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
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 delegates completed the online booking themselves, with AGI assisting with the remaining 6%.
6) Over 15% of delegates were non AGI members.
7) 14% of delegates came from London.
8) The most common job title given was ‘Director’ at 5%, (‘Managing Director’ was an additional 2%).
9) We had 3 delegate cancellations.
10) In the final week leading up to conference 37 delegate bookings (6% of the total) were made.
Chris H @ AGI
As the dust settles after AGI GeoCommunity ‘09, our new conference chair Simon Doyle contemplates the enormity of the preparations for 2010 :-)
Chris H @ AGI
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…
Some more delegate clips
Filmed by Tom Probert on his new Flip video that he won in the ice-breaker quiz.
Nice stuff Tom
Delegates speak, the band plays and on offer to see embarrassing video of GeoCommunity Chair, Steven Feldman
A series of snippets from the delegates and a bit of footage of the Chris Holcroft, Simon Doyle and friends on stage.
If you want the embarrassing video footage of Steven to be published make an offer of a donation to charity to Steven @stevenfeldman or mail us at GeoCommunityLive at gmail dot com
We gave away Flip videos to the winners of the quiz at the ice breaker the evening before the conference. As we get copies of the interviews that they captured we will add them here.
Ian Painter, georapper extraordinaire, presents a masterclass in georanting - Behind every neogeographer there is a paleotard
YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS
The dialogue between paleo and neo-geographers will never be the same after you have watched this georant. I think the reason that so many of us were crying with laughter at Ian’s amazing georap was that both sides of the discussion could see the underlying sense in what he was saying.
Forget geo Ian, there is an amazing future for you on the stage - Silicon Valley watch out Britain’s got talent!
The unquestioned champion georanter of 2009
Peter Batty georanting in defense of Ordance Survey (well sort of)
If you are a Brit living in Denver and returning home to speak to the GeoCommunity I guess you have to wear a stetson. Peter Batty had the Soapbox audience in hysterics with his defense of the Ordnance Survey, watch out for the never before seen material from the OS archives. At the same time Peter had some serious points to make about the potential pitfalls of the “free” model.
A worthy runner up at the soapbox and a heavyweight contender for next year if he can find a better costume.
Gary Gale georanting on labels from neo to paleo and everything in between including pigeons.
Gary Gale is an all round great geogeezer. He is also a bloody good presenter but the GeoCommunity soapbox challenges the timing of even the very best. Great effort Gary!
Did you know …?
Jude Simpson entertained us on the evening before the conference opened with a series of poems, raps and songs. She somehow managed to get in a reference to the origins of the Ordnance Survey
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…
