[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

[Alex Leith]

Hi All

I know we’re going to have 10 people and 10 opinions sometimes, but I think
video conferencing is quite effective and efficient these days. Zoom is
excellent.

I agree with Cameron’s two motions.

And just in case it was missed, I’m a SSSI Board member and, if we choose
to, I am confident I can get the support of SSSI to manage the “books”. I
think we aim for the event to make a modest surplus, say, aim for a few
thousands. And since SSSI might take the risk of a small loss, we should
return some of the surplus to them.

Can I get an indication of support to approach SSSI? We should probably put
together a one page prospectus, if so, and it would be great to see if we
can document in-principle support from organisations.

Regards,

Alex

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 at 9:02 am, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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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>>
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