<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">100% agree. Anybody on the committee have a contact at Locate so we can kick off discussions. Maybe start with <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Maurits as he is chair of organising committee?</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Greg</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 18 Jan 2019, at 11:09, adam steer <<a href="mailto:adam.d.steer@gmail.com">adam.d.steer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">great, Greg.<div><br></div><div>I was thinking more of promoting the organisation (OSGeo Oceania) - and I have seen a fair bit of conference promotion at other conferences.</div><div><br></div><div>Don’t forget, we have a budget - so it may come to a committee decision about a value proposition and commercial decision (*if* space exists to do *a thing*). Quid pro quo, right? we can support Locate and the industry, they can support the open source community back. The great circle of life and funding.</div><div><br></div><div>In the back of my mind is also this: Like OSGeo (the international org), we need to attract sponsors - for both the conference and the entity. Locate might be a good place to start that search.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 15:49, Greg Lauer <<a href="mailto:gregory.lauer@gmail.com">gregory.lauer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">I am attending. In the first instance we should probably reach out to Locate and SSSI re how we can work with them. Not sure the politics of promoting another conference within a conference but we can only ask.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 18 Jan 2019, at 09:23, adam steer <<a href="mailto:adam.d.steer@gmail.com" target="_blank">adam.d.steer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Alex - thanks for the correction! and the input- you're a lot closer to that part of the community than I am.<br><br></div>And at this point, yes, I feel we'd be asking a pretty big favour from SSSI/the Locate team to drop in and wave the OSGeo flag - so we need to be clear about what (if anything) we want to ask for; and who has energy to drive it.<br><br>I think it's a good idea to do *something*, and we should be totally audacious and ask for a corner someplace - if someone is willing to hang out at it for a bit; or a talk/lightning talk/??. But then, I'm unlikely to attend (except maybe the market day - perhaps I can be 'OSGeo santa' with a big bag of stickers and stuff, scattering them as I wander around :D )<br><br></div><div>Any other thoughts?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Cheers<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_6500895539335701355gmail_attr">On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 14:13, Alex Leith <<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexgleith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey Adam<div><br></div><div>It's in Melbourne the 8-10th of April.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what we can do there in order to promote the community and our event. We could ask SSSI if we can put a banner up at their stand, maybe? Would we want a 2019 event banner, though, mentioning Wellington?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_6500895539335701355gmail-m_6132223663609502223gmail_attr">On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 13:29 adam steer <<a href="mailto:adam.d.steer@gmail.com" target="_blank">adam.d.steer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi folks<div><br></div><div>It’s very late in the game to try and organise things - but given recent momentum worth a shot:</div><div><br></div><div>What do people thing about aiming to have a presence at Locate19 (April, Adelaide)? Useful/not useful? It’s kind of a big geospatial event</div><div><br></div><div>And if useful, what should it look like? I have a banner stand, should it be ‘can we have a small table and something to put stickers on’? … or (as Cameron has done in the past) ‘can we have a talk slot about the open source geo ecosystem and OSGeo Oceania'?</div><div><br></div><div>…or should we just apply our energy to nurturing a new organisation and a conference of our own? </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Adam<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_6500895539335701355gmail-m_6132223663609502223m_3991264446575202902gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr. Adam Steer</div><div><a href="http://spatialised.net" target="_blank">http://spatialised.net</a></div><div><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Steer" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Steer</a><br><a href="http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer" target="_blank">http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer</a></div><div><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-7236" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-7236</a><br><a href="tel:+61%20427%20091%20712" value="+61427091712" target="_blank">+61 427 091 712</a><br>skype: adam.d.steer</div><div>tweet: @adamdsteer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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