[Fwd: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] 2011 Stage Two]
Eric Wolf
ebwolf at gmail.com
Sat May 1 11:41:16 EDT 2010
Thanks Cameron...
Rest assured that we will do everything we can to make everything as open as
possible.
-Eric
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Eric B. Wolf New! 720-334-7734
USGS Geographer
Center of Excellence in GIScience
PhD Student
CU-Boulder - Geography
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On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>wrote:
> Eric,
> In the interests of giving Denver more time to prepare for foss4g2011, I'm
> changing my vote on moving to stage 2 to +1.
>
> However, I would like to see a commitment from Denver within the next few
> weeks, and definitely before the completion of stage 2, toward creating Open
> documentation and artefacts during the conference preparation.
>
> Eric Wolf wrote:
>
>> Cameron,
>>
>> Sorry about not responding. I let it slide for two reasons:
>>
>> 1. I really want GITA to weigh in directly on the issue of sharing their
>> information. I believe they have said in the past that it won't be a
>> problem. But I want to give them the chance to be more specific.
>> Fortunately, since their bread and butter comes from running a trade
>> organization and not obscuring the details of conferences, I'm betting they
>> will be entirely open. Unfortunately, everyone at GITA is in Phoenix this
>> week running their main conference (as are most of the Denver LOC members).
>>
>> 2. Jeff said this issue doesn't need to be part of this first process and
>> can wait until later.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
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>> Eric B. Wolf New! 720-334-7734
>> USGS Geographer
>> Center of Excellence in GIScience
>> PhD Student
>> CU-Boulder - Geography
>>
>> GPG Public Key: http://www.h4h.net/ebwolf.public.key.txt
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Cameron Shorter <
>> cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Eric,
>> Did you receive this email?
>> I'm very interested to hear your responses, and potentially
>> discuss with you.
>> You can catch me on skype when logged in at: cameronshorter
>> Or sometimes on IRC at: irc://freenode.net <http://freenode.net>
>>
>> on channels #osgeo and #foss4g
>>
>> -- Cameron Shorter
>> Geospatial Solutions Manager
>>
>> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>
>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
>> Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
>> http://www.lisasoft.com
>>
>>
>> -0 from me.
>> Reason: I don't think I've seen an answer from Denver to the
>> following questions:
>>
>> * Are you prepared to share all created material as part of the
>> conference under an Open Licence? This would include the budget as
>> well all fliers etc.
>>
>> * Are you prepared to share all created material in source format.
>> Eg, for the budget, can it be provided in Excel format as well as,
>> or instead of PDF.
>>
>> I want to see answers to these questions committed to before we
>> select the conference venue, as the value to future conferences
>> will be high, and our experience in 2009 was that we were unable
>> to retrospectively have our PCO open up their documentation for us
>> after we had won the ability to host.
>> I will move my vote to +1 after seeing a positive response to the
>> above questions.
>>
>> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>
>> Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>
>> I motion to the rest of the conference committee that the
>> Denver team proceeds to stage two of the 2011 hosting
>> process - a full proposal and budget. The RFP asks for a
>> North American event in 2011, and the Denver team's
>> initial plan meets all of our stage one desires.
>>
>>
>> +1 Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Cameron Shorter
>> Geospatial Director
>> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>
>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
>> Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
>> http://www.lisasoft.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> Geospatial Solutions Manager
> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>
> Think Globally, Fix Locally
> Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
> http://www.lisasoft.com
>
>
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