[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

[David Dean]

Hi everyone,

I definitely want to get involved, particularly if we can incorporate a
local OpenStreetMap State Of The Map (OSM SOTM) conference/track to go
alongside/in partnership with F4G-AUNZ. There is some strong interest in
the AU OSM community in getting something like this off the ground.

If we can incorporate an OSM SOTM track, I would be happy to take point on
that, as well as any assistance need for the wider F4G-AUNZ conference.

I've CC'd this to the OSM Australia Mailing List, so if anyone is coming
from there, the email thread is below.

(I've also sent this to the QGIS mailing list, but I'm not subscribed yet,
so I'm not sure if it will go through)

- David

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 09:44 Adam Steer <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Sign me up to help out as well - I’ve been ruminating over the idea of how
> to re-inspire the AU-NZ community, after having been to a couple of awesome
> F4G global conferences now.
>
> Osgeo seems to be the natural ‘formal group’ - Cameron knows how this
> might work and will no doubt let me know if I’m barking up the wrong tree.
> would formalising an ANZ Osgeo chapter be a good path? or fraught with
> hazard?
>
> cheers
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> > On 20 Nov 2017, at 9:05 am, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey folks
> >
> > As John said, I'm to get involved and help get something going for next
> > year, potentially.
> >
> > I think that the QGIS forum showed that there is interest around, and
> doing
> > a FOSS4G-ANZ would be a logical progression into an inclusive event for a
> > wider group of geo-folks.
> >
> > I think that we need to be aware of the big event in spatial, Locate,
> which
> > is on around April each year, and as such, an event would be best held in
> > the last half of the year. And what is unclear to me is what formal
> bodies
> > we could organise an event under, i.e., who can front up cash for a venue
> > and take the risk of an event that loses money (this should be unlikely,
> but
> > it's a risk). There is, of course, a lot of discussion around scale, and
> > format, but we can work all of that out in time.
> >
> > Anyhow, I'm very keen to help out. I've run some smaller conferences
> through
> > the SSSI in Tassie that have had 100+ attendees, and have recently moved
> out
> > of my SSSI volunteering roles and as such I'm ready for the next thing!
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
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