[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

[Adam Steer]

Hi all

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.

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?

cheers

Adam



> On 20 Nov 2017, at 9:05 am, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey folks
> 
> As John said, I'm to get involved and help get something going for next
> year, potentially.
> 
> I think that the QGIS forum showed that there is interest around, and doing
> a FOSS4G-ANZ would be a logical progression into an inclusive event for a
> wider group of geo-folks.
> 
> I think that we need to be aware of the big event in spatial, Locate, which
> is on around April each year, and as such, an event would be best held in
> the last half of the year. And what is unclear to me is what formal bodies
> we could organise an event under, i.e., who can front up cash for a venue
> and take the risk of an event that loses money (this should be unlikely, but
> it's a risk). There is, of course, a lot of discussion around scale, and
> format, but we can work all of that out in time.
> 
> Anyhow, I'm very keen to help out. I've run some smaller conferences through
> the SSSI in Tassie that have had 100+ attendees, and have recently moved out
> of my SSSI volunteering roles and as such I'm ready for the next thing!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
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