[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

[John Bryant]

+1 from me on motions A & B. I'm not *totally* clear on what the wiki is
for yet, but I can imagine a couple of potential uses, and it's good for
transparency.

We may also wish to set up a nice conference website, my partner Cholena
Smart is a Drupal developer (see foss4gna <https://2018.foss4g-na.org/> page,
built with Drupal) and is keen to do this, if it's something we want. All
in good time.

Re: comms channels, this feels a bit tricky. We've already started a
conversation off-list, but feels like there is value in the additional
transparency of this public list. I've noticed a couple of glitches though
(some emails not coming through in a timely fashion). But I'm in favour of
holding group conversations in the open by default. I propose we hold
conversations in the existing list for now unless it becomes a problem.

John

On 28 November 2017 at 06:17, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My sincere apologies for missing almost all of the FOSS4G kickoff meeting.
> I was away from my desk at work and missed my alarm and then am embarrassed
> to admit that I forgot until the meeting was almost over.
>
> From reading the meeting logs I have a few comments:
>
> * I learned from FOSS4G 2009 that we in Australia/New Zealand should not
> use US/Europe metrics as an indicator of potential attendance. FOSS4G draws
> much of its attendance from a local audience. US/Europe has a large local
> and regional audience to draw upon. Aust/NZ have a lot of fish (and sheep)
> within our region.
>
> * I'd err on aiming small and low cost for the first event. Probably in
> the order of the 60 to 120 range. I'd suggest we see if we can keep price:
> $0<price<$100 per person. (This will be hard if we get big).
>
> * Re managing the books: I'd approach SSSI and ask if they wish to process
> the books for us, and if they do, what would be their conditions. If
> conditions are too onerous we look elsewhere. We could potentially have a
> University or a friendly government department or private company manage
> the books. Now is a good time to put out feelers to the friendly people you
> know to see if they are interested.
>
> * Re location: I'd look out for Universities in the first instance, but
> would also consider government departments, or friendly companies who often
> have a meeting room we could use for free or cheaply if we keep the event
> small. Again, worth putting out feelers.
>
> * Re communication channels. I suggest it is best to make use of a public
> archived forum for any decision making discussion (Hence sending this email
> to a public forum). I'm mildly in favour of our existing OSGeo Aust-NZ
> email list, backed by an irc channel on freenode. Probably irc://
> freenode.net#foss4g-austnz. It seems there is a preference for slack, and
> I'm ok with that. I suggest that decisions are backed up by the public
> email list. Ie, for any major decision send a MOTION:... to the email list,
> with a set period to respond (1 week usually, or 48 hours if urgent), and
> get all committee members to vote: +1 +0 0 -0 -1. Adopt a process like:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Management
>
> * Re using a wiki.Yes, there will be no problems in using the OSGeo wiki
> and I think that is a good idea. We should officially ask the OSGeo
> Conference committee. I'd suggest a motion of:
>
> Motion A: to send to OSGeo Aust-NZ email list
>
> 1. That the OSGeo-Aust-NZ local chapter set up a
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-Aust-NZ. After the conference, we will
> migrate this page to be a jump page to have a separate page for each year.
>
> 2. That we will additionally make use of google sheets and google docs as
> required which will be referenced from the wiki.
>
> Motion B: Assuming the Aust-NZ list agree with motion A, move to Motion B,
> which is to request use of https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-Aust-NZ
> from the OSGeo conference committee. (This is just a formal thing, as we
> could just go ahead and do it).
>
>
>
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> Cameron Shorter
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