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.