[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

[Cameron Shorter]

Extending to be a greater Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 
and Open Street Map event I think is viable.

Re creating a legal body: I'd err on trying avoid setting up a legal 
body - it creates a bunch of paperwork that your volunteers have to 
manage and takes them away from doing useful stuff. Ideally work in 
partnership with another legal body, like SSSI, or maybe one of the 
sponsor partners, or OSGeo.

I'd err on aiming small which will mean you can keep the venue costs 
down. (Ideally team up with a University or similar who provides cheap 
rooms.)

Cheers, Cameron


On 20/11/17 11:22 am, David Dean wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I've CC'd this to the OSM Australia Mailing List, so if anyone is 
> coming from there, the email thread is below.
>
> (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)
>
> - David
>
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 09:44 Adam Steer <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au 
> <mailto:Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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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