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And following on in the same theme as Peter, what human capital are
you expecting to draw upon? There is a huge amount of volunteer work
required to bring a successful FOSS4G home. Committee participants
with a string of big titles are useful for opening doors, but what
also makes a huge impact are people who step up and do the hundreds
of small tasks required to get things done. I was blessed to have a
handful of these people at FOSS4G 2009, some of whom where not in
country. So what I'm looking for in answers are people who already
have a track record of doing the hard slog work for similar
successful events, or people with a track record of coordinating
volunteers for other activities (such as an open source project).
Names of "doers" that we'd recognise from osgeo email lists would
certainly be helpful.<br>
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On 4/04/2012 11:55 PM, Peter Batty wrote:
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cite="mid:CAPJXf1V=wMG9RU52mYJ+jA0gcmJan=jphe-=ERDAaXLFpyXYVA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Here are three questions for all the teams:
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<div>(1) How many (global) FOSS4G events has the proposed
conference chair been to, and which ones? And please list the
same info for any of your committee members that have been to
previous events.</div>
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<div>(Note: I don't think it is a pre-req to have been to any, but
obviously it helps with continuity and building on previous
events)</div>
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<div>(2) To the conference chairs: are you willing and able to put
in a lot of time to this? Has your employer agreed to give you a
reasonable amount of time off from your normal work
responsibilities, as you will need this? And in the event that
you were not able to continue as conference chair, who would
step in to replace you?</div>
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<div>(I ask these questions as in Denver our original conference
chair did have to step down because of unforeseen
circumstances).</div>
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<div>(3) The core mission of FOSS4G is to be the "meeting of the
tribes" of the open source geo development community, which has
one set of requirements: it has a very techie focus, people it
want to be informal and casual and "non-commercial". Many
people, myself included, also see FOSS4G as an opportunity to
introduce new people to open source geospatial - to be more of
an outreach event, have more introductory level sessions, more
non-technical sessions. But to some extent the requirements for
this conflict with the core mission of FOSS4G - you risk losing
the friendly techie collaborative atmosphere, you risk being
seen as "too commercial" etc. Some people in the community would
rather see FOSS4G be a strictly developer-focused event.</div>
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<div>So to the question ... to what extent do you see your FOSS4G
having an outreach function in addition to the core focus on
existing open source developers, and how would you address the
challenges mentioned here?</div>
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