[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

[Toby Bellwood]

It could also be worth approaching the Data61/TerriaJS team to help
organise/promote etc - given their attendance previous FOSS4G events and
obvious connections with Unis/Industry?

On 20 November 2017 at 20:40, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Cameron and others
>
> I agree regarding a legal body, I think working with an existing
> organisation is what needs to happen. I can work with SSSI, and have strong
> relationships there and I'm pretty sure we could get something happening,
> if we wanted to. I defer to you about whether OSGeo could be the group that
> provided the support?
>
> And regarding scale, I did think that aiming at 100-200 would be
> achievable without too much organisational pain. If we can get support from
> somewhere to have a proper venue, we can handle that kind of number, and
> the venue should sort out catering and such.
>
> We could try a university, and I have some connections in with Swinburne
> and Melbourne Uni that I could query, probably, but I think that would need
> more work organising the details... running at a conference venue costs
> more, but it takes less effort!
>
> Anyhow, some thoughts from me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
>
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 18:37 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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> 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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