[Aust-NZ] Fwd: FOSS4G-SOTM-ANZ Committee

Tue Nov 28 17:35:57 PST 2017

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From: John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
Date: 28 November 2017 at 21:35
Subject: Re: FOSS4G-SOTM-ANZ Committee
To: Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>, "aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org" <
aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org>
Cc: adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>, Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com>,
Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>, David Dean <ddean at ieee.org>,
Keith Moss <keithamoss at gmail.com>, Daniel Silk <dsilk at linz.govt.nz>, Elise
Mckenna <elise.s.mck at gmail.com>, Tim Heuer <HeuerT at landcareresearch.co.nz>,
Edoardo Neerhut <ed at mapillary.com>, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>

Forwarding this thread to the aust-nz list as discussed.

>From Greg Lauer:

> Deanna Hutchinson, CEO of GITA/SIBA is presenting at conference I am at.
> Should I reach out to her re sponsorship etc. There is also a few
> Geoscience Australia open data people here.

It's pretty early days, so hard to be too specific in those sponsorship
conversations, but seems like we should be taking these opportunities to
start spreading the word. I don't see any harm.

On 28 November 2017 at 10:06, Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> +1 for osgeo mailing list ( better than slack IMHO [well, I am not on it,
> but trying hard to keep away from “chatty” envs for work, to limit
> distraction], and keeps communication down [people think before posting -
> maybe]).
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> I am happy to help with the academic track + local arrangement if in Melb
> – that is about my capacity.
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> Martin
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> *From: *adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 9:32 am
> *To: *Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>, Cameron Shorter <
> cameron.shorter at gmail.com>, David Dean <ddean at ieee.org>, Keith Moss <
> keithamoss at gmail.com>, Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>, Daniel Silk <
> dsilk at linz.govt.nz>, Elise Mckenna <elise.s.mck at gmail.com>, Tim Heuer <
> HeuerT at landcareresearch.co.nz>, Edoardo Neerhut <ed at mapillary.com>, Alex
> Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
> *Subject: *Re: FOSS4G-SOTM-ANZ Committee
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> Hi all
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> looks my my reporting-to-austnz-list work is done ;)
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> - reach out to GA == good. I have some contacts there too, feel free to
> collaborate on who to hit up.
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> - comms: please avoid filling osgeo aust-nz with +-1’s - just watched +-1
> hell on osgeo discuss, not keen to see that repeated. Doodle polls with
> results published to list? Still open.
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> Happy to work on polls for mtng time/community preferences, if they’re
> still needing doing!
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> cheers
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> .a
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> On 28 November 2017 at 09:24, Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Deanna Hutchinson, CEO of GITA/SIBA is presenting at conference I am at.
> Should I reach out to her re sponsorship etc. There is also a few
> Geoscience Australia open data people here.
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> Thoughts?
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> Greg
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> On 28 Nov 2017, at 11:08, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> From Cameron:
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> * 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 <http://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/w
> iki/Live_GIS_Management
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>  I'm in favour of erring on the side of openness for the time being, while
> we find our feet. Any objections to relocating this discussion to the email
> list?
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> John
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> On 28 November 2017 at 06:17, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I'm sending my response to the public aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org list.
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> Cheers, Cameron
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> Happy to summarise todays meeting and forward to osgeo au/nz.
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> Does this group want to review the summary first?
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> Shall I also send to OSM lists (I'd need to subscribe .. )
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> will roll it out tomorrow sometime, while it's fresh.
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> I like John's comms strategy - as open as possible with ways to keep
> things focused when they need to be.
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> And great to see all this interest! let's keep it going!
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> One more note, as a PhD'ed person I'm also qualified (on paper at least)
> to do academic track things - if such a need arises. Will cross that bridge
> as it comes, raising since the idea popped up a lot in the mtng.
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> cheers
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> Adam
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> On 27 November 2017 at 21:11, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all, great meeting today! Feels like there is a lot of energy here. In
> the interest of building & keeping momentum, it would be great to get the
> committee rolling.
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> I see a few things that can be done right away:
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>    - We can set up some channels for sharing documents. I am personally a
>    fan of Google Drive for this, I've set up a shared folder here
>    <https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1sA9MEWmp96oIJoQs-zNCbVIh60HbGrNU>.
>    I understand if some folks aren't keen on Google Drive, so if there is a
>    viable alternative let's have the discussion now. But having shared
>    documentation will be valuable. (Note you need a Google account to access
>    this, there are 3 of you I think who don't have one associated with the
>    email address here.)
>    - We can start adding to a calendar/list of other events that we need
>    to plan around, and a planning timeline with some key milestones we need to
>    reach. I've started a couple of very rudimentary documents along these
>    lines, please feel free to edit as you see fit.
>    - We can continue the discussion about the shape of the event, re:
>    timing, venue, size etc. There seemed to be strong support for following
>    the established FOSS4G model in today's meeting, so we have a good starting
>    point.
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> A couple of other immediate action items from today's meeting are standing
> out to me, one of which is polling the community for input on the event. I
> think we should approach this fairly carefully, because the design of
> polling questions can often have unintended consequences on the answers...
> can I suggest someone * volunteer* to write up a short poll and
> distribute it to this group for comment?
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> Would someone *volunteer* to distill today's meeting into a brief email
> and post it to the OSGeo mailing list?
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> Let's make some decisions about communication channels too. I like Slack,
> but can see the long term value created by having transparent, logged
> discussions too... one possible way to do this is by keeping Slack
> conversations informal, shifting more important questions to this email
> group, and having committee meetings in IRC. *Thoughts around this*?
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> And we should set a date for a committee meeting. Would someone
> *volunteer* to set up a Doodle poll for this? I feel it would be good to
> make a good chunk of progress before the end of the year, to set the stage
> for making the most of everyone's fresh energy after christmas break.
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> Did I miss any other action items?
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> Exciting to be doing this with you folks!!!
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> John
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> On 27 November 2017 at 14:13, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks David! CCing Alex Leith and Cameron Shorter to make sure they're
> part of the conversation.
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> I love Slack and I'm a heavy user, but I wonder if the lack of message
> retention and lack of transparency make it problematic. I understand there
> is Slack/IRC integration available so maybe we can combine the best of both
> worlds. Happy to use it for informal chat for now until we discuss further.
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> Cheers
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> John
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> On 27 November 2017 at 13:58, David Dean <ddean at ieee.org> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> Thanks for putting your names forward to form the FOSS4G-SOTM-ANZ
> conference. I have CCed all of you in this email, so feel free to reply-all
> if you have anything to say to all of us.
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> Hopefully we'll lock in an official communication forum soon, but in the
> mean-time (or if it becomes *the* communication channel), please feel free
> to join us on the Maptime AU Slack in the #foss4g-sotm-anz channel. If you
> are interested, please visit https://bit.ly/maptimeau and ask for an
> invite.
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> If you want to go over our discussions in #osgeo earlier today, there is
> an archive at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2017-11-27.log.
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> - David
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> Cameron Shorter
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> Adam Steer
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