<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>I definitely want to get involved, particularly if we can incorporate a local OpenStreetMap State Of The Map (OSM SOTM) conference/track to go alongside/in partnership with F4G-AUNZ. There is some strong interest in the AU OSM community in getting something like this off the ground.</div><div><br></div><div>If we can incorporate an OSM SOTM track, I would be happy to take point on that, as well as any assistance need for the wider F4G-AUNZ conference.</div><div><br></div><div>I've CC'd this to the OSM Australia Mailing List, so if anyone is coming from there, the email thread is below.</div><div><br></div><div>(I've also sent this to the QGIS mailing list, but I'm not subscribed yet, so I'm not sure if it will go through)</div><div><br></div><div>- David</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 09:44 Adam Steer <<a href="mailto:Adam.Steer@anu.edu.au" target="_blank">Adam.Steer@anu.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all<br>
<br>
Sign me up to help out as well - I’ve been ruminating over the idea of how to re-inspire the AU-NZ community, after having been to a couple of awesome F4G global conferences now.<br>
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Osgeo seems to be the natural ‘formal group’ - Cameron knows how this might work and will no doubt let me know if I’m barking up the wrong tree. would formalising an ANZ Osgeo chapter be a good path? or fraught with hazard?<br>
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cheers<br>
<br>
Adam<br>
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> On 20 Nov 2017, at 9:05 am, Alex Leith <<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexgleith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hey folks<br>
><br>
> As John said, I'm to get involved and help get something going for next<br>
> year, potentially.<br>
><br>
> I think that the QGIS forum showed that there is interest around, and doing<br>
> a FOSS4G-ANZ would be a logical progression into an inclusive event for a<br>
> wider group of geo-folks.<br>
><br>
> I think that we need to be aware of the big event in spatial, Locate, which<br>
> is on around April each year, and as such, an event would be best held in<br>
> the last half of the year. And what is unclear to me is what formal bodies<br>
> we could organise an event under, i.e., who can front up cash for a venue<br>
> and take the risk of an event that loses money (this should be unlikely, but<br>
> it's a risk). There is, of course, a lot of discussion around scale, and<br>
> format, but we can work all of that out in time.<br>
><br>
> Anyhow, I'm very keen to help out. I've run some smaller conferences through<br>
> the SSSI in Tassie that have had 100+ attendees, and have recently moved out<br>
> of my SSSI volunteering roles and as such I'm ready for the next thing!<br>
><br>
> Kind regards,<br>
><br>
> Alex<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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