[OSGeo Oceania] Fwd: [Oceania-Board-Private] FOSS4G SotM Oceania trees

[Adam Steer]

Hey Alex, thanks for the reminder. I've directly added Tony Forster,
Ewen Hill and Ed Neerhut to this response.

What is left to do?

- OSGeo Oceania needs to pay for 250 seedlings
I will ask Tony in a moment to get an invoice raised for the seedlings
- so OSGeo Oceania can pay for them. That’s the last direct task the
OO board has to do.

- sometime in June/July/August these seedlings will need planting
Tony has this all in hand via Friends of Lysterfield. Coronavirus
conditions permitting, I hope there is a chance to make a community
event out of it.

>From my point of view:
Here is where I hope Ed and Ewen can pick up the reins and organise
something with Tony. Martin Tomko might also be a good resource to
call upon, with links to the unimelb student/research community, if
there’s a neat way to use this project as a longer term study site.

Another opportunity for involvement of the the OO board here, mainly
around organising communications about the project with friends of
Lysterfield

I hope other people come up with even better and more creative ideas
around this project than I can.

Looking forward to seeing those trees appear in the ground and OSM in
2021, and hopefully get bigger each year. Thanks again to the
community and OO board for supporting this protracted plan.

Adam

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 23:08, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Adam
>
> Could we please get an update on the tree planting initiative.
>
> I've lost track of how much money we've committed. I know we spent $575 on tree guards a while ago, and that we're planning on ordering 250 seedlings... I'd like to include the outstanding expense as a liability, so there's a record of it.
>
> I'm guessing planting will not be possible until June/July 2021, right?
>
> And is it worth handing over the relationship with Tony Forster to someone else, considering your distance from Victoria currently?
>
> For the list, here's Tony's proposal document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BbmRF241Vd4QWZRt6l6FBWwtklzhg-ghgbnm2N9YQ6M/edit
>
> Cheers,
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 15:49
> Subject: [Oceania-Board-Private] FOSS4G SotM Oceania trees
> To: <oceania-board at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
> hey Board
>
> The FOSS4G SotM 2019 tree planting project will be delayed till next year. Tony Forster has looked at a lot of options, however the project area is in stage 4 lockdown until too late to establish the seedlings properly this year, and in comms with the nursery has advised that it is better to delay a year and make sure the trees we plant survive!
>
> The nursery will ask us to pay in advance for new seedlings for next year (don't worry, we still only pay for the amount we need), which is great - we've been trying to pay in advance for a while now! I've asked for an invoice.
>
> ...and I'll keep comms open with Tony about progress.
>
> Regards
>
> Adam
>
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