[OSGeo-Conf] Conference software

Mon Oct 21 22:40:58 PDT 2013

Hey folks,

Sorry for the delay, the start of the new term's teaching load bogged me
down a little, plus a few conferences, etc...

We are completely excited about working with Nottingham's AT to keep the
momentum and continuity going.

Did you use a separate mailing list to keep track of the AT stuff, or just
mixed in with the regular list? I guess I can answer that by looking at the
archives!
:-)

So, yes, as Eli indicates I am the official academic track chair, though I
have recruited my colleague Phillip Davis from Texas to co-chair. We are
working on several other initiatives together, including a department of
labor grant to fund open source gis technical proficiency standards in
higher ed, and some cloud computing stuff for URISA.

I'd really like to get as many international academics as possible on the
committee, and really look forward to getting advice from previous years AT
organizers!

A checklist would be cool... I see that further down the thread there are
some details that I will make note of, and also check the cookbook to see
how much was captured there.

Let's keep that momentum going!
:-)
Cheers,
Percy

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

> The Portland LOC is excited to continue the momentum and the well
> established working parts of the AT.  We gladly welcome any help or advice
> from previous FOSS4G Academic Committee Members (or others).
>
> Just a point of clarification, Percy is the FOSS4G 2014 Academic Track
> Chair.  He can more directly address specifics.
>
> Best Regards, Eli
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Barend,
>>
>> Thanks to you , Franz-Josef and all the reviewers for your time and
>> efforts in setting up well coordinated organisation of the academic track
>> of FOSS4G 2013 and getting the journal publishing in time. This is very
>> important for the submitting authors to know that selected outputs will be
>> published in timescales announced. Well done to all of you.
>>
>> It is also good that now the working system is now in place for the
>> Academic Track publications for FOSS4G as this was again one key objective
>> of ICA-OSGeo MoU vision. Could I request Portland LOC to also continue
>> building upon the momentum build on the AT. Thanks for volunteering to
>> coordinate  this again for next year. I am sure Portland LOC will be happy
>> to get your inputs and expertise.
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
>> conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
>> b.j.kobben at utwente.nl
>> Sent: 25 September 2013 10:32
>> To: jsanz at osgeo.org; marco.lechner at fossgis.de
>> Cc: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org; eadam at co.lincoln.or.us;
>> b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Conference software
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For the FOSS4g2013 conference we used two separate systems: WordPress for
>> the main conference site and the presentation and workshops tracks, and OJS
>> (Open Journal System) [http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/] for the Academic Track
>> (AT).
>>
>> I can't speak for the Wordpress site, that has been done mostly by Barry
>> Rowlingson and Jo Cook (cc-d). The OJS we used for the AT is installed on
>> the OSGEO servers, and also used by the OSGEO Journal. The AT chairs (F-J
>> Behr and myself) experienced OJS as well suited for that particular task,
>> for a next conference we'd probably want to tweak it a bit further, but in
>> general it served us well.
>>
>> Dating back from the ICA-OSGEO MoU the idea was to consolidate the
>> Academic Track (starting at the ill-fated Beijing conference). I
>> volunteered for that at the time and carried that over to Nottingham. I'd
>> suggest that to keep this going, the Portland team sh/could continue using
>> the same systems, and I am volunteering to coordinate the effort with the
>> Portland LOC (I understand that Eli Adam would be their AT person).
>>
>> Yours,
>> --
>> Barend Köbben
>> ITC - University of Twente
>> PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands)
>> +31-(0)53 4874 253
>> @barendkobben
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25-09-13 10:33, "Jorge Sanz" <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>> >2013/9/23 Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. <marco.lechner at fossgis.de>:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> the german-speaking OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH announced that it
>> >> plans to bid for hosting the FOSS4G 2016.
>> >> Anyway, after years of running the annual FOSSGIS conference (about
>> >> 400 delegates/year), we are unhappy with our software solution
>> >> assisting our orga-team. Right now we are using a combination of
>> >> pentabarf [1] (for managing paper ssubmission, review and planing of
>> >> the program) and CiviCRM [2] on Drupal (for registration, billing and
>> >> payment). This does not fit our needs and produces too much
>> >> additional work to be done to fullfill our requirements.
>> >> We found out that the german linux day, Linuxtag [3], is facing the
>> >> similar problems. Our recent plans are, to enhance Frab [4] to fit
>> >> our needs during the next years.
>> >> May be it is also interesting for organising FOSS4G conferences and
>> >> anybody wants to participate. Any commends welcome.
>> >>
>> >> Best regards - and thank you all for the great elapsed conference in
>> >> Nottingham
>> >>
>> >> Marco
>> >> FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo lc D-A-CH
>> >>
>> >> [1] http://pentabarf.org
>> >> [2] http://civicrm.org/
>> >> [3] http://www.linuxtag.org
>> >> [4] http://frab.github.io/frab
>> >
>> >
>> >Hi Marco,
>> >
>> >Maybe Drupal is not the path you want to follow but they have a
>> >distribution specially focused on conferences called COD. I don't have
>> >experience with this drupal profile, it's just what I know they use for
>> >their confs.
>> >
>> >Best
>> >
>> >http://usecod.com/
>> >https://drupal.org/documentation/build/cod
>> >https://drupal.org/project/cod_support
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >Jorge Sanz
>> >http://www.osgeo.org
>> >http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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