November 2009
11 posts
October 2009
2 posts
The party is over ... or is it? →
A week and a bit has flown by since the end GeoCommunity and I have gone through post conference elation, slump and a stinking cold (possibly related).
So before it all disappears into the mists of my increasingly forgetful mind here is my view of what happened and whether it mattered ……
AGI GeoCommunity '09 online questionnaire is live
Please tell us what you thought of AGI GeoCommunity ‘09 and give us a steer for refining conference next year http://bit.ly/14sYS0
September 2009
122 posts
Martin Daly: L’esprit d’escalier →
As is often the case, we have to turn to the French for the apposite bon mot (geddit?). “L’esprit d’escalier” – literally “the spirit of the stairway” – describes that feeling you get when, long…
Christopher Osborne: Coming out of the closet at... →
Amongst the many, many highs of last week’s AGI GeoCommunity conference came a personal low:
Being outed as a paleotard by Gary Gale.
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archaeogeek.com - GeoCommunity 09 catch-up- day...
http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2009/09/29/agi-geocommunity-09-day-two/
Conference Papers on the AGI website
Just to repeat my tweet of yesterday, the submitted written conference papers (ie not the slides) can be found at http://bit.ly/Se5D7
The greyed-out titles in the list signify instances where no paper was submitted.
Chris @ AGI
Tag your Flickr photos with geocom
Lots of photos appearing on Flickr now.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=geocom&s=int
archaeogeek.com - GeoCommunity 09 catch-up- day...
http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2009/09/28/agi-geocommunity-09-catch-up-day-one/
GeoCommunity ‘09 Day 2 →
A somewhat belated follow up to my brief summary of day 1…
Much as I’d like to say that the highlight of day 2 was my presentation (embedded below), that would be way way off the mark.
Proper…
Some delegate booking facts
Below are a few facts about delegate bookings for this year’s AGI GeoCommunity:
1) Total delegate bookings were 625, up from 604 in 2008.
2) The first delegate booking was made on the 26th Feb 2009.
3) The day with the most delegate bookings (36) was June 30th 2009.
4) The most popular of the week throughout the booking period was Tuesday with a 27% share of bookings.
5) 94% of...
Ed Parsons: GeoCommunity – A transfusion of ideas... →
So once again quiet Stratford-upon-Avon can return to tending to the needs of Shakespeare chasing tourists having survived an influx of almost the whole UK GIS industry attending last weeks AGI…
Gary Gale: Know Your Place; Adding Geographic... →
Day two of the AGI GeoCommunity conference and the conference as a whole has ended. We discussed neogeography, paleogeography and pretty much all points in between, finally agreeing that labels…
Ed Parsons: The Geek Atlas to Go →
One of my favourite books of the year so far has been the marvellous Geek Atlas by John Graham-Cumming. The book which details the locations of 128 places of scientific and technological…
Choose the best tweets from GeoCommunity →
Some small prizes to be awarded for the best 3 tweets from GeoCommunity.
To make it easy John McKerrell created this beautiful summary.
DM @stevenfeldman or mail me your choices at steven@agi.org.uk and I will try to organise. Closing date - whenever I decide to start counting.
Cheers all
Steven
Slides are now all live
Please visit the Slideshare site.
If you changed your slides since these versions, please email me with your new deck and i will refresh.
http://www.slideshare.net/geocommunitylive/presentations
geocommunitylive@gmail.com
john fagan.
Peter Batty: Why do we need a Smart Grid? →
In my role as Chief Technology Advisor at Enspiria Solutions, I’ve recently been researching the Smart Grid. I’ve found that even a lot of people working in the electric industry have somewhat fuzzy…
Gary Gale: Plenaries, Privacy and Place →
Day one of this year’s AGI GeoCommunity conference saw the geoweb track draw a sizeable, if varying, share of the delegate audience; some sessions were crammed tight and reduced to standing room…
Gary Gale: Location and Privacy – Where Do We... →
As part of this year’s AGI GeoCommunity ‘09 conference, I took part in the Privacy: Where Do We Care? panel on location and the implications for privacy with Terry Jones, Audrey Mandela and Ian…
Martin Daly: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living...
Martin Daly: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria
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John Mc Kerrell: OpenStreetView
John Mc Kerrell: OpenStreetView
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