FOSS4G

The upcoming FOSS4G 2011 will take place from Tuesday 12th through Friday 16th September in Denver, Colorado, USA (2011-09-12 to 2011-09-16)

Find all information of the last FOSS4G 2010 conference in Barcelona, Spain.

Introduction

FOSS4G is the acronym for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. It is the annual recurring global event hosted by OSGeo since it's inception in 2006. Its predecessors were rooted in the GRASS and MapServer communities and can be traced back to the beginning of this millennium. Find all recent conference web sites under the year followed by foss4g.org as in http://2011.foss4g.org/

Organizing FOSS4G

The OSGeo Conference Committee is the steadying factor of FOSS4G over the years. Organization of FOSS4G starts roughly 2 years in advance as the venue rotates around the world when a call for bids is sent out.

Local Organizing Committee

All the hands-on ground work is done by a volunteering Local Organizing Committees that form each year and have so far always excelled themselves at putting together a great conference. OSGeo is very thankful and excited to see this much effort going into each conference. As of 2007 all conference web sites can be found under the generic OSGeo URL by replacing the year as in http://2010.foss4g.org/

Overview

Event	Location	Number of Attendees
FOSS4G 2011	Denver, USA
FOSS4G 2010	Barcelona, Spain	869
FOSS4G 2009	Sydney, Australia	436
FOSS4G 2008	Cape Town, South Africa	550
FOSS4G 2007	Victoria, Canada	721
FOSS4G 2006	Lausanne, Switzland	560
2005 OSG conference	Minneapolis, MN	350
OSGIS 2004	Ottawa, Canada	~200
FOSS4G 2004 - Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics: GIS-GRASS Users Conference	Bangkok, Thailand	~150
2003 Mapserver Users Meeting	St Paul, MN, United States	125
Open Source Free Software GIS - GRASS users conference 2002	Trento, Italy	140

Localized FOSS4G conferences

Some Local Chapters put on localized FOSS4G conferences

• Japan in Tokyo and Osaka.
• Germany has the FOSSGIS conferences in German language.
• (please add your own event)

Roll Your Own Conference

If you are interested in organizing "your own" conference please contact the Conference Committee and advertize on the Discuss Mailing List. OSGeo is always interested in lending a helping hand to seed organize local events.