<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">+1 from me on motions A & B. I'm not </span><i style="font-size:12.8px">totally</i><span style="font-size:12.8px"> clear on what the wiki is for yet, but I can imagine a couple of potential uses, and it's good for transparency.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We may also wish to set up a nice conference website, my partner Cholena Smart is a Drupal developer (see <a href="https://2018.foss4g-na.org/" target="_blank">foss4gna</a> page, built with Drupal) and is keen to do this, if it's something we want. All in good time.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Re: comms channels, this feels a bit tricky. We've already started a conversation off-list, but feels like there is value in the additional transparency of this public list. I've noticed a couple of glitches though (some emails not coming through in a timely fashion). But I'm in favour of holding group conversations in the open by default. I propose we hold conversations in the existing list for now unless it becomes a problem.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">John</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 November 2017 at 06:17, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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My sincere apologies for missing almost all of the FOSS4G kickoff meeting. I was away from my desk at work and missed my alarm and then am embarrassed to admit that I forgot until the meeting was almost over.<br>
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>From reading the meeting logs I have a few comments:<br>
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* I learned from FOSS4G 2009 that we in Australia/New Zealand should not use US/Europe metrics as an indicator of potential attendance. FOSS4G draws much of its attendance from a local audience. US/Europe has a large local and regional audience to draw upon. Aust/NZ have a lot of fish (and sheep) within our region.<br>
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* I'd err on aiming small and low cost for the first event. Probably in the order of the 60 to 120 range. I'd suggest we see if we can keep price: $0<price<$100 per person. (This will be hard if we get big).<br>
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* Re managing the books: I'd approach SSSI and ask if they wish to process the books for us, and if they do, what would be their conditions. If conditions are too onerous we look elsewhere. We could potentially have a University or a friendly government department or private company manage the books. Now is a good time to put out feelers to the friendly people you know to see if they are interested.<br>
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* Re location: I'd look out for Universities in the first instance, but would also consider government departments, or friendly companies who often have a meeting room we could use for free or cheaply if we keep the event small. Again, worth putting out feelers.<br>
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* Re communication channels. I suggest it is best to make use of a public archived forum for any decision making discussion (Hence sending this email to a public forum). I'm mildly in favour of our existing OSGeo Aust-NZ email list, backed by an irc channel on freenode. Probably irc://<a href="http://freenode.net#foss4g-austnz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">freenode.net#foss4g-aust<wbr>nz</a>. It seems there is a preference for slack, and I'm ok with that. I suggest that decisions are backed up by the public email list. Ie, for any major decision send a MOTION:... to the email list, with a set period to respond (1 week usually, or 48 hours if urgent), and get all committee members to vote: +1 +0 0 -0 -1. Adopt a process like: <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Management" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Li<wbr>ve_GIS_Management</a><br>
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* Re using a wiki.Yes, there will be no problems in using the OSGeo wiki and I think that is a good idea. We should officially ask the OSGeo Conference committee. I'd suggest a motion of:<br>
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Motion A: to send to OSGeo Aust-NZ email list<br>
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1. That the OSGeo-Aust-NZ local chapter set up a <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-Aust-NZ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FO<wbr>SS4G-Aust-NZ</a>. After the conference, we will migrate this page to be a jump page to have a separate page for each year.<br>
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2. That we will additionally make use of google sheets and google docs as required which will be referenced from the wiki.<br>
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Motion B: Assuming the Aust-NZ list agree with motion A, move to Motion B, which is to request use of <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-Aust-NZ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FO<wbr>SS4G-Aust-NZ</a> from the OSGeo conference committee. (This is just a formal thing, as we could just go ahead and do it).<span class="gmail-im gmail-HOEnZb"><br>
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Cameron Shorter<br>
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