Kunwoo Yoo Raquel
Alegre Vanessa Bremerich Paolo Cavallini Lars Christensen Julia Altenbuchner Phillip Davis Roald De Wit
Alejandro Díaz Moisés Arcos Rich Farren Roberto Giachetta Daniel Buse Lene Fischer Kamilla Aggerlund
Andrea Antonello Silvia Franceschi Tasneem Jodhpurwala Luis Camacho Brian Low Gregory Marler Hal Seki
Ko Nagase Denise McKenzie Simon Redding Robert van Seeters Jonathan Splitt Bo Victor Thomsen
Alexander Coley Paul Den Dulk Sarah Cole Matthew Wood Robert Graham Audrey Malherbe Erik Meerburg
Taichi Furuhashi Lucy Bastin Anneley McMillan Jorge Gustavo Rocha Christian Strobl Richard White Jan
Boonen Franziska Zander Vincent Picavet Niels Charlier Iain Burnell Emmanuel Belo Pierre Giraud Eric
Lemoine Tom Payne Elisabeth Leu Jesse Eichar Yves Jacolin Shamar Droghetti Riccardo De Filippi Jürgen
Fischer Oscar Fonts Stefan Andersson Henrik Åkerlund Magnus Larsson Anders Nystrand Fernando González
Paulus Janssen Marius Jigmond Flavien Audin Johan Lahti Iván Sánchez Ortega Markus Schneider Marnix Tentij
Michelle Walker Rob Booth Andrea Aime Nathan Carr Christian Alfons Sasa Cvitkovic Peter Payne Thomas
Finnie Paolo Corti David Vernau Ole Edvard Grov David Martin Andrew Bell David Bianco Jan Kolar Eyasu
Ambaye Kruwialis Gael Gérald Fenoy Tamara Colby Ammar Al Shaarbaf Luuk Schaminée Klaus-Peter Schipper
Christopher Wood Jorge Mendes de Jesus Lars Schylberg Phillip Dooley Otto Richard Eide Hayan Shin Roualt
Even Mike Blom Alexander Nossum Sverre Wisløff Keino Valstad Vidar Brekke Gabriel Mavrellis Thomas
Miles Martin Daly Mateusz Loskot Frederic Eichelbrenner Astrid Emde Olaf Knopp Ning Feng Xian Chen
Theuns Heydenrych Andreas Schmitz Sanghee Shin Geoff Williams Kristina Zliobaite Johan Bresler Martin
Jensen Bo Overgaard Asger Petersen Gregers Petersen Edward Whiitaker Robert Cheetham Carmen Diez
Kasia Fedyk Víctor González Richard Hewitt Gerhard Sommer Rudolf Hochmeister Tom Kunicki Eddie Pickle
Nikolay Lebedev Thomas Puthusserry Lars Lingner Warren Vick Dave Tong Katharina Berger Carsten

