[Aust-NZ] FOSS44-ANZ

Mon Nov 20 03:07:26 PST 2017

Good initiative.
Just a note - Melbourne (RMIT+Unimelb) host the academic GISscience2018 conference at end of August.

If you want to keep this small, and/or profit of critical mass, maybe try a one day workshop proposal/symposium, to sound the interest and minimise risks?
All information at giscience.org
Message me if you need more info - happy to help.

Martin
tomkom at unimelb.edu.au

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   1. Re: FOSS4G-ANZ? (Toby Bellwood)
   2. Re: FOSS4G-ANZ? (adam steer)
   3. Re: FOSS4G-ANZ? (Alex Leith)

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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:53:24 +1100
From: Toby Bellwood <toby.bellwood at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?
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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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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:55:18 +1100
From: adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
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Hi all

agree with Cameron’s points, and Alex’s, and Toby’s. as a fundamental step,
what needs doing to get support from osgeo? formalising the ANZ chapter?

I’ll ask around at ANU/CSIRO here in CBR also for venue costs/support.

Fundamental other question: would we want to get this going - in 2018?
Could I suggest winter or summer - international f4G is usually August-ish,
Locate is April-ish - what about June/July-ish or December-ish for
‘foss4g-anz’?

Cheers
Adam
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:59:06 +0000
From: Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
To: adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
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I suggest later in the year, so Oct/Nov next year should be achievable.
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 9:55 pm, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> agree with Cameron’s points, and Alex’s, and Toby’s. as a fundamental
> step, what needs doing to get support from osgeo? formalising the ANZ
> chapter?
>
> I’ll ask around at ANU/CSIRO here in CBR also for venue costs/support.
>
> Fundamental other question: would we want to get this going - in 2018?
> Could I suggest winter or summer - international f4G is usually August-ish,
> Locate is April-ish - what about June/July-ish or December-ish for
> ‘foss4g-anz’?
>
> Cheers
> Adam
>
>
>
> --

Alex Leith
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