The recent FOSS4G2006 conference at Lausanne, Switzerland was a great success. It was amazing to see how many people showed up and how many creative ideas they presented there. From Jody’s blog I took some of the next figures, but obviously the conference merge of this year had a longer story. The Lausanne conference was a come together of MUM, GRASS, EOGEO, Java and more folks with their various community conferences. Here a more complete version:
| 2002 | 150 people | GRASS Users conference, Trento, Italy (Proceedings) |
| 2003 | 90 people | MapServer User Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Proceedings?) |
| 2004 | 150+ people | FOSS4G: GRASS Users Conference, Bangkok, Thailand (Proceedings) |
| 2004 | 200+ people | MapServer User Meeting and Open Source GIS Conference, Ottawa, Canada (Proceedings) |
| 2005 | 300+ people | MUM3 – Open Source Geospatial Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Proceedings) |
| 2006 | 500+ people | Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland (Proceedings) |
2007 you ask? We’ll see, OSGeo.org will publish the call for hosting the conference soon. Some ideas are already floating around. Having 500+ people is nice, maybe we should not aim at 1000+ …
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