[Aust-NZ] Aust-NZ Digest, Vol 114, Issue 16
Jamila Javanshir
jamila.javanshir at melbournecb.com.au
Wed Nov 22 15:44:05 PST 2017
Re: FOSS4G-ANZ
Dear All
Greeting from Melbourne Convention Bureau! We represent a partnership between Victorian Government, City of Melbourne and private enterprise and our role is to attract national and international meetings and conferences to Melbourne.
We are interested in a discussion about hosting FOSS4G-ANZ in Melbourne and what support you may require from our side should you decide to go ahead with it.
We have been working on the opportunity to bring the International FOSS4G Summit to Melbourne for a few years now, so would be happy to help.
With kind regards
Jamila Javanshir
Senior Business Development Manager, Inaugural Events
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: FOSS4G-ANZ? - Doodle pole for kickoff meeting
(Cameron Shorter)
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Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ? - Doodle pole for kickoff meeting
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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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