<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes to all of that except the NGO<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Geovation is the innovation and outreach programme of Ordnance Survey<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jul 2017, at 15:50, Barry Rowlingson <<a href="mailto:b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk" class="">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Call me stupid but I'm struggling to work out what Geovation are. A<br class="">private company? An NGO? Part of Ordnance Survey (massive OS logo in<br class="">the footer)? A thing that runs a Hub, Programmes and Challenges,<br class="">funded by money from its Collaborators (IBM, dstl, KPMG, OGC etc)?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" class="">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi UK listers<br class=""><br class="">We have had an approach from Geovation to sponsor and support us running a<br class="">FOSS4GUK in their London base in March 2018.<br class=""><br class="">To make this happen we would need some members of the community to step up<br class="">and take on the leadership and planning of the event, some of the 2016 team<br class="">(who were also the 2013 team) need more recovery time before we go again.<br class=""><br class="">I reckon you need a team of 6-8 people to organise an event, some workshops<br class="">and a code sprint (if you want one). Advice would be forthcoming from past<br class="">organisers if requested but we aren’t doers for this one. One of the<br class="">Geovation team has offered some admin and logistics support.<br class=""><br class="">Anyone interested? It’s great fun and immensely rewarding organising a<br class="">FOSS4G, go on - put your hand up<br class=""><br class="">May the FOSS be with you<br class="">______<br class="">Steven<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">UK mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:UK@lists.osgeo.org" class="">UK@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>