[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

[Brent Wood]

Apologies for the cross posting, but I figured it was worth making sure a few key people/groups are aware of this discussion.

I second Daniel's comments. 

As an intro, I work at NIWA and have been active in the NZ FOSS GIS community for some years (QGIS, Postgis, Geonetwork, GMT, GDAL, etc...), and a semi-regular at FOSS4G when I can. 
There are a few events that this could link in with, and a few local SIGs & forums that may also be interested, but if TechnologyOne are interested in linking this to their QGIS workshops, I think that would be an ideal start, possibly even in both countries??
Some other NZ groups/events we could perhaps work with: 

NZ Spatial Excellence awardsHorizons Regional GIS forumNZOSA
ALGIMNZ Emerging Spatial Professionals
...
My time & availability is limited, but very happy to help where I can to progress this.

Brent Wood

      From: Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
 To: dwsilk <dsilk at linz.govt.nz> 
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 Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:50 AM
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Hi Daniel and others
I think that sounds like a good plan, alternating between NZ and AU.
Responding to Jeff, it's fantastic to know that OSGeo is supportive. And my earlier comments around 'organisation' really are around how we can have an account and seed funding to start from. I think doing that through an existing organisation sounds way better than creating an entity.
Regarding John's steps, I think this is just about right. Somewhere in there needs to be the organising of a relationship with a body that can handle the money, though. Once we've got a bit of a prospectus, I can talk to SSSI, potentially. Are there other organisations may be interested?
And again, I agree with John, so let's try to arrange some kind of video meeting soon. I suggest the week after next, so 5 or 6 of Dec.
Regards,
Alex


On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 at 22:18 dwsilk <dsilk at linz.govt.nz> wrote:

Hi all

For those that don't know me, I work at Land Information New Zealand and
attended the QGIS Au meetup on Friday.

On 21 November 2017 at 23:21, John Bryant <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I see the first steps, roughly, as:
>
> -form a committee & determine 'rules of engagement' (how do we work
> together as a group?)

..and as an extension of this, how do we work together as two countries?

One idea that I raised with John when we discussed this was:
- sharing membership of an organising committee between Au/NZ
- alternating FOSS4G events between the two countries each year
- heavy lifting is taken on by the committee members from the host country

As a bit of background, TechnologyOne has organised a QGIS user conference
in New Zealand for the last few years. That conference already consisted of
2 or 3 days of workshops + two days of conference (one day on QGIS, one day
on Intramaps) and I'm guessing attracts around 100 attendees.

There is certainly interest here in expanding this to a FOSS4G event and I'm
keen to continue to be part of the discussion and work toward making that
happen.

On 21 November 2017 at 01:49, Jeff McKenna <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> - I think the future model of FOSS4G events can be seen in the recent
> FOSS4G-SotM-AR http://www.foss4g-ar.org/ (Argentina).

That event looks great Jeff, and the additional guidance will be valuable.

Cheers
Daniel




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