<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">It could also be worth approaching the Data61/TerriaJS team to help organise/promote etc - given their attendance previous FOSS4G events and obvious connections with Unis/Industry?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 November 2017 at 20:40, Alex Leith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexgleith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey Cameron and others<div><br></div><div>I agree regarding a legal body, I think working with an existing organisation is what needs to happen. I can work with SSSI, and have strong relationships there and I'm pretty sure we could get something happening, if we wanted to. I defer to you about whether OSGeo could be the group that provided the support?</div><div><br></div><div>And regarding scale, I did think that aiming at 100-200 would be achievable without too much organisational pain. If we can get support from somewhere to have a proper venue, we can handle that kind of number, and the venue should sort out catering and such.</div><div><br></div><div>We could try a university, and I have some connections in with Swinburne and Melbourne Uni that I could query, probably, but I think that would need more work organising the details... running at a conference venue costs more, but it takes less effort!</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, some thoughts from me.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 18:37 Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Extending to be a greater Free and Open Source for Geospatial
(FOSS4G) and Open Street Map event I think is viable.</p>
<p>Re creating a legal body: I'd err on trying avoid setting up a
legal body - it creates a bunch of paperwork that your volunteers
have to manage and takes them away from doing useful stuff.
Ideally work in partnership with another legal body, like SSSI, or
maybe one of the sponsor partners, or OSGeo. <br>
</p>
<p>I'd err on aiming small which will mean you can keep the venue
costs down. (Ideally team up with a University or similar who
provides cheap rooms.)</p>
<p>Cheers, Cameron<br>
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<div class="m_866035302537441522m_-7068935127544728498moz-cite-prefix">On 20/11/17 11:22 am, David Dean wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I've CC'd this to the OSM Australia Mailing List, so if
anyone is coming from there, the email thread is below.</div>
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<div>(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)</div>
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<div>- David</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 09:44 Adam Steer <<a href="mailto:Adam.Steer@anu.edu.au" target="_blank">Adam.Steer@anu.edu.au</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
<br>
Adam<br>
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> On 20 Nov 2017, at 9:05 am, Alex Leith <<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexgleith@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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> Hey folks<br>
><br>
> As John said, I'm to get involved and help get
something going for next<br>
> year, potentially.<br>
><br>
> I think that the QGIS forum showed that there is
interest around, and doing<br>
> a FOSS4G-ANZ would be a logical progression into an
inclusive event for a<br>
> wider group of geo-folks.<br>
><br>
> I think that we need to be aware of the big event in
spatial, Locate, which<br>
> is on around April each year, and as such, an event
would be best held in<br>
> the last half of the year. And what is unclear to me
is what formal bodies<br>
> we could organise an event under, i.e., who can front
up cash for a venue<br>
> and take the risk of an event that loses money (this
should be unlikely, but<br>
> it's a risk). There is, of course, a lot of
discussion around scale, and<br>
> format, but we can work all of that out in time.<br>
><br>
> Anyhow, I'm very keen to help out. I've run some
smaller conferences through<br>
> the SSSI in Tassie that have had 100+ attendees, and
have recently moved out<br>
> of my SSSI volunteering roles and as such I'm ready
for the next thing!<br>
><br>
> Kind regards,<br>
><br>
> Alex<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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