<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Peter,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 2:52 PM, "Peter Löwe" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.loewe@gmx.de" target="_blank">peter.loewe@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
* Request for funding for the third OSGeo Townhall at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly. Details and background info here: <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2016" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2016</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​It's great that you're organizing a OSGeo event at EGU again! I just went through last year's summary which reads suggests that a different format would be helpful to reach out to people not yet familiar with OSGeo:</div><h2 style="color:black;font-weight:normal;margin:1em 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);font-family:'Linux Libertine',Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial"><span class="" id="Options_.26_Opportunities_for_EGU_General_Assembly_2016">Options & Opportunities for EGU General Assembly 2016</span><span class="" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="">[</span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=EGU_Townhall_2015&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Options & Opportunities for EGU General Assembly 2016" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="">]</span></span></h2><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">- Townhall (saturation has been reached -> 50 participants). Competition with similar events in the same timeslot most likely to continue. Most attendees in 2015 were already familiar with OSGeo (-> Birds of a feather). No need to preach to the choire. Reach-out to newbies needs different channels.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">- Option: Splinter Meeting (free software - free speech - free lunch) during a lunch break timeslot to avoid Townhall-competition issue.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​Did you consider changing to a different format than a townhall meeting?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Anita </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div>