[Bootcamp08] Registration for OSGeo BootCamp 08

Wed Apr 16 20:05:06 EDT 2008

Hi Daniel, Everyone

Thanks for your reply Daniel. I understand. Let me try and describe the
event.

Carleton University has provided 6 large rooms for us. One is a 394 seat
state of the art theatre. The others range from 52 to 100 seats. So there's
plenty of room (capacity 658+)

The event is intended to provide outreach. Because Ottawa has two major
Universities (Carleton, Ottawa U.) and a very strong College (Algonquin),
we'll have a strong student representation there. They've been following the
osbootcamp series, packing the room at each event, and getting involved in
the communities of the presenters so this is something I'm really pleased
about. Faculty will be there as well.

The other aspect of outreach will be to business and government. We're
working to invite members from three levels of government, and businesses
that may not have been exposed to geospatial software before but likely will
be interested.

Also, we hope that this is a great opportunity for the community to get
together and meet, BOF talk, and sprint. The rooms are all available on the
second day but there are no scheduled formal talks. (we'll have a bulletin
board for booking BOF talks and sprints)

Provided we have enough sponsorship (which looks likely), we'll have food
for everyone, and give away some cool prizes like a PS3, and iPod touch, and
more.

Not bad for free. ;-)

I could really use some help drumming up interest and finding speakers since
I'm fairly new (and not that well known yet) in the community. Sponsors help
too of course. This is a great opportunity to be in a small set of sponsors
and stand out.

You'll have to help me with importance as perhaps that is in the eye of the
beholder.

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help describe the
event.

Thanks again,

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: bootcamp08-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:bootcamp08-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
Sent: April 16, 2008 3:36 PM
To: bootcamp08 at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Bootcamp08] Registration for OSGeo BootCamp 08

Thanks for your reply Andrew. I am looking forward to the post of the
program and additional info to be able to make our mind on what the event
will be like. Since this is a first, it's hard for outsiders to get an idea
of the size and importance of the event and to make plans around it. Any
information you can share on this list will be useful to everyone I'm sure.

Thanks for your work on this!

Daniel

Andrew Ross wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your email. Yes, confirmed. By adding yourself to the 
> mailing list, you are registered. We wanted to keep the process very light
weight.
> 
> There's plenty of room at this point. We have rooms confirmed to allow 
> a capacity of 658, no where near that yet on this list.
> 
> Because I can easily see how many are registered, and chances are 
> people on the list are attending, or at least thinking about it. I was 
> planning to work backwards and ask if there are any registered on the 
> mailing list who are not planning to attend and subtract them. It 
> seemed like a reasonable idea.
> 
> 
> I could use everyone's help to spread the word about the event and 
> especially to poke people who might make good speakers. On that note, 
> I plan to post the abstracts in the coming weeks and soon after post 
> the schedule/rooms.
> 
> I am happy to report we have raised a firm $7K (tentatively $12K) of 
> towards our $20K budget goal for the event to cover the cost of food & 
> prizes. Some additional logos will be going up very soon as the 
> companies provide them to us. Any help finding potential sponsors would
also help.
> 
> If there's any other suggestions about the event, please feel free to 
> shout it out. I welcome the input and won't be offended.
> 
> Also, feel free to discuss travel plans, meet ups, and such. This list 
> is intended to be informal.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bootcamp08-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:bootcamp08-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel 
> Morissette
> Sent: April 16, 2008 10:52 AM
> To: bootcamp08 at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Bootcamp08] Registration for OSGeo BootCamp 08
> 
> How does the registration for OSGeo Boot Camp work? The website at 
> http://osbootcamp.org/osbootcamp6.html points us to this list to 
> "register and receive communications related to the event". I signed 
> up a few weeks ago but the list is still very quiet.
> 
> Does this mean that simply by being on this list we are registered? I 
> know the boot camp concept is kinda informal, but just counting the 
> number of addresses on a mailing list doesn't seem like a very optimal 
> way to plan the attendance of an event.
> 
> I'm planning to go with a few others from Mapgears, I also heard of a 
> few OSGeo fans from Quebec City who are interested in going. It would 
> be good to have an idea of who's going to be there... that could help 
> some people decide if it's worth for them to travel all the way to Ottawa
or not.
> 
> I don't know if it would be appropriate to start a show of hands 
> thread to hear from those planning to go. Perhaps Andrew (as the lead
> organizer) could start that thread if he feels it is appropriate for 
> this list?
> 
> Daniel
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