Geolivre 2009

Geolivre is a FOSS GIS Brazilian conference with annual editions since 2004. In 2009, was the first international edition with speakers from others countries.

Summary

 * Organization Committee
 * Helton Nogueira Uchoa (General Chairman - OSGeo Charter Member)
 * Luigi Castro Cardeles
 * Anderson Pereira da Silva
 * Rafael Almeida Fernandez Soto
 * Bene Godinho Alexandre
 * Aparecido Hermogenes Leite
 * Frederique Almeida Estrela
 * Benicio Ribeiro da Paixão Júnior
 * Gledson Costa Cruz
 * Official website: www.geolivre.com
 * Date: nov 17-20 (2009)
 * City: Brasilia
 * Hotel: Lakeside
 * Attendees: 150+ (in hotel)
 * Broadcast live on the Internet:
 * Attendees: 1,500+
 * Links:
 * http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geolivre-conference-2009---sala-geotecnologias
 * http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geolivre-conference-2009---sala-prefeituras
 * More than 30 presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/Geolivre/presentations
 * International speakers (with on the fly translation):
 * Jeff McKenna (Canada)
 * Jody Garnett (Australia)
 * Valenty Navarro (Venezuela)
 * Sponsors: OpenGEO, Brazilian Army Military Construction Department, Brazilian Army Geographic Service Department and AmbienteGEO
 * Total cost: US$ 70K.
 * Videos: All video presentations will be published on the Internet. In this moment, the video edition is in process.