[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ? - Doodle pole for kickoff meeting
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 11:22:03 PST 2017
Hi all,
For those interested in being involved in a FOSS4G-ANZ conference for
2018, I've set up a Doodle pole for a kickoff meeting next week. Please
let us know when you are available.
https://doodle.com/poll/s3vdegqcqrdbxq4w
Meeting location: irc://freenode.net#osgeo
Primary email list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz
Agenda (extending John Bryan's agenda):
-form a committee & determine 'rules of engagement' (how do we work
together as a group?)
-broadly scope the event, determine key details (what is it? when is it?)
* How many days?
* Venue type?
* Target size?
* Target cost?
* Program?
* What location? (how we select it)
-select communication forum(s): email list, wiki, meeting times
-nominate and save the date
-plot out a schedule for the planning process
-identify, and begin engaging with, key stakeholders
* Potential bodies to manage finances: SSSI, OSGeo, OSM State of the
Map, other
* Potential champions: LINZ, GA, CSIRO,
-begin spreading the word!
Agenda (extending John Bryan's agenda):
-form a committee & determine 'rules of engagement'
-broadly scope the event
* How many days?
* Venue type?
* Target size?
* Target cost?
* Program?
* What location?
-select communication forum(s): email list, wiki, meeting times
-nominate and save the date
-plot out a schedule for the planning process
-identify, and begin engaging with, key stakeholders
Re setting up FOSS4G conferences, the OSGeo Conference Committee has
been building up a cookbook over the years. It is not complete, but is a
starting point:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook
Cheers, Cameron
On 22/11/17 9:19 pm, John Bryant wrote:
> Hi all, I can see the below message on the online version of the
> thread, but it didn't come through to my email. I see it was posted
> early this morning, but I couldn't see it online until this evening.
> In case I'm not the only one who didn't get it, I'll paste it here:
>
> 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 awards
> Horizons Regional GIS forum
> NZOSA
> ALGIM
> NZ Emerging Spatial Professionals
> ...
>
> My time & availability is limited, but very happy to help where I
> can to progress this.
>
>
> Brent Wood
>
>
> On 21 November 2017 at 22:50, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com
> <mailto:alexgleith at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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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