35. and you
Moncrieff Raymond Nijssen Adam Rousell Jeff Van Etten Andrew Cowie Sebastian Block Vanessa Lawrence
Richard Ford John Powell Johnathan Garrett Davi Oliveira Custodio Michael Smith Graham Morgan Walter
Scott Jukka Rahkonen Duncan Hornby Matthias Mueller Gilles Tasse Alessio Fabiani Fabio Colombo Mkondo
Moyo Alan Crisp Jean-Christophe Aribaud Thomas Le Marec Robin Lovelace Juraj Malega Michal Nemcik
Patricia Reyes Firpo Chris Holmes Sandro Santilli Stephan Siemen Craig Mills Miguel Torres Tim Waters John
Caron Julia Robinson Corinna Ravilious Asta Kristin Oladottir Alessandro Borlo Jachym Cepicky Angharad
Stone Jermiane Hutchison Gertrude Madalo Chalira Martin Christen Nils Hempelmann Joshua Arnott Espen
Messel Atle Ommundsen Knut Landmark Morten Aronsen Rene Kaufmann Jesper Kempe Jaak Laineste
Kingsley Manda Stuart Mellanby Andrew Miller Kevin Williams David Belton Christian Sevcik Ugo Taddei
Johanna Van Rosmalen Per Griffiths Manuel Timita Zhi Huang Theo McCaie Rebecca Miles Lesley Challenger
Clare Hyde Andrew Poyntz Paul Rogers René-Luc D'Hont Ryang Lee Kang Kyung Eun Min Alan Beccati Marco
Bernasocchi Armin Burger Mehmet Serdar Ak Hasan Akpinar Ozgur Balci Serkan Gazel Serdar Sultanoglu
Cem Ozkan Dimitrios Sferopoulos Murat Dönder U_UR ÇAKMAK Barend Gehrels Go Sato Colin Gray John
Morten Klingsheim John Massey Nacho Moreno Steven Pousty Angelina Rennell Manuel De la Calle Miguel
Victor Gil Alonso Eric Kabuchanga Ji_í Kadlec Pavlo Shevchenko Andriy Yeykovych Dmytro Bondarenko Kim
Verup Jo Walsh Rob West Sam White Pietro Zambelli Brown Mphalo Scott Clark Vivien Deparday Jorge
Arévalo Dale Kunce James Nunn Johan Stålnacke Jenny Ranung Seth Girvin Colin Henderson David Pegg Jan
Jezek Peter Long Markus Schaffert John Hewitt Stuart Mcilreavy Sam Larsen Jane Humphreys Lewis Clark
Christophe Guisset Jeremy Austin Roger Bamkin Oliver Zeinz Rob Stekelenburg Guy Collins Tim Hancock
Niels Kjøller Hansen Hasse Hauch Anton Popov Giuseppe Sollazzo Tomas Krecmer Lukas Bezrouk Jiangshan
Ma William Allbrook Andrew Henderson Rob Johnson Mohamed Sayed Frank Warmerdam Michal Kepka
Boele Kuipers Stefania Traverso Silvia de Angeli Valentina Cerutti Johan Van de Wauw Mikael Blomberg Paul
Wittle Geoff Zeiss Kate Threlfall Jonathan Bowes Michael Gordon Eduardo Gonzalez Latorre Tony Bush
Xingyu Xiao Gavin Fleming Andy Arnell Brian O'Connor Matti Arponen Cleber Arruda Ulrich Leopold Luiz
Pacheco Motta Yancy Rivera Daniel Morissette Peter Batty Taro Matsuzawa Joachim Ungar Marc Jansen Mike
Saunt Claude Philipona Mike Redfern Francois Prunayre Yu Lan Sean Chiang Christopher Helm Mark Wells
Juan Marin Tim Schaub Jeff McKenna Georgia Papadaki TBC TBC Ian Turton Philip Lear Matthew Perrin Jody
Garnett Mike Adair Andrew Ross Thanh Ha Onome Abara Jasmina Chow Ben Clews Vanessa Hughes Adele
Lee Helena Frudd TBC Charlie Ewen Ed Campbell Richard Carne Mark Burgoyne Peter Killick Bill Little

36. and you
Peter Ter Haar Ian James Paul Naylor Peter Controneo John Abbott Dee Davis John Goodwin Michelle
Rebello Javier de la Torre Arnulf Christl Jeroen Ticheler Olivier Courtin Frederic Houbie Chris Brown Paul
Gager Eleonora Fontana Simone Giannecchini Dirk Frigne Frank Maes Mike Gale Tim Urwin Norman Barker
Simon Metson Ed Parsons Lewis Westbury Matt Toon Wolf Bergenheim Ian Holt Ian Edwards Mark Iliffe
Matt Walker Jo Cook Rollo Home Steven Feldman Addy Pope Antony Scott Barry Rowlingson Franz-Josef
Behr Abigail Page Barend Köbben Jeremy Morley Claire Gilmour Maureen Nessling Carle Baxter Chris
Rhodes Tobias Kohr Marco Minghini Cristina Rosales Peter Broßeit Jui-wen Chang Sizwe Mabaso Fiona
Spooner Johannes Küpper Anthonia Ijeoma Onyeahialam Steve Mould Helen Arney Ollie O'Brien Amir
Pourabdollah Elisabet Adeva Luciene Delazari Mark Sabin Roberto Santos Kate Chapman Ben Hennig Paul
Ramsey Emer Coleman Chris Tucker Edward Anderson Simon Riggs Gary Gale Suchith Anand Lizette
Danielsson David Malton Christopher Hatton Tom Timms Radek Augustyn Alex Curtis Matthew Shaw Neil
Benny Emily Bowden-Eyre Anders Ekwall David Persson Graeme McFerren Bernard Justus Muhwezi Nuno
Charneca David Morris Michael Grundel Adel Bolbol Adam Chilton Alex Elvey Pieter Degraef Oliver May Iain
Elder Drew Fong Ivo Gatto Erik Guldberg Joan Peel Hansen Tim Holmes Abigail Rumsey Andy Turley Vlad
ILyuschenko Everardo Gustavo Robredo Esquivelzeta Grégoire Vandenschrick Mike Parker Stu Lester
Shannon McCann Andy Coote Francois Jouaux Karl Watson David Alvey

37. Time for the proper stuff
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55362243@N00/476017412